Richmond High School - Shield Yearbook (Richmond, CA)

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: | | Dedication Once in a blue moon a school counts among its faculty a teacher like Mr. Roy Fogel. Hearty and cheerful, Mr. Fogel walks among us, making us feel that school is good and life is good. Just what tit is that Mr. Fogel communicates so effortlessly. is hard to pin down. But we think that in essence it comes from his own solid goodness, his genuine feeling of good will toward others, and his sensitive per- ception of the great human values that ennoble man’s strivings. What- ever it is, we like it and prize it beyond words, especially since it spills over into his teaching. Mr. Fogel teaches Civics and United States History. He does this with thoroughness and zest. We like the way he teaches, because we learn, and also because he makes the whole business of learning natural and attractive. The humor, warmness, and personal enjoyment which Mr. Fogel injects into his classroom instruction make his classes an unfailing source of intellectual stimulation and sheer fun. In fact, a buoyant, brainy atmosphere seems to accompany Mr. Fogel wherever he goes. At home in his own ‘‘metropolitan Pinole,’’ Mr. Fogel leads a busy, happy life. Around his charming house he is oftentimes lost to sight, holed-up in his shop. doing extraordinary things with radios, or with the paraphernalia of photography. Frequently, when he is in sight, he and Mrs. Fogel take their three young sons, ages thirteen, eleven, and seveit, on lively sorties into the countryside, hiking and trout fish- ing. Spring and summer find Mr. Fogel the moving spirit of the Pinole Little League Ball Club, a splendid organization to which his sons are just as devoted as he. But though Mr. Fogel devotes himself to the practical aspects of small-fry baseball, he is a sports fan in the very widest sense. His particular weakness, however, ts football. Despite Mr. Fogel’s passionate allegiance to Pinole and its Little League, he is not a native born and bred. He was born in San Fran- cisco, went to school in Oakland, and graduated from the University in Berkeley. During World War II he was an instructor in an Army Air Corps School of Meteorology in Illinois. But all this early galli- vanting hardly counts (except for the wooing and winning of Mrs. Fogel in Illinois), since Mr. Fogel is now entirely root-bound in Pinole and school-bound in Richmond Union High. This state of Mr. Fogel’s affairs fills us with contentment. From the distant time when we were sophomores, Mr. Fogel has been our Class Advisor, and the fact that we have had such good times and have prospered so greatly is due to him and him alone. We know this, since we know firsthand his patience, his sense of duty, his grand good nature, his keen know-how and executive ability in getting us through the baffling mazes of highly organized social events. Because we appreciate so much all the many fine things that Mr. Fogel has done for us, and also because we simply want to salute such an excel- i a happy man, we, the Class of 1960, dedicate our Shield to him.

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