The Eastern A&M Mountaineer (Wilburton, Okla.), Vol. 37, No. 12, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 23, 1965 Page: 4 of 6
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THE MOUNTAINEER
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Lumber & Supply
Wilburton, Oklaho
Phone 110 5-9961
COCKE MOTOR COMPANY
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SALES and SERVICE
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Day Phone HO 5-2371
Night Phone HO 5-2146
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Leaders in Values And Quality Since 1898
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recreation area.
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Tours Started
As their schedule
mitted, the Bernardis
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Teaching Leads Bernardi Across Europe
by Fred Baker
Ray Bernardi, business instructor at I astern, responded EP
to newspaper 1957 that sent him to on Eri -
accelerated vacation tour, but for a teaching job that lasted mem ,
years and took him 100,000 miles. mas
Tuesday, February 23, 1965
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Debaters Compete in Arkansas Meet
College. They also lost to
Freed Hardman College and
Millsaps College.
Eastern was one of the two /
junior colleges participating
in the Arkansas Tournament.
Eastern’s debate teamswill
attend a debate tournament
at Southeastern College March
5 and 6.
6, EASTERN STUDENTS-
BOWL EVERY TUESDAY
L EVENING 1-5 FOR 254 PER line.
N° ( FORM A COLLEGE LEAGUE
-HTAND INSURE HAVING RESERVED
LINES ON TUESDAYS
POOL AND SNOOKER PALOR
CORAL LANES
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vacation to complete work on granted, they suddenly become
" sties
FUN
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Turkey beckoned again, and
they returned to Ankara for
two more years, and discov-
ered that things had changed.
Says Bernardi, "The black
market had always been a
thriving business in Turkey,
and the government had taken
measures to curb the prac-
tice. Lists were required of
more, won over Central
State and the University of
Southern Mississippi, and lost
one to Bethany Nazarene
College and two to Kansas
State Teacher’s College.
A split team consisting of
Linda Melhorne, Wilburton
freshman, John Troop, Mc-
Alester sophomore, Jerry
Thrift, Wilburton sophomore,
and Bob Novotny, Wilburton
newcomers, itemizing
personal possessions
m Six Eastern debaters
■ attended a debate tournament
H Feb. 9 at Arkansas State
■ Teacher’s College, Conway,
I Ark.
E A team of Carol Turner,
23 Wilburton freshman and Judy
e Garner, Wilburton sopho-
The same list was compared
with what they had when
leaving, and for any missing
articles, fines were assessed
amounting to many times its
declared value. This was to
eliminate any profit that may
have been gained by the sale
of the article."
During their stay, they had
profited by the birth of another
son, Mark, born in 1962 but
were not assessed by customs
for him.
Daughter is Born
They departed from Turkey
to return to Germany for two
more years, where daughter,
Lisa, joined the family in
the MS degree.
Their next home was in
Bitburg, Germany, a small ,
mountain community near ]
the site of the famed WW II, i
Battle of the Bulge. The usual "
tours were curtailed, how-
ever, by a family population ‘
explosion in 1960 in the per- 3
son of John Bernardi their
first son.
Bock To Ankara
As soon as a nation
individual can afford
luxuries that we take
barked on a series of tours
that covered most of Europe,
the Holy Land, Africa and
Russia. One of the first trips
was to ltaly and the South of
France where Bernardi visit-
ed relatives.
After Ankara, he was as-
signed to England, and from
conservative, staid old
London, Bernardi brought a
flashy, red sports racer that
has become a familiar sight
on Eastern’s campus. During
1959, he used a summer
4 a
The ad was a US Air Force
appeal for qualified high
school teachers to serve in
schools established on over-
seas bases for the dependents
of American personnel.
Bernardi had the required
two years experience, having
taught high school for one
year in Sapulpa, Okla. and the
next two in Holtville, Calif,
where the Air Force ad ap-
peared in the educational
section of a Los Angeles
newspaper.
High School Athlete
Born in Adamson, Okla.,
and a 1947 graduate of Hart-
shorne high school with
letters in basketball and
football, Bernardi attended
Eastern for one year in 1947-
48.
His second college year was
acquired through evening
classes while working days
as a coal mine surveyor, but
in 1952, he moved to OSU
to continue studying for the
BS degree while holding a
parttime job as an electri-
cian. With him was Sabina,
whom he had married in Sep-
tember, 1950. During his
senior year at OSU, Bernardi
began working toward the MS
degree.
Heads To Turkey
His application to the Air
Force accepted, he was in-
formed that his first assign-
ment would be Ankara,
Turkey.
"When I heard that," he
freshman, won over Millsaps 1———-------—----
BAKER HARDWARE & FURNITURE
Westinghouse Appliances
137 East Main ‘Phone HO 5-9962
muses, "I visualized bands 1963. Following this assign-
of fierce Turkish tribesmen ment, their final one in
waving scimitars at everyone. Europe, the Barnardls came
He quickly added, "I was home to America where he
wrong. Ankara is a very joined the faculty of Eastern
modern city, and although In August 1964.
our customs are quite dif- In the seven years Ber-
ferent, they couldn’t have nardi learned much of Europe
been nicer to us." and the customs and senti-
The Ankara school was a ments of its people.
challenge, a converted one As an educator, Bernardi
-story garage, m eagerly was made acutely aware of
furnished, and hemmed in by the ways that educational
other buildings. Physical methods and opportunities
education classes were held among European countries
in the narrow spaces between differ from those in America
the buildings. by his visits to local schools.
During the year he stayed "Children in most countries
there, the accomodations im- are tested in about the seventh
proved considerably, and the year to determine their
building grew into a three suitability for higher educa-
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WVemMa
RAY BERNARDI POSES
beside the car in which he
logged part of his 100,000
miles while teaching overseas
seven years.
more tolerant of us,H he
said.
When Bernardi visited the
Soviet Union, he found that
capitalism had made at least
one inroad.
"Where the factories had
once produced only what the
state decided that the people
needed, they now conduct
inquiries to learn, instead,
what the consumers want, and
quite often, they manufacture
that. At least, these items
will sell," he said.
His busy camera was once
the cause of a lesson in the
Russian view of the outsider.
"I was taking a picture of
a store window in Leningrad,
and two Soviet citizens waved
their fingers under my nose
and warned me sternly not
to take pictures that would
show how poor the people
were. This was when I learn-
ed that the citizen's arrest
is a very commonplace oc-
curance. Anyone can, and just
might, arrest anyone else.
They're very proud, and want
nothing to leak out that would
degrade their country."
There is time now for the
many hobbies that Bernardi
has accumulated such as
photography, auto mechanics,
and woodworking, but little
time to continue his favorite
hobby of traveling.
Store Bui. Phone HO 5— 2303
tion. Those found to be
eligible are usually limited
to trade school level. This
system, of course, gives the
college professors and scho-
lars a degree of prestige
that is difficult for Americans
to understand," Bernardi
said.
Resentment Expected
"We expected to find a
great deal of resentment
against us as Americans, and
we did find ourselves criti-
cized as being too materia-
listic, but it usually seemed
to be a case of sour grapes.
9 a. m. to Midnight
Ed Arterburn & Duane Wood
TATE’S
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119 Main Wilburton
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Hendrix, Mary & Horton, Francine. The Eastern A&M Mountaineer (Wilburton, Okla.), Vol. 37, No. 12, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 23, 1965, newspaper, February 23, 1965; Wilburton, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2031279/m1/4/?q=music: accessed July 1, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.