Group Study Exchange 2005-2006

District 7690, Piedmont North Carolina


Linda Whitlow, Gayle Taylor,
Heather Owens, Christine Kreider,
and Team Leader Owen George
(click on photo)

District 3460, Taichung, Taiwan


Chen Pei-chun (Peggy), Yin Chi-kai (Alan),
Team Leader Lai Kuang-Hsiung (Jim)
Chiu Li-Ching (Joann), Hsieh Ching-yi (Emmy)
(click on photo)

    

"The Bridge"*	"Better Friendships"**	"Cultural Exchange"
"3460 District Conference 2006"	"Last Tea on the Beach"	"7690 District Conference 2006"

• The successful visit of the District 7690 team resulted in District 3460's generous contribution of an Ambassadorial Scholarship for a student from our district to study in Taichung. The Rotary Foundation's alumni newsletter 'Reconnections' (November 2007) described the experience and Rotary.org carried this news release.

• A short article describing the GSE experience by Phil Morris appears in the Zone 33 TRF Newsletter, August 2006.

• Lily Kuo, graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, won the District 3460 scholarship to study Mandarin. In 2007-2008 Lily studied at Tunghai University in Taichung. Read her final report to The Rotary Foundation. And since she completed her studies at Tunghai Lily spent time in Beijing as a journalist . . .here is an article which she wrote for the 'Asia Sentinal.'

• Arrangements are made for Noopa Lin (District 3460) to have a Youth Exchange experience in Greensboro in 2007-2008.

• * About "The Bridge" - Several of the photos found their way to Rotary International, and this one reappeared with the article in 'Reconnections,' and in an advertisement promoting the 100th Rotary International Convention in Birmingham in 'The Rotarian' (October 2008, p.77).

• **About "Better Friendships" - This photo also was sent to Rotary International. Several months later a member of the RI staff was visiting Rotary International headquarters in Brazil and recognized the image which had been used in a collage illustrating a brochure about Rotary.

• Also growing out of this GSE experience was a Friendship Exchange between 7690 and 3460:

Today & Anna, Shirley & John & Chainlon, from D3460	Lily Kuo is interviewed for scholarship	Noopa Lin, Youth Exchange Student from D3460
Phil, Robin, Karen and Owen from D7690	A reunion with most of the 2006 GSE team	Visit with Noopa's parents at Snake Kiln