CAPE NATIVE TRAVELS TO CHINA

Gerri Bollinger, formerly of Cape Girardeau, received a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship to travel to the People's Republic of China recently.

The fellowship was awarded through the U.S. Department of Education and the University of Missouri-St. Louis Center for International Studies.

Bollinger was one of 14 educators from the St. Louis area selected for the five-week travel and study program.

The group visited the Chinese cities of Hong Kong, Nanjing, Chengdu, Xian and Beijing. The program included lectures, curriculum development, sightseeing and on-site visits to schools, hospitals, factories, unions, farms and homes.

The educators are currently compiling data to write curriculum units for a lesson book on modern China.

Bollinger is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Bollinger of Cape Griardeau. She is a graduate of Notre Dame High School and the University of Missouri-Columbia. She is currently working on a masters degree in secondary education and counseling and teaches civics to ninth graders and geography to seventh graders at Rockwood South Junior High School in Fenton.