Wrangell High and Montana State grad Kayla Hay earns Fulbright to teach in Germany
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May 17, 2023
Courtesy Montana State University News Service
Kayla Hay, Wrangell class of 2018, graduated from Montana State University last Friday and will head to Germany next month on a Fulbright teaching assistantship.
Wrangell High School graduate Kayla Hay was always interested in learning German. Her great-grandparents emigrated from Austria to Alaska in the 1920s, she said, and she was intrigued by different cultures and wanted to be able to communicate with her relatives who remained in Austria.
Hay didn't have the opportunity to take German as a student in Wrangell (class of 2018), but when she enrolled at Montana State University in Bozeman that fall, she signed up for a basic German language class her freshman year.
"I fell in love with it," she said. "There is such a nice little German community...
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