This week we celebrateFounders’ Week in honor of the day we first opened our doors on September 17, 1912.

這周，我們舉行“創始人紀念周”活動來慶祝1912年9月17日上海美國學校的創立。

A school with a history that spans over a century is bound to have some great traditions. At Shanghai American School, the most famous of those traditions is the Bust of Juno.

正文：一所辦學歷史超過一百年的學校肯定擁有一些經典的傳統。在上海美國學校，最著名的傳統就是Juno半身像。

Originally a gift from the SAS Class of 1917 to the Class of 1918, the Bust of Juno, a small statue, inspired classes to battle each other for possession of it for decades. The last appearance of her was in 1948 when she was locked away in a trophy case by the school’s administration.

Juno半身像最初只是上海美國學校1917屆畢業班贈送給1918屆畢業班的一份禮物，一個小小的雕像。在接下來幾十年的時間里，每一屆畢業班都想得到它。這個雕像最后一次露面是在1948年。在此之后，它被學校的行政管理人員鎖進了獎杯箱。

It only took seven decades for the school’s administration to have a change of heart.

七十年過后，上海美國學校的行政管理人員改變了主意。

“We wanted to pay homage to, and remind us of, our amazing school history,” said SAS high school principal Dr.Ben Lee. “ So we decided to bring Juno back.”

上海美國學校高中部校長Dr. Ben Lee表示：“我們希望向學校的悠久歷史致敬，讓人們記住我們學校的歷史。因此，我們決定讓Juno回歸。”

The Juno tradition was always built on a good-natured class rivalry, and it so happened that SAS’ Pudong campus already had a friendly competition amongst the classes: Each Spirit Week, the high school classes compete against each other in games of Tug of War.

Juno傳統是建立在各個班級之間友好對抗的基礎之上的。上海美國學校浦東校區各個班級之間已經擁有了一個友誼賽：在每個“校園精神周”期間，高中部各個班級之間都要舉行拔河比賽。

In the high school gym on October 17, 2017, that Tug of War competition would decide which class would be the first since 1948 to possess the Bust of Juno.

2017年10月17日，在高中部體育館內，一場拔河比賽將決定哪個班會成為自1948年以來第一個擁有Bust of Juno的班級。

In one semifinal match-up, the Class of 2018 easily handled the Class of 2021. In the other, however, the Class of 2019 found itself in a spirited battle against the younger Class of 2020. After considerable back and forth, the Class of 2020 pulled off the upset, setting up a showdown with the seniors of the Class of 2018. Perhaps drained from their semifinal effort, the sophomores went down in quick order. Juno was at last again the property of an SAS class – from the Class of 1918 to the Class of 2018.

在一場半決賽中，2018屆畢業班輕松戰勝2021屆畢業班。在另一場半決賽中，2019屆畢業班與更加年輕的2020屆畢業班展開了激烈對抗。經過多次“對決”，2020屆畢業班最終勝出，與2018屆畢業班會師決賽。也許是因為半決賽消耗太多，2020屆畢業班未能勝出。Juno再一次成為了上海美國學校畢業班的財產，從1918屆畢業班來到了2018屆畢業班。

In the tradition of Juno, the statue was kidnapped even before the students had left the gym. She turned up 5 days later in Jinqiao, and has been a “frequent traveler” ever since.

根據Juno的傳統，這個雕像在學生們離開體育館之前就被“綁架”了。五天后，它出現在了金橋，自此以后經常“出游”。

The Pudong campus held another Spirit Week in the spring, and that time, the Class of 2018 was not able to retain possession. By the time the school year was out, the Bust of Juno belonged to the Class of 2019.

今年春季，上海美國學校浦東校區迎來了又一個“校園精神周”。這一次，2018屆畢業班未能保留所有權。學年結束的時候，Juno半身像成為了2019屆畢業班的財產。

And the tradition was back…

就這樣，Juno傳統回來了……

Legacy. Every day at SAS.

傳統。就在上海美國學校的每一天。

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Founded in 1912, Shanghai American School (SAS) is the largest and most established international school in China. In short, it's the kind of school you wish you would've attended when you were a kid.

創建于1912年，上海美國學校是中國最大的也是歷史最悠久的國際學校。簡而言之，如果你能回到小的時候，這會是一所你想要去的學校。