by Justin Geigley
Every year, Westview has the opportunity to in either The Hometown Treasure or The People’s Exchange
introduce our small community to a different culture and it really caught my husband’s eye. It sounded fun
through the exchange student program. This program and interesting but we weren’t sure we would have
places a student from another country into the home room. We ended up fixing a room so we could do it.”
For anyone curious about the program, it is a fairly
of a willing family for the duration of the school year.
This school year, the James and Waneta Stutzman family easy process according to the Stutzman family. All they
decided to be a part of this program and invited Chau needed to do was contact the International Student
Exchange at 800-766-4656 and the whole process was
Bui from Vietnam to be a part of their family.
When asked what prompted their decision to started. A representative came to their house and they
become a host family, Waneta said, “We saw it advertised
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March 2011
Exchange Student Chau Bui
Phone: 260-463-4901 • Fax 888-439-6528 • The Hometown Treasure
Vietnam Exchange student Chau Bui (far right) with her host family (left to right): James (Dad), Bethany (sister), Jenny (sister), Waneta
(Mom), and Jessica (sister).
The Hometown Treasure photo
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