Henrico High School - Totem Pole Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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Arriving on the Warrior Reservation from three middie schools that served as “feeder” schools to Henrico, the students brought with them a variety of backgrounds. Exposure to over 1500 other students with diverse talents and values was an education in itself. In a typical classroom one might have found a student from Norway who was studying and visiting in America for a year, astudent from Vietnam who was starting life over in America, or a student born in the United States to parents of foreign extrac- tion — and on and on it went. Our school population had increased from an all white one in 1962 to one comprised of over one-third minority groups in 1982. Get- ting to know so many different people made school more interesting and broadened each student’s awareness of basic similarities of human nature as well as broadened his knowledge and appreciation of other cultures and customs. But whether in groups or as individuals, the students worked and learned together in a setting of mutual respect and harmony. ENRICO WARRIORS STUDENTS a