Alameda High School - Acorn Yearbook (Alameda, CA)

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DR. JOSEPH REDIGER DEDICATION This yearbook is dedicated to a man who renders great service to the school and to his department. It is dedicated not only because of this service, but also because of his kindness, help, sincerity, and general encouragement of students to excell. Therefore, we proudly dedicate the Acorn of nineteen-hundred and sixty-one to Dr. Joseph Rediger.

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Ann Human Ann Human, from Rotterdam, Holland, has at- tended A.H.S. this past year. Ann is 18 years old. Back home in Holland she lives with her mother, father, and brother, with whom she gets along very well. She said, “I like my brother, isn’t that strange?’ In Alameda, Ann has been staying with Mrs. V. Anderson and her family. Ann has found that in America the teenagers start doing things much too young. A good exam- ple of this is, of course, dating. In Ann’s country the children stay longer and they do things in groups until they are about 16 years old. Also if there is a dance, one goes stag and dances with many differ- ent people. In this country one goes to a dance with a date and dances with the same person all night even if one does not like the person. There is just no way out except to say “no” to the date. The American Field Service program promotes greater understanding between countries. Ann thinks that the program helps promote world peace. “Dat ben erg mooi!’ says Anne and A.H.S. (his is because if you take part in the program you get accurate impressions about a country and bring these impressions back to your own people. This in turn can promote a stronger relationship with other countries. When Ann goes back to Holland she will study for two years and then will become an elementary school teacher. The reason that her course will be so short compared with the course in the U.S. is because Ann has finished five years of secondary school which is equivalent to our high school except more difficult. In A.H.S. we have courses that are unavailable in the Dutch schools. Ann had never taken Sr. problems, cooking, typing or driver's ed- ucation. Also unavailable are manual arts courses such as woodshop. Ann feels that her life and many of her ideas have changed because of the experiences that she gained in America. We at A.H.S. loved having Ann here and we hope she will always remember us as a wonderful experience. Anne Human points to a map of the Netherlands (and if Anne doesn’t know about Holland, who does?)