Dirigo International Club

Dirigo High School

Amity Beane & John GlausModern Languages

September 2008

Why an International Club at Dirigo?

You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.

Barbara Bush

Why an International Club at Dirigo?

You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.

Barbara Bush

Provide opportunities to be ambassadors for the school, the

state, and the nation.

Peace is always beautiful.

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better

opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

William Pollard

Support cross-curricular learning.

Create active citizens.

You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.

Winston Churchill

Promote global literacy.

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore

and tell the world the glories of our journey.

John Hope Franklin

The International Club would:

The International Club would:

• Welcome all students to join

• Take trips to explore Maine and the world

• Raise funds for scholarships and charities

• Create presentations for school and community

• Provide a safe environment to learn about culture and the world, regardless of politics, race, or religion