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West Georgia College’s Rotary International Exchange Student
from Finland. Jaana Pirhonen. is a foreign language buff. Asa means
of putting herself through an extra quarter of college, she worked in
the West Georgia’s language library.
‘No White Socks'
Exchange Student
‘Finnishes ’ At WGC
"...And when you leave for the
United States, don't take any
white socks.”
This was a sample of the do’s
and don Ms” that West Georgia
College Rotary Exchange
Student Jaana Pirhonen oi
Finalnd received from a previous
exchange student when she
embarked for the United States
last fall
"I was told that if you wore
white socks on a college campus
over here that you would be
laughed at,” Jaana explained,
"but seriously, 1 have learned a
great deal about American life
and education.”
The blonde Finn apparently did
not learn enough during her three
quarters of scholarshipped study
on the Carrollton campus that
ended this past spring. She
decided to stay another quarter
and pay her own way.
“I wanted more practice in the
English language,” she said,
"and, well I met this American
boy in November.”
She is working as a waitress in
a local restaurant and as a
student assistant in the language
department as a means ot
meeting her expenses. Jaana’s
parents and an Atlanta Rotary
Foreign Language
Will Offer
New Lit. Course
The Department of Foreign
Language w ill offer anew course
beginning Fall Quarter. The
course will be entitled German
literature in lYansition and will
be listed as German 450, ac
cording to Dr. Warner
Blumenthal, chairman of the
foreign languages department.
The main substance of the
course will be studying three
German Nobel prize winners'
works, according to Dr.
Blumenthal. The authors will be
Mann, Hess, and 8011.
"These three authors have
been selected because of their
literary excellence, documentary
value in revealing the political
and social problems of modern
Europe, and for their successful
transposing of the local and
temperal in German reality into
the sphere of the timeless and the
universal. Dr. Blumenthal said.
The course has been proposed
as a humanities elective for
undergraduates. Texts, lectures,
and class discussion will be en
tirely in English. There is no
prerequisite required for the
course which will carry a full five
hours credit.
memoer who heard her speak at
a club meeting also contributed
in order to make her extra stay
possible.
A language buff who is in
terested in mastering several
languages, Jaana noted that one
ot the most surprising and
pleasant impressions of
Americans is their friendly
manner.
"During my first few days at
West Georgia, 1 was shocked
when strangers walked by and
said hello’ and invited me into
their rooms in the dorm to talk,
she said "People are not like
that in Europe.”
The 20-year-old Finnish student
was also unaccustomed to the
extensive student activities and
team sports that she encountered
at West Georgia.
We have very few group socials
in Finland." Jaana explained,
"so my first basketball game on
campus was quite an experience.
It was so loud and everyone was
so enthusiastic. I though
everybody was crazy at first.”
Jaana didn’t miss a single
game.
"But I came over here to study
and that is how I spent a great
deal of my time,” she quickly
added.
She became especially in
terested in French, Spanish,
music, radio broadcasting and. of
course, English.
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Mcßee To Speak At Gradution;
485 Will Receive Diplomas
Approximately 485 students
will receive degrees from West
Georgia College in graduation
ceremonies at the Health and
Physical Education Building,
Sunday, August 11, at 9 a m
The tentative total includes 220
baccalaureate recipients, 260
graduate degree recipients, and
four who will receive Associate of
Science degrees in criminal
justice or computer science.
Dr. Ixtuise Mcßee, dean of
student affairs at the University
of Georgia, will be com
mencement speaker. She was
named dean of student affairs in
1973 after serving as dean of
women at the university for the
previous 10 years.
Dean Mcßee received the B S.
Degree from East Tennessee
Stale University, the M.A. from
Columbia University, and the
Ph D. from Ohio State Univer-
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