Solveig Bugge - 1961-62

18-year-old Norwegian Girl, Solveig Bugge, to be OHS exchange Student, live at Dixons'

Solveig Bugge, 18-year-old daughter of a Norwegian forestry officer, will be Oberlin’s high school foreign exchange student for the coming year under the American Field Service International Scholarships program.

R. W. McEwen, chairman of the local AFS committee, has just received notice of the scholarship appointment.
But Solveig will not wait for the new school term to begin her year “abroad.” She arrives in New York July 27.

Will live with Dixons
She will live with Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Dixon, 336 Reamer.

The Dixons have three children – Linda, who graduated from Oberlin High School in June; Beth, who will be a high school sophomore; and Paul, in seventh grade.

Solveig’s home is in Rena, a little town 90 miles northwest of Oslo. It’s too small to have the population noted on his atlas, says McEwen.

She went through the 10th grade at Rena and then was admitted to Oslo Katedralskole to continue her education.

Seven years of English
She has been studying English for the past seven years. Her other languages are German, in which she rates herself as “good,” and French, in which her mastery is “fair.”

Her chief interests in academic subjects are history, literature, politics and languages.

She takes an active interest in sports and fishing, skis, water skis and swims.

There are four other daughters in the Bugge family, one of them married, and one son, Hans Jorgen, 15.

Account of her life
Solveig’s application includes the following account of her family and life:

“I was in the lucky position of growing up in a family as the fifth of six children. In 1928, as a newly wed couple, my parents settled down in that forestry district of Osterdalen, where my father who had just finished his education as a forestry officer, had bought a farm.

“They sold the farm in 1937 and built a new house near Rena, a little village in the same district.