Stephen Swan told us about his year in Germany as a Rotary Exchange Student, when he spoke to us on Thursday, June 16.  He attended high school on his Rotary scholarship in Delmenhorst,West German, just outside Bremen.  There he  lived with three different Rotary families, of varied socio-economic backgrounds. It was an eye-opening year for him, and changed the way he looks at the world. Those lessons inform his life, even today.  After graduating from college with majors in German and Philosophy, he returned to university in Bonn, Germany for an additional year of study in the same subjects. 
After seven years in the information technology field, he now owns his own company, Util IT, has a wife and two children, and is a prospective member of our club.