Many thanks to Laura Spencer from Eagle/Garden City Rotary for her great presentation about Rotary Youth Exchange in District 5400. This year we'll have 10 "inbounds" and 11 "outbounds". Our club will be hosting a young lady from France named Lou Vapaille. Our outbound student is Myla Kehn who will be going to Taiwan. We need one more host family for the December-March period. Jeff and Charlene will be the hosts for the final period next spring. They are brushing up on their French!
The RYE program has been going on for a long time. It started in Europe back in the 20s, came to the USA in 1939. It became an official Rotary program in 1972. Our District has been hosting kids since the mid '70s.
We learned a new RYE word - "Rotex". These are our kids who have returned from an exchange and are continuing to be involved in the program as mentors, etc. (Kids who have just returned are called "Rebounds")