Not Your Ordinary Field Trip to the Olympics

While in Rio, WNE students will have a unique opportunity to serve as international ambassadors at the Truce Foundation's gala awards ceremony in conjunction with the Olympics.  Awardees include retired Adm. James Stavridis, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander; Wilfried Lemke, UN Special Adviser on Sport for Development and Peace; and Anita DeFrantz, IOC member and rowing bronze medalist at the 1976 Olympic Games.  Among the honored guests will be U.S. Ambassador to Brazil, Liliana Ayalde; Member of Parliament (UK), Lord Michael Bates; and USOC Chairman and IOC member, Larry Probst.   WNE students will actually be the backbone of this event hosted by Truce Foundation President Hugh Dugan, volunteering in various capacities as greeters, welcome desk reception, bartenders, AV support, awards and gift bag coordination, live-stream videography, photography, and personal minders of the awardees and guests.  Above photo is of several former WNE students from this same event at the 2012 London Olympics.  Talk about a chance of a lifetime to get up close and personal with movers and shakers of world sport and politics!