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Media Advisory For Immediate Release
February 5, 2007
Collegiate, Sister Cities of Louisville to host Chinese delegation
Ten students, two teachers will attend classes,
tour city landmarks
LOUISVILLE, KY. – Louisville Collegiate
School and Sister Cities of Louisville will host a delegation
of 10 students and two teachers from Jiujiang, PR China for
two weeks as part of its Chinese cultural exchange program.
The delegation will arrive Sunday, Feb. 11 and will visit
with students and teachers until Tuesday, Feb. 27.
Collegiate will hold a welcoming ceremony
for the group at 10:25 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 12 in its high
school commons, located at the corner of Grinstead Drive and
Ray Avenue.
This is the second year of Louisville-Jiujiang
Sister Cities’ student exchange program. The Chinese
students and faculty will participate in homestays, tour many
Louisville landmarks and attend classes at Collegiate, which
offers the only comprehensive K-12 Chinese language program
in the state of Kentucky.
Collegiate Upper School Head Scott Prince
and senior Linkon Altman traveled to Jiujiang, PR China for
17 days in May and June last year to visit Experiment High
School in Jiujiang. They worked with Tian Shaoxing, principal
of Experiment High School, to establish international education
and cultural exchanges between Jiujiang and Collegiate. Many
of the Chinese visitors are ones Prince and Altman worked
with during their visit to Jiujiang last spring.
The exchange is the second in an ongoing
and widening series of cultural and educational exchanges
between Jiujiang schools and Collegiate, as outlined in a
“Memorandum of Understanding” signed by both parties
last spring. Jiujiang is the Sister City of Louisville and
its province, Jiangxi, is Kentucky's Sister State.
Wei-Bin Zeng, co-chair of the Jiujiang Committee
of Sister Cities of Louisville, said “It has been a
great pleasure to work with Collegiate in creating this student
exchange. Over the last year Sister Cities of Louisville has
worked with Collegiate to make a connection with several Experimental
Schools in Jiujiang and we are so happy they will be hosting
the students this year.”
Sister Cities of Louisville is a non-profit
organization dedicated to promoting global friendship, multicultural
understanding and economic growth by developing exchanges
and lasting relationships between the citizens of Louisville
and its eight Sister Cities around the world. Jiujiang became
the seventh sister city to Louisville in 2003.
Since 1995, Collegiate has offered Chinese
cultural enrichment to kindergartners and first-graders as
a part of their elementary school experience. The 91-year-old
school’s expansion of the language and culture this
year to the entire student body has given its students the
opportunity to graduate with advanced skills in multiple languages,
both western and non-western.
“The newly articulated, developmentally
appropriate K-12 Chinese language program will, over time,
build upon the existing foundation and offer students the
ability to study the language through the Advanced Placement
(AP) level in the Upper School,” Prince said. “Everyone
has been very excited this year about adding Chinese to our
existing array of languages: Spanish, French and German.”
NOTE: Please contact us for the exchange
group’s complete schedule.
Established in 1915,
Louisville Collegiate School is a co-ed college-preparatory
independent school for students from kindergarten through
12th grade.
PRESS CONTACT:
Terry Sebastian
Director of Marketing, Public Relations
Louisville Collegiate School
Work: (502)479-0376
Fax (502) 479-0394
E-mail: tsebastian@loucol.com
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