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Recent Press Releases |
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Global
awareness workshops, study tours to
benefit teachers
Cookeville,
TN, March 1, 2008 – Teacher training
and travel are the focus of a special
program on Turkish culture announced
today by the
Tennessee World Affairs Council, an
educational non-profit organization
that brings global awareness programs
and resources to Tennessee communities
and classrooms.
The program includes a teacher
workshop on April 12, 2008 in
Cookeville, selection of four
Tennessee educators for a funded study
tour to Turkey in the summer, and a
follow on program in the fall.
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 Leadership
Putnam Youth Briefed on World Affairs
Cookeville, TN – The nuclear weapons threat posed by
North Korea and Iran, the genocide in Darfur, the
global war on terrorism and the world’s sources of
energy for the United States were among the topics
raised by twenty four Putnam County high school
students during briefings at the Tennessee World
Affairs Council office in Cookeville. The rising
juniors from area schools were participants in the
week-long Leadership Putnam Youth Academy.
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 Tennessee
World Affairs Council and Cookeville Rotary Clubs
Host Delegation of Doctors from Northern France
Medical professionals from France met with
Cookeville, Tennessee mayor Sam Sallee as part of
their Rotary International Group Study Exchange
program visit. Front from left: Team leader Jean
Noel Hannecart, Dr. Perrine Enguerand, Dr. Hugues
Coevoet, Dr. Anouck Schneider, Dr. Arnaud LaLanne,
Mayor Sallee; back from left: John Bayless,
President Cookeville Breakfast Rotary; Patrick Ryan,
President Tennessee World Affairs Council and Ed
Jared, Chair of the Rotary GSE Planning Committee.
The Tennessee World Affairs Council hosted the
delegation during their visit, April 22-26, 2007.
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