Alameda High School - Acorn Yearbook (Alameda, CA)

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V) We George Latham Erna Braue Frances Rowe Sam Terry Jeanne Sturtevant Harry Etter

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Harold Larkin Mildred Hosken Margery Gaither Ed. Joseph Clyde Shepardson Benjamin Sharpstein

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== EDITORIALS THE NEW ADVISORY SYSTEM NEW this term, number of members of each class has been assigned to each teacher. According to this Advisory System, students are not grouped registration according to their year of schooling, as hereto- The teachers have been given a class consisting exclusively of boys, and the women teachers one of girls. Fifteen minutes are devoted each day to an advisory period, during which time the teacher, or advisor as he is called, con- Ul system of registration has been established and so far it has proved an entire success students containing men fers with the class on individual matters or on general questions 1 interest. lvantages of this new advisory system are many: It gives to each student a single teacher under whose direction he will spend his entire four years at High School. Heretofore, each student had a new teacher to get acquainted with each year. This teacher frequently gave contradictory advice and often the ident confused and his course lacked consistent guidance. Now, however, the teacher may not only help each student plan the entire course, but be able to help him carry it out consecutively. It breaks liques caused by class distinction. Freshmen do not feel so isolated from the upper-classmen, and students no longer attend school merely to reach that beautified where they may be looked up to as a Senior. ( f Scnoo Th (I) I e ac was (2) The up c Page 1 |i] | —SSSS—.. 38355 ; I 3) The putting of upper-cl to promote the responsibility of students. (4) The separation of boys and girls afforé which have been grasped with entl for the rowing, and basketball among th: ( Freshmen issmen mong leadership among the ls opport 1 formati isiaSm clubs for tennis, walking, girls, and teams for baseball and track among the boys (5) Great interest has arisen among room organizations fot their teams in the Interclass Leag The mixing of students of all sizes has put these athletic teams on an equal footing and secured a comparative permanency of membership. ; .cague, (6) Although Freshmen, Sophomore, Junior, and Senior classes are no longer divisions of the school, their existence as active organizations has by no means died out, as a glance at their activities in the Organization Department of this issue of Tur Acorn will show. The separation seems to have made the members more interested in class meetings, which are now a sort of voluntary reunion, whereas heretofore they were daily occurrences staled by commonness (7) A group of faculty committees has been originated which has been able to direct school activities in a much better manner than has ever been done before (8) In the past, some students having dropped behind their class organization on account of failure in a couple of subjects have left school, merely because they could not register with their classmates. This pretext is now eliminated, for the stu