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Welcome to Rotary District
7620!
To our incoming Ambassadorial Scholars, welcome to
Rotary District 7620. District 7620 contains the Rotary Clubs in the
Washington, DC and Baltimore, Maryland metropolitian areas and central
Maryland. (www.rotary7620.org
)
If you have not yet received official notification of the name
and contact information of your host Rotarian counselor, you may contact us
regarding any questions or concerns. Please contact your host Rotarian
Counselor as soon as you receive the notification. If you contact your
host Rotarian Counselor by e-mail, please CC both of us. So that we can
meet you when you arrive in our District, please provide the details of your
travel plans to both your host Rotarian Counselor and to us.
Co-Chairs,
incoming Rotary Ambassadorial Scholars, Rotary District 7620
Conrad L. Fleck,
telephone: 301.498-4950, cfleck11@verizon.net
Steven Naron,
301.346-1505, steven.naron@gmail.com
Housing
You may have indicated on your Biographical
Data Form that you would appreciate assistance from your host Rotarian Counselor
in locating housing. Your counselor and I are willing to assist you. You may
also wish to search for your own housing. Many of our universities will provide
you with information on housing. The following websites may also be helpful:
Georgetown University:
http://www.georgetown.edu/home/housing.html Georgetown University Law School: http://www.law.georgetown.edu/reslife/offcampus
George Washington Univ.: http://gwired.gwu.edu/hc/ViewResidenceHalls/PowerSearch/
University of Maryland, College Park: http://www.cacs.umd.edu/och
You may
also contact: http://www.norwichguesthouse.com/norwich.htm
Johns Hopkins SAIS does not have a housing office, but it
does provide referral information contact: http://www.sais-jhu.edu/admissions/studentlife/housing/index.html
The International Student House, is located at 1825 R Street NW,
Washington DC 20009, 202.232.4007 may be used for temporary housing. For
more information: http://www.ishdc.org
Craigslist
DC: http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/
The
Washington Post is the largest newspaper in Washington. You can access
the rental listings at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/rentals/index.html
The
Washington Times is another newspaper in Washington. You can access
rental listings at: http://washingtontimes.abracat.com/c2/apartments/search/index.xml
Other
housing and other Washington websites: http://www.dcpages.com and http://www.ForRent.com .
Public Transportation: Public transportation in
Washington and its Maryland suburbs is provided primarily by Washington
Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA or “Metro”). You can access the main
website at: http://www.wmata.com
Other
visitor information: http://www.wmata.com/riding/visitors/visitors.cfm#kit
We hope that this information is helpful to you. We look forward to
meeting you. There will be a gathering of all Scholars and their Cousnelors at a
DC orientation session in early September. Please plan to attend this session.
More details will be provided to you shortly.
If you have any
corrections or suggestions for this web page, please send them on to steven.naron@gmail.com
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