Wichita Heights High School - Talon Yearbook (Wichita, KS)

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62 French Club-German Club French, Germans Unite Efforts Exploring a foreign culture proved to be more entertaining than most French and German Club members had expect- ed as the two clubs joined efforts sever- al times in cross-cultural exchanges. The French-German alliance showed its strength in a l-0 defeat of their Spanish competitors in a spring soccer match, and a bilingual caroling party was the highlight of a combined French-German Christmas fest. Despite the coordinated activities, each club maintained its own annual functions. German Club continued to marry and divorce consenting couples at Carnival, while French Club still found it profitable to release student- faculty tensions by throwing darts at pictures of faculty members. A German exchange student from East High, Vera Mutz, brought a better perspective of German lifestyles to club members during her mid-year visit. Devoted French Club members spent a major part of the school year selling Swiss chocolates. The money was used to defray the cost of the annual banquet at a local French restaurant and to sup- plement materials for the library and French Department. Candy selling was a prime interest in German Club, too. Members bought filmstrips and a Ger- man magazine subscription with their profits. Also, Schloss Rhinstein was the site of a banquet at which clubbers en- joyed the delicacies of German Cuisine.

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Honor Society Awards Travel Scholarships To Mexico, Spain Habla Usted Espanol? means, Do you speak Spanish? Over thirty stu- dents who did were in Spanish Club whose goal it was to promote and en- courage the understanding and use of Spanish in school and society. The group sold candy and popcorn and par- ticipated in a soccer game against the German and French Clubs. Closely allied to Spanish Club was the Spanish Honor Society, whose members had to have a least a 3.5 grade average in Spanish for at least three semesters. They learned about Spanish culture by taking dance lessons and by hosting a party for Mexican exchange students. Money raised by the organiza- tion was used to send students to Mexi- co or Spain to learn first-hand about Spanish culture and peoples. Society members Toni Hembree and Arlyn Purcell, both, '79, took top honors at the city-wide Spanish contest held at W.S.U. and also did well at the Nation- al exam given in March. 'W' 4'-ZLL? CL- 9 61fSpanish Club-Spanish Honor Society fl,-. . ,fd fi

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W W - ,,L,M t ,ww 'Y ' M WW., H 63fFrench Club-German Club far l. Selling Swiss chocolate is French Club's main money-raising project. 2. GERMAN CLUB First Row: C. Finley, B. Saunders, J. Lofstead. Second Row: S. Sonder- gard, S. Myrtle, T. Fooshee, L. Krug. Third Row: S. Jones, R. Miller, M. Bassett, S. Steger. Fourth Row.' J. Seek, Ms. Gail Burkett, Sponsor. 3. ln their study of German customs, Juli Lof- stead, '79, and Tim Fooshee, '80, learn the polka. 4. French club First Row.'S. Young, D. Reed, G. Liebe. Second Row: K. Dittmer, K. Colborn. Third Row: D. Smith, D. Shields, S. Robinson, B. Robinson, Z. Chowdhury. Fourth Row: J. Har- pool, D. Lattimore, B. Watson. Fifth Row: K. Adams, P. Ingmire, J. Chung. Sixth Row.' P. Nale, M. Taves, C. Killingsworth, L. Johnson. Seventh Row: S. Anthony, G. Capps, S. Ens- minger, B. Bonwell, M. Shamasko, G. Hamilton, Ms. Gail Burkett, Sponsor. Eighth Row: M. Pangburn, M. Nickel. 5. An activity of French Club is the exploration of cultural differences and similarities between the United States and French speaking countries. 6. Vera Mutz, exchange student from Germany, shares her experiences with German Club mem- bers. K H