December 16, 1966
Foreign Christmases recalled
by Foreign Exchange students
by Cynthia Evans
Christmas in America will be
a new and exciting experience
for foreign exchange students
Luis Couchonnal from Para
guay, Nobuko Inoue from Japan
and Kanta Merchandani from
India.
Having his home in the
tropical climate of Para
guay, which averages 74 de
grees year ’round and has
“no snow,”, as he puts it,
Luis enthusiastically antici
pates the coming of a snowy
winter season and maybe a
white Christmas.
Recently during a trip to Mt.
Hood, Luis witnessed his first
snowfall. “You just don’t know
What a new experience it is tc
see snow for the first time in
your life,” he said.
Since the weather in Par
aguay does not provide a
setting for Santa Claus, Jan
uary 6 is set aside and cele
brated as the Feast of the
Three Kings. On that morn
ing all little children receive
a present left by the bedside.
Students to start
years scheduling
of dusses soon
by Elaine Wolfe
Which courses do I want to
take? Which courses will I be
able to take? Should I have a
study hall? These questions have
to be answered before forecast
ing for next year’s schedule.
A meeting to inform par
ents of the courses offered
will be conducted by the ad
ministration and counseling
staff in January. This will
start the forecasting proce
dures which will continue
through to the end of Janu
ary, at which time all fore
cast sheets must be turned
in.
During this time forecasting
booklets will be distributed to
the present freshmen, sopho
mores and juniors. Each of the
class counselors will speak in
the classrooms to inform stu
dents of the revisions and addi
tions to the curriculum.
Such changes in curricu
lum are implemented by a
committee designed to func
tion in the interest of the
school. The committee con
sists of the academic depart
ment chairmen, Principal
Roy O. Malo, Gust Kanas,
vice-principal in charge of
curriculum and the other
administrators on occasion.
“Working to define and formu
late policies and procedures in
written form to help guide
teachers in programming the
best possible placement for stu
dents, this committee has done a
very good job,” staled Mr. Kanas.
The information appearing in
the forecasting materials is in
great part due to the work of
this committee.
Celebration of Christmas Day
is similar to that of the United
States. Relatives and close
friends get together for a dinner
or a party. “It is customary for
the little kids to have made a
manger scene,” said Luis.
During the Christmas sea
son in Japan everyone goes
shopping in the brightly
decorated stores. “We buy
Christmas cakes, exchange
cards and have many spe-
cial programs and articles,”
commented Nobuko.
“When asked about Santa
Claus, Nobuko said, “As small
children we are told the stofy
but when we grow older, as you
know, we don’t really believe
anymore.”
Trees are used as a room
decoration and gifts are ex-
changed at dinnertime or
morning. “It is not custom
ary to put presents around
the tree as in America,” ex
plained Nobuko*.
Keeping the holy spirit of
Christmas, on New Year’s Day
people go to the temple or shrine
to pray for a good year.
To Kanta, Christmas is a deco
rated one-week holiday with
dances, parties and cards sent to
a few Christian friends. But, the
really big feast and counterpart
to Christmas of the Hindus is
Diwali. Diwali, or festival of
lights, is held in November. It is
also the Hindu New Year.
On one day every family has a
prayer or small ceremony. We
exchange gifts and have fire
works,” concluded Kanta.
by Cindy Barrett
3
On The Shelf
by Cynthia Barrett
Orphans seek safety, happiness
If you have a free study hall
next week, pick up the Decem
ber issue of Good Housekeeping
magazine on the library rack,
and turn to the story about four
evangelists on page 93.
“Matthew, Mark, Luke,
and John” is Pearl S. Buck’s
newest story. The four “good
angels” are illegitimate half
Korean, half-American chil
dren, abandoned by their
parents and living together
in a cave in the Korean city
of Pusan.
On Christmas day, as they beg
at the gate of an American army
base, they were, by mistake ush
ered into an orphans’ Christmas
party sponsored by the soldiers.
They are fed well, clothed, and
put into the orphanage.
Matthew is adopted by
one GI, and goes home to
America. But he still re
members his friends Mark,
Luke and John, who are
without families. By the
next Christmas, plans are
afoot to find homes in
America for them.
Told in a serious manner that
avoids the maudlin, the story
deals with a subject that can be
quite emotional. Americans don’t
relish being reminded that they
have left their seed in a far coun
try, and that their descendants
are not treated with respect.
“Why am I considered
foreign?” asks Matthew,
Pilot courses use audio-visual aids
to increase students' interest, skills
Freshman and sophomore Eng
lish and social studies classes of
fer a pilot program that provides
“additional equipment and class
room materials” designed to “in
crease student interest and basic
learning skills,” said Gust Kanas,
vice-principal in charge of cur
riculum.
Teachers conducting pilot
classes are: Miss Helen
Cherry, sophomore English;
Mrs. Diane Cedros, fresh
man English-social studies;
Thomas Piennett, sopho
more U.S. history; Leonard
Whitlow, freshman English-
social studies.
Using audio-visual aids such
as tape recorders, slide and over
head projectors, many maga
zines, and a television set, the
teachers break monotony of
everyday classes, holding stu
dent interest.
“I have ample material,”
said Mr. Piennett, referring
to the films, extra maga
zines he brings from home,
and many historical pam
phlets, and books he has
been able to order. “I use
them with my other classes,”
he stated. “It isn’t ‘canned’
stuff.”
Miss Cherry has made special
efforts to make her room attrac-
THE GRANTONIAN
tive. Monstrous bright paper
flowers and an illustrated alpha
bet adds color and light. But has
feels that enough paperback
books are not available for her
class.
Mrs. Cedros and Mr. Whitlow,
who teach an English - social
studies class, feel that our pro
gram is limited because of lack
of federal aid. Miss Cherry
agreed, and added “We’re not an
underprivileged area.”
“one of ‘those’.” Finding
other half-Koreans like him
self, he assumes the position
of a father over them, to
provide a semblance of the
family.
Matthew, Mark, Luke and
John are creations of the noted
writer Pearl S. Buck, who seems
to want them to be evangelists of
a new movement, a movement
to adopt or care for orphans of
part-American parentage in for
eign lands.
In Korea, children fathered
by Americans, then desert
ed, have little chance to de
velop into respected, respon
sible citizens. Family back
ing and education are Vir
tually necessary for ad
vancement.
In all Asian countries, the ap
parent difference in appearance
between the native and the half
Asian brings embarrassment to
the child and his mother. In
many cases, especially in Korea,
Miss Buck indicates, the mother
will abandon the child.
Miss Buck knows Asia well,
as she was raised in China and
has traveled extensively in the
Near and Far East. The problem
of the American-Asian child has
troubled her for some time.
In 1949 she established Wel
come House, Inc., an adoption
agency which finds permanent
homes and parents for children
of mixed Asian-American par
entage. Another organization, the
Pearl S. Buck foundation, tries
to care for these children who
must stay in the country of their
birth. Miss Buck has raised nine
adopted children herself.
Especially qualified, then, to
write on the subject of Asian-
American orphans, Miss Buck
has done so in this story with the
object of helping them. She asks
Americans to be responsible for
their progeny.
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