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Three From Japan, Three students determined to travel and see something of the world while young have arrived in the Rogue valley. None of the three are spon sored by agencies or organiza tions - all three are here through their own initiative. The interesting and ambi tious foreigners are Toshiko Funabashi, who has arrived from Tokyo, Japan; Christel Nierobiseh, who came from Berlin earlier in the summer, and Pedro Banderas of Buena Ventura, Colombia. Miss Funabashi and young Ban deras will attend Medford High school as seniors, and Miss Nierobiseh has been ac cepted at Southern Oregon college. Wrote to Newspapers Of special interest is the manner which Miss Funabashi chose to come to the United States - she wrote to several papers in this country, includ I Mr. and Mrs. Robert Robertson (Braineid photo) Robertsons Make Home In Hayzvard Gold Hill Mr. and Mrs. Robert Robertson, whose wedding was an event of Saturday, August 10 at Gold Hill Community Methodist church, are residing in Hay ward, Calif., at 1780 A. street, Apartment 28. The bride is the former Miss Erma Lee Governor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Governor, 575 Sixth street, Gold Hill, and the bridegroom is the son of Mrs. Maitland Pritchelt, San Lo renzo, Calif., and Henry Rob ertson. Highway 99 south, Gold Hill. The Rev. Lochlen L. Greg ory, pastor of the Gold Hill church officiated at the double ring ceremony held at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. About 100 relatives and friends of the couple at tended. The wedding music was played by Mrs. John Bruce, organist. Arrangements of pink and white gladioli dec orated the altar. White bows and pink gladioli were used at the pew ends. The bride, given in mar riage by her father, wore a white lace over white bro cade satin gown patterned with silver leaves. It was fashioned with a round neck line, fingertip sleeves and a bouffant ballerina length skirt. Her shoulder length bridal veil was held in place by a Spanish tiara of white lace to match the wedding gown. She carried white car nations and a white Bible, gift of the bridegroom. Aunt Is Attendant Matron of honor was Mrs. Theron Boen, aunt of the bride. Her gown of yellow lace over gold satin, was etyled as the bride's. She wore a short veil held by a tiara of yellow lace, and car ried white carnations. Glen Smith. San Lorenzo. Calif., served as best man for his friend. Robert Wilson was usher. A reception given by the bride's parents immediately following the wedding cere mony was held in the social room of the church. Pink tapers in silver hold ers flanked the wedding cake, and arrangements of summer flowers decorated the room. Mrs. Ivan Governor, the bride's aunt, cut the wedding cake, and Mrs. Russell Bis set:, another aunt, served the wedding cake. Mrs. Les ter Smith, also the bride's sunt, poured coffee and Mrs ing The Medford Mail Trib une, seeking a sponsor. As the result of the stories, the Japanese girl received almost 150 replies, and through cor respondence she finally select ed Medford and the family of Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Stockton: 2241 Crestbrook road. Toshiko, who is 17, arrived August 4 and already is well established in the Stockton family. The Stocktons have three sons, Darryl, 18, who will be a freshman at Oregon State university this fall: Steven, 14, student at Hedrick Junior High school, and Da vid, 10, who attends Hoover school. "They already look on her as a sister and have started to tease her," Mrs. Stockton re ported last week. Wanted Coast State Miss Funabashi had more than 100 replies from Chicago families, where her story and After Rites Robert Wilson, cousin of the bride, presided at the punch bowl, assisted by Mrs. Cecil Governor, her aunt. Miss Julie Pritchett, sister of the bridegroom, kept the guest book and Mrs. Ralph billon, the bride's cousin, took charge of the wedding gifts. Mother in Blue For her daughter's wed ding and reception, Mrs. Gov ernor wore a blue suit with white accessories. The bride groom's mother wore a beige dress with pink accessories, and their corsages were white carnations. Among the guests was the bride's grandmother, Mrs. Marie Boen. The bride, a member of a long-time Gold Hill family, had lived in this area ail uf her life. She is a graduate of Crater High school and Med ford Beauty school. Prior to her marriage she was a beau tician at the Big Y Beauty salon. The bridegroom was gradu ated from Royal High school, San Lorenzo, and served a tour of duty with the United States Navy. He is a toll transmission man for the Pa cific Telephone