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...nobody tries to shoo them out, since the rationale for this new school, according to Director Edward Ryerson, is to provide an exciting place for kids who have not achieved or enjoyed themselves in either private or public schools...
...test scores are used to select candidates for admission and IQ scores are also disregarded. Reading and writing samples, school records and personal recommendations, "and a lot of intuiton" are taken into consideration, Ryerson explains. "We have kids who dropped out of high school. We have kids who, when they came, never thought they could go to college," he adds...
...letter allegedly containing marijuana sent by Miss Ryerson to a former Cambridge resident, Miss Andres, Clarke, at her home in Ashville, N.C., touched off the investigation. However, postal authorities have brought no charges against either Miss Ryerson or de Lissovoy...
Rochester police called FBI agents into the case after seizing letters and diaries which described the participation of Miss Ryerson and de Lissovoy in civil rights projects in the South...
...Lissovoy holds a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship and is currently working on a book about the failure of the civil rights movement in Albany, Ga. He has written widely praised articles on civil rights for the Nation and for the CRIMSON. Miss Ryerson teaches at a private secondary school in Rochester...