Monday, April 2, 2012 - New Zealand Group Study Exchange from District 9910
Posted by Johanna Smith
on Mar 29, 2012
The Rotary Club of Davenport will welcome a Group Study Exchange (GSE) team from District 9910 in New Zealand. GSE is a program of The Rotary Foundation whose objective is to further international understanding, friendship, goodwill and peace. The team arrived in Iowa on March 16 and will be traveling to several other clubs throughout District 6000 over the next month.
Members of the team are led by team leader, Rotarian Warren Patterson, a mobile learning facilitator at the University of Aukland. Non-Rotarian team members (ages 25-40) are:- Pip Bolton, architect and engineer from Kerikeri (sponsored by Bay of Islands Rotary Club);
- Duane Wells, horticultural manager from Whangarei (sponsored by Whangarei Rotary Club);
- Damian Dixon, dairy farmer from One Tree Point (sponsored by Whangarei South Rotary Club);
- Laura McKenzie, year 12 dean and teacher from Auckland (sponsored by North Harbour
- Rotary Club);
- Nirav Shah, cash funds investor from Auckland (sponsored by East Coast Bays Rotary).