After participating in a foreign exchange student program when she was in high school, Mariah Kurtz and her partner Bill Pennington decided to take the plunge and become a host family themselves.Kurtz and Pennington soon found themselves heading to...
NEW SALEM — By providing housing for foreign exchange students, New Salem resident Jeanne Clayton said she “opened her heart and her home” to cultural exchange and memories that will last a lifetime.Clayton and her husband, John, participated in the...
‘Open your heart and home’ through student exchange program
Participating NW Services exchange students leap in the air during a 2013 camping trip in South Carolina. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
A page of a photo book made by New Salem resident Jeanne Clayton when she hosted foreign exchange students Angie, from Ecuador, and Tong, from Thailand, who attended Ralph C. Mahar Regional School in Orange during the 2019 to 2020 school year. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Foreign exchange students submitted hand-drawn designs for the NW Services’ annual Art Cover Design Contest. Angie’s design read featured a young woman sitting on suitcase as a plan flies around the globe behind her. It reads – “It’s not a trip or vacation, it’s a second life.” Contributed Photo/Jeanne Clayton