Encinal High School - Horizon Yearbook (Alameda, CA)

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The Drama class formed a new arama club, planned assembly per- formances, put on The Matchmaker in December, and Stage Door in the spring, Robert Moorhead hoped his dramatic stars would become so involved in the theatre that he could fantasize hearing one say. 'A part, a part, my wheels for a part!” Tom Berridge’s Journalism class, full to overflowing with thirty-four students, took a challenge that past Journalism classes dared not aft- tempt: a new school newspaper! The purpose of Journalism was to teach students newswriting and the techniques for producing a paper. A newspaper meant deadlines, and if those weren’t met, a fate worse than death occured: grades went down and that meant there went the ol’ GPA and perhaps even a col- lege of choice. Gun contro] and nuclear energy were a few of many hotly debated topics in Public Speaking. Led by “Demosthenes’’ Norman Robinson, twenty-one students improved their cont. next page ABOVE LEFT: SIDNEY Thatcher doesn’t agree with the grade the infamous Scantron com- puter has awarded her. LEFT: Rudy Galera struggles through his copy of “MacBeth”’. Di- RECTLY BELOW: Racking their brains, Ray Un- telasco and Johnathan Irwin crank out an English essay due at the end of the period. Tami Brooke James Romel Sonia Kent Meloni Robyn Robert Barrera Batchelor Beesley Benipayo Berdahl Bianchi Bill Billington Bisi FRESHMEN FRESHMEN FRESHMEN FRESHMEN FRESHMEN FRESHMEN FRESHMEN FRESHMEN FRESHMEN FRESHMEN FRESHMEN FRESHMEN Fi 23

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LEFT: THESPIAN, SHANNON Phillips, mas- ters her scene from “The Matchmak- er’. BELOW: Janet Menifee checks out the new guy in her English class. FAR EW ENGLISH , BELOW LEFT: After successfully com- pleting her speech, Brenda Almason A CTIMITE. S F @ IP “a hands her notes to her trusty sidekick Jeff Clark. FAR BELOW: Maggie Runez. Angela Reposa, Robert Griffith and Fi IS S T D ENTS j ; Sean Johnson put the finishing touches be ( j on their French tests English and Drama, Public Speak- ing and French, plus Detention and Spanish were some: of the many classes discovered in the academic world called “The English Depart- ment”, chaired by Betty Slater. Spe- cial Education, English as a Second Language and Journalism in adai- tion to the courses noted, were also a part of the English division. In a student body of 1100, over 1753 students filled these classes. This strange number resulted when many students took more than one class in the English Department. The two-fold challenge that faced English students included un- derstanding and appreciating lit- erature as well as expressing oneself with the written word. On the ap- preciation front the freshmen tack- led the Miracle Worker, while the sophomores butted heads with Me. dea, and All Quiet on the Western Front. The juniors read The Scarlet Letter, and the seniors struggled through Hamlet, Paradise Lost, and the super difficult task of writing son- nets. 4 Wh hy , nc ee; Re. Be — nice lori luan Ly 4 5 Y Monice Gloria Juanita Lydia Alex Fiangesca serina DD nice oria Danny Adams Aguilar Apodaca Apodaca Aquino Aranas Arviso Ayala Bain FRESHMEN FRESHMEN FRESHMEN FRESHMEN FRESHMEN FRESHMEN FRESHMEN FRESHMEN FRESHMEN FRESHMEN FRESHMEN FRESHMEN Fi 22

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speaking without using pebbles. With all that training under their belt, Encinal speakers tried in the spring for honors in speech contests given by the Lions, the Veterans, and the Rotary Club. ‘4 Estudiaste? No, no estudie.” Oh-oh!! This was not the response students of Spanish wanted to give to the question. Three teachers helped 334 students learn as much Spanish as they could. The Spanish honors classes, which were looked upon as a plus by col- lege admissions boards, had the double distinction of writing compo- sitions and a harder grading scale than regular classes. Glen Fong maintained that the purpose of his French classes was To communicate via French.” One of the highlights of the year was seeing Fong’s genuine French mov- ies. The more advanced students read the stories of Guy de Maypas- sant in addition to their regular te- ious drill work. Glen Fong also had the “honor” of ruling detention after school. An average of fifteen to twenty peo- ple per day visited ‘'Fong ’s Village“ for periods of five minutes to an ABOVE LEFT: JAMES Hankins does his interpre- tation of Conan. ABOVE RIGHT: John Suggs experiences the agony of defeat. RIGHT Tom Vital pleads with Lynanna Baker to take him to the Sadie Hawkins dance. BELOW: Ju- nior Osoimalo zips through his test and starts thinking about lunch ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLIS Peter Chris Tom Orl Krisi ‘ Micheal Michael Fric Bobsin Bongon Booth Boston Bowles Braun Bright Bright Brooks FRESHMEN FRESHMEN FRESHMEN FRESHMEN FRESHMEN FRESHMEN FRESHMEN FRESHMEN FRESHMEN FIRRESHMEN FRESHMEN FRESHMEN 24