It is with a great deal of pleasure that I again have the opportunity to greet all of you at the conclusion of a school year. Each of you will look back on the 1974-1975 school year with fond memories as you recall friends and experiences. The administration and staff
have enjoyed sharing many of these experiences with you and hope that these friendships will endure for many years to come.

Hopefully,the dedication of your School Board and teachers has served to provide you with pleasant and fruitful learning experiences while at ASV. Our desire has been to further your educational development and to make that process enjoyable and memorable. For those of you that will leave Vientiane at the end of this year, we say "LA KON LARE SOKDI" and for those of you who return we will be bidding you "SABAIDI LARE KOR TONHAB YANG TAIM CHAI".

Sincerely,
Raymond F. Norton
Principal


COUNSELOR-VICE-PRINCIPAL

A few years ago when I boarded the plane to leave Laos and return to the United States I not only carried with me many fond memories, but I also harbored the hope that one day I Might return to the Land of A Million Elephants for a visit. Little did I dream that I would be returning so soon! My happiness in having returned has been doubled by the opportunity to again be a member of the American School administrative staff.

As a returnee, I naturally looked for things familiar and things changed. The bright, smiling faces of the students were the same as before, but there was a marked difference in the student body as a whole, and that difference lay in the increased international composition of the total enrollment. Where previously about 15% of the students came from non-American families, now over 30% do. Today 23 nations are represented in our student body. In a short time ASV has become a miniature United Nations!

I enjoy working with such a multi-national student body. From you I somehow catch the hope of peace which seems all too elusive. I like Ethel Jordan's lines on international friendship and I want to leave them with you because I think they may convey to you the hope for the future that we adults place in children and youth.

In hearts too young for enmity
There lies the way to make men free;
Where children's friendships are world-wide
New ages will be glorified,
Let child love child, and strife will cease
Disarm the hearts, for that is peace.

Myrtle T. Collins

Albums

• Laos / American School of Vientiane Yearbook, 1974-75