Sandy High School - Mee Ma Yearbook (Sandy, OR)

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1. Bunny acts as hostess for the other ex- change students who visited Sandy during AFS Week. 2. Bunny and Ron McQueen walk across the turf on their way to com- mencement. 3. Bunny was chosen Mardi Gras queen by foreign language class members. 29

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“Bunny” Spends Year At Sandy Angelica Bunny” Vega-Ferez found Sandy very different from her home province of San Juan, Argentina. Her first adjustment was a switch in climate. She left Argentina in August during the winter season and arrived in Sandy during the summer. A school day for Bunny is also different from a day at Sandy High. In Argentina Bunny rises early and eats breakfast at 6:30 a.m. and then rides a public bus to school. Once at school the students go into one room, and when class is over the teacher moves, not the students. During class the teachers lec- ture all period and all work must be done at home. School is over at 12:30 p.m. At school students wear uniform, so teachers and students cannot tell by the clothes, the social class of any student. Bunny stayed with Kathy Cramer and visited such places as Disneyland, Knox Berry Farm and other high spots in California. In Sandy Bunny was involved with choir, art and the language clubs. She also was a choir member in Fiddler on the Roof.” After Bunny returns to Argentina she plans to finish high school and go to a university to become a doctor. 1. Bunny and Tim Veley watch the antics of the other Mee Ma court participants. 2. Bunny is all dressed up for baccalaureate. 28

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Governor Welcomes Japanese To Oregon, Many Parties Fill Busy Calendar Sandy, the first school in Oregon to par- ticipate in a Japanese-American exchange program, has hosted 35 Nipponese students and teachers in three and one-half years of the program. The exchange is between Sosa Senior High School in Yokaichiba. Japan and Sandy on a permanent basis. This year six girls, five boys and one teacher visited for 24 days, living in the homes of the Sandy students and attending school. Activities included a trip to Moro to see the Eastern Oregon countryside and a country school, a trip to Salem to meet the Governor, and skating, swimming, folk dancing, birthday and just eating-visiting parties. The guests particularly enjoyed the freedom at Sandy, talking with American students in the Commons, learning to type and doing leathercraft in the arts area. Sosa is an academic school offering very few elective courses but having many, many clubs for recreational activities after school. 1. 2. Japanese, Americans and Canadians all learned a new style of dancing foreign to them at a party sponsored by the Foreign Language Club. 3. Syoichi Ito enjoys thechdir so much that he just can’t keep from singing along. 30