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Ripon High students urged to join the tribe
RHS--First-Day-Pic-3a
Junior Blake Morrow who along with Savannah Vizcarra emceed the event gets the crowd motivated. - photo by JASON CAMPBELL
RIPON – The typical case of first day of school jitters was a bit more severe for Ripon High junior Blake Morrow when he rolled out of bed Tuesday morning. It wasn’t the fact that he was embarking on his voyage as an upperclassman. It wasn’t the AP-heavy course load that he had to prep all summer for.It was because before he would even step foot into a classroom he’d don the uniform of the Ripon High mascot and along with fellow leadership student Savannah Vizcarra emcee the school’s first official assembly of the 2012/13 school year with the only official practice coming just moments before the school’s roughly 900 students filled the North Gym.But given the chance, Morrow – who stayed close to home for the summer so that he could tackle his homework and football workouts – wouldn’t have changed anything.“It’s something that we started talking about doing last year, and last night I started freaking out a little bit,” he said.