Thur»., May 8. 196» (Sac. I) THE SANDY (Ora.) POST
Helping People, Ambition Of Sandy's AFS Student
“ I want to do something
worth doing...maybe in Africa.
I want to get to know more
p eop le, .m aybe travel to
Africa, South America. I want
to do something that will help
people. I wouldn’t want to get
into a job, for example like
machinery,- to to work 6 days
a week, sleep late Sunday
morning, get up and watch the
soccer game on T V , go to bed
and wake up to the same
routine Monday morning. I
want to help people come out
of the poor conditions they are
now living in. I don’t want to
give them just money or help
them like that., but show them
how to help themselves. I don’t
feel I have much to give them
but maybe if I can go to Africa
where they have nothing and
need so much, I can use the
little I do have to offer.”
These words sound like the
words of an idealistic American
youth who has considered
Peace Corps, Vista work or
working in the poverty areas in
the United States. These are
not the words o f an American
- these are the future aims and
dreams of Claudio Venturi,
Sandy High School’s A.F.S.
student from Rome, Italy.
Very sensitive, mature and
aware of the world around
him, Claudio talked seriously
of his feelings on life and
e x h u b e r a n tly
on
th e
enjoyment of living and the
hope for a better world for all
p eo p le. Claudio is more
concerned with people - their
hunger, th e ir needs and
m a k in g
th e ir ex is te n c e
easier,- than he is concerned
for owning a house, a car,
swimming pool, etc. He most
admires * the men and women
who have given up the status
symbols of society” (cars,
money, jobs, etc.) to spend
their lives helping those less
fortunate. In an extreme sense
- Dr. Tom Dooley and Dr.
Albert Schweitzer - but in a
more real sense the less famous
men and women contributing
in their own small ways.
Claudio is the son of
Marcello and Laura Ventura of
Rome. He has one brother,
Marco, age 14. His father
works in an insurance company
collecting insurance premiums,
making payments on claims
and selling some insurance. The
Venturi family, as most Italian
families, are Roman Catholics.
“ I guess I always wanted to
come to the States," Claudio
reflected. “In Italy everyone
dreams of coming to the
States. My early impressions of
America were mainly from
American films we see in Italy.
Everone is rich, has a couple of
swimming pools and several
cars! I always wished that
when I grew older I would be
able to go to the States.”
The dream came closer
when he received a letter and
form to complete for the AFS
program. His principal had
given the AFS Claudio’s name
for consideration. “ My first
thought was - Wouldn’t that be
cool going to the States! I
didn’t really believe I would
make it though-it was like a
raffle ticket or buy a ticket on
a horse race - like winning was
just luck. I didn’t really believe
I had much chance to go to the
States.”
H is voice changed to
excitement as he related when
he first heard the news: * I was
at a friend’s place when my
mother called. She was half
happy and half sad - I couldn’t
tell if she was crying or
laughing when she told me
‘You are leaving for Sandy,
Oregon*. I think she had mixed
feelings about me leaving. I
could hardly believe I was
actually going to the States!”
“ Orientation started - We
learned from students who had
been to the States. We were
asked to read newspapers every
day so that we would get to
know what we were talking
about when we were asked
questions on Italy. We were
advised not to use the word
‘communism’ as it is a bad
word in America! They placed
great importance on the fact
that we would be in the States
during election year. I watched
the Democratic Convention
here but I didn’t have enough
knowledge of English to know
-what was happening or much
o f what was being said. We’re
told in orientation that our
families in America were not
going to have big mansions.
chauffeurs, 2 swimming pools,
Claudio has no desire to try
etc. like we had seen in movies,
Chinese food. “I saw some
but I wasn’t disillusioned, it
show in Italy that was made in
was still the States! I was going
Borneo and it said the best
to the States ( I hadn’t really
Chinese food was bird nest
thought there would be poor
soup. 1 saw them eating it and
people here though.”
decided I didn’t think I ’d like
Claudio completed his 11th
Chinese food.”
year o f school prior to his year
Shortly after his arrival,
in Sandy. In Italy, high school
Claudio tasted his first peanut
has 5 years instead of 4 so
butter (they don’t have peanut
Claudio will have another year
butter in Italy) and found it a
of highschool on his return to
“ bit sticky.” He also tasted his
It a ly .
He a tte n d e d
the
first American cottage cheese.
Technical Industrial Institute -
Cottage cheese (Ricotta in
an
a ll- b o y s
highschool
Italy) is dry, without cream.
