Skyline High School - Olympian Yearbook (Oakland, CA)

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Leadership class involves officers in student issues Mid-year curriculum changes included the addition of two new semester electives. Leadership, an hour designed for persuance of school projects by student body officers, was opened to other students willing to participate in activity organizing. Mr. Kenneth Goepfert advised the course. Radio programming, taught by lVlr. Herb Kennedy, kept the school radio f' it f' it b..v I 'M-:J trrltr- or x. station, KSKY, on the air with original and immaginative scripts. f 9' t rlr. lrbli 3 yry ., V, - Top: Activities Adviser Kenneth Goepfert holds the line long enough to answer Kim Greaver's and Judy Terry's questions about their leadership class projects. Above: Explaning the mechanics of managing the school's radio station, KSKY general manager Richard Cranmer addresses class members RobertGoady, Vickie Jones, Alan Marcus, Kim Greaver, Tika Benveniste, Joan Narano, and Janice Koch. Right: Student body officers Roosevelt Gipson Ctreasurery, Lou Dokos fcommissioner of internal affairsb, and Dave Stein Cpresidentj take advantage ofthe period together to work on a teacher evaluation questionaire, while secretary Laura Davis types up the minutes of the last Associates Council meeting. 48 Curriculum

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Oakland press recognizes many student newsmen Lake Merritt's Sailboat House was the site of the Oakland Press Honor Association dinner. The dinner, March 7, was attended by publication and journalism students from all six Oakland public high schools. Awards of merit were presented to outstanding students for their contributions and achievements to school publications. Cartoonist Morrie Turner, news commentator lsabel Duran, and sports writer Dave Newhouse gave informative talks about their various careers. Top: Attending the OPHA dinner from Skyline are Caren Christensen, Linda Bridge, Mrs. Pege Rankin, Judy Terry, Lori Fowler, Janice Koch Row 2: Celia Donohue, Francey Fisher, Debbie Tuttle, Sue Brown, Cynde Ahart, Heidi Hansen, Annette Lim, and guest speakers lsabel Duran and Morrie Turner Row 3: Dave Lesser, Bob Lipanovich, Dave Dill, Louis Dokos, Ken Middlesworth, Bill Schleicher, Steve Harris, Mike Keatts, and Dave Wong. Right: Reviewingthe outcome of the evening are Louis Dokos, Dave Dill, Mrs. Pege Rankin Cadviserb, and Kipp Leyser. Above: Cartoonist Morris Turner sketches character from his comic strip Wee Pals. The pilots and course 47

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E if 14222. .x3-Hy -z.w,v:, QQ., . :.g..4..:,-'3- J -ff- Ef fx 3 gr 1534 I i 4. ' 'kg 'lr' if'-I ':fi'?i:1lw.5'- if Se' -?'i'Q723LSi . Pi-va-35z?Q.I1ff.' f .. ,f mx., uw.. .2 .1 . .4 f-as . ,'x- K ', Wlkff-.f'?' M, Y 1 .1 f -2 1 9 X ,, 5 I. ff , E'- 1Qi2z'f 5215 fr.: n ,.. Q.. 1 ff, , - , 44:4 ,V ., sf ' 32:51 f' 38555, Q i is Q Dr Marcus A. Foster 1923-1973 In memoriam . . Working together, we are limited only by our imaginations Cited as one of the nation's most progressive educators, Dr. Marcus A. Foster served as superintendent of the Oakland Unified School District for three yea rs. Youngest of five children, Dr. Foster was born March 31, 1923 in Athens, Georgia. Raised and educated in Philadelphia, he did his undergraduate study at Pennsylvania State College, and continued through the University of Pennsylvania for the first of his three doctorate degrees. Dr. Foster began his teaching career in 1948. After 22 years of teaching and administrating all-level schools, he was appointed associate superintendent of Philadelphia schools. Dr. Foster, his wife Albertine and daughter Marsha moved to Oakland when he was selected school superintendent in 1970. Ambushed by Symbionese Liberation Army members, Dr. Marcus Foster was shot and killed the night of November 6. f'. . . he engaged parents, children, school staff, and the community to prove, again and again, that confrontation and conflict provided communities for growth. Crises, he believed, are only opportunities gone wrong . . --Office of Coiiimunity Relations ig The pilots and course 49