Lone Star Lutheran (Seguin, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, February 21, 1969 Page: 3 of 6
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LONE STAR LUTHERAN
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"Remember The Time We...”
The Story Of Greece& Italy
By Kay Woytek
A five - week adventure to
Greece and Italy has convinced
the 24 participants in the Classi-
cal Studies Tour that the interim
program is one of TLC’s most
valuable assets.
Our group departed for the
lands of antiquity on Dec. 29
from New York. Two other
groups from TLC were on the
same Lufthansa flight to Ger-
many. About nine hours and
four meals after we left the
States, we landed in Munich,
our first stop.
We spent only an afternoon
there, staying at the Internation-
al Haus, a gathering-place for
students of all nationali-
ties. Some of us braved the
cold temperature to get our first
glimpse of Deutscheland.
The Orient Express
That night, “the troops,” as
Dr. Bittrich would say, boarded
the Orient Express for the sec-
ond leg of our journey - a 40
hour train trip to Athens. We
celebrated New Year’s Eve
somewhere in the middle of Yu-
goslavia, sharing our “refresh-
ments” and the gala mood of
the occasion with Yugolavs.
Greeks, Austrians and even the
grumpy conductor!
Much of our excitement had
waned by the time we arrived in
Athens, weary from such a long
and exhausting trip. Many in the
group were coming down with the
flu and various other maladies as
well. We were soon refreshed,
though, by the charm of the city
itself. We spent four days in
Athens, visiting famous land-
marks such as the Acropolis, the
Agora (ancient commercial cent-
er), Theater of Dionysus and the
National Museum.
YR's To Meet
The TLC Young Republicans
Club will hold a short business
meeting next Tuesday, February
25 at 8:00 p.m in Room A of
the Student Center. Purpose
of the meeting will be to make
plans for the spring semester and
to select delegates for the state
convention.
San Antonio will be host to
the 1969 TYRF convention, which
will be held March 14-16 at the
Convention Center. TLC is en-
titled to two delegates and two
alternates at the convention.
Members of the TLC Club have
been invited to attend a meet-
ing of the Southwest Texas State
College YR’s next Thursday night
in San Marcos. Several can-
didates for state office in the
Texas Young Republican Federa-
tion will be on hand at the meet-
ing.
All members of the TLC
club are urged to attend next
Tuesday’s meeting.
Myconos AndDelos
That weekend, we headed sea-
ward, catching a boat at Piraeus
which took us to Myconos, and
island in the Cyclades archipe-
lago in the Aegean. We were
elated by all the shopping bar-
gains we found there, and most
of us spent drachmas a little
generously. The following day,
a small Greek fishing boat fer-
ried us to nearby Delos, once a
sacred island which, according
to mythology, is the birthplace of
Artemis and Apollo. After a day
in the ruins, and after having
absorbed as much of the awesome
beauty of that remote spot as we
could, we returned to Myconos,
a wet, but nonetheless cheery
group.
The boat trip back to Piraeus
was a real horror show. It was
probably the worst nine hours
of the entire trip. We swayed
for days after we got off! By
unanimous consent, we cancell-
ed our trip to Crete which had
been scheduled that same day,
and went “home” to the Hotel
Alkistis in Athens to recuperate.
We visited the Temple of Po-
seidon (Lord Byron chiseled his
name in one of the columns!) at
Cape Sounion and the battlefield
at Marathon (Persian Wax be-
fore preparing to leave Athens
for a one-week tour of the Pelo-
ponnese, the southern half oi
Greece.
Spiros, a retired archaeology
professor, and Leonidas, the bus
driver became part of our “hap-
py family” that last week. We
made a whistle - stop tour, with
Spiros lecturing all the way.
Stops included Delphi, sanctuary
of sun god Apollo; Eleusis, site
of the ceremonies connected with
the Mysteries; Corinth; Epidaur-
as; Tiryns; Mycenae, home of
Agamemnon and Clytemnestra;
Sparta; Pylos, Nestor’s country;
and finally, Olympia, birthplace
of the games which have surviv-
ed to this day.
We left Greece somewhat re-
luctantly, for the spirit of the
land of contrasts and the warmth
and friendliness of the Greek
people had impressed us all en-
ough to want to return. We wel-
comed the change in diet, how-
ever - no one complained about
leaving souvlaki behind!
