DECEMBER 19, 1969 ‘Lindy’ Anderson If you see her, she will probably be smiling because she has a lot to be happy about. First, in June, she married Mr. Anderson who is presently working on his doctorate in chemistry at the University of Utah. Second, she graduated from the U this spring with a bachelors degree in business education. And third, she really enjoys her first year of teaching here at Ben Lomond. Mrs. Anderson loves to ski and was on the U’s women’s intercollegiate ski team. When I begged her for advice on how to ski better she just said “practice”. Her other interests include boating, river running, sewing, and reading. When asked her opinion of Ben Lomond, Mrs. Anderson said it “has a lot going for it” starting with the name which gives it a Scottish tradition and “makes a really unique picture for the Scots.” She went on to say how impressed she was with the spirited student body and the excellent conduct shown in assemblies. She feels that as a whole | students use “good By Christmas in Germany starts about four weeks before Christmas Eve. The time of Advent starts on a Sunday. On this first Sunday of Advent you are allowed to light the first candle on a wreath. Every family has a wreath made out of branches of a fir tree and decorated with ornaments and chain, etc. And four candles are on it. Every Sunday for the next four weeks you light another candle. In the week after the last one has been lit someday is Christmas. Little kids get a foretaste of the excitement about the presents on Dec. 6. The night before, you put a boot or a plate or stocking under your bed or hang it somewhere. The St. Nicolaus has filled it up with presents, mostly candies and cookies. In the afternoon of the same day the children grab sacks and walk from house to house asking for a treat, just like here on Halloween. With the beginning of Advent the big Christmas shopping starts. The shops have been decorated earlier (it is getting earlier every year). They sometimes already start at the beginning of November. The streets in the business centers are decorated, Christ- GUNDA mas trees are on every spot where a little bit of room is. The electric candles shine all night long. After you have finished all your shopping, spent all your money, wrapped the packages, you don’t have to wait a long time for the next Christmas action: The decorating of the tree. And this can be really a lot of work. First you have to decide what kind of tree you want this year, maybe a blue one or a golden one for a change? After you made up your mind you start wondering whether to buy or to make yourself all blue or golden ornaments, chains and stars. On Dec. 23 you get the tree into the house and start working on it. One member wants the top cut a little, another one does not like the branches so wide and so father or the big brother starts cutting If you are lucky, there is a little bit of tree left you can decorate. If there are little children in the family who believe in Santa Claus they are sent outside into the kitchen while the grown-ups do the work on the tree in the living room. From now on the children are not allowed to enter the living room till they are TIETJEN called in on Christmas Eve. Dec. 24 is the first day of the Christmas vacation and therefore a big day anyhow. So it does not really matter that the meals you get are not very gorgeous. So far nearly very faraity has the same course of Christmas, after this family traditions begin. Some light the tree and have a big dinner (duck, deer, goose, etc.) and then unwrap the presents. Others unwrap first, go to church and then have their dinner.-You can turn it the way you -want and will find it in at least one family. On the first Christmas day, Dec. 25, the first thing you do is clean the house, because the package wrapping is lying all over. Then you enjoy your presents again, start to read the first page of every book you have got, try on the clothes they gave to you and wonder how anybody can have such a wierd taste like grandmother: the dress she gave you is really the worst one you have ever seen! Around noon you have another big dinner (duck, if you had deer the night before; deer, if you had goose the night before; goose if you had duck the night BEWARE OF THE HARD - SELL STUDENTS, PARENTS WARNED | com Lomennonn nema UE... before). The rest of the day you stay with your family trying to be nice, because Christmas is a peaceful feast. The next day is still Christmas, but the atmosphere has ‘changed. You don’t have a big dinner, but the leftovers from the other two days. You start arguing with your father. He thinks Christmas is the feast of the families and you want to go somewhere with friends. Then your sister is starting a fight over the new dress she has got: she really does not have to wear it the moment you want to go out with it. If you belong to the lucky people in Germany, that means if you live in southern Germany, you can go skiing. If you don’t, you have the possibility to stare out of the window and complain over the rain. So everybody is kind of relieved when Christmas is over and they can go back to the