Youth Programs
Youth Exchange has enriched our community and strengthened the leadership skills of International and Australian youth. Many of you in the community have bravely sent your children abroad and/or been host parents to students from across the world. These are the names of young people we have sponsored over the decades...
EXCHANGE STUDENTS INBOUND
1960 Elphram Cruz (Philippines)
1966 Hiroki Sato (Japan)
1975-76 Helle Bay (Denmark)
1977-78 Cathy Dewey (USA)
1978-79 Keith Norum (USA)
1981-82 Mina Oshida (Japan)
1985-86 Masaaki Inoue (Japan)
1987-88 Magnus Erikksen (Sweden)
1993-94 Mark Zwingmann (Germany)
1996-97 Louise Fog (Denmark)
1999-2000 Saiiunee (Mai) Suangpanakul (Thailand)
(6 months shared)
2002 Christopher Kunstler (Germany)
(6 months shared)
2004-05 Sachi Otsuka (Japan)
2005-06 Nicolas Maillard (France)
2006-07 Lasse Hedegaard (Denmark)
2008-09 Punyawan (Poi) Chuchuai (Thailand)
2009-10 Vigga Laursen (Denmark)
2010 -11 Kaja Dollman (Germany) (Club)
2010-11 Johanna Budde (Germany)
2011-12 Xenia Artho (Switzerland)
2012- 13 Emilie Nohr (Denmark)
2013-14 Tim Ortner (Austria)
2015-16 Violet Yernaux (Belgium)
(six months shared with Dorrigo)
2016-17 Riku Inaba (Japan)
2023-24 Anaelle Smetz (Belgium)
EXCHANGE STUDENTS OUTBOUND
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1979 Robyn Kilbourne (USA)
1984-5 David Jessup (Sweden)
1989-90 Daniel Jacob (Canada)
1993 Bruce Edgerton (South Africa)
1999 Karina Kethel (Belgium)
(terminated prematurely)
2005 Bethany Jolly (Austria)
2006 Jenna Christian (Denmark)
2008 Clare Jenkins (Russia)
2009 Reyna Sommerville (France)
2010 Jessica Maher (Switzerland)
2011 Sophie Sheather (Belgium)
2013 Savannah Regan (Canada)
2014 Joel Phipps (Brazil)
2015 Tiffany Van Dam (Japan)
2017 Maddie Cross (Switzerland)
(terminated prematurely)
2019 Jude Quinn (Denmark)
2019 Cadence O’Brien (France)
2023 Jorja Browning (Japan)
2024 Django Stark (Mexico)