Acalanes High School - Aklan Yearbook (Lafayette, CA)

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MR. REX KAUFMAN Auto Shop MR. ROBERT KING Spanish; Freshman Class Sponsor MR. RICHARD KLIER Mathematics; Assistant Coach Soccer and Track MRS. BETTY KRPAN (NOT PICTURED) Secretary MR. DON MADERA Mathematics MR. RICHARD MAYES English; Blueprint; Senior Class Sponsor MR. ROGERS MCMASTERS (NOT PICTURED) Wood Shop MRS. CAROLYN MEEK English; Senior Class Sponsor MR. MICHAEL MEINKE English; Sports Sponsor MS. CYNTHIA MOREN Learning Skills; C.S.F. Sponsor MRS. BARBARA MUELLER Mathematics; Science; Junior Class Sponsor MR. JIM MULDOON English; Service Club Sponsor MRS. DIANA J. NEHLS Nurse MISS MARGARET NICHOLSON Science MR. STAN OBERG French; French Club Sponsor; Foreign Language Department Chairman MR. HAROLD OLSON Counselor; English MRS. MARIE OLSON English MR. WILLIAM O ' NEILL Art; English MR. GALEN OTTO Business MR. ROBERT PENROSE Mathematics 205 FACULTY

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New and Improved Locker library. Along with Spanish IV workbooks and English II anthologies, 425 new government books were a major addition to departmental supplies. The new textbooks combined cartoon drawings and graphic charts to present their information effectively. After a summer of sun tan oil and bare feet, it was awfully hard to slump back into the routine of binder paper and locker combinations. Class- rooms looked just like they did last year and the math textbook you were handed looked like it spent the day on the BART tracks. Return to normalcy, same old thing, nothing ever changes. Right? Well not ex- actly. Look more closely. On entering room 404, maybe you noticed what ap- peared to be three private T.V. viewing centers. They were in fact, micro computers. Pur- chased with MGM funds, these computers allowed four people to punch in data at once. As more students became familiar with the main computer, ex- plained Mr. DeMartini, we decided we needed to expand our computer system. Besides, we had the money, and the mi- cro-computers were a good buy. We paid $19,000 for the main unit three years ago, but the three new computers cost only $6800 total. Students faced other changes in September, includ- ing new textbooks. Mrs. Meek commented, We ordered one hundred anthologies for En- glish III classes, and I ' ve also gotten new books to complete certain sets for World Lit. We ' re even hoping to order tape cassettes with lectures about literature. Workbooks for the Spanish IV class were well received. Said Junior Jenny Miller, The new books explain grammar really well and have enough exercises to make sure you understand. Government classes also noticed a certain crispness to their textbook pages. We or- dered 425 new books, re- ported Mr. Dobbins, But we ' ve been very limited by Prop. 13. Occasionally we do receive free materials. I even got a free box of pamphlets from the New York Stock Ex- change. Not only were classroom supplies updated for the school year — a number of teachers took courses outside of class to update their own skills. Mr. Fee enrolled in a re- fresher calculus course at UCLA over the summer, and Mrs. Meek participated in the UC Santa Cruz Writers ' Con- ference, in which Ken Kesey, author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo ' s Nest was a main speaker. Even if the classroom did look the same, you couldn ' t au- tomatically assume nothing else had changed. Maybe you didn ' t have new textbooks or computers in your classes, but you weren ' t fed an unrevised version of last year. As Mr. King put it, As the composi- tion of a class changes, the teaching philosophy must change. A teacher must ad- just this technique to suit his class. 1 ' 2Sfos k M Program print out. Complicated formulas flash across the screen as Tim Wickens types in his calculus program. Students in Mr. DeMartini ' s first period computer programming class spent much of their time punching data into the micro computers at the back of the room. MR. HARRY INNOCENTI Mathematics; Science MR. BOB JENSEN English; Varsity Basketball Coach MRS. MARIE KAHN English 204 FACULTY

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MR. JAY PIERCY Assistant Principal MR. WENDELL PLEIS Mathematics; Electronics; Assistant Football Coach; Radio Club Advisor MRS. RUBY RAMEY Science; C.S.F. Advisor MR. BRUCE REEVES English; Teacher Curriculum Assistant MR. L. LEROY ROACH Instrumental Music MR. FORREST RUSSELL Physical Education; Driver Education MRS. DEE SCHROLL (NOT PICTURED) Principal ' s Secretary MR. GEORGE SCOTT Science MR. MICHAEL SIEGFRIED Mathematics; Typing MISS DOLORES SILVA Vice Principal Making A Comeback An advisor ' s best friend. AKLAN members always looked forward to their workweekend visitors: friends, parents, and even dogs! Remy, Nancy ' s golden retriever, felt right at home amid the bustle of the first workweekend. 1978. It was a vintage year, may- be not for wine or for cars, but cer- tainly for advisors. September of that year was the peak month for advisors of the yearbook variety, and as Nancy Holton strolled through the door of Room 205 we knew we had found the cream of the crop. Soon the teacher-student re- lationship disappeared, Mrs. Holton became Nancy, and we became typically us. By the time the first work-weekend rolled around it was no sur- prise to see Nancy out on the lawn catching the rays or in- side camped on a sleeping bag trying to suppress her laughter during a headline session. She was always able to laugh with us. When the work had to be done, however, we wanted to do it; a compliment from Nancy on a job well done could leave us smiling for a week. We did a lot of smiling that year, but the passage of Propo- sition 13 brought us back to reality. A sense of impending doom hung over the AKLAN room — the school could not afford to keep Nancy on for an- other year. As June drew near we abandoned the excitement of a long-awaited summer and wished that the year would never end. It did, and a tearful good-bye speech from Nancy proved it. It was a long summer for those of us who wondered what AKLAN ' 80 would be like. At Arena Scheduling someone noticed that there was a Teacher X on the mas- ter schedule, and we waited anxiously. When Nancy ap- peared in the parking lot, we knew she ' d be with us for an- other year. That year was just what we made it. We laughed some more and let Nancy ' s smile brighten our days. Mid-year Nancy announced that she was going to have a baby. Again we faced the fact that she wouldn ' t be back. We got caught up in the excitement of baby names and baby showers and listened as Nancy talked about her ex- periences as a mother-to-be. We all clung to the hope that she would return. Return she did. Every day, just to help us, she sacrificed three hours that could have been spent with her new son Alexander. At times her all- encompassing dedication was an inspiration. She had given up so much already, and she always came back to give us more. 206 FACULTY