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Japanese Student At ASTC Will
Fly Home To Visit Sick Mother
A petite Japanese graduate
student at Appalachian State
Teachers College was icheduled
to leave New York by Jet plane
Saturday for Japan to be with
her ailing mother, thanks to the
generosity of Appalachian stu
dents and citizens of Boone.
Miss Maya Masumoto, 27, was
in New York awaiting her visa
and passport, which were to be
cleared by the Japanese Em
bassy at Washington. She then
was to fly round trip to Sums
Kobe, Japan, to be with her
mother, Mrs. Hidee Masumoto,
who became critically ill two
days ago.
Miss Masumoto was notified
several days ago that her mother
Van Noppens
Will Conduct
SiunmerTour
Drs. John and Ina Van Nop
pen of the ASTC faculty will
conduct a 33-day tour of Europe
this summer.
The tour leaves New York on
June 15 and returns July 18.
Alumni of ASTC are eligible to
participate in the tour.
The trip will cost $89S from
New York and will be by air.
The price is based on 25 per
sons, all members of the ASTC
Alumni Association.
The trip will include a visit
to Switzerland, Germany, Paris,
Versailles, Brussels, Amster
dam, the new Rotterdam, the
Hague, Copenhagen, Stockholm,
Oslo, Edinburgh, Loch Lomond,
the Trossachs, the Lake Coun
try of Wordsworth - Coleridge -
and Southery, North Wales,
Buckingham Palace, British Mu
seum, Westminster Abbey, Dub
lin, and County Wicklow.
Six nights will be spent in
London. Mrs. Van Noppen said
that 1964 is the 400th anniver
sary of Shakespeare's birth and
the group will see his plays at
Stratford-on-Avon and in Lon
don. The group will also visit
the National Exposition at
Launanne, Switzerland, which is
expected to be the most import
ant travel event in Europe in
1964.
GAME RESERVE
The Gombe Stream Game Re
serve is 60 square miles of for
ested valleys and treeless ridg
es in Tanganyika.
w*s ill and needed her daugh
ter'! pretence. Two things stood
In the way of the Japanese girl
joining her mother ? money and
her passport.
News of her predicament
spread around the campus of
ASTC. The Student Council and
the Religious Council began
sponsorship of a fund to send
Hiss Masumoto across the Pa
cific by jet plane to her
mother's side.
Within a short time, the peo
ple of Boone joined students
and faculty at ASTC. More than
3,000 people contributed to' the
fund to aid' the graduate music
student. The fund totaled $1,100
? sufficient to purchase a round
trip ticket to Su ma-Kobe with
about $75 left over for inci
dentals, such as food.
Hits Muumoto was ia New
York Thursday with friends.
She was to pick up her plane
ticket at Idlewiid Airport some
time Thursday, provided all
went well with her passport.
Meanwhile, the Japanese em
bassy, Dr. D. J. Whitener, dean
of ASTC, and Ninth District
Rep. James T. BroyhiU were
trying to rush through the visa
and a passport which would en
able the little Japanese girl to
return to Appalachian after be
ing with her ailing mother.
Miss Masumoto is a graduate
of Kunitachi College at Tokyo,
Japan, with an A. B. degree.
She came to ASTC last fall. She
has been doing graduate work
in music and has been an as
sistant in the science depart
ment
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