In the 1969 Compañero…
we find that there was an Electronics Club during the 1968-1969 school year.
The Electronics Club has provided students with the opportunity to plan, set up, and execute the lighting and sound systems for the different school activities during the year. The Electronics Club was responsible for the superb lighting and sound systems for the Senior Class play, the Christmas program, the Junior Prom, and the school musical, “My Fair Lady.” The Committee of Engineering and Technical Development, a subsidary (sic) of the Electronics Club, spent time during the summer developing a kit for the freshman boys to use in Shop Orientation Class. This club also includes four ham radio operators, three of these possessing Novice licenses. The Electronics Club performs many services for the community as well as the school, including assembling lighting and sound systems for outdoor sports.
A “subsidiary”? The Electronics Club this year was so big and organized that they had a subsidiary known as The Committee of Engineering and Technical Development.
The students that were in the Electronics Club are listed as follows:
George Hess
Dan Webb
Charles Coderre
Steve Johnson
Kirk Peterson
Kevin Bailey
Gary Burg
Mike Strayer
Ed Kerns
Dale Tobias
Tom Trask
John Huckabay
Todd Rivett
Don Turk
Tom Kurtz
George Karner
Mark Stice
Cal Stoltz
Ray Laukat
David Partridge
Kurt Allmendinger
Glen Marttila
Rick Stanley
Glen Odabashian
David Evans
Dan Hoch
That’s a fairly large club. It comes to a total of 26 students. And that’s down from the at least 29 students which made up the club the previous year. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that they had the students to make up a subsidiary of the greater club, but the fact they were so motivated that they had one and were even meeting over the summer to make something for the freshman class is really something. It’s this kind of commitment from students that would eventually lead to KCEQ–just not at Campolindo.
This was Wendell Pleis last year teaching at Campolindo. We’ll see him next at Del Valle.
That’s all the information on this part that we have at the moment. As with all these posts, please feel free to share any information you might have.
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