Del Valle was the third school in the Acalanes Union High School District. It opened in 1959. The first yearbook we can find is for the 1961-1962 school year.
In the 1962 Troiana…
we find that there was an Electronics Club during the 1961-1962 school year.
The members are listed as follows:
Richard N. Clevenger
Greg Osborn
Stephen White
Steven B. Winters
Lucian Williams
Elbert Dawson
James R. Lortsher (Secretary-Treasurer)
Daniel Baizer
Steven Haggerty
Don Mc Glauflin
Joseph Bockrath (President)
Mark L. Bigelow
James Gantner
It doesn’t explicitly say who was their faculty advisor. However, given that Jack Doroshenko was the Electronics teacher at time, it makes sense that he would’ve been their advisor.
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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I remember when Del Valle opened.. us kids in the neighborhood (Saranap District) all use to ride our bikes up there and play foot ball on their brand new foot ball field…. from the field looking south through the goal post we we look directly out to the Stanley Dollar Ranch (now it’s Rossmore) and all the cattle with cowboys riding horses… My fondest memories were either playing mud football on the field after a winter rainy day or later on when I was 11 or 12, we would go to Del Valle and jump the fence to swim in their pools on a hot summer day… As a kid growing up in the Pleasant Hill Road and Saranap District, there were so many great things to do. Most everyone I knew had a horse or dirt bike and there were miles and miles to ride on.
Del Valle split the district of Acalanes HS when it opened. I was in 7th grade at the time going to Fairview intermediate when they said all the kids from Boulevard Way West would go to Acalanes and kids in Burton Valley and Boulevard Way East would go to Del Valle… Del Valle was the templet of Campolindo HS in Rheem (Moraga now)… Del Valle never had the student body growth that Campolindo or Acalanes did and eventually the school district closed it down… I often thought that Rossmore had something to do with that cause of kid and school noise next to a retirement community…. Rossmore bought the school property and turned it into an adult education center… It was a great time to grow up in the area in the 50’s and 60’s