Bolles School - Eagle Yearbook (Jacksonville, FL)

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gs ., .qw Varied Cultures Add Dimension to Bolles , x ,f A x 7, 1. N l N Q Nu X f N .fig-'L Heather Armstrong from South Africa spends her first year in America in the 7th grade at Bolles, while Shaheen Navabterani from Iran is a Junior. The wide-range appeal of Bolles can best be seen by the number of foreign students in attendance this year. From as far away as Thailand, they came to take advantage of the many opportunities offered. 'iMy father came here and saw the school. He liked it, so he sent me here, said Eduardo Morgan. These students have found friendship and at the same time have enriched us with a knowledge of something other than our own country. Did they feel that being from a foreign land made them more interesting to others? l believe that being from someplace else made students want to have me as their friend, replied Shaheen Navabterani. They want to know what someone from Iran is Iike. While most of these students boarded here, Shaheen, Heather Armstrong, and Agneta Persson all lived in the ci- ty. This gave them the chance to be more a member of the community and see more of what America is like. Heather Armstrong found that there was not a great difference between the boys and girls here and in South Africia. ln South Africa we hardly ever wear jeans, here every one does. Other than that, we are really the same.

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30 Foreign Students Daniel Zambrano ivenezuelal and Scott Farrington fBahamasl enjoy a favorite pastime of the resident students-foosball. All unruly. nf! I mf., Living in the dorm provides an opportunity lor Babak Deshnad Uranl and John Magee iLiberial to work together on homework as well as the language. In addition to sharing a room, Manuel Perez-Alonso lNIcaragual and Ramon Abarca iPuerto Flicol also share a common language.

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32 Phoenix Society Bondi Boutwell gives Ross Bannister the magic bells as Chip Bachara looks on in The Magic Flute. Phoenix Soars to The Phoenix Society wound up 1978 with two dynamic productions, The Magic Flute and Shrew, The Magic Flute was originally one of Mozart's finest operas, but it was updated to be a comical spoof. lt was a satire on government and was set in Ancient Egypt. The humorous production was very well received. The final Phoenix production, and their biggest of the year, was Shrew from The Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare. The com- edy was essentially a battle of the sexes. The '79 Season consisted of two major productions, The first play, Young Sherlock Holmes: His First Case, was presented during the Winter Fine Arts Festival in December. The play was about the well-known Watson and Holmes before they became famous, and the script included excerpts from several of the Holmes' short stories. The second major production was the musical Half a Sixpence, a romantic view of working conditions during the Industrial Revolution in England. the Tune of a Flute David Livert exercises control over Alicia Cummings in The Magic Flute while Bill Rich stands camouflaged in the background.