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Rotary Club of Saginaw welcomes visitors from Greece

Rotary Club of Saginaw

As part of a Rotary International Group Study Exchange program, a contingent from Greece traveled to Michigan for a month-long stay. While in the Saginaw area, the five visitors from one of the world’s most ancient civilizations attended a Saginaw Spirit hockey game, shopped at the Birch Run Outlets mall, breakfasted with members of St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church, and visited Saginaw Valley State University. They also visited Frankenmuth, the Temple Theatre, St. Mary’s of Michigan, the Saginaw Art Museum, Mid-Michigan Children’s Museum and the Castle Museum of Saginaw County History.

According to Evelyn Mudd, president of the Rotary Club of Saginaw, which co-hosted the visit with the Saginaw Sunrise Rotary Club and the Saginaw Valley Rotary Club, the object of these annual exchanges is for young professionals between the ages of 25 and 40 to meet and interact with their professional counterparts, and get exposure to the cultural, recreational, and governmental worlds of their hosts.

Among the visiting Greeks was Team Leader and member of Rotary International Dimitrios Iliakis (31, male), a management consultant with an interest in implementation of robotics and automations, control systems, and high technology, Sevy Spyridogiannaki (37, female), a professional translator with focus on literary translation, and an interest in the performing arts, Avraam Aslanidis (30, male), a civil engineer working as a site and inspection engineer with a construction company, Dimistris Koukoutsas (32, male), a systems security consultant who contributed to the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, and Maria Chatzinilkolaki (29, female), a communications and development manager for Together for Children, a non-government agency.

Mudd recalls the year they hosted a physician who was in training in neurology. They set her up with Dr. Malcolm Field of the Field Neurosciences Institute, and she even went into surgery with him.

Mudd has, in her years as a Rotarian, worked on exchanges with France, India, Korea, Japan, Denmark, Brazil, Australia, Thailand, Brazil, and Portugal. A team from Afghanistan was in the plans for last year, but ran into passport clearance problems.

The Rotary Club of Saginaw is associated with Rotary International (www.rotary.org), a civic organization that works to advance goodwill and peace through understanding, as a world fellowship of business and professional persons, and community leaders who are united by the ideal of community service. For more information about the Rotary Club of Saginaw, visit their website at www.saginawrotary.org.

 

 

 

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