Area Rotary clubs are offering two foreign study trips to young Connecticut business and professional people under Rotary’s Group Study Exchange program. The program promotes international understanding by exchanging visits by young professionals with their counterparts in other countries. Applications are now being accepted for eight available positions; four each to Argentina and South Africa for travel during the month of April 2000. Applicants must be US citizens, between 25 and 40 years of age and enthusiastic about their respective vocations. Interested persons should contact their local Rotary Club president or Michael Gordon of the Rotary GSE Committee at 860/885-1098 or via e-mail at gordonmj@aol.com.

 

Adam Winner of Flat Swamp Road in Newtown is spending the fall semester studying in Florence, Italy through Syracuse University’s Division of International Programs Abroad. The Florence program, established in 1959, enrolls more than 600 students each academic year. Student my study art history, studio art, architecture and Italian language, or take a wide range of courses in the liberal arts. Adam is a sophomore majoring in painting at the University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Justin Riddle, a member of the class of 2000 at Connecticut College, participated in a blood drive at the college sponsored by the American Red Cross. Justin, of Brassie Drive in Newtown, is a 1996 graduate of Newtown High School.

Lindsey M. Korotash of Newtown participated in the Annual Entering Student Outdoor Program (AESOP) prior to the beginning of the 1999 fall semester at Bates College. The AESOP trips, designed as three to four day outdoor excursions in Maine and New Hampshire, allow first-year students to meet fellow classmates before formal orientation begins. Each of these trips consists of two upper-class student leaders and eight to ten new students. Lindsey traveled to the Presidential Mountains in Pinkham, New Hampshire for four days of hiking. She is the daughter of Mark and Lynda Korotash of 18 Shepard Hill. She is a 1999 graduate of Newtown High School.

The School of Continuing Education at Fairfield University will offer intensive courses during the January intercession in which students can earn class credit in schedules that accommodate their lifestyles. The three credit-courses include an array of subjects, from personal finance to imperial fiction, and meet during the day from Wednesday, January 5 through Tuesday, January 11; or Saturdays and week nights from January 8 through January 15. The cost of each course is $930. For more information, please contact the School of Continuing Education at 203/254-4220 or toll-free at 888/254-1566.