.: Student Exchange Program

2002 - 2003

O.P.E.N. Chairperson, Jane Ann Cotton, is proud to announce the selection of the High School Students from Smila. These students have been attending High School in Smila, Ukraine. The students are due to arrive in Chicago after a long airplane ride from Kiev, Ukraine, through Warsaw, Poland and on to Chicago. The will arrive in Chicago around 7:30 pm. Several of the O.P.E.N. Board members know both these student and their parents.

Ann Hnida
and her best friend

Ann's parents while on a
holiday to Moscow, Russia

Lena
Odnoromanenko

Lena's parents both of who work as
Doctors in the Smila Regional Hospital

Jane Ann Cotton said, "We certainly are looking forward to the students arrival".
Due to lateness of their arrival in Chicago, the students will arrive in Newton Sunday. Ann Hnida will be staying with the family of Mark & Michelle Modlin. Lena Odnoromanenko will be staying with the Bruce & Rose Trapp Family.