Milford High School - Eagle Yearbook (Milford, NE)

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» During my exchange year, I was involv- ed in Annual Staff, Pep Club, Drama and Speech Club, FHA, track (long distances), MYF, and Spirit Wind. I liked American high school. It was much easier than school back in Finland and not so packed with theory. It was also nice to make up your own schedule instead of a given one. I also liked your food: hamburgers, lasagna, Mexican food, turkey dressing, corn, pies, Valentino's food, McDonald's, and so on. Anyhow, I missed some Finnish food like a dark Finnish rye bread, lenkki, and pulta. HI My name is Johanna (Yohanna) Koivistoinen (Koevestoensn). I am from Pyhakumpu, Finland. I was your foreign exchange student during the past school year, 1981-82. I arrived August, 1981 and stayed until July, 1982 in Gleason Grimes’ family. Finland's national costume. It is not used anymore except in folk dance festivals. I was asked a lot what I missed the most. 1 cannot answer to that because I missed a little bit of everything — the whole Finnish way of life, my family, our cat Emma, relatives, friends, weather, scenery, and especially sauna. Every family in Finland has at least one sauna and goes there about twice a week. Sauna belongs to the weekly routine. Don't take this wrong, but I felt almost as you would without taking a shower for one whole year (or Mr. Shimeall flushing his toilets after Vietnam). Scenery in Nebraska was different (flat, forestless, lakeless). Also, weather was different. It was nice to have some change however. 1 liked your summers (hot and humid) better than our (highest temperature 85°F and rains a lot). Wind and lightening in Nebraska were amazing and so were the windchill temperatures during the winter (even 80°F below). I also missed Finland's light summer nights but not our dark winter days. Since Finland is real far north (as far as Alaska is), winter is almost one whole night and summer one whole day. All the differences were great. The whole year was one of the biggest ex- periences in my life. I learned your customs, habits, and the American way of life (eating with only a fork instead of knife and fork as in Finland, curfews, church, car-mania, sports-mania, ice• mania, peanut butter- mania, party-mania, and many more). I liked your country, and one day I will come back for sure. I also invite everyone of you to visit me if you happen to be somewhere around Finland. My address is Johanna Koivistoinen, Lepikkotie 4, 86900 Pyhakumpu. Finland and phone number is 984-4044. My family, from left, my brother Mikko (14), my father, my sister Maaria (12), and my mother. I look forward to seeing you. Jb- --------------

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TAMMY TOLLE TOM WHITE TAMMIE UTTER KAREN WILLIAMS ANITA YEACKLEY JACQUE ZERFAS ROBERT WOHLGEMUTH NOT PICTURED: JAMES ANDREWS ONE MANGMORADETH KHAMMOUNG MANGMORADETH

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JUNIORS: GET TO B. Anderson M. Becker B. Blair K. Bonner C. Brokaw B. Burianek B. Burkey M. Forst J. Fosler A. Gates D. Griffith S. Grimes C. Groseclose C. Hansen R. Havlat K. Haynes M. Hays R. Hoppe W. Jones K. Keller L. Korb E. Leichty B. Meredith D. Miller M. Nobbman J. Pehlps D. Philson L. Plessel A. Rediger A. Rediger S. Rogge B. Roth D. Roth G. Roth J. Roth M. Roth W. Roth T. Ryan C. Schweitzer S. Stabenow B. Stauffer B. Stauffer 18