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gory of his own. “There are people here that are my equal and better. It’s not like I am king of the hill.”
Not ‘King of the Hill’
The statistics support Jim’s view. This year 13 other Rappahannock students have scored about as well or better than Jim did on his first SATs. Their scores, in the 1200s and 1300s, rival those achieved at Woodberry Forest School, an exclusive boarding school in Orange, and those at Wakefield School, a private day school in Fauquier County.
Jim points to the extraordinary achievements of his best friend, Tano Gomez-Abero of Uruguay, who came to Rappahannock for the 1994-95 school year as an exchange student living with the Clarks and who opted to return to RCHS for his senior year too.
Tano arrived knowing little English and thus earned a 320 on his first verbal SAT exam, taken three months after his arrival. Thirteen months later, Tano had brought his verbal score up to 570. His last math score was 690. Tano is No. 1 in the class of‘96; Jim Is No. 2.
So do Jim and Tano spend their spare time correcting each other’s grammar errors and arguing over math problems? Hardly. One summer Jim, his younger brother Steven and Tano tried to build a plexiglass submarine in the Clark’s garage. Later they raised a 9’ by 13’ cabin in the Clarks’ woods, complete with a stone fireplace.
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