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style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> </table> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";display:none;mso-hide:all'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <div align=center> <table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellpadding=0 width=622 style='width:466.5pt; mso-cellspacing:1.5pt;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'> <td width="31%" style='width:31.0%;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'> <p><a href="about.html">About Friends of Switzerland, Inc.</a></p> <p><a href="meetings.html">Meetings, Calendar and Speakers</a></p> <p><a href="stratton.html">The Stratton Awards</a></p> <p><a href="officers.html">Officers and Directors</a></p> <p><a href="membership.html">About FOSI Membership</a> </p> <p><a href="links.html">Links</a></p> <p><a href="photos.html">Photos</a></p> <p><a href="contactus.html">Contact Us</a> </p> </td> <td width="69%" style='width:69.0%;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'> <p align=center style='text-align:center'>&nbsp;<b>Welcome to the Friends of Switzerland!<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'>FOSI, as it is familiarly known, founded in 1965, was established to foster friendship, interest and understanding between New England and Switzerland. Our members include Americans who formerly studied, lived or travelled in Switzerland, Swiss nationals living in the U.S., and people who are simply curious about this unique, multicultural democracy.</p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'>We host a monthly <a href="meetings.html">luncheon</a> or <a href="meetings.html">dinner</a> meeting during non-summer months with an interesting speaker discussing a topic related to Switzerland or its citizens abroad.</p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'>We hope you find this website informative and that it will pique your interest in joining us at one of our  gem<span style='mso-ascii-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-fareast;mso-hansi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-fareast;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-fareast'>ü</span>tliche Stammtisch luncheons.</p> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";display:none;mso-hide:all'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <div align=center> <table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=621 style='width:465.4pt;mso-cellspacing:0in;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'> <td width="7%" style='width:7.7%;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'> <p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tg.ch/"><span style='mso-no-proof:yes; 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text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><img border=0 width=40 height=29 id="_x0000_i1026" src="image/ge.gif"></span></a></p> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><b>Friends of Switzerland, Inc.<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><b>Marc Redlich, President<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><b>155 Federal Street, 17th floor<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><b>Boston, Massachusetts 02110-1727<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><b>Tel. 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