Construction will continue throughout the school year so that the project can be completed by August of 2000, but the building will be ready for students on opening day. Teaches have been in the building unpacking boxes and preparing their classrooms throughout the past week. Everything in America is huge and the food is too sweet. That was the conclusion of Japanese university students visiting Perry County this month. Pizza, pasta, drinks, everything here is huge.
Ice cream is very big.
The girls were among 36 students from Kyoritsu Women's University in Tokyo who stayed a week in Perry County this summer through a program at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Visits to Bryn Mawr College in Philadelphia, New York City and Washington, D.C. were also included. Loysville native Phyllis Milligan provided the Perry County connection. Mrs. Milligan has stayed in touch with a Chinese woman, Cheng Yen Davis, who spent two months on the family farm near Loysville 16 years ago. Now the administrator of the university's international studies program, Ms. Davis called on her friend to give a taste of rural life to the Japanese students.