Beverly Hills High School - Watchtower Yearbook (Beverly Hills, CA)

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Many Teachers spenT Their vacaTion Time sTudying and Traveling. Mrs. Marjorie Viau oT Beverly's ArT DeparTmenT Toured French Poly- nesia in The SouTh Pacific. She lived wiTh The people There and visiTed many oT The small islands in The Archipelago, She was enchanTed by The people, Their cusToms, and parTicuIarly by The school children in primiTive VVesTern Samoa. Tahiti Hawaii Polynesian children in Tahiii T l? ' V fbi 3 ' ' Mrs. Marjorie Viau and her son inspect fishneis in Tahiti TahiTi and iTs surrounding SocieTy Islands have played an imporTanT parT in The hisTory oT Far EasTern Trade. Lying wirhin The HumboldT CurrenT, TahiTi is a Tremendous shipping Thoroughiare. The culTures on The ouTer islands remain largely unaTTecTed by The paih OT civil- izaTion. Only wiThin The lasT year archeological surveys have been in sTeady progress. ArTiTacTs have appeared Trom civilizaTions oT which The world has, unTil now, been ToTally unaware. IT is ThoughT ThaT perhaps all The islands were aT one Time linked. ApproximaTely every oTher year aT EasTer Time, Mr. RoberT Holmes oT The Music DeparT- menT Takes his Madrigal Singers To Hawaii where They do a concerT Tour. The Honolulu sTudenTs visiT Beverly in reTurn. A very close relaTionship has developed beTween The sTudenTs oT each sTaTe. Q? iv Beverly Madrigals with Mr Robert Holmes leave from sTay in Kailua, Hawaii

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Russia Far East ST. Basil's CaThedral, Red Square Guided by The governmenT agency In TourisT, Senior Mike Schneiderman and his Tamily Travelled in The Union of SovieT SocialisT Republics spending The maioriTy of Their Time in Moscow and Leningrad. ST. Basil's CaThedraI lies in Red Square nexT To The cold, high walls of The Kremlin, policy seaT of The USSR. All The produce Trade in The souTheasT Asian ciry of Bangkok Takes place on The many canals ThaT run Through The hearT of The business dis- TricT. Families may live Their lives WiThin The confines of a narrow canal. The handsome carved demon is guarding The BuddhisT Temple of Dawn builT aT Bangkok Three hundred years ago. IT commemoraTes a baTTle oT The Thai againsT Mongolian invaders. Ira MoskaTel Took These picTure5 while in The Far EasT. Demon guarding Temple of The Dawn, Bangkok Floating markeT place, Bangkok

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orth merica Beverly Hills students and faculty agree that travel augments educational opportunities by creating broadness ot mind and understanding between peoples ot the earth. Close association with Beverly Hills' sister city began this year when our school district hosted dignitaries from Acapulco, Mexico. ff., i This summer, students from Acapulco and Beverly Hills studied here together tor the tirst time. Also there was an exchange of student art work. At the same time, Acapulco dignitaries visited Beverly. At left are: Dr. F. W. Robinson, Mr. Neo Gutierrez, Mr. Jose Medina, Department head ot Rural Education, Mrs. Elinor Nathan, and Professor Ramirez Alta- mirano, Acapulco Director of Education. Three ot our faculty members are spending the entire year away from us. Mrs. Pearl Baum of our English Department is using up the longest ticket ever assembled. She is touring the world while on sabbatical leave. Physics and general science teach- under a fellowship at for physical education- wa-ll. Sister city meeting EI? Mrs. Pearl Baum The traveling photographers. Yellow Taxicabs line Avenue in New York City Nate Silverman's fascinating view of New Yo er, Mr. Francis Crean, is spending this year studying Cornell University. A year studying in Europe will complete a Masters Degree teacher, Marianne Strand- , ,,!. I 5 - 4 ' ,. 5 ,f ' J ' 35, 'y tf j K I fini l a y ' X 211 '32 Rf , Miss Marianne Stra ndwall Mr. Francis Crean rk City must represent the memories of many student and faculty travellers to the great cities, towns, and natural monuments of our own country.