Palo Alto High School - Madrono Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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MONDAY MORNING SET IN Start-of-school activities culminated with a dance Friday night in the amphitheater where one week ago Friendship Week was traditionally inaugurated with the Girls' League Welcome Tea. With the iuniors as guiding influences, the two hundred sophomore girls were introduced to Poly life. A warm welcome with bright pink and orange flowers created the atmosphere for the informal tea as Carolyn Moore, Girls' Activities Commissioner, provided a variety of social as- pects for the newcomers to adiust to. Anticipating senior sophistication, they were instead greeted with a display of rollicking, nonsensical skits which provided a sharp contrast to the gracious Spanish dignity of the amphitheater. Adhering better to the image of '67, fifteen senior girls modeled the latest styles from Saks as Linda Spencer narrated. The spirit of '69 rang out for the first time as the sounds of the Pep Band playing Green and White Forever reverber- ated through the empty halls and the cheerlead- ers and pom pon girls further aroused latent spirit. Cake and punch completed the represen- tation of Paly to the sophomore girls, and, as Carolyn Moore described it, the tea was short, but successful because everyone had a good time. That long-dreaded Monday arrived and as the week wore on, the newness gradually wore off and the days fell into a set pattern. But Dress-up Day completely discombobulated Friday morning when Paly was transformed and infested with outlandish finery from the Goodwill. The soph- omores with their traditional teddy bears and roller skates and the sophisticated iuniors clad in I a happy medium ranging from false eyelashes to three-inch wide ties and spots were far out- classed by the seniors hilariously decked out in wilted hats, shawls, and granny glasses. To the stirring sounds of the Fourth Dimensions, the annual Welcome Dance originated from the amphitheater. Used only in the past for rallies, assemblies, lunch, and the '63 luau, this new setting provided a pleasing atmosphere for all and a gala welcome for the sophomores. As the re-echoing sounds diminished, the amphitheater resumed its dignity amid its battered benches and its weathered exterior. Friendship Week was enthusiastically concluded as a new year began bringing new ideas and faces to old and distin- guished Paly.

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AFS ASSEMBLY The first all school reunion, the AFS Assembly, better acquainted foreign students with Paly and its people. After Student Body President Charlie Wing welcomed AFSers Rodolfo Cervino from Argentina and Yee Wah Choong lYinI from Nlalasia, ICYE exchange student Veronique Martin-Achard from Switzerland, and eighteen other foreign students to Paly, everyone returned a welcome home to Charlie, Paly's own summer AFSer to Roverto, Italy. Knowing only Level III French, Charlie lived fortwo months with a family of six that spoke only Italian. Never parting with his Italian dictionary, he dated Italian style with groups at tennis courts, learned soccer from his family, taught them baseball with a wild Wing-made bat, toured part of Switzerland with other Americans Abroad, and ran into Hurricane Faith on the cruise home. Even when things were going badly, I kept smiling! recalls Charlie remembering his bout with an Italian policeman, the shockingly great con- sumption of wine and beer, and the surprisingly easy life of Italian boys. He loves the people there in Roverto and wants to go back soon without Faith. Oaxaca, Mexico, was the scene of another summer exchange program. Junior Randy Reininger and senior Cynthia I-Iutzel spent seven weeks living with families in our sisterbcity to the south. The Neighbors Abroad Program provides girls with a sister to acquaint them with the surroundings, but a mix-up caused Randy to have a brother instead. He was iust as surprised as I was! she chuckled. Both girls attended and taught classes in Spanish schools. On their own, lively Mexican dances lasting until 3f3O a.m., fried pigskins, and turtle meat impressed Randy and Cynthia as did the lack of formal dating and the very friendly people. Both students expressed their anxiety to return to their Oaxacan families next summer. Laurie Ackerman spent a week at Cal at Davis learning first hand about California government through the Girls' State Program. The 560 girls organ- ized city, county, and state branches of authority and held democratic elections to each. Laurie was elected to her city council and took active part in the spirited mealtime yells denouncing the opposing party and hailing Boys' State, a mere 50 miles away. At Girls' State, concluded Laurie, I learned a lot about gov, ernment, but a lot more about people. Meanwhile, in a livestock pen at the Sacramento State Fairgrounds, our Boys' State Representative Joe Welsh was also spending seven days experiencing the governmental processes used in California. With 360 boys divided into political parties, Joe soon learned that his cow stall city of Larkin was not only a former home of prizewinning cattle, but also the temporary home of some prizewinning boys, numerous pillow fights, and practical knowledge of democratic practices. Amid cries of i'Better dead than a Fed, Paly's Whig repre- senta.ive asserts that In a week l've never learned so much about so many things. Charlie Wing, AFSerto Italy Jose Garza from Mexico visited Paly V . Suhr.-if V,,L