Two Haines residents have been awarded prestigious Fulbright scholarships.
Elementary school teacher Jeanne Kitayama will travel to Japan this summer through the program that provides grants for international education exchange. Iris Holmes received a scholarship to study diseases in frogs and will travel to Jamaica.
A participant in the Japan-U.S. Teacher Exchange Program, Kitayama will travel June 21 to Toubetsu, a city of 21,000 on the northern island of Hokkaido. Forty-eight teachers were competitively selected…
