by
~ora
1974
Mahan and KathY Sei l er
The Class of
' 7~
haa had Its
ups and it s downs, but thi s year Is an "up" year.
To Btart with we are the tlrst
graduating class this year In the Richmond School District . We also s~em to be the largest graduating
class In the district. Fifty sen i ors
wll 1 be honor graduates - more than In rece nt years. El Cerrito High School 1s cont inuing to send more students to college-abou t 80% of
the class will enter college next fall. More stUdents have been ac
cepted t o out of state co lleges this year than In any other year . This year's SenIor Class haa accomp l ished many things In their ~ hree years at El Cerrito High . In our sophomore year we sold cla8s pins , cook bOOks, and had many smaller 8sles to increase our finances. I n our Junior year we had a Successful Fashion Show a nd ::larty smaller sales. Now, in our sen~or year we have h ad the po~d er ?uft football game, the first fUn night, a pancake breakfast, do ugh ~u t sa les, car washes , and dues ~ard sales. Dues cards sold we ll this year , un like the Class of '73 . ~e have raised over $3 , 000 to sup ~ort our act ivities.
In 1971 as sophomores, our
~irst El Cerrito High activity
was buildin~ our Homecoming float.
~Pooh on Pinole" was the slogan
and it received second place being
edged out by the Class of 72's
~loat, "Recycle the Sp-artans" with
~ he cans. In the fall of 1972 the
;unior Class united once again to
~uild our winning f l oat. "The
=-agles are Tak ing a Gamble" re
ceived a first p lace and gave our
class a f eellng of accomplishment
and pride. Our f l oat this year,
-The Ollers Are Having a Shortage"
~ eceived seconO p l ace behind the
class of 75's f l oat. The winni ng ~ loat "Tras h t he Oilers" was an e xcellent float and was hard to ~ o beat. Brandon Swain, our class gc~illa, led the spiri t fo r the Senior Class during the Homecoming gace.
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AN "UP" YEAR
in our Junior year the cheat ing r ing in chemist ry was broken up by Mr. Beck, Mr. Etcheverry and Mr. Tobin, and the most mysterious of a ll was the appearance overnight of the giant red '74 on t he south end of the main building above the t op floor windows. The Sen iors have already celebrated Ditch Day at Adobe Creek and co~lng up is the Senior Ball at t he Si r Prancia Drake Hotel on June 1 with ~usic pro v i ded by Badwater Bridge. The Senior Walkout wi l l
be on June 5 with graduation exer cises follow i n~ on - June 6 at 8:00 p . llI . at t he Richmond Au~Hto riu.: The graduation speakers will be Rlchard Parmet er and Ben Dixon . R1chard's speech " ill be on "In dIvId ualism through Education" and Ben's speech is on "Success . " The Disneyland trip-June 7 & S" wIll bring our Senior year and our SenIor activities to a close, but we wil l all have many melllOrie~ to look back on of our three years a : El Cerr ito HIgh School.
Ballad of !be Class of '74 by BTian Po....e ll
On the s ixteenth day ot August In th"e--year of '73, The class of '74 or ganized this year's potpourri; We talked of se~io r nen and wonen and how we were
to cope,
With our blg gaae against R1c~ond and the Senior
Homecoming Float;
Armed with a r ecord of Which not to brag, and a
team w1th ~any a coach,
The GaUChOS marched ~ith fire in their eyes to t he
f ie ld o~ Hale Roach;
The game was
5 u~e t o be a tough one, one of the
f or this 3car's grads,
But any ob se rver who saw it said , "That team speaks
wIt h t heir pads."
~eanest
The Gauchos were ....1etorious and it wasn't ha-rd to
see,
This 1s what the green and white needed. Man : we
are o ne and three ~!!
At half-time, however, Lady Luck did not show, for reasons were una~are, It came to pass, it wa~n't a last, ~ut we gave '75 (julte a scare. The ::::1 Cerrito High pot luck, known as a smorgasbord too, COllloosed of the Hill, Pit . Patio, and also t he . St ud ent tlnlon . Many are con fused as to where their future wIll
l a nd ,
How can calcium carbonat~ help? Let alone the
:13 ture of Man;
Our" ~oyh~~ore class wa s united the class sponsor eo trip to Sar.ta Cruz where approximately 250 s tudents began to get it t ogether. -ne of the highlight s of our ':J.nior year wa~ our Junior ProlD ~~ich was held at the MarrIot t Inn ~:: the Berkeley Mari na May 25 , 1973.
There is a lot of busy work and there's more to it then Just a fact, You learn about those Other people come Yellow, Io'hite, or Blac k.
The Cl as s of ' 74 has also had perlods. Antics such as · oe Paulj no putting the lamb' s eart I n the c oke mach ine. a n un Ident ified group painting De Anza' s ~al posts green a nd white thIs year . ..ring f ootba ll season, the Class ~ '74 wi nning its first r ally as ~e~iors , the .rivalr y between the ·~1iors and the Seniors with a ench (a nd g~ess who.,.won?!)~)
~eve Miller coming to school
~essed 8S Santa Claus ano as a
e?raCheu n on St. Patrick's Day;
The Ball yields a band, Croln whose style you will Cringe, Get your duds now and dig Badwater Bridge;
~y
l~ s row d~
This class has tried and stU l may l ack many a thing , But Where ver you go , let It always be said , we had an outrageous spring;
The banquet was an out-of- sight e ven t, even though so~ thought not, Next time get a good 6pot I n l ine, ' cause when it' s hot, It' s hot. Remember you people, be never 1n Jest, 'Cause we owe a lot to E. C. H. S . In a mat ter of days this yeaI' will be no more. Have pride. Have Joy. Ri 6h e - o n, Sey e nt] - four!
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