International Day
In Chapel Program |
Convocations on Monday, February 11th, featured students from
five continents. Antartica and Australia are the only two continents
which are not represented here at
Guilford.
The program was opened with
the Balladeers (Randy Ihara and
Ike Wrenn) doing a Scottish folk
song. Dr. Floyd (Pete) Moore
took over as master of ceremonies
by relating to the audience the
number of students from the various countries. Syria, he said, took
the lead this year with five students. Cuba has four enrolled;
Chile, one; Kenya, two; Korea,
two; and England, Belgium and
Denmark, one each.
Ayub Watakila was the first foreign student to be introduced. He
came to Guilford from Kenya, Africa. A soccer player, Ayub (Job)
attended a Friends school in his
native country and was graduated
in 1955. He was married in 1960.
Ayub's fellow countryman, Washington Rakama, graduated from a
Kenyan school in 1957 and taught
for three years. With Washington
on the drum (he questioned the
effectiveness) and Ayub on the guitar, the duo combined talents for
a Kenyan song.
Mutaz Kawaori was introduced
following the Kenyan duet. Mutaz
comes to us from Damascus, Syria, along with three other new
students: Arfan, Haythim and Sa-
lim. These, together with Muhammad Abdul Majid Tayyarah fill out
the Syrian roster.
Bu Choon Chung and Hyoung
Chu Kim from Seoul, Korea, were
next on the morning program. Bu
did a Korean dance with the music
provided by a Korean record that
she had brought with her. She wore
a dress that typified the native costume of her homeland.
From eleven thousand miles
away in Santiago, Chile, came Juan
Carlos Yarur. Juan, soccer player
for Guilford, graduated from high
school in 1958 and attended the
University of Chile for three years.
He is now an economics major at
Guilford.
George Garcia, Raimundo Aviles,
and Eduardo Fernandez completed
the Latin American representation,
with the former singing a solo in
Spanish. Also attending Guilford
from the island of Cuba is Mario
Aviles.
