Marion High School - Warrior Yearbook (Marion, KS)

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Diane Vantuyl Joan Vinduska Gail Walker Steve Waner Shelia Weber Mike Wheeler Doug Williams Wendy Winter Sophomores 25

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Raquel Allison Mark Baliel Pat Bernhardt Ginger Britton Andy Cogdill Chris Graham David Hastings Devin Kelsey Todd Krispense Terry Looney Jeff Makovec David Meisinger Mike Padgett Dena Parker Dale Peterson Vickie Schaffer t MOTTO: ‘‘Think How Far We’ve Come, Imagine How Far We’ll Go.” 24 Sophomores

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Foreigners Find Friends Picture this: a brand new school year, an unfamiliar building, strange faces, new surroundings, going home to a family that is yours only a year, coming into not only a new town, but an entirely different country. For Mathias (Mat) Nitschke and Henrik (Henry) Pederson, it was a picture col- ored new, exciting and educational. Both boys came to Marion in the summer of 1984 as pro- spective MHS juniors. They came from different countries. Henrik from Denmark and Mat from West Germany. When asked what they liked most about America, both seemed to agree whole-heartedly that American food ranked at the top of their list of favorites. Mat's favorites were B-B-Q chicken, steak and Pepsi, while Henrik enjoyed pizza, chili, western omelets, meatloaf and Mexican food. Henrik also bragged about Mrs. Janie Meierhoff's (his host mother) pizza, saying, Oh you should taste the pizza Janie makes, it's got lots of sauce and tastes mmmmmm sooooo good! Mat says his year in America is mainly just for the ex- perience, while Henrik plans on using his year here for col- lege credit. Henrik and Mat both participated in football in 1984 at MHS. Both were often seen at other sports events as well, cheering the Warriors to victory or suffering losses along with them. The guys have a good solid friendship. When asked to com- ment on each other. Mat stated, Henrik is a good friend of mine. Henrik said, Mat is one of my better friends, and I like his accent. I think its funny!” The two foreigners had both studied the English language for a considerable length of time before coming to America. Henrik studied English four years, and Mat five years, so they had few problems communicating when they arrived. However, the language proved a slight barrier when yearbook staffers tried explaining Homecoming activities to Mat. Sweats day and the snake dance were a bit confusing at first. Mat admitted he knew what a dummy was, but could not believe Americans would actually burn one! MHS students found two new friends in the beginning of the 1984-85 school year, and were sorry to see them go when sum- mer rolled around once again. Did you ever have one of those day8 when absolutely nothing went right? Henrik Pederson seems to be asking, as he allows the photographer to snap a picture on ‘Weird Wednesday’. Mathias Nitschke and Henrik Pederson together with English teacher Mary Griffith, discuss some of the differences between their native languages and . You dumb-crazy Americans! Mathias Nitschke teases as he looks up from his English. report on his country. 26 Feature