Alameda High School - Acorn Yearbook (Alameda, CA)

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DEDICATION... To SEYMOUR “NEMO” LEEMAN ALDEN SMITH WERNER VON BERCKEFELT JOHN ALBERT TINGLEY JOSEPH CIRMELLI STANLEY (DAN) WHITNEY WILLIAM VAN HOOSER HENRY HARRIS CLIFFORD SINGLETON WILLIAM E. NEUDORFER DOMINIC CAVALLO KENNETH T. DONOVAN JOHN LUCAS THEODORE J. MAMOLA FRED HORNETT WILLIAM BARRON HARRY D. HEDGES ROBERT SCHERER FRANK SPADAVECCHIA FRANK VAN NEST JOHN HAMILTON WILLIAM ROBERT ADDIS WILLIAM NEUHAUS ROBERT BEHRMAN JOHN VAN SICKLEN CHARLES GIBBS JOHN PARKER, JR ROBERT J. LINDQUIST WILLARD THAT BARTLEY W. PEASI DONALD LOUIS ROBARTS LEON C. BACH SDWARD F. EATON ROBERT S. BROWN JOHN WHITE 3RUCE HILL THOMAS WUESTHOFEF RODERICK DOYLI WILLIAM A. ENGLISH HAROLD WHALMAN LEO KING GEORGE A. TURNER ROBERT SLATER PAUL DU FOUR a ALLEN PRICE FRANK MARTIN FRANKLIN COBB ERNEST DON FILIPELLI JOHN MOSLEY NICHOLAS SOFFIOTTO JOHN SKALKO JAMES B. MOORE CHARLES LANDERS CHARLES HAROLD GONSALVES JAMES C. PARKER ARTHUR LOMBA MINORU NAKAYAMA RICHARD MONTELL FREDERICK NIELSEN Praper God of the Free, we pledge our hearts and lives today to the cause of all free mankind. Grant us victory over the tyrants who would enslave all free men and nations. Grant us faith and understanding to cherish all those who fight for freedom as if they were our brothers. Grant us brotherhood in hope and union, not only for the space of this bitter war, but for the days to come which shall and must unite all the children of earth... . Weare all of us children of earth—grant us that simple knowledge. If our brothers are oppressed, then we are oppressed. If they hunger, we hunger. If their freedom is taken away, our freedom is not secure. Grant us a common faith that men shall know bread and peace, that he shall know justice and righteousness, freedom and security, an equal chance to do his best, not only in our lands, but throughout the world. And in the faith let us march toward the clean world our hands can make. Amen. STEPHEN VINCENT BENET

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FOREWORD... “Eventually all things u the bill ola bi d, the « ve of ork out ; there is design in ever ything—in the wing of an eagle, an insect—everything has a perfect balance.” “Heaven Can Wait,” by Harry Segall. Yes, no matter what the appearance of things, our generation must believe that there yet exists a grand, all-pervading pattern, inscrutable though it may seem. We have ma tured in times which are unparalleled in the history of the world—times of disturbance, of turmoil, of insecurity, and of hate. Not only have we seen leaders rise and fall; we have seen entire governments flare briefly in nova-like splendor, only to drop swiftly into the depths of oblivion. The growing pains of civilization have manifested themselves in the greatest man-made up We entered Alameda H into the storm. Between e1 able and trouble-free peri 1eaval since the dawn of history. igh School amid the gathering clouds of war, and we graduate itrance and graduation we actually live one of the most enjoy- ods of our entire life; yet because of the insidious sense of unrest which has seized the world we do not realize the fact. It is to be regretted that we are unable to draw the ful vears, to mentally note anc It is with the above in n pages we hope to set dow life; we hope to arrest higl Years hence, when our you from the shelf and thumb associates. When that day est degree of pleasure from each fleeting moment of these four 1 savor each of the seemingly infinitesimal incidents of the day. 1ind that we compile and publish this annual. Here upon these n an imperishable memory of these four years of high school 1 school activity in its many phases and capture it in this book. ith is little more than a faint memory, we can take this ACORN through its pages in pleasant recollection of old comrades and comes, and when we retire from our life’s work to a quiet home in a peaceful world, perhaps this yearbook will furnish us many hours of happiness as we relive in retrospect the am using and fascinating vears of our youth. CONTENTS Administration Classes Activities Sports Organizations Bie. 1.6;

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MR. BRYAN’S The Alameda High School had its beginning in the year eighteen hundred seventy-four, in a small room over a store on the southwest corner of Park Street and Santa Clara Avenue. In its seventy-one years of service to the young people of Alameda it has developed certain ideals and aims for which it stands and for which it ever strives. It is my purpose, in this short mes- sage, to recall to you some of those ideals and aims. The Alameda High School aims to reaffirm constantly the basic prin- ciples of true Americanism as set forth in our nation’s basic documents. It believes that it is the duty of every student of the school to know and live the American’s Creed: “T believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people, whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic; a sovereign nation of many sovereign states; a perfect union, one and inseparable, established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it; to support its Consti- tution; to obey its laws; to respect its flag; and to defend it against all enemies.” [6]