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

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AFS Exchan g e Student Ursula Makes Deal With Royals To Come See Her This year in the United States has been one of the most exciting ones of my life and I will always remember it with joy. At San Marcos I was able to meet many wonderful students as well as teachers. What I liked the most of its Student Body was its deep concern about local, national and international problems such as pollution and the Vietnam War. Somehow I didn ' t think that American students would feel the same way I do about their problems. My stay at San Marcos certainly changed my mind about it. , , ,., , c T However there is one thing that I would like to change it 1 could and that is the lack of friendship between students and us foreigners. Of course everybody was very kind and friendly to us at all times only we could not really make a deep and lasting friendship with someone we would always remember. My family, the Watkins and my sister Christy however, helped me to over- come my seldom moments of loneliness. After all I have had a great time at San Marcos and I want to thank all of you, especially to the AFS Club for making this ex- perience possible. I hope that many of you come to visit me some- times so that I can reward part of what you have given me. Is that a deal ? See you in Chile then ! ' iyyfi i :( jjisu Ursula lakes pari in AFS Assembly 62 Happiness is Nature lo lean on

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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.

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Knrntip ' s smile is sunshine. AFS Exchan g e Student Korntip-Thailand ' s One Year Gift To Us First time when I came to Santa Barbara to stay with my new family The Fingals, my American sister took me down to San Marcos, she showed me all around. That was the first time I began to like S.M. When school started, I got to know more people, more friends and I like it more and more ever} ' day. I can ' t tell how much fun I had with my friend and how I love S.M.. for no words can express that feeling. The time in United State is almost gone and I have to go back to Thailand, but I will never forget how wonderful time I had with my American family and my friend at school. All this thing will remind me of A.F.S. year in United State and how good to be A.F.S. student. jisfdio ctow«f . 63