Troopslnvade Italy
Italy - and ‘ ‘ La Bella Roma’ ’ -
awaited our arrival.
We took a car ferry to Brind-
isi, a boisterous port city. It
was a very relaxing trip af-
ter a week either on the bus or
in hotel rooms which had little
heat and no hot water.
We stayed in Brindisi only
long enough to drag our luggage
from the dock to the train sta-
tion, and to have supper. AH!
Spaghetti! We boarded a train
for the trip to Rome, commenc-
ing the second half of the tour.
Dr. Bittrich led us to all the
sites of historical interest, in-
cluding the Forum, Colosseum,
the Capitoline, Theater of Mar-
cellus, Tomb of Augustus, Baths
of Caracalla, the catacombs, the
Appian Way, various temples,
and of course, the Vatican. We
were awed by the immensity of
St. Peter’s Cathedral and natur-
ally impressed by the vast stores
of art treasures there.
One Sunday we strolled through
the famous (or infamous) Flea
Market, where “he who haggles
best walks away with all the bar-
gains.” We were also on hand
that day for the Pope’s Sunday
blessing from the window of his
papal apartments. Side trips
included excursions to Hadrian’s
Villa at Tivoli, Ostia Antica (an-
cient port of Rome), the isle of
Capri and Pompeii. Eleven brave
souls climbed to the top of Mt.
Vesuvius, the volcano (still ac-
tive) which destroyed Pompeii
and Herculaneum in 79 AD.
There were many other things
to do in Rome, of course. We
visited all the usual tourist at-
tractions - Trevi Fountainn, the
Spanish Steps, Victor Emmanuel
Monument, various cathedrals
and the Villa Borghese. Several
of the guys even ignored the per-
ils of Roman traffic to see the city
from behind the wheel of a Vespa.
OnOurOwn
The tour ended officially on
Jan. 23. “ Arrivederci, Roma”
became our theme song as we
departed for a week of indepen-
dent travel. Several members of
the group went to Switzerland,
others to Germany, but most of us
eventually headed for Florence,
the famous city of the Italian Re-
naissance.
“The troops” reassembled in
Munich on the night of the 29th
for one last fling. We drank
beer, ate wurst and sang at the
famous Hofbrau Haus, along with
many jovial Germans.
And that folks, is only a thumb-
nail sketch. There are innumer-
able anecdotes and tales to re-
late, involving, for instance; 96
box lunches, courtesy of Luf-
thansa; the U. S. S. Indepen-
dence and Greek crutches; re-
velry - Greek taverna style;
hard rolls and marmalade, and
fleas in wine; a bus mobile;
train station at Brindisi pizza
at Ricci’s; our sit-in in the Al-
ban Hills (tee-hee); Luigi; Le-
roy’s Wreck and of course, our
“extended” flight home.
Each of us has special per-
sonal memories, of course, but
the general concensus is that the
trip was nothing short of great -
yes, even those miserable hours
on the Orient Express!
(Classical Studies Tour parti-
cipants: Dr. and Mrs. Louis
Bittrich, Marshall Alcorn, Janis
Bristol, Charles Ray, Monica Me
Key, Regina Koi, Dan Lauderdale,
Ken Kramer, Roger Nelson, Betty
Wescott, Bill Erickson, Curt
Pfannstiel, Jackie Hilbrih, Dale
Dannhaus, Penny Hamilton,
Karen Brau, Leroy Grawunder,
Sandy Neskorik, Roberta Rusch,
Carol Stolz, Beth Kulow and Kay
Woytek.)
The big Boeing 707 flying the Lufthansa emblem is
a sight to warm the hearts of the approximately 40
TLC students who made the long trek to Europe
and back during the January interim. TLC's European
travelers became especially familiar with the interior
of this type of airplane on the long trip back from Munich
when bad weather made landing at New York impossible
and a series of events led our weary group finally to
Dulles Airport near Washington, D.C.
"The Dwarf And The
Seven Snow Whites”
By Eileen Schneider
Mr. Sherwood, dubbed ‘’the
Herr,” and his following of seven
TLC gorls tromped through Ger-
many during interim. The group
members were Frankye Bour-
land, Cherly Maenius, Arline
Roitsch, Karen Schmidt, Eileen
Schneider, Peggy Weiser, and
Patty Wisian. Seeing and en-
joying everything in their path
(and buying half of it!) the group
flew to Hamburg via Lufthansa,
and then to Berlin via Pan Am.
