Thanks to the 1959 Mirada… we know there was an electronics club during the 1956-1957 school year. In the senior section there is a student named Martin Smith ‘Marty’. He is listed as being in the Electronics Club during the 1956-1957 and 1957-1958 school years. Since there doesn’t appear to be a yearbook for Miramonte […]
Lafayette History Rabbit Holes – Acalanes Radio Station KCEQ: Miramonte 1955-1956 Electronics Club
Acalanes opened in 1940. Las Lomas opened in 1951. Miramonte was next in 1955. Something interesting to note is that while Acalanes had a freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior class the year they opened; Las Lomas, Miramonte, and later Campolindo and Del Valle would all start with only freshman. Thanks to the 1959 Mirada… we […]
Lafayette History Rabbit Holes – Acalanes Radio Station KCEQ: Las Lomas 1955-1956 Electronics Club (Las Lomas Gets An Amateur Radio Station)
The 1954-1955 Las Lomas Electronics Club was trying to get a ham radio set for the club. It would appear that they succeeded the following school year. In the Spring edition of the 1956 Amateur Radio call book (Scans of the pages on Internet Archive) there is an entry for the Las Lomas Electronics Club. […]
Lafayette History Rabbit Holes – Acalanes Radio Station KCEQ: Las Lomas 1953-1954 Electronics Club
In the 1957 El Caballero… you find two students in the senior section that state they were in the Electronics Club during three of their four school years. There’s David William Appleton who was in the club during his freshman, sophomore, and junior years. There’s Hal Gary Bell who was also in the club during […]
Lafayette History Rabbit Holes – Acalanes Radio Station KCEQ: Las Lomas 1954-1955 Electronics Club
According to the 1955 Las Lomas yearbook (El Caballero), they had an electronics club during the 1954-1955 school year. It looks like the main objective of the group this school year was to obtain a ham radio set. This year marks the establishment of the Electronics Club as a recognized student-body organization. Members, interested in […]
Lafayette History Rabbit Holes – Acalanes Radio Station KCEQ: 1958-1962 Electronics Club
In the senior section of the 1962 Aklan there are two students who are listed as having been in an Electronics Club all four of their years. To make sure they weren’t transfer students, we also checked the 1959, 1960, and 1961 Aklans. They were in all of them. What isn’t in the 1959, 1960, […]
Lafayette History Rabbit Holes – Acalanes Radio Station KCEQ: Mystery Radio Club Member (1956 Aklan)
In the 1956 Aklan… you can find a student named Steve Luther Syverud. It lists him simply as having been in the “radio club”. There’s no year after it. As such, we don’t know exactly when this person was a member of the Radio Club. It’s likely that it was during their senior year, but […]
Lafayette History Rabbit Holes – Acalanes Radio Station KCEQ: 1955-1956 Radio Club
The 1955-1956 Radio Club can be found by looking at the things that each student did at Acalanes, which is listed next to their senior pictures. There’s nothing in 1955-1956 Handbook For Dons. There’s nothing in the 1956 Aklan. When you go to the section with the senior pictures, we find one person who is […]
Lafayette History Rabbit Holes – Acalanes Radio Station KCEQ: 1954-1955 Radio Club
The 1954-1955 Radio Club can be found by looking at the things that each student did at Acalanes, which is listed next to their senior pictures. There’s nothing in 1954-1955 Handbook For Dons. There’s nothing in the 1955 Aklan. It’s in the 1956 Aklan where we find evidence that this Radio Club existed. When you […]
Lafayette History Rabbit Holes – Acalanes Radio Station KCEQ: 1951-1952 Radio Club
The 1951-1952 Radio Club had to be inferred from the senior pictures. This time it was as straight-forward as it gets. We went to the 1951-1952 Handbook For Dons. Then we looked in the activities section and found a listing for the Radio Club under “Additional Activities”. Out came the 1952 Aklan… and in the […]
