McMinnville High School - McMinnvillan Yearbook (McMinnville, OR)

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Mark Root Mark Root Mark Root Top Left: Glenn Spicer and Jack Karson demonstrate the Australian kangaroo dance for the audience to participate in. Top Right: Entertaining the audience with a Finnish song are Tiina Hietanen and Outi Sarimaa. Above: After a successful program all exchange students and other participants are recognized. Right: Topping off the evening for exchange students and their guests is a table full of assorted desserts.

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Name change for brown baggers The long overdue name change for the American Field Service Club occurred with great success this year. The Student Exchange Club is the new name of this organization. The majority of McMinnville High School’s exchange students were from organizations other than AFS, such as Youth for Understanding and Rotary. In the past, many of the students from these organizations felt they did not belong in the AFS Club. For this reason, the name of the club was changed so that it would be representative of all organizations. The advisors for the club are Mr. Doug MacGregor and Mrs. Pat Jones. This year’s exchange students came from three different organi- zations. Michael Harms and Jan Christian Philipp, Germany; Tiina Maija Hietanen, Finland; and Sa-toko Sakakibara, Japan were sponsored by YFU. Rotary sponsored Outi Leena Sarimaa, Finland. Glenn Spicer from Australia was sponsored by AFS. The only McMinnville Student to go abroad this year was Linda Combs, who went to New Zealand. The Student Exchange Club welcomed anyone who wished to attend the meetings, and had a membership of about 25 people. The club had “brown bagger” meetings each Wednesday during lunch. These were informal meetings which included guest speakers, visiting exchange students from other schools, and slide presentations by exchange students of their home countries. The Student Exchange Club participated in many activities this year. They began with a pot-luck to get to know each other. The club ran two concession stands at the home football games. Money earned from these concession stands went to scholarships for future exchange students and to the Greg Robertson Memorial Fund. At Christmas time the club held a progressive dinner. Throughout the year students visited and hosted other exchange students in the area. On March 30, the club served coffee at the AFS dessert and on March 31, presented a program planned by Glenn and Outi, at the Foreign Language Banquet. Other activities planned were get togethers with exchange students from other schools for volleyball games. At the end of the year the club had a picnic at Mr. MacGregor’s farm. Above: Student Exchange Club — Front Row) Maggie Martinez. Doug MacGregor, Dorena Davis (Second Row) Leslie Johnstone, Judy Furakowa, Naomi Graven, Outi Sarimaa. Kathy Reed, Seng Chanh Manyrath, Jennie Grovem. Monika I,au-lenbach (Third Row) Pat Jones, Dave Hill, Alejia Husted. Glenn Spicer, Michael Harmes, Dale Depweg Left: While giving an interview to a Bruin reporter. Michael Harms contemplates his answer to a question.