Loretto High School - Mustang Yearbook (Loretto, TN)

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We are fortunate enough this year to have three foreign exchange students, Stefan Simon, Mark Josten, Curro Alfaro. The unique personality of each of these students makes the school year 1987-1988 a novel experience for the faculty and students at Loretto High. Mark Josten comes from a middle sized town near the border of the Netherlands in Germany and is staying with the Peter Etienne family. Here at Loretto he is learning a lot of English, but he is also acquiring this awful Tennessee slang. He comes to America to get the experience of living in another culture and for the fun of it. Also his goal is to acquire a knowledge of English, He plans on telling his family that his stay here has been a nice experience, and that he had a good time and that he met quite a lot of nette leute (nice people) during that time. Mark comments that the television is okay, but it would be better if you would leave out the soap operas and the commercials. He plans on visiting the U.S. again, but he doesn't think it would be in Loretto (perhaps for a short time). He is going to take home with him a C-D player and some more electronic equipment because that is almost all they allow you to take back. As Mark's visit comes to an end he states: War eine echt schone zeit und ich glaube, dass ich die U.S.A. trotz allem vermissen werde. Stefan Simon lives with his mother in an apartment house, in a town with about 60,000 inhabitants. It is around 10 miles from Cologne, a city with 1,000,000 people. A typical school day starts at 8 o'clock and lasts until about 3 o'clock. Each day you have 8 classes and have 11 different subjects a week. He thought coming to America would be a different experience for him to learn how to live in a different society. He says the T.V. show selection here is too big and he never knows what he should watch, but you always have good movies. He doesn't like the commercials interrupting all the time. After he returns home, he will go two more years to the secondary school then he must go to the army for two years. At the end of his army training he is planning to go to the University. Stefan replies that he would want to come back during the holidays, but he has no particular plans on what he will do when he returns. As Stefan's visit comes to an end he states: Vielen dank fur die gute zeit die ich hier verbracht habe!

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TOP (left-right) Richard Shelton escorted Christy Cook, Ken Hobbs escorted Christina Elkins, Shannon Burks escorted Stephanie Gooch, Mark Rohling escorted Lea Augustin, Chad Wright escorted Tara Hollman, Patrick Daniels escorted Bridgette Dover, and David Ridgeway escorted Amy Jones. BOTTOM LEFT (Top Row, left-right) The cheerleaders for the season were Andrea Franklin, Cara Childress, Paige Williams, Sharon Henkel, Mary Smith (Middle) Mirenda Killen, Amy Dotson, Amy Dean (Bottom) Stephanie Cox. CENTER (left-right) The freshman attend- ant was Amy Jones, Bridgette Dover was the sophomore attendant, Christina Elkins was one of the senior attendants, Stephanie Gooch was our homecoming queen, Tara Hollmann and Lea Augustin were the other two attendants of the senior class, and the junior attendant was Christy Cook. BOT- TOM RIGHT One of the entries for the mini-float contest was the French float pulled by Philip Brown.

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FAR FROM THE ORDINARY Curro comes to us from Madrid, Spain and is staying with the James Rohling family while at LHS. He says that his reasons for coming are first, to speak English better, second, to spend a really fun high school year, and third, to learn a lot of new things. When asked what he missed about Spain, he replies that he misses mostly the people at home who care about him and next, the fun, Friday nights. At home there are five family members, a brother, two sisters, and his parents. His sisters are 23 and 22 and his brother is 10. When in school in Spain, Curro wakes up at 8:00 A.M. He starts to school at 9:00 A.M. Lunch is at 11:00 A.M. School begins again at 2:30 P.M. and finishes at 5:30 P.M. or 6:00 P.M. After school there is homework for the next day. After high school Curro plans to go to France and then to return to the U.S. to Kentucky or Boston to some factories where his father works. Curro has a deep respect for American girls and their crazy, straightforward attitude toward life. What he likes most is that they are unafraid to say what they think without shyness or embarrassment. For a final comment Curro says: “No me arrepiento en absoluto de haber venido uno ano a U.S.A. Me lo he pasado fenomeno, todo el mundo ha sido muy amable conmigo. Gracias a todos. 7