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Baccalaureate Photos Needed

We need senior and kindergartent photos of graduating seniors to display at baccalaureate, a non-denominational, inspirational voluntary celebration of graduation held Sunday, June 8 at 2 p.m. at Valley Community Church, 4455 Del Valle Parkway.

The event, planned by students and parents, features student performers and readers, as well as inspiring words from chosen speakers.

There will be a slide show of seniors who attend. We need two photos -- one from kindergarten and a current or senior photo. No group photos, please. The focus is on head shots. Pictures may not be larger than 8x10 or smaller than 2x3.

Here's how you can submit your photos:

* Scan photos and send as an attachment to dljordanca@comcast.net.

* Take photos to FedEx Kinko's and use the Sony scanning machine to scan photos onto the CD provided with this service. The cost is $5.42. Use the CD in your computer to send photos as an attachment to dljordanca@comcast.net or mail CD to Diane Jordan at 6305 Laura Lane, Pleasanton 94566.

* Mail hard copies of photos to above address or leave in the baccalaureate box in the front office. Be sure to label each photo with your student's name. If you want the photos returned, include a self-addressed, stamped envelope.

Deadline to submit photos is May 16. Please get your photos in as soon as possible. Time flies these last few months of senior year!

Questions? Contact Diane Jordan at dljordanca@comcast.net or 600-1260 or Mary Kozlowski at gkozlowski@comcast.net or 484-4348.

DECA News

December 2007

DECA members held their annual DECA Week Nov. 5-9. Each day was designated
to the four DECA diamond themes: civic consciousness, social intelligence,
leadership development and career technical understanding.

Social intelligence was demonstrated with a teacher recognition breakfast.
Students wearing DECA aprons served pancakes, waffles, fruits and a variety
of pastries. They also made informal one-on-one presentations about DECA to
teachers.

Posters of careers in different business sectors were made by students to
illustrate career technical understanding. Students accompanied their
posters with speeches during lunch.

A video for Children’s Hospital Oakland was made for civic consciousness.
The video was aired on the school’s bulletin to promote awareness within our
school. Students then proposed a Miracle Minute in each of their classes,
where they gave a minute of their time to donate change to the hospital.

For leadership development, students hosted a student triathlon as a
lunchtime activity. Hula Hoops and passing oranges were among the games
included in the activities. In addition, students hosted their own game of
Quiz Bowl, using students at lunch on the quad, to promote business
awareness.

DECA Week was successful, giving DECA students a chance to learn about the
DECA diamond and to give students a chance to be involved in DECA
activities.

A Miracle Minute

DECA students from took part in a schoolwide awareness for the Children’s
Hospital Oakland. Students took a minute out of each class period to
participate in a “Miracle Minute.”

The Miracle Minute is a chance for someone to take a minute out of their
busy schedule to donate any change they have to the hospital. DECA students
collected about $600 to donate to the hospital, surpassing their $500 goal.
In addition, students made displays to place around the quad during lunch. A
video was made by the students to be aired on the school’s bulletin to
promote awareness of the hospital’s services and needs. The video helped
contribute to our success in raising such a large about of money.

Articles submitted by DECA students.

Multicultural Club News

Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Man with a Dream

By Gaurav Rijhwani
MCC Newsletter Editor

Although Christmas and New Year's Day seemed to have gone by in a flash as
students enjoyed the holiday season during their two-week break, another
national holiday is coming up on January 21. This holiday is Martin Luther
King, Jr. Day, which marks the birthday of the African-American civil rights
leader. The holiday is celebrated annually on the third Monday of January to
make sure it is on a workday, although King’s actual birthday is Jan. 15. It
has been a national holiday in most states since 1986, but was not observed
in all 50 states until 2000. It pertains to our Multicultural Club's cause
as King sought to have people of all races living together peacefully
without looking at each others’ color and to appreciate each others'
diversity, similar to our club ideals.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1929 to the early
civil rights leader and Baptist minister Martin Luther King, Sr. and teacher
Alberta Williams King. Before entering high school for 9th to 12th grades,
King entered the all-male and all-black Morehouse College, where he
graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in sociology. Eventually, he went
to different colleges and earned his bachelor of divinity and doctorate of
philosophy as well. He became famous after he moved to Montgomery, Alabama,
to become pastor of a church. Rosa Parks, another civil rights activist,
refused to give up her seat to a white man when required to do so and
started a civil rights movement in Montgomery. King became leader of this
movement and organized almost all the African-Americans in the city and had
them boycott all the buses until laws were changed to allow black people to
sit anywhere the wished if the seat was open. He led this boycott for 381
days, even after his home was bombed by angry white people during this time.
Eventually, buses were desegregated.

King later founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957 to
help organize all the black churches in the South to hold similar
non-violent protests against segregation, or Jim Crow laws. One of his
greatest influences in his protests was the Indian political leader Mahatma
Gandhi, who helped India gain freedom from the British through non-violent
protests and civil disobedience, which became the basis for King's organized
protests. King was also one of the main leaders in the 1963 March on
Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where he delivered his famous "I Have a
Dream" speech in front of national television and an estimated 300,000
spectators who had marched. The media exposed the emotional events of the
march all across the country. This event was greatly influential in passing
of the Civil Rights Act a few months later, which banned segregation in the
entire United States. The following year, the National Voting Rights Act was
passed, which banned the extremely difficult literacy tests that blacks in
the South were required to pass to be able to vote.

