Alameda High School - Acorn Yearbook (Alameda, CA)

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ane Fle ' ai ; . ; “SHIEKS of ISiO” — football team - Football Team, 1913

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LeRoy Krusi AHS Student Body President Eva Steele AHS Student Body Vice President replacem ent tor the fall term ot 1904 was é 1 year old scholar, Dr. George C. lhompson. During his time as principal from 1904 to 1939, enrollment increased from 372 to 1,000 students. : Alameda High School was developing as rapidly as the city. In 1902 Alameda was changed from a peninsula from Oakland Harbor to Sar Leandro Bay. In 1904, the Alaskan Pack ers Association, then the largest salmon packing com pany in the world, selected Alameda as its winter quar ters. With its new freight terminals, Alameda became an important shipping port on the Pacific Coast. jar sf S 4H is : - : @ ” Alameda High School Faculty in 1911. Girls enjoyed sports in those days, too.

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big part of the entertainment in the second decade of the 1900’s were the tunes that came out of the victrollas. Tunes like ““Too Much Mustard,” “Alexander’s Rag time Band,” and “When you Wore a Tulip” numbered among the popular songs for high schoolers. Class Shieks,” like those of 1910, and “‘loungelizards,”’ were learning to dance the “Argentine Tango,” a bit daring for the teens of those days. But all wasn’t ‘““Wine and Roses,” for in August, 1914, World War I began. Coach Otto Rittler joined the AHS faculty in 1914. His Ger man Military background not only put the rugby, football, base ball, basketball, and swim teams in winning form, but also helped develop women’s athletics at Alameda High. Also in training in 1914 were numbers of Alameda High School Cadet Corps, under the leadership of C.P. Magagnos, captain of the local National Guard unit. The cadets drilled with retired Civil War Rifles. The 1914 ACORN’s Dedication page The All-School play of 1918.