Lenape High School - Legend Yearbook (Medford, NJ)

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l Form 6 lower modern. This would be equivalent to half of the Senior Class. The Robert Swan. Boys are invited to the School girls are wearing their winter uniforms. Ball from the ubrothern school, King's College. Any dating must be done during the weekend only. JANICE KAY COME HOME AFTER A GREAT YEAR IN NEW ZEALAND. As the jet circled Auckland harbour I felt that I might be entering Never-Never Land. The water was dotted with islands, and the land was jutted with irregular inlets and lagoons. Little white houses with brightly coloured roofs ap- peared on the countryside as the plane descended. Sheep grazed on nearly every hillside. This was to be my home for the next year! Leaving the plane, I rapidly scanned the waiting crowd, searching for the family that matched the photograph in my hand, There they were - Carolyn, age 155, with whom I would share a room, Jenny, 18, clutching wee George, the Yorkshire Terrier, Debbie, 9, and Linda, ll, looking very excited and almost as nervous as myself, Geoff, my 14 year old brother, and of course, Mum and Father. The drive home to Epsom seemed much longer than it really was. I oouldn't help feeling we were driving on the wrong side of the street! We finally pulled into the circular driveway of a very impressive house. Melanie, a huge German Boxer, came bounding out to meet us. After a restful weekend at home, we set out for Beach- lands, a very small town on the harbour's edge. Here we spent the last two weeks of our summer holiday swimming, fishing and boating, but on February 3, we all started back to school. How strange it was to see 700 girls, aged from 5 to 18, all dressed alike, in blue flowered frocks, gloves and panama hats. The school year was divided into three terms with short holidays between each. We seemed to be eternally looking forward to some holiday, yet we attended school almost 200 days of the year. During these holidays I was fortunate enough to visit Rotorua, where Maori women, in their native dress explained how the boiling lakes were once used for cook- ing. Another holiday was spent skiing on Mt. Ruapehu, which is topped by a hot crater lake, suitable for swimming even when the ground is covered with snow. Later in the year I traveled to Wellington, the nation's capitol, with the other American students. We toured the Parliament buildings, met Mr. Holyoake, the Prime Minister, and had morning tea with our own ambas- sador, General Powell. It seemed only fitting that my last holiday was spent at Lake Taupo with Roger Dickie, a New Zealand Exchange Student who spent a year at Lenape, and his parents. My last term at school was spent studying for a govern- ment exam, University Entrance. During the first week of December I went with the fifteen girls from my class to the Auckland University where we sat exams in various sub- jects, along with over 900 students from all of Greater Auck- land. Only 14'Za of the students sitting this exam in New Zealand pass. Of this 1496, many may go to Oxford or Cambridge to further their studies. After exams I returned to school only for prize-giving and to bid my teachers farewell. Exactly one week later I was on my way to the airport. My year abroad was almost behind me - but how wonderful it had been! I shall never forget Easter at the start of winter, skiing on the Fourth of July, and swimming the week before Christmas. I took one last look out the window of the plane at my friends, my family and the land that had been my home.

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The companionship and loyalty of pets are the same in any country. Mary Smith, Elisa, Mrs. Smith, and Mr. Smith pose for a family FROM LICEO TO LE APE, A PRETTY E ORITA, ELISA ARIAS Elisa performs a chemistry experiment. LI ESCO Mr. Schwartz and Elisa study a model of molecular structure. Elisa, the fifth of the six children in the Arias family comes to Lenape from San Isido, de General, a small farming town in Costa Rica. The town itself is not usually crowded but on Saturdays most ol the people come to town to. do their shotpping. In Costa Rica, Elisa attends Liceo Linesco High School, a public school o about five hundred students. Unlike Lenape, the school day begins at seven o'clock in the morn- ing. Students have their lunches at home between eleven and one olclock. School is over for the day around four or five o'clock. All students wear similar uniforms. The boys wear blue pants, white shirts and black shoesg the girls wear blue skirts and white blouses with a blue necktie. The main sport is basketball, although a type of football very similar to soccer is also qlpite popular. Elisa spends her weekends elping her father in the grocery store with her brothers and sisters. During vacations she visits her grandmother or swims at a pool with her friends. Teenagers do date in Costa Rica as they do here with one big exception - the girls are always chaperoned. Fewer boys have their own means of transporation as the age for a driving license is twenty-one. Probably one of the biggest differences between Costa Rica and New Jersey is the climate. The climate of Costa Rica ranges from tropical, along the coastal plains, to temperate, on the higher, central plateau. Many inactive volcanoes tower above this pla- teau. Among these is the Paos Volcano, having one of the worldls largest cgeysers. Farm- ing is the main occupation, and bananas and cocoa are the main crops. olfee, howev- er, has become the country's most important product, helping Costa Rica live up to its name, which means, rich coast. The government is mainly democratic. The constitution adopted in 1949 has done away with a permanent army. All the people are required to vote for a President every four years. The same man cannot be president twice in succession. A Chamber of Dep- uties, similar to Congress, is also elected by the people. Education is compulsory on the primary level and higher education is free. When El- isa returns to Liceo Linesco High School she will complete her fifth and last year of high school. She then hopes to study medicine at the University of San Jose. While at Lenape, Elisa is livin with Mr. and Mrs. Harold Smith of Taunton Lakes, and their two children Mary andgSkgp. Elisa has been a delightful addition to the stu- dent body of Lenape, and we will al miss her.

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D' an Hi h School for Girls. The high school section has 325 girls. The American Embassy. IOCCS g Wellington. The nation's capitol is very windy. This picture taken from Mt. Victoria shows t e harbour on the left, the city on the right and Hutt Valley in the center. My family. Mr. 8: Mrs. Grove and their children, Carolyn, Jenny, Deb- bie, Linda, and Jeoif. 135 My home, 1 Shgpherds Ave. Homes in New Zealnd, as well as many other bui dings, does not have central heating. Mt. Manganui. The beach at the foot of this mountain is a '4Surfer's Paradise. With Piha, a beach further north, Manganui gathers the biggest crowds for surfing all year round.