Acalanes High School - Aklan Yearbook (Lafayette, CA)

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FRESHMAN CLASS OFFICERS Betty Farrar, Secretary of Entertainment Budd Miller, President Bob Schroder, Vice President J 6'1fw-L The Freshman class is the largest in the history ot Acalanes, and its field of activity has been ex- tensive, two dances, a Get Acquaintedn dance and the Freshman Frolic. The Freshmen sponsored a large scrap drive encompassing the Whole school district from Walnut Creek to Orinda. This group was also behind the Victory Food Survey, organized tor the purpose of locating and listing various places where seeds, plants, gardening tools and machinery could be rented or procured. This survey also located land which could be rented for the purpose of raising Victory Gardens. Some of the Freshmen social studies groups raised Vegetables on a plot of school ground. Half of the produce went to the Cafeteria and half to the students who helped raise the crops. An interesting accomplishment of the Fresh- man class was the winning of second place in the Iefferson Oratorical Contest by Dorothy Goodrich. Kit Chaney, Treasurer Pat Lax, Secretary

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Soon after the Spaniards iirst sailed into San Francisco Bay in l769, their explorers, notably Pedro Fages and Iuan Bautista de Anza, led expeditions into the region east oi the Bay. They were followed loy the padres who attempted to convert the ln- dians. The padres succeeded in converting them, but the indians were not used to the white rnan's way oi lite, and their popula- tion declined very rapidly. Within a tew years' time, the Spaniards had divided the land into large grants called ranclws. Qne ot these, the Ranclm A calanes, we have come to associate with our school, although our buildings actually stand on the Rancho La Boca de' la Cvllllllllll de Pinnle. Candeliero Valencia was granted the 3,329 acre Rancho Acalancfs, in l834, but he was iorced to sell it to William A. Leidesdorti ot Yvrba lflll'lIll, who almost immediately sold it tc Elani Brown. This ended the period of Spanish ownership.