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445 E. Charleston Road
Palo Alto, California 94306

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Transitional Kindergarten through 5th grade

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Hello and welcome to Hoover Kids’ Club! I am passionate about art and education, and continue to learn with and from all the children, families and staff at our center. I pride myself on transparency, kindness and inclusivity.

Here at HKC, we recognize that family-teacher partnerships provide the healthiest and most supportive learning environments for our children. With this idea in mind, we aim for a family-centered program. We love to laugh and have fun while putting safety first. We celebrate everyone’s individuality and hone in on this whenever possible to enable our kids to expand and explore upon their interests. We aim for inclusivity and kindness wherever we can to become sympathetic human beings. I really enjoy how innovative and creative HKC staff are. Their care and commitment for our children shine and make our center extraordinary. We would be so delighted to have you join us.

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Virtual and in-person tours available. Please email [email protected] to schedule a tour.

PAUSD Holiday Breaks

In accordance with Palo Alto Unified School District 2022-2023 holiday break closures (Thanksgiving, Winter & Spring), PACCC School-age centers will combine for full day care as follows:

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*Applies to Thanksgiving, Winter & Spring breaks only. All other closures throughout the year where PACCC offers full day care will remain at your child’s regularly enrolled center location.

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Leonid Spivak: Slapping Hoover (Issue 13 (264), July 1, 2014)

Herbert K. Hoover has been labeled the most unpopular American president of the twentieth century. His compatriot historians do not favor him and have been undeservedly forgotten in Russia, although it was Hoover’s activities that led to the fact that the inhabitants of the Russian Federation for the first time met people from America on a large scale.

Herbert Clark Hoover (1874-1964) was the first US President born west of the Mississippi River. Iowa at that time was such a wilderness that not everyone in the United States imagined its location. The first childhood impressions of the blacksmith’s son Jacob Hoover were impassable mud on the street, in which little Herbert often got stuck. At the age of nine, he became an orphan and was brought up by his uncle.

In 1891, seventeen-year-old Herbert traveled to California in the hope of enrolling at the newly founded Stanford University. He passed the exams in Latin and mathematics, but failed in the rest of the subjects. However, both professors of science, in which the young man showed quick wits, stood up for him. At first, Herbert was admitted to the university conditionally, but soon became one of the best students in the department of geology. After graduating from Stanford, he worked as a mining engineer in Australia, Asia and Africa, by 19In 14 he had experience of successful management of two dozen mining and other industrial enterprises. During World War I, Hoover was appointed head of the US Food Administration.

1920s. Famine in Russia

Russia’s misfortune, codenamed “famine in the Volga region”, is rarely mentioned today. Like, there was a drought and crop failure in the 1920s, but the Soviet government, in the end, set up assistance to the starving. Some foreigners were also involved in the story, playing insidious games: espionage, intrigues against Russia, speculation, and so on.

After the revolution, the civil war and the policy of “war communism”, the country was bled dry. Lenin’s idea of ​​surplus appropriation was especially cruel. The peasants were ruthlessly confiscated all the bread to the last grain, families were taken hostage, and those who were dissatisfied were shot. The organs of the Cheka, the “combat detachment of the party,” sent reports to the capital about counter-revolutionary sentiments throughout Russia. So, in one of the reports of the Cheka in the Kazan province for October 26, 1920, it was said: “The peasants are unfriendly to the Soviet government for reasons of various duties and apportionment … In the latter case, the armed detachments sent to such places act pacifyingly.”

The result was not long in coming. From the spring of 1921, pockets of famine began to appear in different regions not only of the Volga region, but also of the Urals, Siberia, the North Caucasus and Ukraine. Chekists on the ground regularly reported on the suppression of peasant riots, but the number of deaths from exhaustion and epidemics could no longer be counted. There were reports from everywhere that mothers, not wanting to see the suffering of their children, “heat the huts, close the pipes and fall asleep forever”, there were cases of intoxication of entire families. Mukhin, a peasant from the Buzuluk district of the Samara province, told the investigator at the inquest: “My family consists of 5 people. There has been no bread since Easter. At first we ate bark, horse meat, dogs and cats, picked out the bones and ground them. There are a lot of corpses in our village. They are scattered around the streets or piled up in a public barn. In the evening I made my way to the barn, took the corpse of a 7-year-old boy, brought it home on a sled, cut it into small pieces with an ax and boiled it. During the day we ate the whole corpse. Only bones remained. In our village, many people eat human meat, but they hide it.”

