Tokay High School - Tokay Yearbook (Lodi, CA)

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4 Sandy Vaca Robert Vaccarella Carlos Valadao Erlinda Valdez Brian Vandenburgh Melvin Van Dermyden Chao Vang Ying Vang Greg Vanni Greg Vargem Perry Vaz Diane Veldhuizen Wes Verner Terry Violett Gina Vitale john Von Burg Laura Wagner Seth Wagner Karen Waldo Sandy Walker jeff Wallom Andy Watson Grant Wegner Cheryl Wells Ken White Michael Willard Ezra Willey Robert Williams jackie Williamson Shelly Williamson Melissa Willie Rod Wills Brian Wilson Fred Wilson Grant Wilson Lance Wilson Michelle Wilson Chuck Wilton Patrick Witt Robbie Woehrle jim Womack Amy Wong Elizabeth Wong jeff Woo Ryan Woodruff Latisha Woods Angela Wright Robert Yadao Douglas Yagi Ruthie Yarnell Yu Yee Curtis Young Rosemary Young Lewis Zachary Sandy Zachary Karlina Zea ,. l I ' t ' K K V ,,,.f ' 1. M f ' si . W tif ' :': , . n is n Y 'ei ' -As., - -Q40 7 me V1-ff ,..a - ' WVU 1 ..... A fm , 1 ly 1 . f my !V H, If ,am ff afiy Toka 'easier' for AFS student Kemal Ozden, AFS student from Turkey, stayed with the Erwin Herrmann family in Lodi while attending Tokay as a senior. But he finished high school in Turkey injune of 1980. Lessons are somewhat easier here than at home, Ozden related. There I took 12 classes each year for the last three years. At Tokay you can choose what classes you wish. At home, everyone takes 1 1 to 14 required classes a year. I took biology, chemistry, religion, literature, physics, history, and math, which consisted of algebra, geometry, trigonometry, etc., all in one year. His home town of Lise has a midnight curfew. He often saw different political groups fighting on and off campus. On Sept. 12 a military government took over. Since then, many things must have changed for his family. He will have to await his return to find out how. 1. Ozden gets detailed help from his Algebra Il teacher, Tony Delaplain. 2. When not studying, Ozden likes to relax with a good book on campus or at home. K 'ii My it 1,1 f Y . its :Kia i s Q., QM iq: if , Y 'y F 2

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Sheltered up to now by the walls of Tokay High School, graduating seniors are about to be flung into a world crumbling under the weight of its collective inhumanity. Most of the third world is distinguished by revolution and conflict. Southeast Asia has been in a constant state of war since the end of the Vietnam conflict. Viet- nam has tried to keep its puppet government in power in Cambodia while ousted Khmer Rouge soldiers have tried to make that as difficult as possible. The con- sequent aggressions have left an already devastated land near death. In an entirely different part of the world, Latin America, the people, while rising from under the thumb of their oppressors, have fallen into the same pit of inhumanity. They kill their coun- terparts and anyone else who seems to be against them. Mem- bers of the clergy, ambassadors, and businessmen are killed just for having been known to the old regimes. Sometimes those killed actually helped to oppress the un- derprivileged, but most often they are innocent of any inhumanity. A global intolerance has developed concerning these atrocities. People of the civilized world fail to see that human beings are dying: they just note that someone new has come to power in a far away land. An in- tellectual, worldly sophistication has become the mode of thought. Compassion is old fashioned. The military coup in Liberia was considered justifiable. Those coming into power shot the former leaders and hundreds of followers, execution style, on a beach. Because the old regime couldn't manage the government properly, murder was justified? Death like this rolls off the public like water off the duck's back. The world's emotional sen- sibilities soften only at the sound of the word terrorism, A victim of a terrorist's bullet is mourned by the entire world because terrorism can hit anywhere. The mourners actually mourn for themselves. They know they could be next. As hypocrites say, terrorism is a blight on the human landscape. But it remains no more savage than any other killing. When the Irish Revolutionary Army kills 14 people as they blow up a supermarket, it is no worse than a political execution. When a terrorist bomb destroys a train station in Italy, it is no worse than blowing up a bridge in South Africa or El Salvador. Terrorism is just another example of today's inhumanity. Does the end always justify the means? The sanctity of life has lost all meaning. Does raising the standard of living in a country mean that people have to die? The invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union was the biggest act of raw greed in recent history. Afghanistan has little oil, but that was not what the Soviets wanted. Their pretence of worry about security is almost believable, if you also believe that the ant is a threat to the stampeding elephant. The remaining Afghanistani have Greed till breed iolence 274