2016-2017 Outbound Exchange Students
For the 2016-2017 Rotary year, the Tunkhannock Rotary Club is sponsoring 3 full-term outbound Tunkhannock exchange students.
Dana Kuffa is a 2016 graduate of Tunkhannock Area High School (TAHS) and will be going to Maipu, Chile. It is near the capital in the center of Chile.
Dana is an only child, has 2 dogs, was a girl scout (daisy to ambassador levels) and is very involved in sports and participated as goalie for field hockey for 4 yrs. She was a member of the High School swim team, taught swimming and was head life guard at TAHS. Dana was also a member of TAHS mock trial team. Dana attended RYLA in 2014 and was part of the RYLA graduation team, she described it as her best experience to that date. Dana was one of the Interactors who helped Rotarians collect money on Candy Cane Day and she was Vice President of the Interact Club.
L to R: DG Marcia Loughman, Dana Kuffa and Julia Alonso (current inbound exchange student from Brazil)
Anika Sehne (age 16) is going to France, but to a different region from where she did her Rotary short term exchange last year. She will have 3 host families in France. Her first host family will be in Gaillard in District 1780, near the border with Switzerland. Both her host parents work in Geneva, Switzerland.
Her brothers have also been Rotary exchange students, Adam went to Ecuador and Stefan just returned from Brazil. She was on the swim and tennis teams at TAHS. She also was in this year’s and last year’s musicals and plays at school.
L to R: DG Marcia Loughman, Anika Sehne and Louis Metens (current inbound exchange student from Belgium)
Haley Toczko is going to Slovakia.
L to R: DG Marcia Loughman, Haley Toczko