San Marcos High School - Crown and Sceptre Yearbook (Santa Barbara, CA)

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AFS, Front Row: Mark Caswell, Laurie Wells, Susan Collins, Nanci Bower, Cindy Georges, Torben Mahneke, Lynn Eggleton. Back Row: Laura Freeman. Betty Jeppesen, Anne Hupp, Deirdre Wittenstein, Liz Christie, Carolyn Cotton, Diana Wachner, Linda Boyce, Mike Roberts, Annette Cyr, Mike Moser. American Field Service San Marcos Comes To Know A World In Three People This year the San Marcos Chapter of the American I- ' ield Service has a large membership making it a fine club. AFS, with sixty countries participating, was founded to create a better understand- ing between nations of the world. Participating schools were al- lowed to send as many students abroad as exxhange students were attending their school. Three exchange students came to San Marcos from completely different parts of the world. Torben Mahneke came from Denmark, Korntip Semiwongse from Thailand, and Ursula Ludwig from Chile. The we had our own AFS ' ers leave and return. Dick Doane returned from seven months in South Africa where he lived in an environment very unlike that of the U.S. Sheryl Aiello left m January for a year in Brazil. It was quite a trial for Sheryl because the language of Brazil is Portuguese, a language with which she was not familiar. The AFS club here at San Marcos held many projects this year. Among them were a Christmas Card sale, a car wash, and a bake sale. Other activities included slide nights, a Christmas caroling party, and a trip to Disneyland. Mark Coswell, AFS President, presents AFS activities to the ICC. 60 M.nL« ua»»r..— .-. -,.. ..... rimimiinrmiiniini

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Leslie Mani ini bones up on the rules of the .i atne. Even If I (Jo bite my tongue. I ' m .aoinj; to hit that ball! (Birjiit X ' eise) Nanc ' Westermeyer e en Joes Jumpint; Jacks as a Cheerleadtr. 59 •W T

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TM . ' m AF ' S Exchcir iii c Student Torben Concerned About Division Among Students AFS has i cn mc one of the most important years of my edu- cation. Since I had graduated from my school in Denmark, I did not learn much academically, hut m so many other ways I devel- oped. I have come to know myself much hetter as a result of the situations I ha e been in. I have become tolerant and do not any- more blow-up when in a discussion people do not wear the same as me. I were very lucky that I got placed in S.B. this I knew already when I left home, the climate is marvelous, downtown is very pretty and some very good cheese shops, the whole area is very nice and friendly, and lucky too because there seem to be no prob- lems, as in other places in U.S. You have got a little rioting at LICSB, and a little oil on the beaches and of course the chicane ' s but these are all things that are babies yet, and if the youth here wants it they are easily solved. S.M. is a very nice high school, exxept for one thing, and that is the division between the three groups, the football and car lov- ing, the medium (silent majority), and the people that care (hip- pies, speaking minority). This di ision is perhaps specially easy seen on S.M., but on the other hand it is a fairly perfect picture of the society that we all live in. His thoughts .seem far away. As Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Torben takes on serious responsibilities.