Washington High School - Warrior Yearbook (Sioux Falls, SD)

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f Marisa talked more than she ate during lunch periods. Marisa took a few quiet minutes on Sunday afternoon to review for a U. S. History test. ,f f f f A . ' :gfif ff' f Most Brazilian girls wear their hair much longer than American girls, Marisa said. American Field Service Marisa Played a Role Alone on a darkened auditorium stage. Alone for forty minutes. And in those forty minutes, Marisa brought the pitch of an all-school assembly to such a height that a tensed audience broke out screaming as the murderer approached the invalid's bed in Sorry, Wrong Number. Marisa carried the show. She was no longer a hesitant Brazilian girl speaking language-class English. She belonged to two languages - to two countries. Marisa Rosenfeld joined 235 other Brazilian stu- dents in the AFS exchange program that brought her to Washington High School. She saw American life as Americans live it, and learned the difference be- tween the movie American and her adopted home. Marisa told the International Relations Club, I enjoyed all my classes, and even to stay from 8:00 A.M. to 3:30 P.M. in school, so much longer than I used to stay in my Brazilian school. Orange and Black turned out to be a beautiful and meaningful combination of colors to me .... I got to know American teen-agersg how they are, what they think, What they do .... I could hardly imagine such low temperatures and here I was sitting and enjoying the snow .... All this and so many more things that if I would start listing I Wouldn't have an end. 5 ll

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Student Administration Served, Solved Problems Fifteen bundles a 'sittin' in a row .... Thirty bundles a 'sittin' in a row .... Thirty-five bundles a 'sittin' in a row .... Forty bundles packed and ready to go. Keep Warm, said the WSHS Student Council to friends in Appalachia. One hundred cans a 'sittin' in a rovv .... Two hundred cans a 'sittin' in a row .... Seven hundred cans a 'sittin' in a row . . . One thousand cans packed and ready to go. Hope you can use them said the Council to the Salvation Army. It was twenty-six minutes after the hour. Up- lifted faces scattered throughout the building tensed as the minute hand clicked dramatically and jumped to twenty-seven after. One hundred and fifty-five desks emptied and Washington High's alert and efficient monitor force moved into position for the onslaught. At thirty minutes after, the raucous bells released 1,956 students into the corridors. But the force was prepared. Armed with their trusty monitor tickets, their orange-and-black buttons Worn de- ceptively lovv on their hips, and detailed instructions from adviser Leonard Tabor, and monitor heads Bob May, John Rustvvick and Wally Arneson, the monitor force was ready for anything - even a sophomore running desperately to his next class. Ahhh .... the security of it all. Offenders appeared before the Ethics Committee, composed of selected student coun- cil members and one student body representative. Individual cases were considered and dealt With as this judicial body saw fit. Ethics Committee members Bill Fuller, Linda Reade, Ron Matchett, Mary Greenough, Lance Coppock, John Rustwick, John Stengle, and adviser Len Tabor interrogated a Jay- Walker. No one sneaked out of the cafeteria snack bar while Jeff Brothen was guarding his monitor post. V' ,.. 2 '-.RSM--xi

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1 ,, jill rf z' 1 33 M s' ..i.,,.w.,s . Cindy enjoyed a swim in the ocean with her South Cindy donned the native Bahian cos- American friends while visiting the small seaport of Guara t t'll b d ' . ume s 1 worn ypsome Ven ors in the markets of Bahia. pora Linked orth and South America Cindy Lived, Learned in Brazil She learned that eleven hours by jeep from Rio de Janeiro there's a small city called Governador Valadares of Minas Gerais. She learned that the lbituruna Mountain towered 3,200 feet above Gov- ernador and that the Rio Doce, or Sweet River, crossed the city and the valley. She learned that people had lived half a hemisphere away for as long as seventeen years before she ever discovered them. And the thing about it was that for two months she shared in the lives of these same people who, for her, had never before existed. Cindy Austin, WSHS's foreign exchange student to Brazil, adopted five sisters and three brothers in a modern Brazilian household. She climbed the Ibi- turuna, swam in the Atlantic, saw captured croco- diles, ate fried bananas, attended fiestas, studied at a Catholic girls' school, and made five American apple pies. Her Portuguese improved as she talked and worked with the people of Governador. And she came to realize that a toothache is the same in any country. Cindy enjoyed Brazilian suppers of feijao Cblack beansj, banana-auros Cgolden, midget bananasl, rice, tomato slices, crackers and Guarana, a fruit drink from the Amazon.