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2009-10 Schedule
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  September 9, 2009
 
World Affairs Forum Series
  UCONN/Stamford
  6:15 PM

  September 14, 2009
 
Great Decisions
  David Holland
  Pole to Pole Adventures:  A
    Search for Clues to Future
    Global Sea Level

  Greenwich Library
  7 PM

  September 16, 2009
 
AR Breakfast
  Stamford Yacht Club
  7:15 AM

  September 22, 2009
 
Great Decisions
  Mitchell Krauss
  Egypt in the 21st Century
  New Canaan Library
  7 PM

  October 29, 2009
  Economic Trends Lecture
  Nick Perna
  Pitney Bowes World Hq.
 
 
November 11, 2009
  AR Dinner
  His Excellency Husain Haqqani
  Ambassador of Pakistan to the
     US
  Stamford Yacht Club
 


 

 

 


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NORMAN WOODBURY SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS 2009

 

 

 

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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The Forum is hard at work planning exciting programs for the 2009-10 season.  Join the Forum now - either the Ambassadors' Roundtable Series or the Forum Series - and be where the action is.  Click on Membership at the top of this page and complete and submit the membership application form.  If you have questions, don't hesitate to call the Forum office at 203-356-0340.

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Individual:  $95             Senior:  $70               Family:  $135
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