(“ mainly because it taught
When he was asked what he
technical things and girls
d id n ’ t like about cottage
weren’t interested” ), majoring
cheese, he said: “ In Italy our
in physics and chemistry in
ricotta is - how you say - not
order to become an expert in
so wet?” la te r in this meal, he
telecommunications. Italian
remarked ‘ U.S. ricotta and
students are channeled into
peanut butter I do not dig!”
specialized highschools to
CLAUDIO VENTURI, AFS exchange student from
One o f the main problems
prepare students for jobs at the
he had on a rriv a l was
Rome, Italy, believes in the old saying “ When in
end of their 13th year of
communication. “ Now I can
Rome...” and wears western frontier hat for recent
school if they are not planning
laugh at these problems, but it
outing near Sandy.
on a co lle g e education.
was hard at the time. Some
MUSIC: “ I like most music salad. In Italy, salads are a
Another interesting fact is that
students
talked so fast I
v a r ie t y
o f green le a fy
from jazz to classical.”
the Italian alphabet was only
couldn’t understand what they
vegetables
with
oil,
salt
and
T .V .: “I like colored T V
21 letters and has no K,J,W,X
vinegar. Here ^ou add tomato, were saying. For awhile I
and I enjoy Dean Martin."
and Y.
green
peppers, cucumbers...you thought in Italian - but now I
H O B B IE S :
F encing
Claudio’s first impression of
can’t
predict what will be in a think mostly in American -
although he hasn’t had too
the United States was New
only rarely in Italian. I love
much practice in America. He salad. One day I had pineapple
slang! Slang is fun! It is an easy
York’s air traffic problems at
and
cabbage
for
salad,’
he
has done some at Beaumont
the Kennedy Airport. His plane
way to communicate! I like
rem
arked
w
ith
a
funny
Grade School in Portland
was forced to circle the airport
words
like: crash, bang, neat,
expression on his face. I asked
though.
several times before getting the
“ You didn’t like the taste of smash, cute, cool, groovy!
signal it was clear to land. “ It
FOOD: “ I like pancakes p in e a p p le while you ate They are so expressive. You
was real exciting getting o ff the with butter and syrup.” “ I cabbage?” “ No’, Claudio said, can come home, flop in a chair
plane and coming down the can’t get over salads here. We “ I like pineapple and I didn’t with the words “Man, am I
steps. I was seeing a dream would never put fruit in a like the cabbage taste with it!” beat!” or you can say: “ I ’m
coming into reality and I
thought - I am now going to
step my foot on American
ground!'
T h is ex c ite m e n t o f a
Kathleen
dream-come-true of “actually
llt<
O'Brien
being in America” has never
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left Claudio. Even now, after
living here over eight months.
A brief look back to
and power service within the Evening” for five high school
Francis city. Later water facilities were students. Lenna Swails was
C la u d io
fre q u e n tly finds S a n d y ’s h is to ry :
himself thinking: “ Isn’t it Revenue settled near the established. Council meetings crowned as Queen. Her escort
were held in the dining room was M ik e Copper. Prom
weird that I am here so far present site o f Sandy in 1853.
from my family in the States. I The Barlow Trail was then a of the Sandy I.O.O.F. Building. Princesses and their escorts
never would have believed main route west - All the The first city building, a city were: Charlotte Hames with
Gary Painter, Vickie Dimick
three years ago that I would territory lying northeast of jail, was built in 1912.
K e ith
Litner, Jean
now be in the States! Living where Eagle Creek now stands
In 1918 Blanche R. Shelley w ith
w ith
D o n n ie
(Percy Shelley’s wife) became T o m p s o n
with a family is much better was called Revenue.
On June 1, 1854, a post Sandy’s first woman mayor. 53 Schneider, and Laurie Jonsrud
than travelling as a tourist.
named Sandy was citizens cast votes. That year with Brent Peterson. A large
When you travel as a tourist, o ffic e
you see the sights but not the established, anparently near two women filled council seats reflection pool and fountain
people.” Claudio had visited the present site of Troutdale, - Mrs. Alice Scales and Mrs. h ig h lig h te d
th e th e m e .
Russia and also Hungary before with Emsley R. Scott as Edna Esson. The operation Photographs were taken in a
Postmaster. This post office budget for the year was swing decorated with flowers.
coming to the States.
This year. Claudio enrolled was discontinued Feb. 26, $585.00.
Robbie Knoll is looking
T h e first newspaper in forward to working at Crater
in
English, U.S. History, 1868.
About
1870
R ic h a rd
Sandy was the Sandy News Lake this summer. The Knolls
M o d e rn Problems, Speech,
M a th and P.E. Later he Gerdes, who had property near Published in 1914. In April of are moving to Coquille when
R .S . S m ith
was school ends.
dropped Speech and took the Revenue farm, opened a 1 9 1 9 ,
C h e m is try
and
Physics. store. He soon applied for a appointed Chief o f Police.
