Atwater High School - Gauntlet Yearbook (Atwater, CA)

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a ,4 SuM (Johui Jouijjii SxddfUjc Sudmt June 19, 1963 was the happiest day in my life. On this day I came to know that I was one of seventy-six lucky teenagers from India to come to the United States. Ever since then, the days of my life have been full of excitement, wonder, new learning, fun, and experiences. I think that this is the best thing that can happen to a teenager. I have learned tremendous things this year. The American Field Service program has helped me to realize that we do live in one world. Now I know that we all are the same, and are heading towards the same goal. So the materialistic or superficial differences really have no mean- ing. They should not stand in our way to understand humanity or world- wide brotherhood. If we teenagers, who are the future leaders of our countries, realize this, then world peace is not far away. — Sunita Vohra

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The A.F.S. has made it possible for qualified, eager teenagers to live in foreign lands. To learn for themselves the difference between the myths and reality, to exchange ideas and traditions. We, as her host family, have thoroughly enjoyed the privilege of sharing Sunita ' s impressions and reactions. We have seen her delight and listened with interest as she has considered the good and the not so good of both countries. We have realized with her how much we ' d all benefit if we could combine many of our ways as two great na- tions of the world. This community has been fortunate in hav- ing Sunita Vohra as it ' s first A.F.S. studept. With her strong sense of tolerance and un- derstanding she has absorbed much of what truly makes us Americans appear as they do in the eyes of foreigners. The exchange will be complete when she returns home and spreads her knowledge among her own people. Mrs. Otto Rigan A mMcaui (mdt