Hopewell High School - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Hopewell, VA)

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Ill American Travel to Germany Via SE German host parents and students meet and greet the visitors from the USA. Cecilia Jackson receives her books on Peine, the gift presented each student by the city, from German group leader Utz Muethel. Mrs. Earlene Lampman performed the duty of pronouncing the American names. I Mark Dillingham watches as Uwe Engelke and Annette Baltzer work on an advertising assignment during art class. 6 10 Travel

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If the school is a game, the students are the players. And the games we play! There is the central academic game, with classes and homework and tests and report cards; we all have to take part in that. But then there are the contests and pageants, the dances and soc-hops and the prom, and a thousand other sideshows and diversions. Some of them are continuations of tradition, but still each year sees changes in the ways they are done and the people doing them. Here is our record of student life at HHS in 1976-1977. 9

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With 350 travelers, and 50 airport seats, the floor becomes the only place for luggage and traveler during the long wait at Hanover Airport. “Germany. We’re really going to Germany. 1 just can ' t believe it,” were the sentiments of those fifteen students and sponsor, Mrs. Earlene Lampman, who left New York on Friday, August 6, 1976; final destination — Peine. West Germany. After a brief stop over in Zurich, Switzerland, the 727 landed in Frankfort where German guides loaded the group on Mercedes buses and began an afternoon journey along the Rhine River. For the weary travelers who had had no sleep for 24 hours, the motion of the bus made their eyes close. However, every few minutes their dozing would be interrupted with, “Look, over there on that hill, another castle, from Mrs. Lampman. The group arrived that afternoon at the Weinstock Hotel in the little Rhine village of Linz, where they spent three days visiting castles, churches, and such cities as Bonn and Cologne. Finally they reached Peine where German families and friends awaited them at the school, Gymnasium am Silberkamp. Days and weeks seemed to fly as these SESers visited modern cities, medieval cities, attended classes, and hiked in the Hartz Mountains. The most eventful day of all was the trip by bus across East Germany to reach Berlin. They were amazed at Communism in action as they viewed the haphazard methods of farming and rode at no more than 35 mph across the East German autobahn. As their passports were scrutizined and faces examined at least five times they began to appreciate living in freedom and all felt a sense of relief when the bus crossed the frontier into West Germany. And then it was all over. Tears and more tears characterized the farewell party. The bus that headed for Hanover Airport was anything but happy. As fate would have it there were air transportation problems. The group settled down for a three hour delay that turned into an uncomfortable 20 hour vigil. Finally, the next morning at 7 a.m. the travelers boarded a Spanish Airlines DC10, complete with Spanish stewardesses who spoke very little English. After a one hour stopover in Shannon, Ireland, this travel worn Bunch landed at Kennedy Airport, plodded through customs, and boarded a plane for home. Suddenly, they weren’t tired anymore. So what if they’d had 40 hours with no sleep. Germany had been wonderufl and they could hardly wait to tell everyone and besides, they were going HOME. During a champagne reception at the Gymnasium am Silberkamp, Hopewell students meet and toast with Peine’s Burgermeister (mayor), Gerhard Heinze. Students view one of the first VWs every produced, the 1938 model, during their tour of the Wolfsberg Volkswagenwerks. Travel 11