To the Attention of the Committe Members

RE: Juliana Aires Franceschini

Miss Juliana Aires Franceschini is a Master’s candidate in the Faculty of Architecture, History of Architecture Program and she will be completing her second semester at the end of 2000 – 2001 Spring Semester. The History of Architecture Program in the Middle East Technical University is a minimum of four semesters towards a Master’s degree.

Miss Juliana Aires Franceschini, has taken a lecture course with me during the Fall semester and she is now taking another one this semester. She is an attentive and hard working student, has the discipline to make research by herself and produces excellent papers as part of the course work. For her Master’s thesis she is planning to concentrate on a comperative study on eastern and western architecture with a special focus on the transmission of certain themes or certain architectural elements. I will highly recommend her for the extension of her scholarship which will enable her to complete the program.

Sincerely,
  
Prof.Dr.Ömür Bakirer
Middle East Technical University
Faculty of Architecture
Department of Architecture.

May 5, 2001
Turkish Rotary Club Scholarship Programme
Of Districts 2420, 2430, 2440 – Rotary International

Dear Committee Members,

First of all I would like to thank you immensely for providing me the scholarship program during two semesters (2000 – 2001) for my masters studies at Middle East Technical University. I am deeply grateful to have been chosen to come to Turkey and experience the life, the culture, the people and the education system here. After spending seven months in Turkey I feel myself so happy and realized. I learned to love Turkey as my own country.

The experience in METU has been great and I am enjoying the courses I have been taking and the teachers who are so competent and helpful. I would like to continue my studies in METU in the next two semesters (2001 – 2002), as the master program lasts two years. In this way I will be able to present my Thesis and hopefully be graduated in July 2002.

I appreciate your concern about this matter and I am really hoping the possibility of obtaining other 9 months of the scholarship, if possible, or half-scholarship from the Turkish Rotary Clubs, so then I can give continuation to my studies.

Thank you again,

Sincerely,

Juliana Aires Franceschini.