Touring East Berlin, cele-
brating New Years Eve, and
attending some cultural events
such as opera or symphony each
night made the stay in Berlin
one of the favorite parts of the
tour. After a train trip through
East Germany, a Volkswagen mi-
cro-bus was rented for the tour
through the rest of West Ger-
many.
During the latter half of the
trip, youth hostels provided an
inexpensive but unusual and in-
teresting type of lodging. The
Ruhr industrial area, Koln
(Colonge), Bonn (where a day
was spent with the TLC ex-
change student there, Carl
Hielscher), Frankfurt-am-Main,
Heidelberg, and Stuttgart were
on the route southward. At this
point a most enjoyable weekend
was spent with relatives of Patty
Wisian in Bad Mergentheim, a
Swabian village. Being terrific
hosts, they even arranged blind
dates and took the entire group
to a real swingin’ Fasching dancel
(Fasching is like Mardi Gras ex-
cept it last several weeks).
The rest of the tour through
southern Germany—Rothenberg,
Wurzberg, Nurenberg (where the
youth hostel was in a castle),
Munich, Oberammergau, and
Garmisch-Partenkirchen —plus
Salzberg, Austria, was most pic-
turesque and beautiful. Literally
the “high point” of the tour was
the breathtaking cable car as-
cent of the Zugspitze, highest
peak in the German Alps.
Mr. Sherwood and the girls,
who call themselves “The Dwarf
and the Seven Snow Whites,”
generally agree that the best
parts of the tour that weekend
in Bad Mergentheim and the night
in the Munich Hofbrauhaus.
“Wow! History come to life!”
i“. . . .loved it!” and ««I want to
go back” are comments which ex-
press the general feeling of the
group.
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The Brandenberg Gate in Berlin, once a symbol of
triumph, is now but a grim reminder of the tragic
gulf separating East and West. Both the German
and the Theater in Europe groups visited Berlin dur-
ing the Interim.
Shown above is a scene from the Queen’s Theatre
production of THE SER.VANT OF TWO MASTERS
which the Theater in Europe tour group viewed in Lon-
don. Tommy Steele played the lead role.
Theater In Europe Group Visits
England, Germany/ And Austria
3y Judi Rockman
Eight TLC students, two stu-
dents from Southwestern in
Georgetown, and Miss Diane Ol-
sen of the English Department
were participants in the interim
tour: Theater in Europe. For
the students, it was their first
exposure to Europe and the
people of Hamburg, Berlin, Lon-
don, Munich, Vienna and Salz-
burg.
Despite the language barrier
the group appreciated a wide
range of German and Austrian
theater which presented works
by Frisch, Schiller, Shakespeare,
Congreve, Goldoni, O’Casey, and
Albee. In London they saw Alec
Guinness in T.S. Eliot’s “The
Cocktail Party.” Opera was
represented by spectacular pro-
ductions of Wagner, Mozart, and
Puccini. They also saw the
Munich C’^cus Krone, the Vi-
enna Ice Revue and the one-
man circus-ballet-theater ol
mime Marcel Marceau.
Some of the memorable events
included: New Year’s Eve in
West Berlin, sightseeing in Lon-
don, the hospitality of Frau Ma-
tauschek in Vienna and the climb
to the fortress in Salzburg. Linda
Van Tilburg especially remem-
bered the ‘‘elaborate deco-
rations” in Munich’s National
theater and Cuvillies-theater.
The visit to Erding near Mu-
nich was most educational. Heir
Kretschmann, teacher at the
gymnasium where Miss Olsen
taugbter last year, presented a
lecture on Brecht and discussed
the situation and accomplish-
ments of German theater today.
In the final week of free, in-
dividual touring two sutdents went
to Stuttgart, two stayed in Munich,
while the other six returned
to Salzburg. Frank Swinehart ex-
plained that Salzburg is a ‘‘uni-
que city” where he felt he‘‘really
went back in time.”
Miss Olsen commented that
the trip was ‘‘a great success,”
especially the last week of in-
dependent exploration. She be-
lieved the tour was “worthwhile”
and “certainly should be offered
again next year, on a different
aspect of Europe.” Now the
entire group knows of Miss Ol-
sen’s enthusiasm concerning
Europe; needless to say, she and
all the students would be willing
to go back again.
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