company, Oakland, Calif. Other than the bride groom's stepfather and moth er, Mr. and Mrs. Maitland Pritchett, San Lorenzo, those attending the wedding and reception from out of town were James Robertson, San Lorenzo; Mr. and Mrs. Carl Dillon and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Dillon, Mt. Shasta, Calif.; Mr. and Mrs. Russell Bissett, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Cowger, and Alva Cox, all Portland; Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Governor, Vancouver, Wash.; Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Smith, Yakima, Wash.; Mr. and Mrs. Bill Governor and family, Melrose. Ore.: John Gover nor. Salem; Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Governor, Crescent City, Calif.; Harold Boen and son. Gary Boen. and Mr. and Mrs. Glen Leach, Medford. Upon his arrival in Gold Hill from San Lorenzo, the bridegroom was a guest in the home of his father and stepmother, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Robertson. 1 The Maitland Pritchetts continued to Canada to spend a two weeks vacation after the wedding and reception, i Prior to her wedding the new Mrs. Robertson was hon- ored at a shower given in the home of her aunt, Mrs. Theron Boen. i Germany, picture had been published by newspaper, but she preferred a small city to a large one, saying large cities are "crowd ed and dusty." She also de cided that she would like a coast state, rather than one in the interior. The attractive Japanese girl has this story to relate about her decision to come to the United States. A few years ago her father, Tokutaro Funabashi, traveled in Europe. Upon his return, he urged his daughter, an only child, to see the rest of the world while she was still young. Toshiko applied to the American Field service, dis cussed her ideas with staff members of the American Em bassy in Tokyo, and also visit ed the United States Cultural center to read more about this country, and to seek informa tion. Because there arc hundreds of applicants for the AFS pro gram, she was one of the many who were turned down, so she at length embarked on the plan of writing to U.S. newspapers. Her letter to The Mail Tribune ran in March, and before long Toshiko had accepted the offer of the Stocktons to live in their home for the school term. When asked why she had chosen the United States over other countries, Toshiko thought for quite some time and then said "because Amer icans are not dark." Further c o n v e rsation revealed that she meant from the standpoint of personalities and traits, rather than skin tones. The Americans she had met were friendly, gay and light-hearted - not too serious or sober, she said. Uncle Visits The visitor's father is the president of a firm which deals in commercial art and advertising. Not long after her arrival here, an uncle travel ing in this country on busi ness, came to Medford to visit his niece. Miss Funabashi and her uncle impressed on the Stocktons the fact that mem bers of their family were wel come to go to Japan any time to visit in the Funabashi household. Miss Funabashi likes sports, popular music, "but not jazz," swims a little and played vol leyball in the high school which she attended at home. She is impressed with the great spaces of this country and marvels at the big lawns "PENNETS ALWAYS FIRST QUALITY BIG SPECIAL PURCHASE of BLOUSES and SHIRTS . . . Only . . Plain Arnel Triacetate Blouses Smart roll-up sleeves White, colorsl Hundreds just received for back to-school. They go on sale to morrow at this low price . . . hurry in . . . select your com plete blouse wardrobe. CHARGE IT if you prefer. Remember, it takes sev eral to round-out a we balanced wardrobe. . Sizes 32 to 38. Get yours now. MEDFORD Colombia and gardens. Because Japan is so crowded, all gardens are very small and private homes cannot be surrounded by large lawns. The student conferred with her counselor at high school Wednesday and has been en rolled in a stiff course - Eng lish, algebra, trigono m e t r y, United States history, chorus, typing and art. English will be on the junior class level, since she is still not complete ly at ease in the language. She has already met Micko Hayashi, who arrived in Med ford last summer from Japan to live here and attend school, and the two were taken to Crater lake recently by the Stocktons. German to SOC Christel Nierobiseh is mak ing her home with an aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Rus sell Cornelius, 1109 Queen Anne avenue, Medford. Miss Nierobiseh also has learned a great deal about this country through the American Infor mation center in Berlin. After arriving here Christel visited both Medford