Hopkins High School - Warrior Yearbook (Minnetonka, MN)

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English Scene Along the Thames Maureen Patrick came from England for the school year 1954-1955, and lived with the Joseph Vesely family. Mary Towley spent the summer of 1956 in England, living with typical English families in Harpenden. TABLE OF CONTENTS The School . . . 8 Activities .... 58 Athletics .... 88 School Life . . . 104 Sponsors .... 119 5

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Susan Ruha spent the summer of 1956 in Greece under the AFS program. FOREWORD Every graduating class boasts that its senior year was the best — and we're no exception. We've suffered defeats and gloried in our victories. We have integrated hard work with hilarious fun and discovered that no school year is complete without either. We have long felt the need for us, as young adults, to learn and understand that this feeling of working and playing together isn't popular to American youth alone. Therefore, we welcomed the opportunity to receive into our school the young people of foreign nations and to live through these events with them. We have gained a deeper understanding and more intimate knowledge of people of other lands through these youthful ambassadors. People everywhere tend to fear and mistrust that which they aren't familiar with — this is true among nations too. If these nations could know each other through their young people, perhaps many of their problems could be avoided and their mistakes rectified. These students from other lands have come to realize that youth is the same everywhere — whether it be in Hopkins, Minnesota, or Istanbul, Turkey. All of us have profited by this exchange of ideas and customs and will continue to do so for years to come. Throughout the following pages we have recorded the enriching moments that have made our 1957 school year complete. We invite you to relive them with us. 4

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(Above) Winter Scene in Finland. Kaija (Kay) Komsi came to us from sturdy, independent Finland, living the school year 1955-56 with the Carl Towley family. (Below) Istanbul with its Turrets. Osman (Ozzie) Edin was a first-year AFS student and came to Hopkins from Turkey for the 1954-55 school year. His home was with the Don Donovan family — the local AFS committee.