Oak Leaves ’79

Oak Leaves is the literary & art annual of Oakland High School. I edited, co-designed, and contributed to the 1979 edition. This was back in the days of typewriters, “Letraset” rub-on type, and hand-drawn pictures. The pieces were full of adolescent angst and ardor.

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To give each interior page a “frame” we used overhead projector acetates with a Letraset design. Some sample pages:


by Diane Chin, calligraphy by Russell Yee
by Russell Yee
by Lisa Wong, art by Russell Yee
by Katherine A. Porté
by Katherine A. Porté, art by Patrick McEvoy