Hoover is ready to feed the millions of children in Russia

The Soviet government was forced to make certain concessions. The country adopted the New Economic Policy (NEP). On June 26, 1921, the Pravda newspaper admitted that about 25 million people were starving in the country (in reality, this figure should have been doubled). According to official statistics, the famine covered about 40 provinces (the Volga region, southern Ukraine, Crimea, Bashkiria, partly Kazakhstan, the Urals, Western Siberia). The Bolshevik government had to grit its teeth to seek help from “hostile” capitalist states. Maxim Gorky addressed through the press to all “honest people of Europe and America” ​​with a request for the supply of bread and medicines.

US Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover was one of the first to respond. Two days later, he notified Gorky that he could feed up to a million children in Russia. Hoover had a reputation for being a man for whom nothing is impossible. At the end of the First World War, he created and became the head of the “American Relief Administration” (American Relief Administration, in Russian abbreviation ARA), which supplied food to the war-torn areas of Europe. At the same time, Hoover was an ardent anti-Soviet; his statement “Bolshevism is worse than war” is known. The United States did not recognize Soviet Russia, but when voices were raised in America against helping the Reds, Secretary Hoover replied: “Millions of people are starving. Regardless of politics, they need to eat.”

The first ships with food went to Russia even before the signing of formal agreements with the Soviets. Understanding with whom he would have to deal, Hoover decided to draw up an agreement, setting out in it the procedure for interaction and the obligations of the parties. The contract offered to the Kremlin was sustained in firm tones. No Bolshevik interference in the work of the APA. The food is distributed by the Americans with the help of Russian employees selected by the Americans. The Soviet authorities are responsible for transportation within the country and provide the necessary premises. One of the most important conditions: to release from the KGB prisons all US citizens who are there.

Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars V.I. Lenin, having learned about Hoover’s demands, went into a rage: “The meanness of America, Hoover and the Council of the League of Nations is extreme,” he wrote to the Politburo, “We must punish Hoover, publicly slap him in the face, so that the whole world can see and the Council of the League of Nations too.” But even in Lenin’s environment, they understood that they had no other choice.

The American ship “Phoenix” with food arrived in Petrograd on September 1, 1921, and on September 6, the first canteen of the ARA in Soviet Russia was opened there. In the first weeks of September, American representatives in Petrograd opened 120 kitchens for 42,000 children. According to the rules established by the APA, children under the age of 14 who underwent a medical examination (where possible) and were recognized as starving could receive food in canteens. Each child attached to the APA canteen had to have a special admission card (Admission Ticket), on which special notes were made about visiting the canteen. A hot lunch was given out at a strictly defined time. The portion had to be eaten in the dining room, and it was not allowed to take it home.

Activities of the ARA in Russia

The situation on the ground turned out to be much worse. Having visited Orenburg, one of the Hoover groups reported: “The dead lie on the streets of the city and on the roads leading to the villages, where they quickly become the prey of dogs and birds. The sick and starving gather in houses, and there are no conditions for caring for them.” Herbert Hoover ordered to increase the scale of planning and providing assistance not only to children, but also to adults. A career officer, Colonel William Haskell (William Haskell) headed the headquarters of the ARA mission in Moscow. A fundraising campaign has begun in the United States, including an appeal to Congress for funding. All this happened at a time when the United States itself was suffering from internal turmoil, experiencing massive unemployment, and Secretary Hoover during the same period was coordinating assistance to destitute Americans.

What happened in Russia put the American volunteers in a dead end. On October 23, 1921, People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs G.V. Chicherin wrote to Lenin: “The American destroyer, on which some Hooverites rode, was stopped at sea by Novorossiysk Chekists, who searched it, and were extremely rude towards the Americans.” Food cargoes got stuck in ports and on railways, rotted and plundered. Endless delays and bureaucratic formalities delayed the receipt of assistance on the ground, while famine mowed down the population in unimaginable numbers: according to statistics, 15 thousand people a day died from exhaustion and related diseases.

How the Kremlin actually treated the activities of the ARA was “explained” by the information bulletin of the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs of the RSFSR dated October 17, 1921: at the same time, large-scale bourgeois assistance to the starving by a kind of agitation against the Soviet system. But at first the Bolsheviks were forced to comply with the agreements with Hoover.

