Northwestern High School - Del Nord Ovest Yearbook (Albion, PA)

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Thai Teacher Visits Northwestern American Field Service, otherwise known as AFS, is a program that enables students and teachers from other coun- tries to come to the U.S. for a school year. Ms. Wanicha Liwapatthanapichit from Thailand is Northwestern's AFS teacher this year. She shares classroom duties with Mrs. Hall Ms. Liwapatthanapichit is an English teacher from Bannason. Thailand. She also serves as the chief of the Foreign Language Department at a school of 2,000 students. Although she has been a foreign language teacher for 13 years and hopes to improve her English skills, she finds that most Americans talk much too fast. Ms. Wanicha is staying with the Rob- ert Lawrence family, who also hosted the Thai AFS Student, Charan Chakandag in 1967-1968. She is unfamiliar with some of our customs including our Christmas tradition. Although Wanicha is of the Buddhist Religion and doesn't celebrate many of the holidays that we do. she is very interested in learning more about the American way so she can educate her students in Thailand when she returns home Wanicha is learning more about our extra-curricular programs. She feels that it will benefit teaching her students. We also learned of some Thai customs from Wanicha. Rice is the main food in their diet in Southeast Asia. It is usually After learning more about the English Language, Wanicha tries her hand at computers. She is using the Apple II in the Home Ec. Room. Ms. Wanicha hopes to broaden her horizons about the English Language during her stay here. She is trying to explain a word to a confused Academic English student. eaten three times a day with meat, sea- food. or vegetables. She is getting used to our fast food restaurants. Ms. Wanicha is a thirty-six year old mother. She has a one year old son who's nickname is ' Bas , because of Ms. Wan- icha's love for basketball and her partici- pation on the Gold Cup Team last year. She also became interested in football while staying here. The first time she saw a football game was on Friday, Sep- tember 12 with Northwestern up against General McLane. When Ms. Wanicha returns home in February she will be greatly missed by everyone here at Northwestern.

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A New Style As you have probably realized, this year's yearbook has a new look. The staff along with their adviser. Mr. Bi- lek. decided to change styles and publishing companies by going to a more contemporary style of layout. This new, modern fashion features fewer pictures and more articles in hopes of preserving our times here at Northwestern. We hope that you en- joy the change in format. This year's Criterion staff has been one of the more dedicated in recent years. They sold advertizements, sub- scriptions, calendars, candy and of course the all time favorite . . . hoa- gies. All of this was done hoping to end the year less in debt than when they started These people have put in nearly 2500 hours of laying out, de- signing and photographing this book. The hard work and dedication of the staff was recognized by Jostens Publishing by the presentation of their PICA award. The award repre- sents not only the hard work but the successful job the staff did in submit- ting all materials in complete form BEFORE all publishing deadlines. Deadlines began in October and con- tinued through March which made for a never ending struggle that was finally overcome by the 1987 Criteri- on staff. Tammy is looking over the proof sheets to see which pic- tures to print for candids and use in the yearbook. Tammy is a senior member. Lynn reads over copysheets while Carra looks for pictures for Cindy to crop. Lynn has been a member of yearbook for three years while Carra and Cindy are experiencing their first year. Ann is working on writing captions for pictures in the yearbook. Lisa, Lynn, and Jeanette are developing film, the first process in printing pictures. Hoping that they don't ex- pose the film prematurely, they wait patiently while the film is in the fixing solution. Yearbook - 19

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During the fourth period Ms. cookies, hard candy, and jello. Wanicha wanders down to the But her favorite thing is to teach Home Ec. Room. While she is students how to make Thialand there she learns how to make snacks such as sweet coconut American goodies such as cooler agar. % At Wanicha's home in Albion, she points to her home in Thai- land which is located in the Southern Quadrant. The name of her home is Bannasan (dis- trict), Surattanee (providence). Wanicha is wearing the tradi- tional Thailand dress. 21