Arizona Western College - El Matador Yearbook (Yuma, AZ)

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Student exchange program provides . ,W V I , I xi' ' , if Ji Y, A Til is 4 ? 443 a I WX' ' Q es, 5 .ff Q '65 Q I Mp-4' 5 , ' t 5. e x 2 , Z. Representing Western at the University of Sonora in March were QLEFT TO RIGHT, FRONT ROW! Rosa Heredia, Irene MQICIIO and Elizabeth Gomez. Standing QLEFT TO RIGHTJ Frank Preciado, Nonie Reynolds, Marielena Wakamatzu and Mark Fillinger. N01 pictured is Robert Davis. I 4 Y f ,.,..Q-V f, Q. , H... .5 ...,

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c M sc as Q g Mrs. Sherry Roedder 1971 Homecoming dedicatee is I 3 i si S 3 it 9 , Saturday, October.23, c i was crowned during halftime i 1 ofthe game re ' against San Diego College. Mrsi ivosecfetary to the associate gg dean of stuffed? affairs, Paul Waddell, was t selected by1memherslgofthesASfAWC execu- , 5 tive ' MacKenzie' presented?- s 7 f 1 3 .

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. S 4 it z .india as X 5 I Str gf s .s WCIC iado, Not 'J A+ . 4 'Y' , - if L international dialogue ,Wa ww tawaf will Shirley Burch QTOPJ and Bobbie Padilla sunbathe at Kino Bay during last year's exchange while QABOVEJ Reuben O. Lopez CLEFTB poses with students from the UofS in downtown Hermosillo. Eight Arizona Western students experienced a week-long happen- ing March 18th through the 26th that long will be part of their lives. They traded lifestyles with a group of students from Mexico. The eight, Robert Davis, Mark Fillinger, Elizabeth Gomez, Rosa Heredia, Irene Moreno, Frank Pre- ciado, Nonie Reynolds, and Mari- elena Wakamatzu, represented Western during the fifth annual student exchange program with the University of Sonora at Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. They were selec- ted by representatives of student government, and a student and faculty screening committee. . While in Hermosillo, the group attended regular classes at the University, visited museums, ap- peared on local television, relaxed at nearby Kino Bay, where guests at fiestas, and lived with an adopted Mexican family for one week. The exchange program, the only one of its kind between an Arizona junior college and a Mexican uni- versity, was co-sponsored by the Polyglots Club and the College's Foreign Language Department. Shirley Burch served as the club president and Reuben O. Lopez is the department director. While these eight students rep- resented Western in a foreign land, a like number of students repre- senting the University of Sonora visited campus for one week. They too attended classes and visited local historical landmarks, and lived in campus dormitories. Also, they were hosted by college presi- dent, Dr. George Hall in a dinner banquet. The Mexican students and their North American counterparts ex- perienced a cultural jarring when they viewed, complimented and criticized customs and traditions common and uncommon to their ways of life. The exchange pro- gram, as in past years, exposed these students to a laboratory of human experience that far outweighed the one week of regular schooling they missed while not on campus. 73