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Pierre-Fort Pierre Rotary
Box 443
Pierre, SD 57501
605-224-2433
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The Pierre-Fort Pierre
Rotary Club hosted a Group Study Exchange from
Ibaraki, Japan in September 2009.
The Group Study Exchange
program of The Rotary Foundation of Rotary
International is a unique cultural and vocational
exchange opportunity for young business and
professional men and women between the ages of 25
and 40 in the initial years of their professional
life. For four to six weeks, team members study the
host country’s institutions and ways of life,
observe their own vocations as practiced aboard,
develop personal and professional relationships and
exchange ideas. The Japanese team was led by
Mitsukaido Rotary Club member Ryukai Seto, a head
priest at a Buddhist temple. His team included Ikuko
Gunji, 35, who works in public relations at the
Japan Atomic Energy Agency; Junko Mizui, 36, a
ceramic artist and teacher; Masahiro Nakano, 27, an
accountant; and Kentaro Okano, 32, a community
affairs official. The team visited Sioux Falls,
Vermillion, Brookings, Watertown, Mitchell and Rapid
City, South Dakota in addition to Pierre-Fort
Pierre. Chuck Schroyer chaired the local committee
that oversaw this exchange.
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Front row:
Anne Gormley, Iku, Kentaro, Jun, Hiro, Ryu,
Back row: Kelly Glot, Larry Lingstad,
Wally Thompson, Tom Tveit
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