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 […]

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 […]

Acalanes used to give students a booklet called the Handbook for Dons. This booklet had everything from a list of available activities/clubs to Acalanes songs/yells. Up until the past few days, we thought we only had the nice compact versions from the late-1940s through the mid-1960s. While digging through our archives we discovered an older, […]

The Acalanes Radio Club for the 1947-1948 school year can be found in the 1948 Acalanes Yearbook (Aklan). Judging by the picture, this radio club seems to have been focused on the electrical engineering aspect of radio. It wouldn’t be surprising if these kids were, or were planning to become ham radio operators. It’s humorous […]