Sammamish High School - Thunderbird Yearbook (Bellevue, WA)

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Dawoodbhai Ghanchi . . . most impressed Y Does He Have These Impressions? 6 7 L. if- 'nf with ASB council . . . school spirit Mr. Dawoodbhai Ghanchi tries to look at us as members of .an organized school system. His im' pressions at present are optimistic. In his opinion, we have a positive attitude towards learning. He is most impressed with the ASB council and the demo' cratic principles it advocates. The school spirit at pep assemblies awes him. A Why does he have these impressions? He's given lectures in classes, gone to an ASB meeting, and seen a few pep assemblies. Away from school, his life has been rather quiet, spending much of his time writing letters, Un occasion, he's gone out with the Henry Tunes' who are hosting him. He watches a little TV though mostly channel nine. 6.5555 jvrftfa . . -A N is

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V l L Whin Yves returns to France, will the extent of his report deal with the greatness of coke, the friendliness of the American student, the seriousness of the American student? What about the beer parties, what about the social cliques, what about the unofficial drag races? Theres a lot more to the American teenager than can be seen in the Watts home and can be discussed with another French student. In some ways we're a lot better than the French teenager and in some ways we're a lot worse. We make friends with someone we've never seenbefore, we try to be helpful, we donate our money to a hospitalized Bellevue student, But we also throw garbage in the halls, have little respect for what belongs to others, and get involved in what is commonly called a rumble at the State Park on the last day of school. we're much too complex to be put down as L'Like the French student . . . maybe friendlier . . . maybe more serious. Will Mr. Ghanchi have to approach his Indian audiences with merely that we are Positive about learning . . . demof cratic . . . spiritedf' Granted, we may well be all of these things. But we're also the students who take five hours of shop and PF., refuse to answer when Mr. Ghanchi asks the name of the tallest mopntain in the world, and work only for grades. But we're also the students who must be forced by an ultimatum from the ASB council to get the school cleaned up. But we're also the students with so much school spirit that we threaten Beat 'em, bust 'em, that's our cus' tom! and if we don't on the playing field, we accomplish it afterwards, We're pulling the world towards us, because we're inter' ested in it. At the same time, the world is trying to see us as it comes closer, but is it getting a realistic picture? Cr is it the same old thing that can be read in propagandic pamphf lets provided by the State Department. Maybe everything can't be seen, but welve got a responsibility to show as much as possible. The world wants to see us. We're not helping any. 8