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“See You At The Pole” (SYATP), a national day of student prayer, will take place at Oakwood High School, around the flagpole on the front lawn, on Wednesday, Sept. 26, from 7:30-8 a.m.
SYATP is a student-initiated, student-organized, and student-led event in which students, parents, teachers, or anyone in the Oakwood community, meet at the Oakwood High School flagpole to pray for our school, friends, teachers, government, and nation. SYATP is not a demonstration, rally, nor a stand for or against anything. Everyone is welcome!
Coordinator for Oakwood High School’s participation in this SYATP is OHS junior, Beka Bolmida.
“Dancin’ in the Moonlight” is the theme of the 2007 Oakwood High School Homecoming, student council members announced this week. The dance will take
place on Saturday, Sept. 29 from 8:30 to 11 p.m. in the OHS West Gym. Tickets are being sold at lunch and after school for $25 a couple or $15 for a single.
The Junior Assembly of Oakwood has announced its schedule of dances for the 2007-08 school year. Dances will be held on the following Saturdays: Sept. 29, at the Greek Orthodox Church; Feb. 3 at the Moraine Country Club and Saturday, May 3 at the Mandalay Banquet Center.
The Junior Assembly committee invites all high school freshman girls and boys living in Oakwood to attend these dances. Cost is $90. If you live in Oakwood but attend another school, please contact Terri Jones at 298-2699 or Camille Morris at 299-6882 for an invitation.
The OHS Class of 1997 will be having their 10-Year Reunion on Friday, Nov. 23,
2007. Call Rande Chapman at 299-3925 for more information or to register.
The Oakwood Rotary Club is now accepting applications from Oakwood area high school students who are interested in the Rotary International Youth Exchange. There are two for which students can apply. The first program is the Long Term or Outbound Exchange and the second is the Family Summer Exchange program. For the Long Term Program the student can apply for the opportunity to visit and attend school in a selected foreign country for 11 months. The Family Exchange involves an eight-week “visit and exchange” program by a student and his family. The U.S. student visits a family in a foreign country for 4 weeks and a student from that family returns with the U.S. student to visit the family in the United States for 4 weeks.
The Long Term Exchange is for students who will be 15-19 years of age in 2008. (Usually grades 9-12). Applications for the program must be completed and submitted by approximately November 15, 2007. Interviews will be conducted in early Dec. 5 by the Rotary District 6670 for students living in the Dayton Metropolitan area. Selections are to be completed by Dec. 31, 2007. Selected students are then assigned to a country of choice and will begin their exchange in August-September, 2007. For a few countries involved in the program the exchange can begin a few months earlier to comply with the commencement of the school year.
The Family Summer Exchange program matches selected local high school students who will be at least 15 by the Summer of 2008 (and their families) with a youth and family in selected countries. United States students start the exchange process by visiting their “host” family in mid June until approximately mid-July. U.S. Students return with the youth from their host family and they and their family host that student until approximately mid-August. Applications for this program can be submitted up until March 1, 2008.
The Rotary International Youth Exchange program sponsors more than 10,000 students worldwide under this exchange program. Oakwood Rotary has sponsored nine students in these two programs over the past several years. The youth exchanges are viewed as an excellent way to promote goodwill and international understanding in our increasingly global world community. The student has the benefit of experiencing the customs and culture of a country through formal education and by staying with Rotary member host families. Oakwood Rotary’s District 6670 covering clubs in the Greater Miami Valley area sponsors as many as 18 students for the Longer Term Program. There are no applicant limitations for the Family Summer Exchange.
Additional details such as costs, actual departure and arrival dates for particular countries, choice of host country and the application forms can be obtained from the Oakwood Rotary Youth coordinators Debbie Hershey and Chuck Roedersheimer or from the Oakwood High School Guidance Counselor Office. Also specific and detailed information on both of these youth exchange programs can be obtained from the Rotary International website, www.rotary.org. District 6670 has information on the larger program for the Rotary District which can be viewed at the Rotary Ohio-Lake Erie District website, www.ohioerie.org. The web sites also have fill-in forms for the Long Term and Family Exchange applications.
It is important to submit applications early for the Long Term program. The students are interviewed and applications are evaluated by a panel of District 6670 Rotarians for both programs.Selected students are then matched with sponsoring Rotary clubs in other countries and receive orientation sessions in preparation for the exchange. Note that early applicants also have a better opportunity to choose their country of choice for the exchange.Interested students or parents should contact Mrs. Hershey 937-294-5854, Hershey@acm.org or Mr. Roedersheimer at 937-293-8105 or acroeders@riva.net or croedy@sbcglobal.net.
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