Palm Beach Community College - Galleon Yearbook (Lake Worth, FL)

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Right: NORMAN RUSSELL, Jamaica Below: NAI-WEN SHEN, Taiwan Right: AGNES BARNABY, Bahama Islands Far Right: CAROLINE WONG, Mong Kong 10

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SKATING : AWAY OF LIFE For Lewis Henschel, a Physical Education major, skating is a way of life. What started as a family hobby soon became a serious sport for the Henschels. Lewis is the youngest of the four skating brothers and the only one who has turned professional. Having learned to skate before he could walk, at the age of 14 months. his father turned his baby shoes into ' baby skates ' . Lewis has been rolling ever since, and in 1974 held the title of Amateur National Speed Skating Champion. With the recognition of speed ska- ting as a professional sport, Lewis Henschel is able to turn a favorite past-time into a career. RHONDA CALBETZOR COLLEGE CAREER DAY October 15, 1975 was a busy but informative day at Palm Beach JC. It was College and Career Day. This is an annual event in which students are able to gain informa- tion concerning a particular college they wish to pursue. It is also an opportunity for those who are unsure of their career intentions to discuss possibilities and find an- swers to questions they have, from a variety of careers and institutions represented. Sixty -six upper level colleges from all over the South- east, thirty-two business, industrial, and professional leaders, and mili- tary organizations participated in the exhibits. If you have a ques- tion that seems to have no answer, or wonder what fields offer what challenges, or just wish to ask someone what kind of clothes to take to the college you plan to attend, College and Career Day activities were intended for you. RHONDA CALBETZOR

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TUDENT FORMING A WORLD COMMUNITY ON CAMPUS Palm Beach Junior College has a very harmonious, united and im- maculate atmosphere for studies. In here you find students of dif- ferent color, creed, origin and re- ligion. Among these students there are quite a few foreign stu- dents coming from many parts of the world with different back- grounds of culture, religion and eating habits. Mostly the students are from Pakistan, China, Thailand, Hongkong, Jamaica, Venezuela, Colombia, Canada, Taiwan, Egypt, India, Costa Rica, Argentina, Ku- wait, Barbados, Greece, and Baha- mas. For most of the students coming from abroad. United States, its culture, language, dress, and above all, its educational system is new and different. The students in this college are very informal, wear very casual dress and are very nice to other students. They like to exchange their thoughts, ideas , culture and mores with foreign stu- dents. Most of the time a foreign stud- ent in United States has commun- ication problem. Palm Beach Jun- ior College has instructors who are extremely helpful and realize the difficulty of foreign students ' communication problems. They listen to the problems if we have any and pay special attention to SHAFIQ PIRACHA, Pakistan US during their lecture. The in- structors have their door open to all students no matter what color, creed, and religion or country they come from. The college has an organization for foreign stu- dents under the supervision of Eli- zabeth Y. Davey, Assistant Dean for students. The main purpose behind this organization is an on- goin g orientation of foreign stu- dents with American families and their way of life styles. These gatherings are very helpful for a foreign student which enables him to express his own feelings, ideas and thoughts. Dean Davey, as head of the for- eign student organization, helps the students in their immigration formahties. Besides she encour- ages and arranges for the foreign students to speak at local civic and social organizations and schools. The foreign students are also en- couraged to join social and career oriented clubs in the college. I ' ve been going to this college for the last two years. During my two years of studies I learned a lot in Hotel and Restaurant Man- agement, besides I learned tremen- dous and valuable knowledge about American life style and their cul- ture. In this college I developed a self-confidence which is the pro- duct of fantastic guidance and help from my instructors. SHAFIQ PIRACHA LISA MARIE YAP, Jamaica 11