On April 4, 1968, King was assassinated at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee,
while attending a protest by black sanitary workers for reasonable wages and
fair treatment. He was allegedly killed by a former convict named James Earl
Ray, who denied his entire life that he had killed King. Few other people
have been named, but still nobody knows for sure who exactly shot King.
Although King was gone, his ideals were continually promoted by younger
black leaders, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson. A few protests were still
held by black leaders after King’s death to take care of some remaining
racist laws. Today, many major organizations still work to promote peaceful
racial relations between all races, not just black and white, and clubs such
as ours promote good relations in schools as well.

Winter: The Season of Holidays

By Gaurav Rijhwani
MCC Newsletter Editor

When the month of December arrives, most Americans think of two things:
Christmas and New Years. Most Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ
on Christmas. The Multicultural Club at Foothill recognizes many different
holidays of different religions and cultures, such as Hanukkah, Kwanzaa,
Christmas and Chinese New Year.

During eight days of the month of December, and sometimes starting in late
November, the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah is celebrated. The holiday
celebrates the rededication of the Second Temple of Jerusalem. It was held
by Antiochus Epiphanes, ruler of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire, for seven
years until the Maccabean Revolt in 167-160 B.C. It is known as the Festival
of Lights, and is celebrated by lighting candles on a Menorah, one on each
night of Hanukkah.

Another winter holiday is Kwanzaa, which is a weeklong celebration of
African-American heritage. It is celebrated usually during late December. It
was first celebrated from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1 in 1966. Ron Karen started the
event as an alternative to the traditional holidays of Christians and
Catholics during this time of year. Each day of Kwanzaa is dedicated to one
of seven principles. The event is celebrated by decorating their homes with
art, African cloth and fresh fruits.

About a month after Christmas, the Chinese New Year is celebrated by Chinese
people and by a few people of neighboring countries such as Korea, Japan and
Mongolia. On the Chinese calendar, it starts on the first day of the lunar
month and ends on the 15th of that month. It is known as the Lantern
Festival and is celebrated by family gatherings that include a meal,
followed by festivals that varies in different locations

Other than these four holidays there are other religious holidays as well,
although not celebrated in December. Diwali is a holiday celebrated by
Hindus, Jains and Sikhs around the world, but especially in India and Nepal.
It is known as the Festival of Lights and usually takes place in early
November to celebrate the return of the Lord Ram of Ayodhya after a 14-year
exile in the woods, after being sent off by his demon brothers. It is
celebrated by decorating your home with lights and colors, having fireworks
and distributing sweets and gifts to friends and family.

German Exchange Students

Please give a hearty welcome to Anna Bierwirth, Isabell Grosse, Tobias
Kloschkewitz, Tina Lange, Jelena Malesevic, Sarah Pannier, Carolin
Riedeberger, Vicki Steinmüller, Viktoria Stengel, Bao-Ngoc Tran, and
Felicitas Zander and their chaperones Dr. Monika Käther-Zopf, Elisabeth
Jubelt and Steffi Löbel from Foothill's German partner school,
Johann-Herder-Gymnasium in Halle an der Saale.

The 11 students and
two chaperones, Elisabeth Jubelt and Steffi Löbel, plus their principal, Dr.
Monika Kaether-Zopf, are part of Foothill's German-American Partnership
Program, an exchange program with Halle an der Saale since 1992.Foothill
students spent three weeks in Halle last summer attending school and taking
interesting field trips. Now we return the favor.Our exchange guests will
be here for three weeks to attend class, give presentations on various
aspects of German life and take field trips throughout the Bay Area.

Thank you to the Foothill German students who are hosting: Nathan Bandong,
Stephanie Belcher, Jonathan Harold, Rebecca Hucker, Lindsay Parkinson, Matt
Ponzini, Elise Scarlott, Lynn Tun, Grace Yi and Sarah Weinberg.

Please welcome our guests with open arms and help their stay in Pleasanton
be as memorable as ours was last summer in Halle!

By Cindy Jackson
German Teacher

We the People

This year's We the People team is eagerly preparing for the state
competition in Sacramento Feb. 6-8.

We the People is an academic team that competes against other California
schools in the state in the format of a simulated Congressional hearing. The
contests are judged by professionals, typically judges, lawyers and college
professors.

Foothill’s team has been successful at the district and regional levels,
allowing the team to advance to the state contest. We will be compete
against 11 schools from across the state. Amador Valley also will compete at
the state level.

Foothill has advanced to the final four at the state level for the past nine
years.

Our 2007-2008 team includes Aditi Abraham, Shaherzad Ahmadi, John Bang,
Chelsea Crandall, Brendan Duddy, Jonathan Forman, Alex Freed, Melanie Gin,
Andy Guo, Sam Hyams, Salwa Kamal, James Karavakis, Michael Kim, Mohini
Kundu, Tiffany Lee, Zahra Murtaza, Sarah Peterson, Samar Shah, David Sin,
Kelly Watkins, Ellen Yang, Madeline Yung, Mihir Zaveri and James Zhou. The
team is coached by teacher Cindy Juarez.

This year's team is brilliant and hard-working. Nationals, here we come!

Submitted by Cindy Juarez, We the People coach

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