Green for Life
by
Victoria  Boutenko
Book Review
by Mari Treadway, '65

In search of the perfect human diet, Victoria Boutenko compares the standard American diet with the diet of wild chimpanzees.  Chimpanzees share an estimated 99.4% of genes with humans, but their diet is dramatically different from ours.  The most glaring difference is that chimpanzees consume significantly more green leaves than humans.  Based on these observations, Victoria has developed a series of green smoothie recipes that enable anyone to consume the necessary amount of greens in a palatable way.
     In “Green for Life”, Victoria gives us a unique, yet simple and delicious strategy for boosting our nutritional levels.  Green smoothies are nothing short of revolutionary!  I would recommend this book to just about anyone.  It meets the needs of those who are seeking to move from a standard American Diet into a healthier lifestyle, as well as those who have “been raw” for years!   Phyllis Linn, raw food enthusiast.
     Notes from Victoria:   Dear Reader:
    I am delighted to share this book with you.  In the following chapters I disclose many astonishing facts about greens and explain why they are the most essential part of human nutrition.  Ever since I realized the key to radiant health was under my very nose, I began to read every book on greens I could get my hands on.
     Initially, I only wanted to improve the classic raw food diet.  Surprisingly, in the process of my research, I found that adding blended greens to anyone’s diet makes such a profound health improvement, that it may even surpass the benefits of eating a typical all-raw diet with a relatively small amount of greens.  In addition, drinking smoothies is by far more doable than switching at once to an all-raw diet.  At the same time, I have discovered that people who incorporate blended greens into their daily meals naturally begin to eat more live foods.
     Blended green smoothies are  a simple and delicious way of accessing the healing properties of greens.  Whether you eat a raw food, vegan, vegetarian, or mainstream American diet, regularly drinking green smoothies can significantly improve your health.  This miraculous drink is available to every person in every country.  Join me in discovering why greens are the perfect human food.  I hope this information is as refreshing for you as it has been for me.  Victoria Boutenko

Dare to Observe

Observation constitutes the foundation of every science.  You and I , like everyone on this planet, have the right to make observations and draw our own conclusions whether we are scientist or not.  Our personal experimentation helps us stay in charge of our own lives.  No scientific data can substitute for our own experience.

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Wellston in Black and White

by: (Thomas) Roger Noon ‘62
Former Sports Writer for the Flashlight

The history of Wellston has been well chronicled in the Alumni Flashlights. Among the subtle changes in the late ‘50’s and early 60’s was the integration of the Wellston community and its school system. 
           I cannot remember an African-American student in my Kindergarten through Sixth Grade years (1948-56), or even a family living in my community of Hillsdale. But by (1956-58), as evidenced by the Junior High collective student photos, integration was well under way.
          Like any situation, when strangers come into your midst, you are either reluctant to get to know them or go out of your way to become acquainted. I can’t remember which one of them I was, but the first acquaintances came in class, lunchroom or in sports events, if we sat together or needed to share information. Still, we stayed in our “groups” for that ever needed sense of security.  And for that matter, among the white kids there were groups that had little association with others whites for whatever reasons (sports, academic, geography related, elementary school history, etc.)
           In Junior High, it’s the memory of an integrated shop class with Mr. Shonk when I remember interacting with an African-American student by the name of Floyd Pressley. He was clever, even funny, and we got along without any issues, but he must have moved, because he didn’t enter High School. 
    In high school, it was band with Mr. Bracken that brought about the closest association with the newer African-American students. When you rehearse with people who play the same instrument as you do, it’s natural. As we became comfortable with each other, conversation became easier and cooperation was necessary with what we were doing or we would all be in trouble.
         It was not a problem for me to respect people who do things well. I just wished I could have been as good. And African-American students excelled and participated in a lot of areas of High School life.  Just look at some of the Senior resumes in 1958 with Dorothy Arrington, Elizabeth Davis and Joy Keen (sister of my classmate David), or two of the three grads of 1960-Robert Mason and Wilma Taylor.
         It was the classes of 1961 and ’62 (obviously) that I remember most in terms of African-American students. In ’61 there were Carolyn Crowder (perhaps the first African-American Varsity Cheerleader for WHS) and the recently deceased Sandra Mason (Robert’s younger sister) who seemed to be everywhere in sports as well as Howard Gaines who was a great athlete and elected Most Intelligent by his Senior Class.
         The graduating class of 1962 had the highest number of African-American grads (5) up to that time with Jean Harris, David Keen (my band partner), Mildred Patton (admired her athleticism) Sam Scott (came in fourth year), and Beverly Thompson (who had transferred in for the fourth year from Lutheran High West, Detroit).
       I cannot remember any particular “racial incidents” during those years. That’s not to say there weren’t any.  It was more in the way of just a typical awe of the Seniors who came before me, whether they were Black or White.             Roger Noon ‘62
            Next Time: “A Modest Proposal”