D’YOUVILLE ENROLLS FIRST STUDENT FROM A ‘DoDDS’ SCHOOL
Friday, August 20, 2010
BUFFALO- D’Youville has enrolled its first student from a Department of Defense Dependant School (DoDDS).
Kevin Sepulveda, a graduate of Ramstein American High School in Germany, is a member of the D’Youville Class of 2014 and will major in philosophy. He and his family flew to Buffalo in August to visit D’Youville and the Western New York area.
His parents are career military serving in the U.S. Air Force in Germany, his mother as a paralegal and his step father as a specialized electrician working on fighter aircraft. They are currently based at Ramstein Air Force Base located outside of Kaiserslautern. The Kaiserslautern Military Community has an approximate population of 53,000 Americans, the largest concentration of U.S. Military outside of the U.S. Kevin’s high school has just over 1000 students.
DoDDS schools are a network of schools, both primary and secondary, created in 1946 to serve the children of American military families and U.S. Government employees around the world. Students are taught by American teachers and the schools meet the education requirements of U.S. schools. Currently, there are approximately 120 such schools.
Kevin was introduced to D’Youville when he attended a presentation on D’Youville made by Ronald Dannecker, director of international admissions and marketing, at his school. "I liked what Mr. Dannecker said about the college, the small campus, that is was friendly and D’Youville in general. I checked it out on the internet and decided to come here,” Kevin said during his visit.
He will take advantage of the new GI Bill that allows parents in the military to transfer their education benefits to their children.
Kevin and his family have been stationed in Spain, England, Korea, the United Arab Emirates, the mid east and Germany during their time in the Air Force.
Dannecker and D. John Bray, director of public relations at D’Youville, have been visiting DoDDS facilities in Germany for the past two years and have developed good working relationships with faculty, guidance officers and students at the schools.
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