OSU-K Reunion

(June 12, 2011) Around 11 pm one evening in late May 1990 a very tired group of 151 young people from Japan arrived on the OSU campus. They were welcomed to Wentz Hall by several  members of the university staff,  several members of the Sister Cities Council and others.  After studying English for a year many of the group went back to Japan and enrolled in general education classes at Oklahoma State University-Kyoto     (OSU-K).  This pattern of coming to OSU for a year of English language instruction, going back to Japan and enrolling at OSU-K for their general education classes before coming back to OSU for their upper division classes continued for several years until OSU-K was forced to close its doors due primarily to the downturn in Japan’s economy. Through the six years or so that OSU-K existed some 450 to 500 students from throughout Japan studied on the OSU-K  and OSU campuses and many are proud OSU alumni. On June 25^th many of them will go back to the former OSU-K campus in Kameoka for a 20^th anniversary reunion of the first classes offered at OSU-K and they’re bound to have a great time as they share time together and renew friendships.