Washington High School - Lens Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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x Washington High School Principal All W Minami High School Principal Y Harold A. York Yoshimatsu Yamazaki Hands Across the Pacific' have been stretching for five years over five thousand miles as a result of the initiative of Washington's 1960 Spring Student Body President, Dave Goldfoot. He wrote an invitational letter instigating the sister-school relationship with Minami High School in Sapporo, Japan. A Sapporo Committee was organized at Washington, a Washington Committee was created at Minami. From the first, each committee worked to uphold the amity between the schools through the exchange of letters, pictures, tape-recordings, and gifts. In addition the committees sponsored assemblies for the student bodies to foster knowledge of the foreign cus- toms. These programs have included realistic portrayals of Japanese and American ways of life. The chasm between the two societies has been bridged through the dili- gence and working curiosity of both student bodies. Goodwill visits by cultural ambassadors from both schools have furthered the concept of Hands Across the Pacific. Because we have discovered that the students of the two schools are different in some ways, yet alike in so many others, we wish to express our friendship on this fifth anniversary by dedicating the 1965 Lens to our sister school, Minami. 3

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WASHINGTON HONORS SISTER CITY Superintendent Sapporo City Board ofEducc1tion SUPeTIf1IendenI0f Portland PUIJIIC Schools Yoshio Nokaiimci MSIVIY1 Barnes Minami student body is similar in size to Washington's, numbering 1600 to Washington's 1500 students. At Minami, however, the population is rather one-sided, since the boys outnumber the girls two to one, and only one-third of the faculty are women. Both schools have benefitted recently from new buildings, although the remodeling has been more ex- tensive at Minami, as they have received a whole new school building, while Washington's new facilities consist of a new gym, and a new class- room wing with a cafeteria in the basement. Both schools hold many tra- ditions, as Minami is 76 years old, and Washington will be 60 years old in 1966. The interest of students seems to be the same the world over, but especially so, between the sister schools, the students are almost identical in their extra-curricular activities. Athletics play an important part in boosting the spirit of any student body, and the student bodies of Washington and Minami are especially endowed with capable teams and enthusiastic spectators. Minami teams participate in skiing tournaments, ice-skating during the famous Snow Festival, soccer played in an intra-mural program, judo, hand wrestling, fencing, baseball, ping-pong, tennis, track, and sculling C much like canoe- ingj. Minami students also participate in interest clubs, such as English- speaking clubs, the Tea Ceremony Club, science clubs, math clubs, and Chinese calligraphy clubs. The Japanese students also participate in many of Sapporo's parades, dressing in elaborate costumes for the School Festival which lasts four days. The sister-school relationship has developed lasting friendships among the leaders of the respective student bodies, and has caused understand- ing between the peoples of the two societies. The exchange of pictures, letters, tape recordings, gifts, and scrapbooks have strengthened the rela- tionship to the point that it is appropriate that the 1965 Lens be dedicated to Minami High School in Sapporo, Japan. 2 I

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