Rickards High School - Anumpa Yearbook (Tallahassee, FL)

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'Q-' I ,ff ,,,, ' K Top Leftj Kim Bradley, a Rickards studenzj proudly displays his Hrs! place handcrafted ship, entered in the North Florida Fair. KA bovej Senior Sam Carter molds his clay on the potters wheel. fBottom Leftj junior Ted Snow works his clay into a soft bali that can be worked into various objects. fBelowj Mr. Larry DeRosieq new ceramics teacheig points out a spot Paul Donald- son missed in his sculptured modern vase. l 77

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SOO Art Students Enjoy New Art Unit With the addition of a new art unit to the faculty, portable 80 was turned into a crafts lab. Mr. Larry DeRosier joined the art faculty. A graduate of FSU who interned at Rickards last year, he was added because more students had shown interest in taking an art class, stated Mrs. Ellen West, department chairman. Because he has come and we were given another room, more than 800 students had the oppor- tunity to take ceramics taught by Mr. DeRosier, two-dimensional lpainting, drawing and sketchingl taught by Mr. Al Harwood, or my class, crafts. Art students were able to participate in approximately eight art shows locally and statewide. One of these was the exhibit at the North Florida Fair. A total of 14 students won ribbons for their work in that show. Winning blue ribbons for first place were ludy Shef- field, basket, Donna Fordham, ceramic vase, and Horace Richardson, painting. Second place winners, receiving red ribbons, were janet Huggins, ceramic vase, Gary Holliday, pen sketchg and Chuck Agerton, wall hanging. For third place, white ribbons went to Linda Robinson, basket, and Fred Wiggins, ceramic vase. Purple merit ribbons were given to larvis Rosier, ceramic vase, Angela Morrison, pastel, Keith Pope, ceramic vase, Airwintha McGee and Stephanie Cay, stitchery, and Victor Beane, photo-montage. Another exhibit was held at the junior Museum, Nov. 7-14, with students from Rickards, Leon and Godby participating. The purpose of this show was to give preliminary judging to work to be entered in the State Fair held in Tampa in February, Mrs. West said. Christmas art work was exhibited in the library in December prior to the Christmas holidays. Art work was also exhibited in the Springtime Tallahassee festivities. Senior Bill Patton adds finishing touches to his chalk pastel and returned to its owner for his personal use. Mr. Harwood poster. This poster, taking about two hours to make, was graded Bills art teacher, teaches two-dimensional drawing.

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Eggs Take Drop in Containers Built by General lt's raining eggs! An egg just fell from the sky! Can the birds be missing their nests? No, it's only the general shop class doing alittle experiment. To understand the process that industry uses in devel- oping new techniques and equipment, the shop students dropped eggs in small containers from a 20-foot height. The trick was in not breaking the egg. Students analyzed the problem, made several tentative designs, constructed the models, and then tested them. Needless to say after the first test many students were sent back to the drawing board. General Shop and dropping eggs from rooftops was only one of the many things that Industrial Arts offered. Another was the construction class where stu- dents learned skills concerning construction. Students were introduced to the pneumatic hammer, mixing and pouring concrete, wiring, and plumbing. The industrial arts department introduced the con- struction to ninth graders as part of a pilot program the instructors undertook for Leon County. fBelo wj Roddy Mathis tests a radio for the resistance in the wires in his basic electricity class. fRiyhtj Angelo Morris, Mark Bruce, Marion Norton and Bruce Thomas finish the frame to a shed in their ninth grade general shop class which studied construction. ...1 I 422- .4-ali -Le