University of Arizona - Desert Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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Mark Goss ARTICLE BY: JAN IS BALMER PHOTOS BY: DANNY PEPPER Go as many places and meet as many people as you can, says freshman Mark Goss. And he has done his fill of travelling in his lifetime. In 1971 Mark went to Guayape, Honduras with Amigos de las Americas as a paramedical aid giv- ing vaccinations to a community of 1000 people while living in an old, abandoned mud hut and eating beans, rice and potatoes. Mark ' s travels have included lear- ning the cultures of the people as well. While living in Quebec in 1973, Mark did everything from breaking rocks with sledge hammers to com- mercial painting touch-ups. There he learned the lifestyle of the French people. As a romance languages major with a minor in anthropology, Mark is hoping to be accepted into law school with international law as his final goal. Mark plans to finish his education in Guadalajara, Mexico. Mark ' s interest in anthropology started when he found his first arrowheads in Tastiota, Mexico. Since then Mark has gathered quite a collection. Mark ' s social life also is his educa- tion. In his spare time he travels to Mexico to practice his Spanish with the older Mexicans. Mark joined the Delta Tau Delta fraternity as a townsmember and lives in an apartment with two of his friends because he enjoys his privacy. Camping and hunting are two of Mark ' s hobbies but he has stopped the hunting as an act of animal preservation. However he feels that camping teaches a person to live without the comforts of home. In closing, Mark says he likes the West because it is not as over- crowded as the East. Unfortunately, he sees the population shifting Westward and says, The more peo- ple I see coming out West, the more I hate to see more people.

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Joseph Troncale ARTICLE BY: CARLA CARTER PHOTOS BY: LARRY LA USER The irony is that the Army chose my great love for me, muses Joseph Troncale, a Russian language teaching assistant. After the Army sent him to the Foreign Language Institute in Monterey for two years, he emerged with a new perspective and a con- suming interest in Russian culture and literature. Troncale studied it further in New Orleans after his dis- charge. People don ' t know what they want because they don ' t look around enough, says Troncale. An outgoing, active man of Italian descent, his interests range from sports to music and art. At one point he spent eight years in a seminary, several months as a teacher, coach and secretary at a Catholic mission in Missouri, and some time in in- cidental Shakespearean acting. In 1972, Troncale accepted an assistanceship to the U of A, where I can get experience teaching and learn Russian at the same time. Troncale now is working toward a Masters and wants to extend his studies to include Russian history. The Russian Department is a good one with cooperative, friendly peo- ple, he says. Everybody knows his responsibility and gets things done. Troncale and his wife expect to be at the University for at least five more years. He hopes to travel to the Soviet Union either as a State Department guide or as a student with a summer program. I want to go, he concludes, to meet more Russians. There ' s a quality a warmth a hospitality about the Russian people. Go asm; tone his n lifetime, In 1971 H Honduras ericas as Mark ' s tra, 8 the cun

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Bobbie Mero 28 ARTICLE BY: CARLA CARTER PHO TOS B Y: JA Y DUNN and DANNY PEPPER Barbara Mero, known as Bobbie, is one of seven women in the Univer- sity ' s Air Force ROTC program. She settled in Tempe and attended schools there until she married and divorced. Although Bobbie went to Arizona State University for a year and a half, during which time she changed her major five times, a desire for a new start after her divorce brought her to Tucson. Tucson offers the advantages of a large city with the atmosphere of a small town, Bobbie says, adding, I feel at home here. She considers the Air Force a good opportunity for women, since they are accorded both equality and consideration as well as good pay. In the Air Force, behavior is legislated to our benefit, she con- cludes. Bobbie first took a semester of ROTC to see what it ' s like and on coming to Tucson enrolled in the University ' s two-year program. She attended camp last Summer a mandatory activity for upper level ROTC students and in August signed a contract formally committing her to the Air Force after graduation. As Cadet Second Lieutenant Mero, Bobbie edits the detachment ' s monthly newsletter, Mach 73, which profiles people and lists coming events in the corps, and works on the Information Staff, dispensing facts about the Air Force to high school students and other interested parties. After class, Bobbie exchanges her Air Force blues for a perky straw hat and bow tied shirt to become a piz- za pusher at the Straw Hat Pizza Palace. A secondary education major, she spends two hours a week helping junior high school students with problems in reading and math. People here at the U are more free, friendly and relaxed than at ASU, and she notes that there is less pressure. Bobbie ' s future is fairly settled. First, I want to get my commission, she says firmly. She is engaged to an Air Force captain and plans to stay in the Air Force at least ten or twelve years more if we have a family.