1. Are you a Rotarian who would like to lead a group of four young people on a cultural visit to live in and learn about Japan?
2. Do you know someone in your club, in District 6600, who has an interest in Japan and needs to be encouraged to apply for this all-expense-paid trip?
3. Do you have businesses in your community that would be interested in having one of their young professionals (age 25-40) participate in a free 4-week visit to learn about their profession in Japan RID 2760 that is in south central region on the coast?
4. Would you be willing to have someone from the District 6600 Group Study Exchange Team/Committee present a program at your club’s meeting in the next month to describe their recent experience on an exchange in India?
5. Will you or one of your fellow Rotarians pick up applications and brochures at the District Assembly or Conference and apply?
6. Interviews for a Rotarian team leader and 4 young professionals are scheduled for May, so applications are needed right away.
   
7. If you are interested or know some one who is, please use the attached application (Team Member Application | Team Leader Application) and send to J. McKibben or go to the Rotary Foundation website for information (www.rotary.org).
8. For more information, contact Mary Aufdenkampe, (440-967-8870), (mary_aufdenkampe@hotmail.com) Outgoing team GSE Chair, or Jeanne McKibben, 94 S. Oberlin Rd, Oberlin, OH 44074 (440-775-0696) (Wjmckibben@aol.com) GSE Comm. Chair
9. Copies to Club Presidents, Presidents’-Elect, Assistant Governors, District Officers and Committee Chairs. Please post and ask all Presidents to forward e-mail to all members of their individual clubs.

The Group Study Exchange (GSE) program of The Rotary Foundation is a unique cultural and vocational exchange opportunity for young business and professional men and women between the ages of 25 and 40 and in the early years of their professional lives. The program provides travel grants for teams to exchange visits between paired areas in different countries. For four to six weeks, team members experience the host country's institutions and ways of life, observe their own vocations as practiced abroad, develop personal and professional relationships, and exchange ideas.

For each team member, The Rotary Foundation provides the most economical round-trip air ticket between the home and host countries. Local Rotarians in the host area provide for meals, lodging, and group travel within their district.