In the 1970 and 1971 Aklans, we don’t find entries for the Acalanes Radio Club. However, when you look at the 1972 Aklan… and go to the senior section, then you find two students who are listed as having been in the Acalanes Radio Club during the 1969-1970 school year. Tracy Richard Christensen: Acalanes Radio […]
Lafayette History Rabbit Holes – Acalanes Radio Station KCEQ: 1968-1969 Acalanes Radio Club
In the 1969, 1970, and 1971 Aklans, we don’t find entries for the Acalanes Radio Club. However, when you look at the 1972 Aklan… and go to the senior section, then you find two students who are listed as having been in the Acalanes Radio Club during the 1968-1969 school year. Tracy Richard Christensen: Acalanes […]
Lafayette History Rabbit Holes – Acalanes Radio Station KCEQ: Moving Into The Second Phase
We’ve reached the year 1962. This is a good point to stop and summarize where we’ve been and where we’re going. Up until now we’ve looked solely at Acalanes, Las Lomas, and Miramonte. Acalanes At Acalanes we saw early examples of radio clubs. Acalanes also introduced us to the undocumented radio/electronics clubs. Sometimes these clubs […]
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 […]
Lafayette History Rabbit Holes – Acalanes Radio Station KCEQ: 1950-1951 Radio Club
Finding the Radio Club for the 1950-1951 school year illustrates the difficulty of trying to find when clubs existed at Acalanes High School. Let’s take it step-by-step. We have our trusty Handbook For Dons that was given to students at the start of the school year. Under “Additional Activities” we have a listing for the […]
Lafayette History Rabbit Holes – Acalanes Radio Station KCEQ: 1949-1950 Radio Club
The Radio Club for the 1949-1950 school year not only made it into the Handbook For Dons. It made it into the 1950 Aklan. We may have our first, as we’ll dub them, Radio Club graduate(s) in Joan Siebert. Right now we can’t confirm that it is her in the picture of the club. She […]