By December 10, 1921, 185,625 children received food from the ARA in Samara province, and 15,719 in Kazan province6, in Saratov – 82,100, in Simbirsk – 6,075, in Orenburg – 7,514, in Tsaritsyn – 11,000, in Moscow – 22,000, in total – 565,112 children. On December 22, the US Congress, after a long debate, approved the allocation of $20 million to purchase food from American farmers for Russia. Hoover managed to convince conservative, anti-Soviet legislators that it was possible to help without official recognition of the Bolshevik government.

Overseas envoys initially encountered hostility on the ground. Rumors spread that foreigners came to Russia to buy up its natural resources. Dissatisfaction was caused by the demands of the Americans to vaccinate the population. They said that vaccinations are the machinations of the devil, who in this way decided to impose an American stigma on the Russian people. Visual agitation explaining the benefits of vaccination had no effect. Then the Americans announced that rations would be issued only upon presentation of a vaccination mark, and pandemonium began in the first-aid posts.

Herbert Hoover created the ARA as an organization with minimal bureaucracy. Employees are accustomed to easily address the boss. He made decisions; if necessary, went to the place. In Soviet Russia, this approach was not suitable. Government member Hoover could not travel to a country with which America did not maintain diplomatic relations. For this reason, he attracted demobilized US Army officers to command posts. The goal was to have people in place who are accustomed to taking responsibility and making quick decisions. However, the presence of the military aroused the suspicions of the Chekists and vigilant party members. They believed that, if necessary, these officers could become “instructors of counter-revolutionary uprisings.”

To streamline the work of the Cheka in relation to foreign organizations, at the end of October 1921, an order was issued “On the check service of foreigners”, which noted that the Americans from the ARA organization were conducting intelligence activities on the territory of Russia. Chekists worked hard. The Hooverites were monitored, their mail was opened, and “verified communists” were introduced into the ARA. In a note from the head of the Informative Department of the INO VChK, Y. Zalin, dated January 26, 1922, it was indicated that as a result of “systematic monitoring of the activities of the ARA”, numerous facts of “subversive” activities of American employees were revealed: “anti-Soviet agitation in conversations with peasants, the destruction of portraits of Lenin and Trotsky in the dining room”, etc.

The Soviet Central Statistical Office determined the population decline for the period from 1920 to 1922. 5.1 million people. The famine in Russia, with the exception of military losses, was the largest catastrophe for that time in European history after the Middle Ages. January 27 19For 22 years, People’s Commissar for Health Semashko wrote to members of the Politburo: the White Guard press intensely relishes “the horrors of cannibalism in Soviet Russia. ” The Politburo supported Semashko, and on January 30 banned the publication of any reports of cannibalism.

Not only help to starving children…

An analysis of the activities of the American Relief Organization was carried out by A.V. Eiduk, an old Chekist who represented the Soviet government under the ARA. In May 1922, he calculated, the ARA fed 6.1 million people daily. Other international organizations, including the Red Cross and the F. Nansen Committee, fed about a million more people. During the activity of the ARA, more than a billion (1019169839) children’s portions and about eight hundred million adults. The calorie content of the ration for children was 470, for adults – 614 calories. Food was provided to the population free of charge. Along with food aid, according to the agreement of October 22, 1922, the ARA gave out shoes, underwear and much more to the needy. Shelters for homeless children, free pharmacies, baths were organized. In rural areas, the Americans supplied the population with agricultural implements and sent tractors. In 1922 and 1923 APA supplied Russia with enough seed grain to sow approximately 3.23 million hectares of fields, thereby ensuring the possibility of good harvests in subsequent years.

Historian Leonid Mlechin wrote: “Perhaps, this was the first meeting of two peoples, two mentalities, two ideas about life. Young Americans went to Russia – yesterday’s front-line soldiers, cowboys, adventurers. They were shocked not so much by terrible hunger as by the ignorance and suspicion of the authorities. Americans organically did not accept fatalism, passivity, inertia, they were indignant at irresponsibility, disorganization, endless smoke breaks when they had to work. Americans were amazed: how can you steal food intended for starving children? They demanded a public trial of the caught thieves.”

Hoover initially stipulated that American aid would be just an addition to the Soviet people’s daily diet. Own government should take care of its people. But often the situation was so dire that American rations were the only food available to hungry children. Many of them saw white bread, condensed milk, cocoa for the first time in their lives…

In addition to food, the United States provided more than $10 million worth of medical aid: dressings, blankets, hospital equipment, and up to 75 types of medicines. The ARA received these funds from two sources: the military department stocks – $4 million, the Red Cross stocks – $3 million. The rest was donated by private individuals. More than a million patients received medical assistance in Russia, several million people were vaccinated against cholera, smallpox and typhoid. At the same time, the Americans constantly faced requisitions of medicines and equipment. The ARA was forced to present an ultimatum to the authorities: the supply of hospitals, where at least something of the supplies would be confiscated, the American side would immediately stop. This conversation had an impact.