High school and Southern Oregon college and after conferences, it was decided that she was too far advanced in her studies to return to high school and she will attend the Ashland college. She plans to enroll in Eng lish and French, among other classes, because she is particu larly interested in languages. Miss Nierobiseh has already made many friends and early in the summer was a guest at a meeting of Medford Zonta club. The German student, lively and vivacious, wears her hair in rather a simple fashion and during an inter view mentioned that the bouf fant, "leased" hairdos which some young women are wear ing in Oregon had long since gone out of fashion in Europe, where they origi nated. Earlier this summer Miss Nierobiseh traveled to Yose mite National park with Med ford friends and there met a Stanford student with whom she has corresponded as a "pen pal" for a number of years. Student Seeks Job Pedro Banderas is a guest in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Howard J. Boyd, who live on Holt Gulch road out of Talent. The Boyds and the young Co lombian met while they were traveling in South America 'r M ft, ' N I MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. to Study and through correspondence he determined to try his luck in Oregon and the Rogue val ley. Pedro's English is still somewhat limited, but the Boyds, because of years of travel in Mexico, Central and South America, speak consid erable Spanish. This ambi tious young man, who has completed high school in hs native land but feels he needs further study on the interme diate level, was already a newspaper publisher before finishing school. His father is a reporter for El Ticmpo, large daily paper in Bogata. Colombia, and also owns a print shop. Using the facilities of the shop, young Banderas edited and publish ed a little neighborhood week ly paper. He explained in an interview last week that he was licensed to publish agri cultural and literary material, but no political material be cause he was a minor. The young man, who has a brother, Rieardo, 15, is inter- Teacher Home From Spain Dick Carter, foreign lan guage instructor at Hedrick Junior High school, returned last week to Medford after a 10-week trip abroad. He spent a month in Mad rid where he was enrolled in the Eurocenler Language in stitute, studying the Spanish language. He had been chosen for the language and culture tour in Spain through the American Heritage associa tion. At the close of the course he left Madrid for Ibiza, the smallest of the Spanish Ba learic islands in the Meditor reanean. Mr. Carter also vis ited Barcelona, and returned by way of England, to Can ada. The teacher made the trip to the west by train across Canada. Philadelphia - born Marian Anderson recently was given an honorary Doctor of Hu mane Letters degree by Hah nemann Medical college and hospital. II was her twenty fifth honorary degree. If you have any doubt concerning the sharpness or clarity of your vision, get a professional eye examination, safety experts recommend. I II . I I 1 1 W J I I ft nrS l1 OREGON in Valley ested in agriculture and avia tion, as well as many other fields of study. His father is considered an authority in ag riculture and has published a book on the geography, indus try and agriculture of the Cauca river valley. Because the Boyds live so far from Medford High school and transportation will be a problem, Pedro is hoping some family will be able to offer him a home and that he can find part-time employ ment. He has enrolled in United States history. English, chemistry and social studies at Medford High school. Mr. Boyd has contacted Medford Rotary club, hopeful that some member of that or ganization. Which liplns In sponsor the AFS students, can help Pedro. The student point ed out that he has done some technical radio work in addi tion to publishing the weekly newspaper. The student, thrilled at be ing in the United Stairs and anxious to work and learn, said "he would work at anything." Two Southern Oregon college students, Randy Clark, (left) Central Point, and Mrs. Jeff Lee, Ashland, are pic tured above ai they delivered a Portland Symphony orches tra patron ticket to Alfred S. V. Carpenter. Topsides orchards. Old Stage road. The orchestra will visit the Rogue Valley October 16 for two performances in Hedrick Junior High chool, Medford. Spomori are members of the Organised Commuters Club of Southern Oregon college. .M COUfli 011 renney S to coler to of your career and campus fashion needsl Like I J J i. your budget too, the year's newest most wanted shortee skirts fa biliously low priced! 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