Coral Gables Rotaract Club
Coral Gables, FL
Travel
Ambassadorial Scholar Bram
Bram and his class of children from the Kuna Yala Tribe in Panama, where he taught English
Mark Twain once penned, “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, all foes to real understanding. Likewise, tolerance, or broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in our little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” After having spent a year in Panama on a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship, I understand the truth of Twain’s conviction. My eyes have been completely opened not only to the differences between cultures, but the similarities that commonly bond us all.
Bram Fiebelkorn
Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar to Panama, 2006-07
Ambassadorial Scholar Clark
Clark Ainsworth was awarded the Ambassadorial Scholarship to study economics at the Universidad de Barcelona in 2003/2004.
The Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship has provided me with a foundation of experiences, academic and personal, that has forever changed my outlook and approach to
people and situations. Speeches and Rotary interactions provided a forum to share greater understanding on controversial issues at a time when foreign relations with Spanish citizens and people of Middle Eastern origin were cold at best. The Ambassadorial Scholarship tests one's diplomatic ability, instills a service focus, and teaches one to put out a hand in kindness to whoever he/she meets.
Clark Ainsworth
Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar to Spain, 2003-04
Coral Gables, FL
