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Pittsfield Rotary Club seeks host families for a Rotary Youth Exchange student. We are seeking families to host an exchange student for the 2025-2026 academic school year. Students typically stay with a family for 3-6 months (ideally, we’re looking for 3 families to cover the academic year) and will receive training and support from Rotary to make this a success. Currently, we believe we are looking to welcome a student from Argentina to Pittsfield.
Briefly, we are looking for families to provide a safe and welcoming environment for trust and friendship to develop between the student and your family. This includes providing room and board for the student. All students must have their own bed. If the student must share a room, it should be with a child of the same gender and similar age. Successful families will teach the student about the local culture, and learn about the student’s culture. The Rotary Club & District have Exchange officers & councilors to help support the student and families to make it a successful year. You can find more information about being a host family in the Rotary International guide for host families: Do you know someone that would be a great host? Maybe your house is a little empty these days? This is a great opportunity to welcome a student here and share our wonderful community with them. Hosts report that it is such a fulfilling experience for the host family, too. We're hoping to identify families to serve as hosts, so that at maximum it would be a commitment of half of the school year including someone new in your family. What do you say? Can you volunteer or recommend someone? Please share your ideas with me. Give me a call -- 413-441-8036 -- and let's figure out something great for a student! Thank you for your consideration, -Alex Alex Reczkowski Pittsfield Rotary Club Secretary. |
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President Tom Bernard declared the "choice was easy" as he announced immediate past President John Hudnall as the 2025 Butler Award winner. John is the vice president of CT Brigham, a family-owned wholesaler of paper goods, chemicals and supplies for the hospitality industry. John was taken aback by the award - while he may have been surprised, Members were not as John is truly a dedicated Rotary member and works hard to promote Club ideals and programs. Representatives of Sparks Tower joined the awardee at his second home, Antimony Brewing in Lenox late Thursday afternoon where he was still ever grateful for the special honor. John and bride Jess live in Pittsfield along with their son Jackson and daughter Juliana. The Butler award is presented annually by the Club President in honor of a Rotarian that best embodies the qualities of the namesake Don Butler. Like John Hudnall, Don Butler was a devoted family man, committed to his profession and his community. Cheers and congratulations to this year's Butler recipient, John Hudnall!