The International Club is an educational and social organization that assists students to learn and appreciate various ethnic cultures through travel, speakers, dinners, films, etc. The Club has been very active this semester participating in Showcase Weekend with Japanese calligraphy and SUNY Cobleskill chocolate emblems. We held a picnic and movie night at the Ski Lodge and enjoyed a joint dinner with the Cobleskill Richmondville High School International Club. We traveled to the Gandhi Restaurant in Albany for delicious Indian cuisine and picked apples at the Terrace Mountain Apple Orchard. The Club provided financial assistance for a member to attend "A Taste of New Orleans" in support of the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Future events include a movie night, trip to Woodbury Mall, International Dinner for the College Community, snow tubing and a trip to Montreal in the spring.

Kusal DeSilva was born and raised in Sri Lanka . He migrated to the United States two years ago. At SUNY Cobleskill, he has been the founder and first Secretary General of the SUNY Cobleskill Model United Nations. He represented SUNY Cobleskill at the United Nations as a student delegate on the symposium to develop the millennium development goals. He worked as a Student Ambassador and a Peer Mentor and played an active role in the Orange Key Society and the International Club. He is also in the Cobleskill Honors Program and is currently in the process of founding a SUNY Cobleskill Entrepreneur's Association and Debating Society. Kusal was nominated by SUNY Cobleskill for the SUNY Council, ACT Initiative Award for 2005 and has received The Neil V Robbins Presidential Scholarship, Merrill Family Foundation Scholarship, Rua & Sons Scholarship and the Albie Harris Scholarship.

Kusal DeSilva