Berkeley High School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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Cynthia Walker helps out with Lunch Bunch. Mary Vahlstrom serves faculty members. Bill Burgess sampling desserts. 4. Dessert Club members from left to right-Susan Hall, Nicole LeProhn, Sarah Krevans, Nancy Lena, Tom McElheney, David Eichorn, Tim Yuen, Wesley Uno. 5. Gourmet Club members, front row, left to right-Alan Bade ' , Elaine Leitmann, Tom Levenson. Middle £nd back rows Deborah Kranzler, Paul Higgins, Richard Dilling- ham, Katherine Dodd, Jennifer Keller. phulos hy Uke R.uie,- Activities - 29

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O CLUBS The Lunch Bunch, a pilot program sponsored by the Home Ec Department, was designed to teach students how to work in food sercie, the third largest industry in the U.S. The program helped students learn to prepare foods in large quantities along with serving food and handling money. Although the program was not federally funded this year, it will be next year. The program not only helped stud- ents, it gave teachers the chance to enjoy a well prepared lunch in a relaxed setting. Gourmet Club is an informal organiza tion of students who are interested in good food and its preparation. The club meets at the home of a member to prepare and eat meals composed of several dishes from a specific country or culture chosen for the evening. Dinners prepared, to name a few, have been Italian, French, and Austro-Ger- man. Dessert Club members gathered each Monday afternoon to share recipes and food. Each week a different member brought a delicacy for the group to digest, and trips to nearby eating establishments were also planned. The club chipped in to maintain a supply of plates, cups, and other necessities, a small price to pay for some delicious des- serts. Activities - 28

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WORKSHOP This year, the Chicano Workshop spon- sored the Prison Survival Project. They con- centrated on informing students of prison conditions and raising money to send Christ- mas packages to prisoners. For the first time students, workers, and community people worked together to send 228 Christmas packages to prisoners. They sent packages to the Vacaville, San Quentin, Snledad, and Chino prisons. They raised SI, 200 in cash and S300 in goods by solic- itmg at Coop stores, holding a benefit party, selling tostadas at BHS, showing a benefit film, making, packaging, and selling hand- made Christmas cards, preparing a benefit breakfast, cooking up a bake sale ax Odyssey School, collecting pledges and donations from community people, and committing a lot of time to working together for prison- ers. As a follow-through, the Chicano Workshop class visited Vacaville Prison, and continued to write letters to the people inside. This year ' s Model U.N. club was smaller than usual, but by no means less successful. At the 24th M.U.N, at Cal, the club repre- sented Guyana, a South American nation which is a member of the Security Council. Thomas Levenson, president of the club, was elected raporteur by the other members of the Security Council, and was later named the Best Delegate by the chairman. X-iV CAMEL m RS.C i Activities - 30