Sunday is Mother’s Day and
w h ich
was
It is interesting to see the to the Mothers everywhere I
“Chemistry is different as p o s t o ffic e
words
like
‘iodine’
are established Feb. 13, 1873. It is pages from Sandy’s history dedicate the words o f William
L. Stinger:
pronounced different here. If I generally believed that Gerdes book.. .
could see it spelled, I think suggested the name Sandy
“ Blessed are the Mothers of
* * ♦
the earth, for they have com
Italian and translate it to what (after the Sandy River) as he
I spent an enjoyable four bined the practical and the
I called ‘iodine’ in Italy and I was more familiar with the
am alright. Here there is far name of Sandy than Revenue. and a half hours recently with spiritual into the workable way
F ra n c is
R evenue had Claudio Venturi. The youth of o f human life. They have
more practical experience in
classes. In Italy we had lab crossed the plains in 1853 and today - no matter what their darned little stockings, mended
only once every 3 or 4 weeks had 320 acres o f land near country o f origin - are so full little dresses, washed little
o f hope and promise and are so faces, and have pointed little
or so. Although you figure Sandy. He established friendly
things out on paper, it doesn't relations with the Indians and re fre s h in g !
O f particular eyes to the stars, and little
necessarily mean they would because o f their confidence in interest to me was his sheer souls to eternal things.”
him he was able to prevent enjoyment o f the use o f slang
And
m ay a ll Mothers
work in lab.”
Claudio’s feelings include: much trouble between the as a means o f direct and honest everywhere share a special
Indians and the emigrants who expression. Our conversation place in each home this
was“ cool” -I think Claudio is Sunday!
A M E R IC A N
SCHOOLS: traveled past his home. Mr.
“ Here you have nothing to do Revenue’s trading post was the “ neat” and “with it ”...and the
but go to high school and have first stopping place this side of so-called Generation Gap is a
The true test o f civilization
of
s o m e o n e ’s is not the census, nor the size
fun. You do learn more about the Cascade Mountains. Mr. f i g m e n t
life here in highschool though. Revenue built the first bridge imagination!
o f the cities, nor the crops, but
Sign in front o f the Sandy the kind of men that the
A lot o f teachers let the kids go across th e Sandy River.
wild. There is a lack of respect Revenues had nine children. Assembly o f God Church: country turns out.- Ralph W.
for teachers here. Teachers John, bom in 1856, was the “ God is not dead - 1 just talked Emerson.
may not take their job as oldest boy and was the first to H im .’
serious as they might. I believe white child bom in Sandy,
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Meinig, Casper Junker, L.E.
D R IN K IN G : “There isn’t Hoffman, T.D . Phelps. P.B.
the problem with drinking in Gray and George A. Wolf.
Italy. There is no age limit for Early in 1914 ordinances were
S tep s to th e NEVty
drinking there. Young people passed for city street lighting
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tired so I think I will sit down
and
r e s t . ’ ’Slang is so
expressive! In Italy we used to
make up our own slang words.
A t first it was hard to
understand slang but now I
think it is cool! I learned
English but slang has <=uch
different meanings
like the
word ‘stuck’ you get stuck on
something - you gel stuck in
the mud. Later I learned in
English that ‘stuck* was the
past tense o f “ to stick”. At
first I thought the word cute
was spelled cew (rhyming with
knew). I tried to use it and
mentioned that a car w r . cew
and then I learned that the
word was cute and you don’t
call cars cute! I also heard the
word ‘cop’ (for a policeman)
and ‘cab’ as the same and
mentioned to someone once
that the words for policeman
and taxicab had the same
spelling but two different
m e a n in g s ...a n d
I learned
another lesson in slang!”
Claudio’s American family
in c lu d e s : Tom and Irma
Booth by, a brother, Brian (a
junior at Sandy High) and a
sister Barbara (a third grader).
His other two American sisters
are married.
Claudio leaves Sandy about
June 20. He will tour the U.S.
w ith
other AFS students
before returning to his home in
Italy.
WemmeMan
Decorated
Army Specialist Four Steven
R. Twombley, 21, son of Mrs.
Evelyn E. Trumbly, Wemme,
Ore., received the Purple Heart
during ceremonies March 30 in
Vietnam.
Spec. Twombley, a 1966
graduate o f Sandy Union high
school, was presented the
award for wounds suffered in
action against hostile forces in
Vietnam.
A driver in Troop B. 1st
Squadron, 1st Cavalry of the
American Division, he entered
the Army in September 1967
and was stationed at Fort
Knox, Ky., befory arriving
overseas in February 1968.
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