| Summary: | Newsletter of the North Dakota School for the Deaf. OCTOBER, 1965 THE NORTH DAKOTA BANNER 9 the School's 75th Anniversary. I was the secretary, messenger, and helper in the print shop. Then Karen Holte and I flew to Hawaii from Winnipeg via Vancouver, B. C, on June 25. We toured three islands. They took my breath away. Everything was so beautiful that I could not stop looking. 1 still cannot forget how friendly and hospitable the natives are. I love Kuaui, one of the three islands we toured, best for its beauty. After two weeks of heavenly and peaceful rest in Hawaii, we went back to the mainland sadly. During a visit with my aunt in San Francisco, I was hospitalized with a second degree burn on my left leg. Guess what the caused it? It was just from too much sun. I went to Hawaii and got cooked, as Mr. Smith said. I returned to my home in Oklahoma by (rain in the latter part of July. I spent the rest of my vacation with my family and attended the Oklahoma Association of the Deaf convention for a week. It is one of the best vacations I ever had. It was an enriching experience. 'U i: /; MR. HARTL My summer vacation began with helping make the 75th Anniversary celebration here at the school a success. Friends from 15 states came to join us for our celebration. After that I spent most of my time loafing and taking it easy. I visited at Grand Forks, Rugby, and Jamestown. Then I went to Fergus Falls, Minn., to visit my brother Albert, who is president of the Otter Tail Power Co. I stayed for a few days and then went to Rice Lake, Wis., to attend the wedding of my cousin. Then my sisters, Agnes, of Washington, D. C, Mrs. E. J. Toay of Jamestown, and my nieces, Gail and Francine Hitz of Bremen, and I went to Marinette, Wis., to visit my another sister, Mrs. Louis Walters, for a few days. I also spent a day visiting the Peace Gardens, Canada, and Lake Metigoshe State Park with relatives. I returned to work here on August 15. MISS KRAPP I had a most wonderful trip this summer—an experience I will long remember. My Mother and I went to Alaska. We left on June 14 not knowing for sure what was in store for us. We returned five weeks later with many new acquaintances and many wonderful memories. We camped out most of the time. And many people were wide-eyed to see two women pitching a tent We cooked most of our meals, too. This camping added a lot to our trip as we met and were able to visit with many nice people from many parts of Canada and the United States. Camping facilities, especially in Canada, were very excellent. And, then of course, there were others that really make you appreciate the comforts of home. We drove on the Alaska highway both ways. This highway is gravel about 1100 miles—each way. All of the side roads are gravel in Alaska, too. So, we drove slowly enough to dodge holes and avoid big rocks. We were lucky that we had no car trouble or flat tires. The country we saw was beautiful and so hard to describe. It is easy to say it is God's country. It was hard for us to believe that people lived in some of the wilderness we saw. I'll try to tell some of the outstanding things from our trip. On June 21 we were in the Yukon and saw the midnight sun. We saw the sun move along the horizon—to really rise again sometime after we went to bed at .'i a.m. We saw people driving without headlights at 2 a.m. Most of the nights we were gone if was more twilight, than dark, as we think of night. We saw Mt. McKinley in all its grandeur. And while we were in McKinley Park we also saw caribou, moose, porcupines, and other small animals. Much to our dismay we never saw a bear although we heard everyone else tell about seeing them. In the Yukon we saw where the Gold Rush people had hunted for gold, We drove along the Yukon and Klondike Rivers for many miles. We were in Anchorage five days and visited a cannery there. We spent three days in Fairbanks where we saw the University of Alaska and a very interesting Eskimo museum. We ate fresh salmon and crab in Seward. We visited Valdez, the city hardest hit by last year's earthquake. It is hard to find any remains of the quake other than construction and building of docks that is going on. We saw many glaciers in Alaska. On out way home we spent nearly a week in Banff and Jasper National Parks. We visited a Wax Gallery in Banff and saw beautiful Lake Louise. We also rode a snowmobile on a glacier. Some tilings are expensive in Alaska—food for example. A whole meal in a restaurant is about the same as here, but individual things are expensive. For example: a cheese sandwich, 85c; a piece of pie, 50<-; ham and eggs, $2.00. The rest of my summer was spent talking about our trip and showing our pictures. Then I managed to squeeze in a little sewing and working on my Grandfather's farm during harvest season. I feel 1 had a real summer vacation. MRS. REGAN During the latter part of Juno and a couple of weeks in July we were delighted to have our daughcr, Helen, her husband and their two children from Sun Valley, California, visit us. While they were here, another daughter and her two children, from Minneapolis, came and later her husband, too. Not long after they left, we drove to Bismarck to get a cousin of mine whom 1 had not seen for many years. She lives in Saskatchewan, Canada. She visited with us for about 10 days. About August 1, my daughter, Jean, and 1 drove lo Minneapolis, visiting friends and relatives on the way at Grand Forks, Fargo, Del roil
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