Rickards High School - Anumpa Yearbook (Tallahassee, FL)

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Thomas enjoys a game of football in front of the Godfreyis home where he stayed Football wasa new game to him. Brazil Exchange Student Visits Rickards in Winter Although he stayed in Tallahassee for only three months, junior Thomas Polisaitis of Sao Paulo, Brazil, won a special place with Rickards students with his friend- ly smile and his eagerness to get to know this country. Thomas arrived in Tallahassee Dec. 18 and left early in March. Most of his visit was at the home ofjim Godfrey. In Brazil Thomas attended a private German school from Monday through Saturday. He went to school from 7:20 until noon and studied chemistry, physics, English, Portuguese and mathematics. He could speak Portuguese, English, German and could communicate in Spanish. The sport Thomas enjoyed most was sailing. Other sports he enjoyed were water skiing, surfing and tennis. Blonde and blue-eyed, Thomas said he liked to see new things, make new friends and see how other people live. He found schools in the United States different. Exchange Student Tomas Polisai tis gets acquainted with sopho more Sheila Rabitaille who helps him find his class.

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Rickards Seniors Win Special Awards Seniors Adriene Bryant and Paul Posey were nominated by Dr. Britten Poulson and teachers to represent Rickards in the Outstanding Teenagers of America contest. They were then selected by local Optimist clubs as Tallahassee winners from all those nominated by the high schools. Adriene and Paul were chosen on the basis of commun- ity leadership, school service, participation in extra-cur- ricular activities, scholarship and sports activities. Seniors Robyn Rennick and Ricky Goudeau received letters of commendation from the National Merit Scholar- ship Corporation for their composite scores on the Prelim- inary Scholastic Aptitude Test and the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. They were in the upper two per cent of seniors nationwide who took the tests. Both Robyn and Ricky were voted as Outstanding Sen- iors by the faculty. Robyn was also a DAR good citizen, chaplain of the student body, a member of Anchor Club and was on the staff of the school newspaper. Ricky was Seniors Ricky Goudeau and Robyn Rennick, winners of National named class valedictorian and served on the yearbook Merit letters of commendation, discuss their test scores. l Outstanding Teenager Adriene Bryant was yearbook editor and a was Senior Class president, a member of Key, FBLA, CBE, SQ member of Quill and ScrolL Activettes, ICQ IRQ SC. Paul Posey Rickara'sSingers and Boys'Quartet.

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Riekards Hosts Peruvian Exchange Student Everyone was friendly and nice and everyone was willing to help me out when l was lost! This was the first impression of Beatriz Alvitez, Rickards exchange student, when she enrolled at Rickards. Betty,as she liked to be called,came to Rickards from Trujillo, Peru, under the auspices of the Fellowship Institute. She was graduated from a Catholic school at 15 years of age and decided to come to the United States to learn English because she would like to become a bilingual secretary. She thought that coming to the United States would help her to learn the English language as it is spoken in this country. The two main things that she found different in the United States than in Peru were schools and the way of living. ln Peru boys and girls don't study together, she said, and the life style is more relaxing and comfort- able. Here you get to do your own things. In Peru maids do almost everything. At Rickards she studied typing, shorthand, physical education, biology, drama, and American history. She also filled her time with bowling and guitar playing. fAbovej Betty Alvitez concentrates hard for test answers in one of her major classes. fLeffj Betty enjoys a View of school.