Alameda High School - Acorn Yearbook (Alameda, CA)

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Seat hind ee Happy Days - Future actors of America show some spirit to promote their new play, Grease which was staged in April. Aloha - Freshmen show their true spirit for their first Homecoming. Their float soared into second place. Juniors hit home - Chris Morris, Camillo Moraga, Penny Bruce, and Susan Eppler say hello to the Homecoming judges. The junior float came in third place.

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AND WINNER IS... n October 14, 1988, we ex- hibited our annual Home- coming Parade. This spec- tacular event brought sec- retaries from their desks, teachers from their rooms, and united the students in school spirit. For a parade to do all that, you know it had to be something exciting The floats competed to see who came in first. Naturally the seniors won first place, but the surprise of the day was that fresh- men snagged second place. The juniors stumbled in at third place and sopho- mores fourth Since the theme was Alameda in Ha- waii, all the flaots had something to do with Hawaii. Smoking volcanoes, huge, colorful flowers, and little Hawaiian Island scenes were among the delightful sights The day was beautiful for a parade. Even though the morning was rainy, the sun poked through the dreary clouds to ilk § welcome the princes and princesses as they rolled down the streets in Cabriolets, Stingrays, and Mustangs just to name a few. The princesses were dressed in alll their finery. There were sparkling satins, sensational silks, and tremendous taffe- tas Joining in the parade was the Navy Col- or Guard, AHS Flag Drill Team, and the Marching Band “liked all the floats, | thought they were interesting and original. | think maybe the parade could have been longer by in- volving more students,’’ said Norman Ta- kao “| could see a Hawaiian football floating down the street,” said David George, his- tory teacher The parade not only got students out of class early, teachers away from their po- diums, and secretaries away from their desks, but served to united all the people who comprised AHS ‘| could see a Hawaiian football floating down the street.’’— David George

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te the oo al bed “ £6 a ro Aw eh 4 : id ? HRHB IAN RITUALS t came in the unassuming form of a musical note. A simple black dot on paper, nobody knew of the strange and mysterious powers hidden within. It held the power to motivate people, young and old, to wield their bodies in ways wé never imagined; ways that bog- gled our minds, and often defied the laws of gravity. ‘It’’ was the rythmic ceremoni- al ritual we called dance. From the rain dance to interpretive dance, it kept up our esprit de corps in the midst of the studying, cramming, and sleeping we did in class. It was a way of releasing all the stress and anxiety we ex- perienced during the hundreds of tests we were force-fed throughout the school year. At the first dance of 1989, the Hola Freshmen Dance, one could clearly see exactly how AHS’s students soewed out their stress: through their trademark pat- terns of unusual gyrations. | arrived at the scene at 8:30 p.m., mak- ing sure | was fashionably late to the gala event. A doorway clogged with excited teenagers waving student body cards and money in the air awaited me. | walked nonchalantly through the door- way, paying my fee and flashing an unat- tractive ASB card to the cashier. Surveying the room carefully, | noted the interesting movement of the exodus in the middle of the rubber-covered gym floor. They all seemed to be content with releasing their anxiety by bobbing up and down in an irregular fashion. Linda Su Kim, one of the many gyrating students, de- cided to relax a bit and joined me on the bleachers. “There weren’t as many people as | ex- pected for the first dance, but | still had fun,” stated Kim. “The dee-jays, Music Masters, did a pretty good job in blending the ‘beat’ with the ‘modern,’ making the whole crowd happy.”’ While some preferred the slower, more sedated tone of the ballads, others, like Christina Chan, enjoyed the fast-paced beat of the latest dance mixes to “trip the light fantastic.’ “There’s more versatility in fast danc- ing,” Chan revealed. ‘‘Why stick to one certain style in slow dancing when you can fast dance any way you want?” Indeed, it was evident that nobody really stuck to one certain style. Even slam dancing, a form of entertainment re- served for the more adventurous, sprung up from time to time on various spots of the gym-turned-discotech. Yet all of the students, whether partial to rap or new wave, folk dancing or dirty dancing, were there to fulfill the single task of releasing the everpopular product of studying and work: stress. |, like all of the rest of the crew, found a secret pleasure in stomping the @ $$%%! out of my frustrations. |, too, found out how powerful and alluring the beckoning sounds of music could be in creating the undulating movements of some of the people on the dance floor. Dancing, | realized, gave everyone a chance to dance to their own unique tune. On the dance floor nobody could say that you were dancing incorrectly and take off points. There were no rules. Only the music and you, oblivious to the problems of everyday life. On ly you danc- ing with your own style to your own indi- vidual tune. CO a AI Pere ka TREE A Bouncers? At AHS? - Several slam- dancing men literally ‘bounce’ off of one another at the Hola Freshmen Dance. Slam-dancing was just one of the array of dance steps avail- able at the first dance of the year