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Show : ; ' J? :i i x ': t i ' ' 1- " i KM m ' ;-t rzss p r . i ,; , , , Lm MOST VALUABLE i : "This has been the greatest year of my life" stated Jaron Jensen, a graduating senior, upon receipt of the "most Valuable Player and High .Scoring Award" for the Copenhagen International High School Varsity Basketball Basket-ball Team for the school year .of 1979-80. COACH JORGEN Flygare referred to Jaron as an enthusiastic, enthu-siastic, dynamic, determined young man who personally ; held the team together trough a number of successful games that placed the team among the top teams in the basketball '.. league in Copenhagen. Basketball in Denmark is not confined to high schools, but rather is pursued in leagues 1 and teams formed, which are made up solely of young men wishingto play basketball. The J Copenhagen International High School varsity gained ,1 good stature among these teams which are extremely . capable in the arts of basketball. basket-ball. Jaron averaged 30 points ' per game throughout the sea-1 sea-1 son and added tremendously to team motivation and spirit. AMONG OTHER achieve-,, achieve-,, menls Jaron served as a stu-I'dent stu-I'dent body officer in 1979 and continued to serve as the only 7:arry-over officer into an open Jorum type of school direction in 1980 and served as chairman .of all school sproting and social so-cial events. He also received a Jorgen Olsen, center, congratulates Jaron Jensen (from Bountiful, now living in Denmark ) as most valuable player in basketball. James Kesson.Seft, is principal prin-cipal of Copenhagen International High School. leadership merit achievement certificate in recognition for his personal example and service ser-vice to the school community. Referred to by High School Principle James Kesson, as a . young man with tremendous drive and one which would be sorely missed in leadership at the school, Jaron also was presented pre-sented a membership to the National Honor Society by virtue vir-tue of his excellent scholastic grade average through the past two years of study in the International Inter-national School. JARON, IN addition to these achievement awards, was also recognized for his part in two teams comprised of five students each, which represented rep-resented the school at the MUN (Model United Nations Debate Council) in Amerster-dam, Amerster-dam, Holland both in the year 1978-79 and 1979-80. The first year Jaron's team won first place in the political debates of a worldwide nature among 1 10 world participating schools from all over the world. The team won second place the second year, despite the fact that it represented a country given by assignment to the team, which was a difficult diffi-cult country to be recognized as a political entity of value. MR. VADLA, the political science and history teacher presented the team to an enthusiastic en-thusiastic audience for their diligence to pursue excellence even though the task was assigned to them and not by choice. The Copenhagen International Interna-tional High School was the only school out of the entire 1 10 schools to receive an "excellence" "ex-cellence" rating for both teams at the same time in the year 1980. THE SCHOOL is comprised of students from 30 different nations around the world and subjects are taught in English as a common language, by highly skilled teachers also from various countries. Jaron is the son of President and Mrs. Richard C. Jensen of Bountiful, presently presiding over the Denmark Copenhagen Mission for the LDS Church. ' THEIR SON Mark also graduated gra-duated from the Copenhagen International Jr. High School having served as the student-body student-body vice president and center of the junior basketball team and with a very high scholastic average. |