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The material below is scanned from Aubrey A. Carlson, "We Visited South America," American Childhood 43 (1957): 4-7.  The magazine was sent by Nick Lauer ('57).  Many students are mentioned by name.  Help in putting people with pictures would be much appreciated!

The right column reads: own voices as we played a recording we had made. In this we took the parts of South American children in school having lessons in geography, arithmetic, and music. The entire recording was done in Spanish.
John showed our electric board which was constructed to help us learn the names of the countries and their capitals. Some of the members of our class operated it and showed that the light went on only when the correct choice was made.
Our master of ceremonies then
Pictured are:  Quetzal Birds: Frances Anne Wilson and Susan Zeoli; Parrots: Trudy Lichtenfeldt and Mary Lee Moore; Butterflies: Julie Dumon and Nancy  Brandt.  Identifications by Nick Lauer and Dr. Curtis Nash.

Those pictured are: Armadillo: Philip Nash; Tapir: Ricky Browning and Gary Wright; Llama: Leslie Messersmith and Mike (Boone) Franzak; White Faced Tree Duck: Nick Lauer.  Identifications by Nick Lauer and Dr. Curtis Nash.

The right column reads:  feet above the sea and commemorates the settling of a boundary dispute between Argentina an Chile. Fred chose to tell abou the sports enjoyed in South America. Nancy and Susan's
Pictured are Frances Anne Wilson, Leslie Messersmith, and Julie Dumon.  Indentifcations by Nick Lauer and Dr. Curtis Nash.

Pictured are:  Sandy Paxton and Susan Meyers.  Indentifcations by Nick Layer and Dr. Curtis Nash.
 

 

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