Youth Exchange
In the 1950s the local club first became active in foreign student youth exchange and served
as the sponsor for the American Field Service. This continued until 1968, when the local club
dropped the American Field Service and led the district in support of its own Rotary Youth
Exchange. It became a tradition to host one or more students in the community. One year a total
of six local students were sponsored in a foreign country.
Outbound Students
1972-1973 Barb Montgomery - Japan
1975-1976 Shelia Steimel - Rep. of South Africa
1977-1978 Kevin Culbert - West Germany
1977-1978 Debra Lee Halstead - Philippines
1977-1978 Mike Hibbs - Sweden
1977-1978 Karen Honden - Austria
1977-1978 Kelly Montgomery - Italy
1978-1979 David Held - Japan
1978-1979 Andrew Montgomery - Brazil
1980-1981 Kathleen Buttjer - Austria
1980-1981 Kristin Davis - Germany
1980-1981 David Parks - Australia
1982-1983 Debra Cerio - Australia
1983-1984 Kathy Honken - Sweden
1988-1989 Karen Frank - South Africa
1988-1989 Stacy Souder - Germany
1998-1999 Dia Carpenter - Germany
Hosted In-Bound Students
1974-1975 Carl Ann Roderick - South Africa*
1975-1976 Roverto Alvarez - Brazil.
1976-1977 Christine Dvoracek - Australia
1976-1977 Asteria Ammara - Philippines
1977-1978 Micael Aspeborg - Sweden
1978-1979 Luis Vladez - Mexico
1978-1979 Sacorro Marchevout - Mexico
1980-1981 Delia "Fina" Grijalva - Mexico
1981-1982 Ilka Fischer - West Germany
1982-1983 Celia Kaced - France
1982-1983 Louise Bell - England
1983-1984 Henrik Holgersson – Sweden
1984-1985 Eva Peterson - Denmark
1986-1987 Sarah Jane Brennan - Australia
1986-1987 Christine Abba - France
1999-2000 Thomas Lubke, Germany
2000-2001 Karolina Cardenas, Mexico
2001-2002 Tatyona Ivanova, Siberia
* The community was shocked in November, 1974, when exchange student Carl Ann Roderick
from Dundee, South Africa, was killed in an auto accident near Waverly. A lasting bond has been
formed between parents Ken and Eunice Roderick and the Rotary Club of Charles City because
of this tragedy.
of this tragedy.