At last week's club meeting, we had a wonderful visitor from Argentina, Jose Fernandez. Jose was in Kansas City for the Argentina/Algeria FIFA World Cup match. Jose was a Rotary Youth Exchange Student during the 1987-88 school year, attending Shawnee Mission West. During that time he stayed in the home of PDG Greg Peterson.
Jose returned to Argentina to finish high school, and then returned to Kansas to attend KU, where he majored in Architecture and spent his summers with the Petersons. He finished first in his class at KU, and won a national competition for architectural students. He stayed another year after graduation to prepare architectural drawings for the restoration of Union Station.
Craig Denny was a member of our club during Jose's stay, and hosted a Swedish Rotary Youth Exchange Student who became friends with Jose.
Jose remarked at our meeting that everyone looked a lot older than he did.