Yuma Union High School - El Saguaro Yearbook (Yuma, AZ)

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'Ca U S . Henrik Bach comes from Hansfhoem, Denmark. Henrik's inTeresTs include Tennis, surfing, and sfaying aT The beach. He says ThaT The U.S. is preTTy much The same as Denmark. One Thing he likes abouT Yuma is The beauTiful weaTher. Henrik says ThaT iT's cold in Denmark all year round. Henrik plans on going To col- lege, possibly in America. Afferwards he is planning on a maTh-relaTed career. His real ambiTion is To become a piloT in The Danish Air Force. This year Henrik is Taking Eng- lish, American hisTory, a few maTh classes, and gov'T free enTerprise. Back home he Took classes ThaT mosT of us would consider more difficulT. Some of These are German, English, Danish, algebra, and geome- Try. Henrik says he likes America and doesn'T have To leave unTil nexT AugusT. Henrik is seen siTTing in fronT of Snider. Carmen is wiTh us Thanks To The RoTary Club. If she seems familiar To some ThaT's because she was here lasT year. Carmen came To The U.S. in Jan. of 4984, and will leave in Jan. of 4985. She was well known and well liked aT Yuma High, and she was on The girls' swimming Team. Before coming To America, Carmen graduafed wiTh her own class in TaubaTe, Brazil. She Then graduafed again wiTh our class of 4984 and came back To school unTil her deparTure in 4985. Some of The classes ThaT Car- men Took aT Yuma High were U.S. hisTory, English, Spanish and French. Her major in college will have To do wiTh languages or chemisfry. Carmen is in Brazil now, i buT she will Always be remem- Defed GT YUVTWG High! Carmen SanTos poses for our camera. FOREIGN EXCHANGE 27

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Foreign Hitomi Tomitd, olso known ds i'Torni , is with us from Chiba, Jdpon: d twenty minute troin ride from Tokyo. Hitomi is interested in lon- gudges ond wdnts to pursue d cdreer thot promotes inter- ndtionol understondingn. In Jo- pon, Tomi sdid, schools ore hdrder thdn in the U.S. Her privdte school in Jdpdn offered such courses ds English, moth dncilysis, ond Jopdnese. Here, however, she is toking English, Arnericdn history, ond free enterprise. Tomi is sup- posed to be o junior, but will grddudte with the cldss of 4985. Some of the pldces thot Tomi hos been other thdn Yumd dre, Austrdlid, New Zed- ldnd, Hdwdii, Hong Kong, Thdi- ldnd, dnd CG fdvoritey Sdn Frdncisco. 26 FOREIGN EXCHANGE i l Hitomi in her ndtive dress: d Jdpc nese kimono.

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Yuma High's Spirit Squad Comes Alive This year's song and cheer program has changed. The songleaders and cheer- leaders have combined To form Yuma High's new SpiriT Squad. Miss Craig CsplriT squad's advisory said, IT would be a neaT idea To combine The Two TogeTher. She said, IT makes The squad look beTTer. This year's SpiriT Squad consisTs of Cherry Derrick, QHead CapTainj, Doris Mor- Tensen CCO-CapTainy, Yo- landa Bermudez QCo-Cap- Tainy, SamanTha Slavin, Ja- neT Malborough, Julie Ybarra, STefanie HarTley, Vicky Amescua, Cheryl Magnusen, Holly Cerney, PauleTTe Schumach, Elaine Gossman, MarcheTa Web- ber, and Rocky Almadova QmascoTj. 28 SPIRIT SQUAD Cherry Derrick QHead Cap- Tainj