Richmond High School - Pierian Yearbook (Richmond, IN)

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BETTY CROCKER award showed Mary Niewoehner's confidence in cooking. OUTSTANDING IN BUSINESS, juniors Mike McLear and Vicky Frith were chosen as Richmond JA center representatives for outstanding business man and woman for Eastern Indiana. Many seniors received awards at the annual Honors and Awards assembly in June. Others were the recipients of honors earlier in the year. ALL-STATE BAND members are Pat Rogan, Doug Hart, and Mike Wright. Seniors Jeff Brewster, Doug McDaniel, and Mary Beth Tyndall were named Commended Students in the National Merit Scholarship competition. Senior Debbie Slish was accepted into the Indiana All-state Honors Choir after she auditioned before two judges at Hagerstown in October. Cathi Weatherly, senior, was one of 2900 students designated an Achievement commended Student in the twelfth annual National Achievement Scholarship Program for Outstanding Negro Students. Honors—23

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February was a memorable month for 18 French students who spent 3 weeks in Paris, France, on the school's first exchange program. The group stopped first in Nor- AMERICANS DEPART from Mont. St. Michel's only entrance as Isabel Hutton and Tammy Sharpe discuss an amusing event of the day. APARTMENTS of elite Parisians on lie Saint Louis and a statue of Charlemagne form the background as Kevin Hibner gives Notre Dame Cathedral an apprasive look. VERSAILLES is the setting as students take a break with group leader Mr. Gordon Pipes smiling approvingly at the group's behavior. o mandy, a province of northern France, for a 4-day tour. The remaining 2'A weeks were spent in Paris, where students lived with French families. In Paris, the group spent their mornings observing classes at HAPPY MOMENTS-Tammy Sharpe, Jeff Benton, Chuck Martin, and Stan Givens prepare to take a guided tour of Notre Dame, the 13th century cathedral. Lycec Paul Valery (similar to an American junior-senior high school) and excursions to various famous Parisian sights were usually planned for the afternoons. Cultural differences between Europe and America surprised many members of the tour. Such customs as eating dinner at 8 p.m., greeting and taking leave of family and friends with a kiss on the cheek, and having no hamburger or pizza places to hang out at led to a much different lifestyle than the one teenagers in Richmond were used to. Students who made the trip were seniors Cindy Bullerdick, Rick Collins, Joy Harris, and Isabel Hutton; juniors Adrienne Cook, Tammy Sharpe, and Marilyn Witte; and sophomores Stan Givens, Jeff Benton, Kevin Hibner, Steve Jatfe, Doug Liston, Chuck Martin, Meg Naulty, Karen Owen, Larry Stratton, Kelly Trimble, and Diana Nicholson. French Trip—25