routine. But nevertheless from at least March on you are looking forward to the next Christmas, because: It has been really nice this year, hasn’t it? nansonpaedaellllga Iilaeachenmepmsehaacbesnse len ddamisdansaaiacanetases ee aeaiaaiinneiean taste” By MURRAY MOLER > in dressing. She added that Ben Lomond has a very fine and School authowtliis and Paberie ‘disher’ ‘on. other ‘items fo “close-knit” faculty as well as in our region are, for painfully “hope chests.” Frequently such an excellent administration. Talking about new ideas in good reasons, becoming increas- merchandise is overpriced and _ education, Mrs. Anderson said ingly upset over tactics of high- terms of payment are long and that team teaching might be ef- pressure salesmen who victim- painful. fective in elementary grades, but iez high school students. An Ogdenite who is experiencthought that because high school}. ed in such subjects warned both students already have six teachOne Ogden area principal cit- students and parents “to make ers it really wouldn’t be neces- ed three situations, which, unsure you have everything down sary in secondary schools. fortunately, are typical of the in black and white—accept no She feels cooperation and coverbal promises.” He said that problem: ordination among the teachers many salesmen work “on the of a certain field, such as busi—A senior whose impoverish- basis that a large percentage of ness, is more important. ed parents were talked into sign- those who sign will pay most of She also said Governor Ramp- ing for an $800 airline steward- the charge but won’t complete the course.” ton is considering abolishment ess correspondence course when of the present system which As to the correspondence there was no guarantee of. any gives money to schools accordcourses for airline stewardesses, kind of a job. ing to attendance. we checked with several major Mrs. Anderson hopes this will —A student who promised to airlines. Unanimously, they rereduce the importance of manplied that they could think of pay $1,000 for a course in heavy datory attendance. She would nothing a young woman would much rather have students come duty mechanics that involved learn by mail that she couldn’t to her class because they want only two weeks on-the-job train- obtain from business training to than come because they have ing. or from the airline’s own school. to. —Another student who wantFor the record, only one in She said voluntary attendance would force teachers to motivate ed to drop out of high school, 35 applicants for one of the largest air transport companies is and interest student, but might with only a few months to go hired as a stewardess trainee. also involve serious problems until graduation, to concentrate concerning truancy. She also on a correspondence art course. Applicants must be over 19%, be high school graduates, be 5-2 said that grades were emphato 5-19 in height with a figure sized a little too much and tend- Cost: $1,500. in proper proportion, and have ed to put students into “castes” We are not suggesting that all acceptable vision. Nurse training where they didn’t necessarily correspondence courses are a helps. So does experience in belong. waste of money. They definitely having actual customer contacts. I asked Mrs. Anderson if she was shown any new teaching do have a place in the AmeriThese major lines prefer to methods at the U. She said an can educational scheme. do their own recruiting. interest in social trends affectBut the principals have an If approached by a high presing the student and involvement with the student were primarily excellent point when they object sure salesman, young men and women — and their parents emphasized. strenuously to high pressure Mrs. Anderson should be es- salesmanship that takes advan- should be suspicious. Legitimate salesmen won’t mind in the least pecially capable in these aspects tage of the lack of maturity of if their background and reputaof teaching because, as she told the young students and overpow- tions are checked in detail. mer, her interest in people was ers some parents. When the slick-talking caller the major reason she went into teaching. There are also valid com- insists “you have to sign NOW before it’s too late” is the time It is also the reason she hopes plaints about saleswomen who use unethical tactics in persuad- to really ask questions. to eventually receive a masters Not only are hundreds of doling young girls, about to be gradegree in educational psychollars at stake but so is the future duated from high school, that ogy and become a high school career of each youth. they should sign for expensive counselor. SWEATER CLASSIC LAMBSWOOL from England 6 EOE BL 7 Yule Activities Start Four Weeks Before Christmas in Germany Usually Smiling One of the new teachers at Ben Lomond this year is Mrs. Linda (Lindy) Anderson. She can be seen running through the halls between rooms 6, 10, and 41, where she teaches business English, Shorthand I, and Beginning Typing, respectively. PAGE cellars Pt HIGHLANDER L FRIDAY, 4) Superb pullover by Alan Paine of England. 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