Foreign exchange student program appoints local rep

By CARA LORELLO

Staff Reporter

Regional coordinators for the national-nonprofit education organization PAX (Program of Academic Excellence) recently appointed Ronald Morrison, Medical Lake resident and a former high school math teacher, the community coordinator for the region.

Morrison will be in charge of interviewing families on the West Plains interested in becoming host families. Foreign exchange students come from about 35 different countries, in Eastern Europe, Asia, South American and Africa.

Headquartered in Port Chester, N.Y., PAX's academic home stay program for high school students...