Indiana High School - L Indien Yearbook (Indiana, PA)

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South American exchange students and public One new experience for us this year was the enrollment of foreign exchange students. Five came to our school: Jose Lutrell, Annabelle Mart- inelli, Ramon Soto, all from Panama, Carmen Juardo from Ecuador, and Chocho Palacios from Peru. Our friends exchanged their way of life to become Americans in our community for three months. They found our school to be very different from theirs-girls and boys going to the same classes, eating lunch in the cafeteria, moving from room to room for classes, and even listen- ing to English-speaking teachers! Of course they found our cold climate and ice and snow very new too, but they tried to enjoy them.

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space equal confusion Finally, there's the mad dash of lunch cus- tomers, iostling and pushing to be first, espe- cially for those special turkey dinners just before Thanksgiving and Christmas. Who ever saw so much tood for thirty cents? And those rolls are always a favorite. After lunch another tour min- utes of crowding and shoving bring the student -perhaps to gym class for tumbling, basketball, or calisthenics. The seven minute warning bell, of which the whole building is vaguely aware, gives the gym student scarcely enough time for a shower and change out of that detested blue suit before the next class-a really breathless finale to an active half hour.

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Having foreign exchange students at Indiana High aroused much interest about their schools and their way ct lite. .lose was a graduate of Lasalle, a school for boys in South America, where he was a basketball star. Car- men was graduated from the Ameri- . can School in Quayaquil, Ecuador, in ,. January where she studied English for three years. Annabelle attended a girls' high school in Panama City and hopes to return to the U.S. to attend I,-wg, the University of Michigan. Ramon also went to Lasalle where he partici- pated in football. And Chocho, our only junior, went to a private girls' school in Lima. R., .41-me V.: Y' 'hu-f 'Y 'wv meetings link school and community together None of us will forget commuting to and from school-some on foot, some in cars, and many in buses from White and Armstrong Town- ships. Riding three in a seat, halt-way in the aisle, was a terror all bus riders tried to avoid. And when arms were loaded with books, it was a nightmare. But the talk and laughter were fun. American Education Week was punctuated by an evening meeting to inform our parents about needed changes in this building. Mr. Getts discussed the demands of science education, for example, which have occurred since 1922, mak- ing equipment obsolete. Atterward, a snack in the cafeteria allowed parents and teachers to get acquainted. , . 5 ,V35,Z,,i.HQ, . , .,,f--,sf