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a-history-of-international-exchanges00

- 42 -*August 2001: Mr. Minoru Okabayashi, Chairman of the PlanningCommittee of MU and Kiyoshi Hirase, Chairman of the SECof the Faculty of Education and Culture (Faculty ofEducation changed its official name in 1999), visited DCEto talk about the possibility of organizing a short-term(about 10 days) study program for MU students at DCE.*August 2003: Mr.Hirase led 15 MU students to DCE. [the short-term studyprogram ]*October 2003: Pricipal Roger Green paid a courtesy visit MU with hiswife, Alison and met President Sumiyoshi and DeanIwamoto.*December 2005: Mr. David Keen, a professor of Sociology who was alsoin charge of the exchange program,visited MU and gave alecture with the title “A Bridge over the Pacific Ocean---Miyazaki and Dunedin.”*August 2006: Mr. Hirase led 10 MU students to DCE [the short-termstudy program]*November 2006: Mr. Keen led 6 DCE students to MU [the short-termstudy program]*November 2006: Mr. Errol Moore, a music professor of DCE, visited MUto ask for the cooperation in his project “Japan Stopover.”＜Reminiscence (11) ～Mr. Keen’s smiling face～＞Once people see Mr. Keen’s smiling face, they never forget it. Mr. David Keen was aprofessor of Sociology at DCE, and was also in charge of the exchange program betweenDCE and MU until he retired from DCE in 2007. Every former exchange student to DCEtalked about Mr. Keen’s kind and warm personality. When people meet him for the fisrttime, they never fail to be madly in love with his smiling face, and then they are surprisedby his kindly manner and quiet way of speaking. It was my pleasure to work with him onthe exchange program for about 10 years. We haven’t had a chance to meet after the yearof 2009, but we still exchange letters and e-mails. It may be a coincidence that Mr. Keenretired from DCE in the year when DCE merged with Otago University. I felt that the ageof MU-DCE exchange program ended. Even after his retirement, he still keeps hisprofound intellectual curiosity, learning Portuguese language and performing plays on thestage with his wife in a citizen theatrical group. I miss his little halting Japanese. Pleaselook at the photo of Mr.Keen on the next page. (Hirase)