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THE TWIG
October 10, 1968
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Touch of Thailand Comes to Meredith
Flying High
Poonsarb Buranakarn of Thailand joins the sophomore class at Meredith.
By NANCE RUMLEY
When you meet Poonsarb Bu
ranakarn, Meredith’s new sopho
more from Thailand (204 In
firmary), you might keep in mind
that there are some questions to
avoid — namely, some of the very
ones we nosy Americans want
answered. To queries about Viet
nam, men and American music
Poonsarb tactfully hides a shy smile
behind her hand and glances away,
embarrassed, and may change the
subject to the beautiful fuU-len^h
dresses of Thai silk she brought with
her. She may even offer you a
delicate handkerchief from Thai
land — anything to keep from
offending. It makes you stop and
think about our great American
image.
But if you want to bring her out,
ask about her home and observe.
Slie loves to show pictures of Thai
land's gold and red temples and fat
Buddas. And she will be glad to tell
you about her family’s rice factory
where she will work when she
graduates. Notice the jeweled finger
of her right hand. Poonsarb is tiny,
dark and very femine — quite
possibly she can teach us a thing or
two. Her one class in math will
leave her plenty of time to acquaint
you with the mysterious Orient
Where girls are decorative creatures
and some families still make ar-
B)
But it sure
comes in handy around campus.
So, open a convenient checking account
at First Union National,
You devil you.
ranged marriages. Wouldn’t wc be
a little self-centered, American-
style, to ask only to have our na
tional egos inflated when there is
so much we can learn, while
Poonsarb is here, about Thailand?
Rupen Foresees
World of 1988
Professor Robert A. Rupen spoke
Monday, September 30, 1968 to Dr.
Rosalie Gates’ contemporary af
fairs class, predicting the world of
1988 by reviewing the world of
1948 and 1968. Dr. Rtipeo, pro
fessor of political science at U.N.C.-
C.H., has traveled widely through
the communist world including a
recent trip to Czechoslovakia. In
this light his predictions are very en
couraging for the continued exis
tence of the world.
Although Dr. Rupen does, not
forsee “one world” by 1988, he
does expect more U. S.-Soviet col
laboration with the Russian and
American economies moving closer
together. Some of his other hopeful
predictions are that the Vietnam
question will be decided although
indecisively: Communism will be
dead in western Europe; and India
and Indonesia will be economically
and politically viable but not as
strong as China. Dr. Rupen still
anticipates many international prob
lems and he admonished that “The
Chinese dragon fire will burn for
the rest of the twentieth century.”
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sary equipment. She reports that
she flew for the first time when
she was eight days old, and that
her aerial acrobatics haven’t slack
ened since then. Both she and her
brother learned from her father,
whose teaching methods consisted
of “at first letting you hold the
stick when you’re in the air, then
later making you think you’re land
ing when you really aren’t!”
Although she has been flying al
most since she could walk, Mari- .
anne didn’t get her pilot’s license
until this past summer — a process i
she describes as consisting of a writ
ten examination, various flight tests,
plus the logging of some 50 hours
of flight time. Why did she wait so
long to get her license? “I was
lazy,” she admits.
Marianne can only speak as one
who has grown up learning how,
but she insists that, flying is not all
that difficult, even for a novice.
‘They fly themselves in the air,”
she explains. “The only hard parts
are landing and taking-off. But
basically it’s very easy.” Of course,
she ad^, “If you’re starting from
scratch, it takes a little work.”
How do Meredith’s own .^elia ,
Earhart aihd her flying cronies use
their abilities? “Mostly we just fly
around the house,” she laughs, and
recalls the time her father would '
only allow them to fly their plane
around a pasture so they could land
quickly in an emergency. “It was
just like a go-cart track,” she ex-
plaijis. “Around and around!” But
the plane has also travelled away
from the homestead with Mari
anne at the controls, “mostly be- ,
tween here and the coast,” she says.
Marianne recalls some of her
more interesting experiences with
flying, such as the time she and her .
father, flying in his plane, were
“buzzed” by fighter jets from near
by Fort Bragg. Her father was de
lighted, she says, when the two -
original planes disappeared, and re
turned with four more jets and a
bomber. “We landed right then and ,
there,” she says. “That was enough
for us!”
She has also had several “close
calls,” she admits, one of which ’
occurred the first time she flew her
“lovely little plane.” On that oc
casion she neglected to activate a
certain mechanism designed to pre
vent ice formation on the engine.
Her favorite part of flying, she .
says, is indulging in loops and stalls,
especially stalls. “You float!” she
says, explaining the process of pull- •
ing up steeply, then dropping the
nose of the plane suddenly. “But
you have to close the window,” she .
laughs, “or everything not fastened
down will float out!”
What’s in the future for Mari
anne’s flying? “I plan to keep it
up,” she says. “It’s really handy
— you can use it just to play or
Cor making trips.” And, she adds
with a mischievous grin, “It’ll be
great for making a flying get-away
for a honeymoon.” To any friends
who might consider writing slogans
like “Just Married” on her Piper
Cub, she exclaims, “I’ll kill ’em!”
So there’s no mistaking Mari-,
anne’s intention it she says, “I’m
going high up in the world.” She
means it — quite literally!
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