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The World Affair Forum Announces
2009 Norman Woodberry Scholarship Winners
The World Affairs
Forum established this scholarship program in order to
encourage deserving university students interested in
pursuing an international career to study abroad.
Students who are resident of or attending college in
Fairfield County, CT or Westchester County, NY are
eligible.
Stephen Bottari, Gretta Schwamb, Thomas Russo
STEPHEN
BOTTARI, a
resident of Chelmsford, MA and a sophomore at Fairfield
University, Fairfield, CT, has been awarded a Norman
Woodberry Scholarship in the amount of $3000 to study in
Managua, Nicaragua at the Universidad Centro Americana,
in a Fairfield University Study Abroad Program. Stephen
is a communications major with a minor in Latin American
and Caribbean Studies. In January 2009 he took part in
the University’s Duran, Ecuador Service and Immersion
Program. In Managua, from September to December 2009,
Stephen will take part in a full immersion experience
taking all his courses in Spanish and living with a home
stay family. He also plans to do service work during
the semester. Stephen’s extracurricular activities
include Vice President, Fairfield’s Student Television
and reporter for The Mirror, Fairfield University’s
Independent Student Newspaper.
THOMAS RUSSO, a
junior at Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT, has been
awarded a Norman Woodberry Scholarship in the amount of
$1000 to study development and globalization in Khon
Kaen, Thailand in the CIEE program. Thomas has self
designed his major in international studies and his
minor in environmental studies to examine on a global
level the effects of environmental development in
developing countries and the resulting impacts on social
justice and human rights issues. His program in
Thailand runs for the fall semester. At Fairfield
University, Thomas is a leader in Habit for Humanity and
active in the Community Service Council and Students for
Social Justice.
GRETTA SCHWAMB, a
junior at Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT, has been
awarded a Norman Woodberry Scholarship, in the amount of
$1000, to study at the University of Melbourne,
Australia from July to November 2009 and in Germany with
the Baden-Wurttemberg Exchange program from January to
August 2010. Gretta is an International Studies
and Economics double major, with minors in German and
Mathematics. In Australia she will have the opportunity
to learn about their small, more open economy, along
with their connection to the Asia economy. While at the
University of Heidelberg, she will study the new
monetary system being integrated into the European
Union. Currently Gretta is a member of the Student
Association Senate at Fairfield University and President
of the World Youth Alliance.
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