Encinal High School - Horizon Yearbook (Alameda, CA)

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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

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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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hour. Detention was assigned for two main reasons, tardies and goof- ing off in class. Students who decia- ed not to go to detention were sus- pended. The Special Education class fluc- tuated in its size; it was possible to have as many as twenty-eight stu- dents per teacher for the resource program. These students could be average to above average in intel- lect, but needed individualized in- struction to overcome a disability. “You really have a lot of empathy for the students when you try to read words in a strange language.” said Patricia Pederson, leader of the Special Ed. program. A aisability of- ten found was visual perception, such as seeing an “'e’ asa 'c”, or reading words backwards. These disabilities could seriously impair reading comprehension but they were solved by many methods, one being the use of larger type in a book that read exactly the same as the book’s normal copy. In conclusion, the “trivial pursuits’ of life, the job market, and the inevi- tability of college English classes, were some of the possibilities for which the English Department pre- pared students. ABOVE LEFT: WHEN Michelle Young speaks, everybody listens. CENTER LEFT: Liz Paulus makes cheat notes. LEFT: Sean Hedglin looks on as Karl Holmes pastes up the sports page. FAR BELOW LEFT: Doug Francis. FAR BELOW CENTER: Jimmy Durante, alias Lisa McClease. BELOW: Lynn Ordana reacts with triumph. year Gabriella Kirk Michelle Gail Michael William Charley Carol Lisa Brown Brown Brown Buckley Budd Burge Byrne Calilung Campbell MEN FRESHMEN FRESHMEN FRESHMEN FRESHMEN FRESHMEN FRESHMEN FRESHMEN FRESHMEN FRESHMEN FRESHMEN FRESHMEN FRESHME 25