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Cosmopolitan Catharine Zeller
about to visit twentieth country
Catharine Zeller
Before 1966, Miss
Catharine Zeller, head of
the kngnsn department at
Donegal High. School, had
not left her native land
except once—a crilise by
ship to Bermuda in 1964.
Makes up mind quickly
But in the spring of 1966,
Miss Zeller was reading a
brochure describing an
archaeological expedition to
Greece the following sum-
mer and decided right then
and there (she says it took
her 30 minutes to decide) to
make the journey. She sent
in her application with a
money deposit ‘and in
several months was on her
way.
Since then Miss Zeller has
traveled to 20 countries.
Going to Russia
During the Christmas
holidays this year she will be
traveling to a new and
different country-—the
U.S.S.R. She'll be leaving
December 23 and returning
January 3. On the way,
there will be a 71/2 hour lay
over in Helsinki, Finland,
and Miss Zeller is going to
make use of that time to see
the city.
Christmas she will spend
in Leningrad, New Year's in
Moscow.
While in Russia, she
hopes to see sights and
scenes that were part of
Russia's great literature
produced by Tolstoi, Dos-
toevsky, Turgenev, Chek-
hov, and Puskkin.
She wants to go to Russia
because it is different. Miss
Zeller likes a challenge.
Up mountain, down in
parachute
She has the tough physi-
que to face challenges.
Recently, her doctor was
amazed at her physical
condition after she had been
running on his treadmill.
While in Greece, she
climbed Mt. Parnassus
(6,000 feet high) at night, so
she could watch the sunrisc
from its peak.
Last summer, while chap-
eroning Donegal students to
Mexico, she leaped from the
cliffs of Acapulco in a para-
chute. (Steve Hassinger has
a picture of Miss Zeller’s
leap which the BULLETIN
would like to borrow.)
She's going to have to
dress warmly for a winter
trip to Russia, but the only
new apparel she bought was
boots. Those boots will help
to keep her warm when she
takes her first Troika sleigh
ride in Moscow.
The climate will be very
different for her this year
from last Christmas, which
she spent in the Holy Land.
On some of Miss Zeller's
trips, she works hard as on
her first archaeological ex-
cursion to Greece. She has
also studied archaeology in
Italy. Before receiving her
master’s degree in English
from Middleburg, she ma-
jored in Latin and Greek at
Penn State; she has the
major tools needed for
Italian and Greek archaeo-
logy.
But other trips are less
arduous. Always, though,
she is learning, and learning
much that she can later
teach her students at Done-
gal.
Meets people
Sometimes she travels
with a group, other times
alone as in Germany which
she traveled across in trains,
always going second class.
She travelled second class
not to save money but to
meet more native people.
Travelling first class she
met mainly American tour-
ists. Not that Miss Zeller
has anything against Amer-
ican tourists (after all she’s
one herself) but she knows
their culture already and
travels to learn more about
unfamiliar cultures.
Meeting people, natives
of the country she is visiting
or members of the group
with which she is travelling,
is one of her chief satisfac-
tions in touring.
Good roommate
When travelling in a
group she usually has a
roommate and the opportun-
ity to get to know someone
very well. Miss Zeller is
very tolerant of people's
foibles and peculiarities,
which she finds interesting
rather than annoying. She
seems to be an excellant
roommate--for almost any-
one. :
There are many sides to
Miss Zeller. In the Donegal
schools, she has directed 42
plays, including this year’s
Senior play, Arsenic and Old
Lace. She has coached
tennis, been advisor for the
student newspaper and
yearbook, in. charge of
commencement exercises,
taught summer school and
an adult speech class~in
addition to her regular
English teaching.
She is an avid bridge
player and, although she
doesn’t practice as much as
she used to, enjoys playing
the piano.
“I do it”
Before she took up travel-
ling she used to work 70
hours a week during the
summer for Cargill’s Grain
near Marietta, enjoying her
work thoroughly because it
was different.
Catharine Zeller likes
challenges, somethinkg new
and preferably something
different. And she accepts
challenges. :
“When I want to do
something - I do it.”’ .
School Xmas
activities
Maytown Elementary
Christmas Musical, Thurs-
day, December 11, 7 p.m.
Riverview Elementary
Christmas Musical, Mon-
day, December 15, 7 p.m.
Seiler Elementary Christ-
mas Musical, Monday, De-
cember 15, 7 p.m. (at the
Junior High Building)
Grandview Elementary
Christmas Musical, Wed-
nesday, December 17, 7
p.-m., (at the High School
auditorium)
Junior High School
Christmas Musical, Friday,
December 19, 7:30 p.m.
Donegal High School
Christmas Musical, Sat.,
December 20, 8 p.m.
Cheerleaders and escorts model ‘Fashion Owley’ styles on the DHS planter. In front-
December 10, 1975
Jackie Frey. On left- Kathy Beach and Daryl Houseal. On right- LuAnn Eichler and
Dale Boyer.
DHS cheerleaders’ fashion show
to exhbit latest styles tomorrow
The DHS cheerleaders
spent last week preparing
for the big fashion show
tomorrow, December 11. in
the high school auditorium.
The show, entitled, ‘‘Fas-
hion Owley’’, will feature
fashions from the Orange
Owl in Mount Joy, modeled
by the cheerleaders and
some of their mothers.
Styles for all age groups will
be shown.
The cheerleaders are
building their own props,
which will harmonize with
the show’s Christmas
theme.
Male escorts and ushers
will be on hand.
Refreshments will be ser-
ved at the show. Tickets can
be purchased at the door.
All the cheerleaders are
participating in the program
under the direction of coach
Betty Maile. The cheerlead-
ers are:
Basketball: Kathy Beach
(captain), Deb Sarbaugh,
Chris Heinaman, Deb Tho-
mas, Gwenda Albert, Kerry
Coover, Lori Lacabaugh,
Heinaman, Deb Thomas and Kerry Coover.
Jackie Frey, and Loris
Raber.
J.V. Basketball: Kim Wil-.
kenson (captain), Dawn
Greider, Stacy Miller, Mimi
Ginder, Mary Ann Derr, and
Diane Yingst.
Wrestling: Lu Ann Eich-
ler (captain), Barbara Lan-
dis, Marta Emenheiser,
Wendy Newcomer, and Lisa
Johnson.
Cheerleading Coach -
Miss Betty Maile.
Cheerleading aide - Mrs.
Cindy Engle.
The cheerleaders are building their own props. Photo shows, from left to right; Chris
Santa Claus to come to Mount Joy
by Rev. Stephen Getty
Santa Claus will be avail-
able to talk with children
this Friday and Saturday at
his headquarters located in
Hostetter’s Hardware Store,
93 East Main Street, Mount
Joy. Sponsored by the
Mount Joy Jaycees, Santa
can be visited from 6:30
until 8:30 on Friday even-
ing, and from 9:00 until
11:30 on Saturday morning.
Jaycees will take the
picture of any child with
Santa for a $1.00 donation.
These photos make nice
gifts and excellent remem-
brances of an important
event in every child’s life.
Each child will receive a
prize from talking with
Santa.
The Mount Joy Jaycee-
ettes will be assisting Santa
and helping the children. It
is hoped that many children
will visit Santa during his
annual visit to Mount Joy.