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Page 6 Aiken Standard, Aiken, S.C., Tuesday, January 24,1978Of the only 1200 tourists on Easter Island last year. Aikenite Nada Elerie was one ofthem.iI*rtfcxm#The trip to South America, from which she just returned, took her first into Santiago and Valparaiso, then to the Atacama desert in Northern Chile.**Calama, a copper strip-mining town, and San Pedro, where it is believed that the Inca’s migrated, were among the 10-person tour of stops before it returned to Santiago.Miss Elerie was prepared for the next portion of the trip, Easter Island — 2300 miles off the coast of Chile — by reading Thor Heyerdahl's “Aku Aku‘•Heyerdahl s raising of the first statue on the island in the mid 50s was the basis for» *%■later explorations and raisings by Chilean and American scientists.%’S*%• v ** V• *The mystery-shrouded volcanic rocks were largely ignored and are still unexplained, ♦The natives who are of Polynesian background, separated by 2500 miles from Tahiti, had no knowledge of why they were built or who the sculptors were Quito, Ecuador, and the lands of the Columbian Indians were on the itinerary before the tour director led his group to the Galapagos Islands with its “antique animals.***■ The iguana lives there, as do numerous bird species “Hosts such as seals which cameritfht nn in thpir visitors wprp amnns thosp toAs Aikenites prepared for the snow thatdidn't come the night before, the home ofRrenda and Allen Wingard was aglow with a“Sweet 16“ birthday party for their daughter,Carla.This surprise occasion ended with aslumber party for Carla and her friends, Susan Beattie, April Bransome, Mary Daspit, Patty Urlee and Leslie Suhrer.A still younger Miss Kerl Leigh Bussell wasrecently honored as she was crowned “Holiday Queen in the under-four-year division. Keri sings and was also talent winner. She isthe daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James R Bussell of North Augusta This is the second event within the past months that Keri has won. She will go to the state “Harvest Queen” pageant next summer as this area's winner.A baby described by its grandmother, as “absolutely precious” has been the object of Dorothy and Bob Ashmore’s attentionsrecentlyThe child, who was born on Christmas Day to their daughter Jean and her husband MikeVeltrie, has been named Christopher Robert. They left him doing well in snow covered Yorktown Heights, N.Y.THE I PS AND DOWNS OF HAT FASHIONSthis vear offer a variety of shape and fabric. TheseThe former chose the popular sweeping downthe(AP Laserphoto)Patricia Ann McGill, daughter of Mr. and Mrs W W McGill of New El-lenton, has been named to the Dean's List for the firstsemester of the 1977-78academic year at Clemson University.Miss McGill is a grof Aiken High School now a freshman st chemical engineeringJacqueline McKevie and Barry Hammonds, both ofAiken, took part in graduation exercises at the Singer Breckinridge Job Corps Center,Miss McKevie completed studies in clerical skill andHammonds majored inbuilding tradesDUE WEST - Wayne Pickens, a son of Mr and Mrs. M T. Pickens, earned aplace on the fall term dean's list at Erskine College To make the dean’s list, a student must attain an average of at least 3 75 out of a perfect 4.0.Pickens is a graduate ofCarol Elizabeth Stetson, adaughter of Mr. and Mrs.Nathaniel Stetson, is ain psy-semorchologymajoringCharlotte VirginiaHenderson, a daughter of Charlotte T Butler, is asophomore majoring inChristian education
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Aiken, South Carolina, US
Tue, Jan 24, 1978
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