Rickards High School - Anumpa Yearbook (Tallahassee, FL)

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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.

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Curriculum Wow! What's that? was the ex- pression of many Rickards students as they observed the broken soil and stakes where a new.driver education range was to be rcompletedland put to use by the second six weeks. Twenty-one new teachers replaced members who left last year, along with two new assistant principals and a new principal. Changes were made in the modular scheduling. instead of students having unscheduled time as last year every- one was assigned to study halls. Another change made in the modular scheduling was at the beginning of the second semester the regular week days Monday through Friday were put in and the usual A day through E day was taken out. The 21 mods were shortened to 14 and the 20 minute mod was changed to 30 minutes. Resource centers were made avail- able for the students' use. The library made changes in its bo,ok arrange- ments so new ones could be added to those already there. Being the only school in Tallahassee to be dismissed at 3:30 the county approved Rickards proposal that school be dismissed at 3:10 beginning the second semester.