Rickards High School - Anumpa Yearbook (Tallahassee, FL)

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Committees Share Decision Making In an attempt to diffuse the decision making procedures of the school three committees were the Personnel Screening, Curriculum and Student- Faculty Advisory Committee. As an advisory board on interviewing applicants for teachers and aides the Personnel Screening Committee was elected. On this committee was the chairman, lVlr. P.C. Wu and four other members. The Curriculum Committee worked to develop plans for this past school year. During the summer they work- ed on job descriptions, school bud- gets and directed several workshops for teachers and aides. This commit- tee contained 11 teachers plus Nlr. Doug Frick who was chairman. The Student-Facu lty Advisory Board acted in an advisory capacity in the development of school policies. lVlr. Tom Askins was chairman of this committee. There were seven other teachers plus the presidents of all classes and ICC on this committee. 24 Q , gpm Screening Committee members Mn George Williams, Mrs. Margie Cash, Mrs. Frances Stall worth, Mr. P. C Wu and Principal O.P. Weaver discuss a teaching applicant Mn Tom Askins, Student-Faculty Advisory Committee chairman, .talks with class pres- idents Farris Vickery and Brenda Perry. Curriculum Committee chairman Mn Doug Frick and committee members Mr. Larry Parkey and Mr. Dan Hall examine agendas.

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Schedules Computerized in Massachusetts ref .,,,,,Y if fn... .. - f ,ttsh Tiki tsust ee t Mn Rock Little, who spends half his day as a scheduler and the other half as a math teacher, works on a studen t's schedule in the guidance suite. Rickards schedulers Mrs. Merry Spei- del and Nlr. Rock Little worked with Ron Nleilke, from Fort Lauderdale, to build the master schedule before school was out in June, 1971 and then they processed the students requests into a program computer in Boston, Nlass. Nluch hand scheduling was done by the schedulers because the computer could not schedule everythingjust right. Twenty-one mods, which lasted 20 minutes apiece, equaled one school day. Twelve mods a week were required for one course for the students. Free time was lent to them to go to resource centers to study. Everyone had a different schedule everyday in the 5-day cycle. lVlr. Little and lVlrs. Speidel arranged to have a scheduler in the guidance office to help the students with their schedules all day. - gi' N M ..-wfmut Q . ,zr Scheduler Mrs. Merry Speidel and aide Mrs Rachel Wade help senior Lulu Su tton check her second semester courses. 23

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-fx- . ca it ll! in if ,YQ K9 GST fs is A A , A t if J 4,3 LQ. , M I iTop Rowi MRS. MARTHA FOSTER: guidance chairman, curriculum commit- teeg MRS. ROSEBUD BRUTON: guid- ance: iBottom Rowi MRS. LYNN HARTFIELD : special education: MRS. MELINDA REVELL: guidance. its Q L.-in Junior Debra Rush waits patiently in the guidance office for individual help on her schedule from one of the three guidance counselors. Guidance Mods Appear on Schedules Guidance secretary, Mrs. Jean Lane, and records clerk, Mrs. Peggy Hiers, assist the guidance counselors in any way that they can to keep the office running smoothly. Career lectures were prepared for all the students by the guidance depart- ment. Each student had group guid- ance as part ot his regular schedule for a semester once every six weeks. During Guidance Mods the counse- lors asked the students what their goals were after they graduated and counted up their credits to see what subjects they needed that were re- quired for them to graduate. As one of their responsibilities the counselors provided educational, vo- cational and personal-social counsel- ing for the students. They also were in charge of orientation for the new students at Rickards. Statewide ninth and twelfth grade tests and the PSATlNMSWT, offered by the College Entrance Examina- tion Board, were sponsored by the guidance department. The counselors, Mrs. Rosebud Bru- ton, lVIrs. Martha Foster and Mrs. Melinda Revell also had the responsi- bility of homerooms. 25