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COEDS TOUR:
Originality Sets off European Trip
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By SUZANNE JESSUP
ORIGINALITY, hard work and
luck made a European trip
possible for Sonja Valler, '58 and
Kathleen Armstrong, '58.
In January 1953, while still in
high school in Kalamazoo, they
decided to go to Europe. To fi-
nance the proposed trip, they de-
veloped the idea of selling sub-
scriptions to a newsletter which
they would have mimeographed,
describing their European exper-
iences. The purpose of selling sub-
scriptions was to earn money for
travelling expenses, not for per-
sonal profit.
Afterfive months of hard work,
the coeds sold 400 subscriptions at
$3.00 each. The total amounted to
about $1,200. In addition they had
some cash from personal savings
and part-time jobs. Miss Valler
earned a portion of the money by
sorting paper cups in a factory.
EXPERIENCES abroad included
being caught in the Paris
transportation strikes, riding in a
gondola and eating octopus.
"Streets clogged with hitchhik-
ers and packed trains in the way"
is the way Miss Valler described
the Paris transportation strike.
She and Miss Armstrong boarded
a train in Paris for Lyons, France.
The train was so crowded, they
had to share a box-car with five
other people. The coeds recalled
seeing one determined lady hand
her suitcase through the window
to a friend who pulled her the works of Verdi," she declared.
through. Their absorbtion and interest in
Miss Valler and Miss Arm- the music was very different from
strong spent four days in Italy. that of people in the United
Here they dined on unusual food, States, the coeds thought.
including octupus, which Miss Val- The travelers experienced a
ler terms "flat and tasteless. Spa- novel kind of housing in southern
ghetti and wine rounded out Austria. For a time they lived in
breakfast, and snails in the shell
wasa omon inerentree." an abandoned monastery which
had been a castle. At the time the
A bus gondola was their mode of coeds were there, it was being used
transportation while in Venice. to house refugees,
Built to carry several passengers, Miss Valler and Miss Armstrong
the coeds found them to be less discovered a new kind of sport in
expensive than regular gondolas. Vienna. "It was a kind of wrest-
AN outdoor concert in Venice ling match, where two men stood
made a lasting impression on in a ring and fought with no holds
madea lstig ipresio onbarred. The participants were al-
Miss Valler. "People stood for two lowed to bite, kick, and gouge each
hours in St. Marks Square to hear other," they reported.
Because the travelers have man
friends abroad they were able
visit European families a d "gai
an insight into the way othe
people live." They found Europea:
families to be more closely kni
than Americans, with their mem
bers more dependent upon eac
other.r
The tempo of life in Englan
seems quite slow," Miss Valler re
ported. She thought 'Germa
children more active, and Germa
education more advanced than i
America. "Their high school woi
appears comparable to our ear
college work," she said.
EcAUSE of lack of funds M
Valler did domestic work 1
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