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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The valedictorian of the RCHS Class of 1996 is Cesar Sebastian Gomez Albero, more familiarly known as “Tano.”
Tano came to Rappahannock in his junior year as a Youth for Understanding exchange student living with the Clark family in Tiger Valley. He is front Tacurembo, Uruguay, a city of about 45,000 people in a Spanish speaking country in South America where winter and summer seasons are the reverse of those in the United States.
At the time he first came he was planning on returning to Uruguay to continue his high school studies. Then he planned to attend university in Uruguay and return to the United States for graduate school.
Instead, he returned to the United States and Rappahannock County for his senior year, staying this year with the Klatko family in Sperryville. Rather than being sponsored by an exchange student program, Tano’s second year was sponsored by the high school directly.
Tano said he changed his plans after observing that in American schools there was much more opportunity for hands on use of computers and the latest technology. “I love computers,” he said. He also believes familiarity with computers will be required in the future.
And the teaching style is different here with less emphasis on theory explained in lectures and more opportunity to experience things directly in labs, he said.
Now he is planning on attending Bridgewater College in the fall to major in physics. Since that is a fairly small school, Tano believes it will have the same advantages he observed at Rappahannock County High School. Unlike large universities, undergraduates at Bridgewater have access to all the school’s technological equipment. That is also unlike what he would have found in university in Uruguay
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