Alameda High School - Acorn Yearbook (Alameda, CA)

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We at Alameda High School are extremely fortunate in hav- ing a staff of teachers which stands for freedom and equality. For many years Miss Grace Powers has rendered unequalled services to both the students and the school. She has been the OAK LEAF advisor for many years, and was also the Dean of Girls. Dr. John Peoples, besides rendering services to the school, has written a textbook which is now in use in many of the na- tion’s finest high schools. In appreciation of their many works, we, the students of Alameda High School, dedicate the 1962 ACORN to these two fine people.

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With the problems that face today’s world one of the most important people in this country is the teacher. This person, along with the parent, has the job of bending the mind of the child in the direction which the child will follow for the rest of his life. The decision, whether the child will follow the path of justice and peace or the path of injustice and chaos, depends largely upon the education he receives in today’s public schools.

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Editorial In the past fifty years man has reached a level of scientific achievement unequalled in the history of mankind. His acts have been limited only by a boundless imagination. He has made real, ideas that his forefathers thought crazy. Spaceships, atom bombs, atomic submarines, and radiation used for curing once- thought incurable diseases have all arisen from the depths of man’s imagination. By broadening his scientific horizons, however, man has, we fear, nearly lost sight of the everyday life which surrounds him. He has become more and more like the machines which he has built. In an effort to recall a little of the wonderful life which is constantly moving about man, we have chosen as the theme of our annual, the “human comedy.”’ By words both serious and in jest we hope to bring man’s thoughts back to the little things that make life the marvel that it is. We invite you to share with us a view of the life of the students of this school, only one portion of the human comedy.