Lincoln Sudbury High School - Dyad Yearbook (Sudbury, MA)

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i) German Club This year the German Club concentrated its efforts on the student exchange program with the Friedrich Harkort Gymnasium. Last October, a group of seventeen students from the town of Herdecke, Germany came to Sud- bury and were hosted by L-S students. The three week exchange allowed German stu- dents to live in American homes and to at- tend L-S. In April, a corresponding group of fifteen L-S students will be able to experience home and school life in Herdecke. The Ger- man Club feels privileged to play a role in forwarding cultural understanding. -Rachel Clark Eating gourmet bagels during meetings and making brownies for bake sales charac- terize fellow Spanish Club members. While the Spanish Club is never pressured to meet certain deadlines or raise a lot of money, it is a good chance for members to socialize with other Spanish-speaking students and to learn more about the Hispanic culture. This year, the Spanish Club, with 28 active members, has gotten off to a great start. Led by officers Roman Meshon and Missy Zarella (both flu- ent Spanish speakers) and advisor Senora Gandolfi, many new ideas and activities have been planned. The Spanish Club welcomes all students, whether or not they speak Span- ish, to join the cultural experience. Or, as they say in espanol: “Mi casa es su casa.” Es todo. jAdios, amigos! -Tina Kao Spanish Club Noel Barbour Eleni Digenis Oliver Barr Laurie Felsing Learka Bosnak Julie Finigan Terry Brennen Jason Flynn Rachel Clark Cristina Freeman Audrey Clark Robert Gruber Retha Coetzer Lia Holden Anna Colligan Raffaella Lazzati Aram Comjean Casey Little Alotta pinata! Senora Gandolfi, Mike Be- lizzi and Tim Dolan “crack up” at Span- ish Club. Thorsten Meyer Nancy Monahan Gretchen Schwamb Sophie Tamm Sonja Wadman Valerie Weaver Karin Flynn Advisor

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Amnesty Amnesty International is dedicated to helping free prisoners of conscience }through peaceful means. | This includes writing let- ters directed towards free- ing political prisoners -around the world. This year the L-S Amnesty chapter, under the leader- ship of advisor Sandy Crawford and members Shana Birnbaum and Amanda Phillips, ‘‘adopt- ed” a prisoner. Through supporting the “Campaign to Release Detained Chil- dren,’ the members of Amnesty wrote approxi- mately fifty letters a month ‘aimed at obtaining the re- lease of sixteen-year-old Sibusiso Zuma, held in de- tention near Soweto, South Africa since March 16, 1988. Through our efforts he was freed in February. Amnesty has adopted a new prisoner, sixteen-year- old Mzukisi Ndidimba, who has been detained in South Africa since Septem- ber 18, 1988. Amnesty members hope that their efforts will lead to his quick release. Your sup- port is always welcome. -Eleni Digenis “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way . . .” -Dickens Amnesty

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TIP. Total Immersion Program, or, if you prefer, Taxing Intellectual Procedure, alludes to linguistic talent and some cranial drainage .. . but, as with most facets of life, our franco philian struggle has it’s moments of glory: the Fétes in which we all sprinted to the food, compassionately saving un beau gateau for Ms. Fritsche . . . the rare times Mrs. McCann let us play stupid games in class when we were too saturated to work . . . We remember our enlightenment in the realm of the subjunctive (it’s a mood, not a tense), and also our mystification when we learned that Richelieu, dead in 1743, balanced the economy in 1750-perhaps he was supernaturally blessed? One never knows. TIP encouraged us to cast away all inhibitions. If you saw my Cro-Magnon costume, you'd conclude that this class is not for the repressed. Then we witnessed a reenactment of “’Barbares en Bataille,” in which a certain senior nearly lost her pants (she'd kill me. . .!). And we all have fond memories of Ms. Fritsche teaching us to verbally flip one another off (experiences in Bordeau with my cousins prove it is crucial to be able to do this.) I doubt any of us will forget Mrs. McCann’s maxim-say it in French or don’t say it at all. This was reasonable—kind of a variation on the quintessential admonish- ment: “If you can’t say anything nice...” We acquired from TIP more than mere academia . . . the class witicisms and imagination coupled with the deep bonding that came with hours of dedication to a common cause will last far and beyond our comprehension of the passe anterieur . . French Lisa Ahrent Anna Balogh Alyssa Black Kevin Bohne Michele Campbell Anna Colligan Kristen Cudmore Jen Gordon Jeanette Hammer Michele Hammer Alex Hanafi Jeff Arnold Diana Bowser Kiera Campbell Karen Cleary Maximo Del Rio Sadhana Dhruvakamar Kathy Dolan Tim Dolan Carrie Farber Julie Finnigan Matt Fonte Carrie Gorfinkle Beth Greene Carrie Gustafson Kathleen Hayden Tina Kao Ginger King Sara Klein David Krugler Annamaria Locsin Joann Lucey Sarah Martin Club Tracey Hartstone Kathleen Hayden Curt Hunnewell Tareef Kawaf Adam Kreisel Jason Menegakis Cynthia Miekka Chloe Richer Lisa Schirf David Swartz Sonja Wadman Taritha McAdams Catherine McDonald Roman Meshon Cynthia Miekka Laura Nogelo Sue Petrovic Margaret Pryor Kathy Reed Amy Reichbach Linda Rubin Derek Sampson Lisa Schirf Carrie Shineman Amy Shluger Rachael Stone Marika Swartzman Erica Verville Mike Vivaldi Marni Wiadro Amy Yuan Missy Zarella Christine McLean and Nancy Dragun try to lure unsuspecting people to Fritsche’s world. 29