Mohonasen High School - Totem Yearbook (Schenectady, NY)

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1955 1 .fi gf A502 ma, 7 fees ' MMM. 5:4 ev Cf 1-Q0 an Q F1 MR. RCBERT HALL, Class Advisor Four year have passed since The beginning oT our associaTion. During Those years, many oT you have consisTenTly parTicipaTed in The varieTy oT acTiviTies which have helped To make up The high-school por- Tion oT your maTuriTy. These remarks are direcTed To Those oT The Class OT I966 whom I have come To know Trom Those acTiviTies. As wiTh innumerable groups oT young Americans in The pasT. This class moves inTo a TurbulenT world. Behind you is The opTimism oT your CameloT Themes. Your Task oT molding a class uniT and build- ing a school socieTy was noT an easy one. However, iT has been a successTul one. Those oT you who picked up The challenge have made This class The academic, aThleTic, social and Tinancial success ThaT iT is. The group should review iTs accomplishmenTs wiTh iusTiTiable pride. BuT ahead lie years requiring Toughness and TenaciTy. As ciTizens, you will be called on To answer your responsibiliTies in The domesTic and inTernaTional crises wiTh which our naTion is Taced. The answers given by previous graduaTes like yourselves are whaT have made our counTry whaT iT is Today. l am sure ThaT The TuTure will prove ThaT The acTive members OT The Class oT I966 will again meeT The challenge. IOI

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RON CAPELLO. Vic S Pre sidenf. IOO meal' Q 55 cw Q9ffire1'5 MIIB TOM BENSON. Treasurer. JANE MOSHER. Secrefary. JIM MILLER. Sergeanf-ai-Arms. RUTH ROBERTS, Hisforian. DENNIS KAU FMAN, President

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W PJ ICEIICI-Il TEIZADA 4. xi' I IefT I-Ianeda airporf in Tokyo on July 27, l965 aT Ten o'cIock in The arrived aT Honolulu aT seven o'cIock on The same morning. I Then STanford Universify for Two lines. I spenT a week aT The wiTh The Morans, who are my In The Tirsf few weeks, I had some cusfoms. When I eaT soup aT To change This affer I came mosf of Them delicious I some pizza aT a parTy. and flew To New Y friends of The family. I had found I firsf aTe In SepTember, I began To go To The Episcopal Church, Though I used To go To The PresbyTerian Church in Japan. I have been enjoying American life aT school and oufside of school. The mosT memorable day was Chrisfmas, when I wenT from house To house wiTh some of my friends To sing Chrisfmas carols. The hardesT problem I have had here is The difficulfy of English. Speaking and hearing English was as hard for me as reading English, even up To almosf Three monThs afTer school began. For The firsT couple of monThs I worked more Than Tour hours a day on homework, mosTIy because of The lack of abilify To read English. I belong To The YMCA and The Boys Club, where I pracfice baskefball. AT school I belong To Model U.N., Drama Club, and The Volleyball Team. In The senior class play I play The parf of an old- Japanese villager who speaks English, while several American sTudenTs speak Japanese in The play. This I find very humorous. In Japan I live wifh my fafher, my moTher. and my brofher. My fafher is a sales represenTaTive for a manufacfurer of golf equipmenf. My moTher is a housewife and my brofher is in The sixTh grade of an elemenfary school. I learned English boTh in school and from my uncle who is an assisTanT professor aT ST. Paul Universify in happy To reTurn home o ' Tokyo. I shall ecause f 'Sng life in America has been enjoyable, I shall regret leaving. And so, Sayonara. I02