Alameda High School - Acorn Yearbook (Alameda, CA)

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“lt has a better look this year.’’ Ivan Olds, senior. Left: Measuring Up! - Editor Melissa Michelson puts the finishing touches on another outstanding issue of the Oak Leaf. Below: Is that so? - Co-advisor Judy Thompson and Karen Wilks share intimate secrets. Far below: Second childhood for some - As Gloria Morales and Todd Bodner act like their Clowns, Me- lissa Michelson and Enrique Barot couldn’t care less. Oak Leaf 25

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Right: The 1985-1986 Oak Leaf Staff: row |: Glo- ria Morales, Laura Toepfer, co-advisor Karen Roemer, Steve Wanczyk, Mike Chop, row 2: Me- lissa Michelson, Enrique Barot, Annette Nannizzi, Karen Wilks, Jill Coleman, Kelly Wandke, Marin Lutz, Todd Bodner, Leah Collins, Nelson SooHoo, Scott Robinson Lower right: Caught in the act! - Annette Nannizzi and Todd Bodner are caught using a Glu-Stick to glue someone’s bag to the table. Oak Leaf Wins- In “Lottery Scandal” At the end of its second successful year of pub- lication, the Oak Leaf Staff, with editors Melissa Michelson and Gloria Morales at the helm, can look back and be proud of a job well done. In the first part of the year, hard work and determination brought the exciting “lottery scan- dal” to the attention of AHS students. Ms. Judy Thompson and Ms. Karen Roemer, who shared the honor of advising the newspaper, stood be- hind their reporters throughout the controversy, and stated that they were an “extremely good staff.” The students decided to look at the sticky situation positively, and were quite excited about all the publicity it generated. The Tribune and the Times Star picked up the story off the issue service, and the Times Star reprinted it to use as their lead story. Del Lane, a reporter from the Tribune praised the article as a “good piece of investigative journalism.” Dave Jackson and his crew from KPIX Channel 5 visited the staff to interview the students, and KSFO FM reported the controversy on their station. In the spring, the Oak Leaf took its fine jour- nalsim into competition, and hoped to do well. ss Ms. Roemer commented that “we’re good now, The lottery scandal was ad great by spring we should be even better.” But accu- rate, informative journalism, not awards, was the learning experience. Because of the primary concern of the Oak Leaf Staff, and Ms. newspaper and ie V. coverage vf don't Roemer complimented that the newspaper had : ; eyes : “an award winning staff—with or without think there’s a rival student newspaper ds.” A ’ nas in the Bay Area who doesn’t know who Alameda High and the Oak Leaf are.” 24 Oak Leaf Gloria Morales, senior.

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Right: She must be an angel! - Or at least Senior Andrea La Francois thinks so Below: Venus Fly Tap? - No, Eric Martinez tells Mike Smith to open wide and say Ahhhhhh! Far right: Material girls? - Seniors, Kristi Jensen, Hind Zine, and Stephanie D’Orazio discuss the “Importance of Life.” What do you get when you cross a jock, a prep, a new waver, a rocker, and an academic achiever? A top box office hit called the Breakfast Club, right? Wrong, you get Alame- da High. When asked what “category” they were in, some people denied affiliation, but upon further questioning many finally decided upon a category that others generally put them in. When asked what style she was, Senior Andrea La Fran- cois replied, “I have a style all my own, I copy no one, they copy me.” Andrea likes Madonna, the Uptones, and the Thompson Twins, but she protested that she wasn’t a groupy, and that she doesn’t dress just like them! There were many different styles of dress seen around campus this past year, but not only were the styles different, the attitudes varied as well. Garments worn by a certain group of people were often a sign of what people were really like. For instance, the dress of the new waver is loud, flam- boyant, and colorfully exciting, all of which denotes the atti- tude of self-assurance, and outspokeness. The rockers clothes were dark and subdued, yet surprisingly tough. But all in all, the face of AHS went deeper than fashion. It went way beyond that, into the people, because they are what made the school, not the clothes. The Many Faces of AHS 26 Fads, Fashions, Dances