Alldaui JlUjlt School
ROGUE NEWS
FRI., SEPT. 22. 1961 ASHLAND, ORE,
Exchange Student
Tells About Home
ED. NOTE
Beginning with this edition,
the Rogue News will publish a
series , of articles written by
Yvonne Nirolson, American
Field Service Foreign Exchange
Student from Pretoria, South
Africa, telling of the way of life
in her own country as contrast
ed with that of ours.
The bell rang at 8:00 o'clock on
a sunny summer morning in Jan
uary, lOliC, and 900 chattering
girls in green school uniforms
filed into the fifty-year-old build
ing of the I'retoria High School
for girls.
It was the first day of school
in South Africa and most of the
girls, who were eagerly telling of
their experiences during the
month's summer holiday, were
happy to be back in this school
where tradition brushed shoulders
with modern development.
When the assembly bell rang,
the students, now silent, walked
into the great hall and waited in
long rows for the headmistress to
make her appearance. As we sang
1 wondered what my last year of
school at Pretoria Girls' High
would be like.
I knew that in order to pass
the examination set by the State
controlled Board of Education at
the end of the year, I would have
to work hard at the six subjects
we were required to take. Four of
these six subjects had to bo Eng
lish, Afrikaans, the second offi
cial language in South Africa, His
tory, and Physics or Biology. The
other two subjects could be chos
en from a variety of subjects.
However, that year was going
ate; every afternoon after school
ended at 1:30 there would be
games such as tennis, cricket, bas
ketball and hockey, as well as
swimming. lne:i tne many club
meetings, too, were always a grate
ful diversion from school work.
The Quest Club meetings every
second week were interesting, as
then a well-known speaker would
come and talk to us. Then there
were meetings for members of the
Scripture Union, religious organi
zation which extends now over the
whole world, and the Drama Club
meetings. That year, the play
"Hiawatha" would be publicly
staged to raise money for the
scholarship fund, an dthe greatest
event of the sports year would
take place the Inter-high swim
ming gala, in which all the schools
in Pretoria compete. Last of the
much looked forward to events
would be the Senior Year Dance,
the only dance our school gave
for its pupils.
Undoubtedly that year would
be a memorable one, but what
I did not know was that within a
year 1 would be getting ready to
go on a journey that I would al
ways remember a journey to
America.
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Sitting on the veranda of the capital building in Washington,
D. C. is Judy Eberhart, the 4th student from Ashland High
School to participate in the United Nations Youth Pilgrimage.
Ashland High Senior Relates
Experiences of IOOF Pilgrimage
QUILL AND SCROLL
HAS NEW PLANS
Something new! Beginning this
year the Quill and Scroll hopes to
have an annual press banquet.
The organization's first meet
ing will be September 28. The
members will elect a new presi-
to be more than merely a long dent who can devote a good deal
and difficult struggle to gradu-1 of time to raising money.
Judy Eberhart, senior, honored
Ashland High School by placing
second in the nation in the girl's
division of the Odd Fellows' and
Rebckahs' United Nations Pil
grimage for Youth.
First winning the local Tiid uis
ict contest, Judy went on to win
top girl speaker for the week she
pent in New York. Top girl and
boy speakers for the different
weeks throughout the summer
were compared and Judy took sec
ond in the nation. Approximately
1000 delegates from Canada and
the United States competed in
New York City this summe:-.
It All Began
Encouragement from Linda
Lewis, former winner, inspired
Judy to enter the Odd Fellows'
and Rebckahs' Twelfth United
Nations Pilgrimage for Youth Con
test. "Will the United Nations
Survive
Accompanying Judy to New
York were the sixteen Oregon
delegates, nine Washington dele
gates, two Alaskan delegates and
one from the Yukon. The group
consisted of 10 boys and 26 girls
ages 15 to 18.
Interesting Experiences
Exploring Greenwich Village
at midnight was only one of the
exciting things Judy did on the
tour which covered much of Can
ada and the United States. Oth
ers included getting lost in the
United Nations Building with a
group of foreign exchange stu
dents and riding in a dump truck
at the world's largest producing
asbestos plant.
Because the weather was so hot
Judy cooled her feet by wading in
the pool at the Long Wood Gar
dens in Pennsylvania. Also, be-
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House. Instead they argued with
winner.
Upon winning in the school com
petition. Judy went on to compete
in ond win the Sou'h?rn Oregon
District speaking contest. "If Se
lected, Would 1 Be Willing to
Serve the Peace Corps?" was the
title of the speech that entitled
her to the trip to the United Nations.
Yvonne Nicolson, Ashland High School's first foreign exchange
student as pictured in the study ball.
Arrival of Annuals
Announced at Party
Free coke and orange was serv
ed Wednesday night, September
6. at a party announcing the ar
rival of the 1961 Rogue Annual.
The senior members of the an
nual staff, Linda Gray, Joy Hink-
son, Margery Moore, and Sue
Rude, were assisted by the junior
members, Diane Fieguth, Rick
Pierce, Sharon Roderick, Linda
j Wells, and Mary Paul Workman
while distributing the annuals to
the Ashland High School student
I body.
picketers on the front walk and
defended the nation!
After traveling across our toun
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