2007-08 Group Study Exchange Kicks Off!

The Group Study Exchange committe co chaired by April Majni and Stan Socha kicked off it's first meeting July 24. It was well attended and we are looking for people to become involved with GSE.We encourage you to submit your email address to majniapril@netscape.net to receive monthly followup reports on GSE progress and important dates. Next Meeting August 21, 6:30 pm. Skoda-Minotta offices in Mayfield.

Details of the 2008 Team

Team Applications & Interviews
Team Leader - September 15
Team Leader interviews September 29

Team Member applications- September 29 (can be extended if we're not getting the response) Team Member Interviews - October 20

Dates for exchange to take place...
District Conference is May 16, 17, 18
Outbound Sat. April 26 - May 24 (to be confirmed) Inbound May 3 - May 31 (TBconfirmed)

GSE Team Leader Applications Due Now Through September 15

Visit Rotary.org, search GSE Downloads for applications. Our exchange is with District 1800 (Germany).

Interested in learning about Germany culture, customs, economic development, vacational development? Becoming a GSE Team Leader is a lifetime experience.

April Majni
Group Study Exchange
2007-08 CoChair
Rotary District 6630
Mentor Rotary Club
216-401-0535

Group Study Exchange (GSE), an educational activity of The Rotary Foundation, offers a unique person-to-person opportunity for the promotion of better understanding and friendly relation among the peoples of the world. The program provides travel grants for the exchange of teams of young business and professional people between paired districts in different countries, enabling them to study the institutions and ways of life of their hosts and to develop personal acquaintances and exchange ideas. These young people bring personal knowledge of their own country to the thousands they meet while abroad. And from their study of another country - their observations of its customs, their explorations to its business and professional life, their meetings and discussions with its people - come many opportunities for the development of understanding and lasting friendships.

Over a two-year period each of the paired districts must both send and receie a team. (Based on the safety factors of each country.) A district selects a team of four outstanding people and a Rotary Club member, as Team Leader who represent a cross-section of business and professions in the district, and sends them to a district in another country for a study program of not less than four weeks and not more than six weeks.