experiences were 57 years apart. “Tere’s no other way I would
have experienced all those awesome things without the scholarship,” says Jay Fischer, 27 (BA08), a Taylor native now teaching high school English in southern California, “and no way I’d have goten the scholarship if I hadn’t gone to Eastern.” “Tat year changed my life,” agrees
Nancy Suton York, 82 (BA50), of Seatle, who has traveled the world since her magical year in England. “It’s such a great opportunity, and I’m happy to spread the word about it.” Te federally funded Fulbright
scholarship gives college students and faculty the chance to study and teach in a foreign country. Te goal of mutual understanding among nations has not changed since the program began in 1947, says Fulbright spokesman Edwin Bodensiek. “Te world is certainly a much more
complex place, but the U.S. scholar is still seen as one of the world’s best,” he says. “As a result, the Fulbright is alive and well.”
Tis year, 10,000 students—a Photo of Nancy Suton York ◆ by Doug Plummer
EMU Fulbright scholars fom 1951 and 2008 share their stories
by Jo Mathis
Worldly View T
24 Eastern | WINTER 2011
record—applied for the scholarship program, and 1,600 were accepted based on their academic merit and leadership potential. Since 1990, 24 EMU faculty members have been Fulbright scholars, and four EMU students since 1993 have been so honored. York had never been more than 50
miles from her native Detroit when her extracurricular involvement at Michigan State Normal College (now EMU) helped her snag a Fulbright scholarship in 1951. Te program was in its fiſth year. When she got to Manchester
wo Eastern Michigan University graduates say they spent the best year of their lives studying abroad as Fulbright scholars.
Interestingly, their international
University in England to learn new methods of teaching the deaf, York was shocked to see so much evidence of World War II destruction, including deep holes in the ground where bombs had been dropped. She’d been used to
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