Canton Rotary Club gears up for foreign exchange student

In a skit at Wednesday’s meeting of Canton Rotary Club, a Yugoslavian Youth Exchange Student told about her first experiences in the USA. Local Rotarian Diana Tucker played the role of Sasha Pavletich, a 16-year-old exchange student from Yugoslavia, who had arrived at the Peoria airport just a day prior to coming to greet the Canton Rotary Club. Robert Ritschel played the role of Leo Tonetti and Kathy Taber the role of Leoett Tonetti, host parents to Pavletich.

Rotary International was founded in 1905 in Chicago, and is the world’s oldest service club. The object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise, and to encourage and foster the highest ethical standards in business and professions.

For more information about hosting a student, or becoming an exchange student, contact Stanko at 647-7567 or Tucker at 647-5917. The program is open to students ages 15 to 19.
Rotary Youth Exchange was first established in the 1920s in Denmark. It has grown to host more than 9,000 students yearly.