Huguenot High School - Talon Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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Monique Royet, a brunette mademoiselle from Belley, France, journeyed across the sea to live with Betsy Hub- bard, a senior, and her sister Lee, a freshman, for a year as a representative of the American Field Service. On August 14 she arrived in a new land crowded with unfamiliar faces, and, although she had taken English for seven years in France, she found the spoken tongue difficult. After a few weeks, though, she began to fit completely into the school’s daily life. In France Monique’s schedule was much heavier than it was here. She took nine subjects, including philosophy, AFS Brings International “Excusez-moi, sil vous plait, but your French is terrible,” Monique tells Doug Cruickshanks. math, science, English, and French, whereas here she took only the five courses of English, government, Spanish, speech, and typing. Extracurricular activities and clubs, on the other hand, are almost non-existant in France. For this reason Monique found life in the United States exceedingly sociable. She was a member of the French Club, the Library Club, the Spanish Club, and the Future Teachers of America. When Monique returned to France, she.hoped to attend college to study to become an English teacher. Regina Varreta, from Brazil, who attended John Marshall, listens to Collegiate’s foreign exchange student from Uruguay Raul Pujol as he serenades Huguenot’s student body during the rousing AFS assembly. Verena Graf of Switzerland, who was enrolled at Thomas Jefferson, and our own Monique Royet also participated. Monique finds time from her busy schedule to play the piano.

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School Elects Goldwater President Differing from the nation’s choice of Lyndon B. Johnson for the presidency of the United States, Huguenot students overwhelmingly supported Senator Barry Goldwater in their mock election on October 29. Huguenot’s Republican campaigners were also victorious in their choice of Richard D. Obenshain for the third district representative. Obenshain, however, did lose to Democrat David E. Satterfield in the actual election. The Democratic choice of Harry F. Byrd for the Senate was in harmony with Virginia voters. Government teachers, with help from their senior classes, organized the first mock election. This served to arouse much interest in the student body for the approaching election. Mrs. Anne Kerr, one of the campaign sponsors, displays typical impartiality of government teachers. Dicky Lane (ABOVE) ponders over campaign issues as Bill Wright, Joe Haurand, Tommy Bernhardt, Darrell Morris, and Julian Ogburn (LEFT) mark their ballots under Dickie Bozard’s supervision at one of the ten precincts set up in the halls of the school.

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Flavor to Huguenot = Charl ffi dN Dabl s he nicest ] At an SCA assembly Charles Jeffress and Nancy Dable, te ny ge oa eee ci vam nce ea Ce cee a Ree ye : , Rey: a Honda” abroad. the school’s first two applicants for the American Field Service program, were introduced to the student body. After filling out endless forms, writing essays, and attending interviews, Charles and Nancy were deemed eligible for the Summer Abroad Program by a special selection com- mittee of the AFS in New York. Students abroad on this plan live with foreign families for up to ten weeks and strive to increase understanding among the peoples of the world. This A.F.S. display informs students of various activities carried on by the organization. A.F.S. cannisters, used to collect money for trips abroad, are placed in teachers’ boxes.