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Monday, October 26, 2009 10:26 PM

Meeting Tuesday for OHS students interested in overseas learning

By The Herald Staff

Ottawa High School students with an interest in attending school overseas can find out more at a meeting tonight at the school library.

The Ottawa Rotary Club, which sponsors an exchange program, will provide information at a meeting set for 6:30 p.m.

Qualifications for the year-long exchange program call for a student to be in the upper third of his or her class, in good health, good character, emotionally stable, mature and between 15-1/2 and 18-1/2 years old. Most importantly, club officers say, he or she must be able and willing to be a good ambassador.

Applications for the student exchange program are due Nov. 3 for local review. Students, or parents, pay an exchange fee of $3,900.

 Students also will be expected to take $400 in emergency funds, plus any spending money. Board, room and schooling are provided by the overseas host families.

Officers said it is generally accepted that Rotary runs the least expensive, best supervised Youth Exchange program in the world.

“I am very impressed with Rotary’s program and felt very confident sending my daughter Kelsey to Italy,” Wynndee Lee, who has also hosted several students in Ottawa, said.

Rotary students may go to any one of more than 80 countries.

Ottawa Rotary has been host to five exchange students and had one outbound student in the last five years, including a short-term exchange.

The local district is host to 10 students for the 2009-10 school-year.

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