Dzerzhinsky, GPU and monitoring the activities of the Americans

After the reorganization of the state security agencies, which took place in early 1922, the State Political Directorate (GPU) was formed on the basis of the Cheka. In March 1922, the Politburo adopted a resolution in which the chairman of the GPU, F.E. Dzerzhinsky, was instructed to organize special monitoring of the activities of the Americans. The GPU concluded that among the foreign organizations in the RSFSR, one way or another helping the counter-revolution, a prominent place is occupied by the ARA, “which in 19In 1919 she successfully helped the Magyar bourgeoisie to overthrow the Hungarian Soviet government.

Hoover’s efforts to save the Russians were unparalleled in history. In July 1922, 8.8 million people received daily food in the canteens of the ARA, and in August – almost 11 million. It’s hard to believe, but only three hundred citizens of the United States were able to establish such a well-coordinated apparatus in vast and disorganized Russia. Under the leadership of Colonel Haskell, they recruited more than a hundred thousand Russians who worked in the branches of the ARA in 38 provinces. These Russians were the main headache of the Chekists. At the request of Hoover, they hired literate people who knew a foreign language. These criteria were met mainly by the “former” – representatives of the educated class, so hated by the “worker-peasant” authorities. According to the Soviet constitution 1918 years old, they were officially deprived of any rights. Today it is already difficult to calculate how many lives of their employees – zemstvo teachers, doctors, officers, priests, engineers – the Americans saved by giving them food and forcing the Bolshevik leaders to pay their salaries.

The Soviet government periodically tested the strength of the Americans. On February 10, 1922, on charges of counter-revolutionary activities, the Tsaritsyn GubChK arrested the senior inspector of the ARA branch, Mikhail Arzamasov. A week later he was sentenced to death. The American Relief Organization accepted the challenge. Upon receiving the news of the employee’s arrest, the Tsaritsyn branch of the ARA stopped distributing rations for the adult population. April 20 19For 22 years, the head of the ARA in Moscow, Colonel Haskell, sent a letter to the GPU: “I consider it necessary to draw your attention to the fact that, although the city of Tsaritsyn is in dire need of assistance, all food assistance work has been suspended in it until the decision of your government on the issue of fate of this apparently innocent member of the American Relief Administration.” The Chekists again had to retreat. The case of Arzamasov was reviewed and by the decision of the Collegium of the GPU of April 25, 1922, it was terminated; the accused was released. However, the investigation into the “Arzamasov case” formally continued for another four years.

According to agreements with Hoover, the Americans could also send food and clothing parcels to Russia. In two years, US residents sent more than 100,000 food parcels and 42,000 clothing parcels. It was, in fact, people’s help – parcels were sent by workers, employees, farmers. The Girl Scouts, led by the minister’s wife, Lou Hoover, participated in the campaign. But the vigilant GPU drew attention to the fact that the parcel offices of the ARA were located in such a way (in Ukraine and in the Western border strip) that in the event of intervention they could turn into the ideological and material “support bases of the counter-revolution.”

Historians M.Ya.Geller and A.M. Nekrich drew attention to some features of the psychology of the Bolsheviks: “In the history of the ARA, a model of behavior of the Soviet government in relation to those who came to its aid was developed, while striving to maintain some independence: 1) concessions, if there is no other way out, 2) refusal of concessions , as soon as the need has passed, 3) revenge.

The revenge of the Bolsheviks first touched the Pomgol Committee (Help for the Starving), which was created by prominent representatives of the Russian intelligentsia. Lenin asked that the question of the immediate dissolution of Pomgol and the arrest or exile of its leaders be brought before the Politburo. He also demanded that “in a hundred ways” the press “ridicule and harass at least once a week for two months” its members. As a result, the leaders of Pomgol were thrown into prison, then expelled from the country.

The fight against hunger became a formal reason for the destruction of the Orthodox Church. Along with the forcible seizure of church valuables, allegedly for the needs of the starving, mass repressions against the clergy began. On March 19, 1922, Lenin sent a secret letter to members of the Politburo, calling for reprisals against the clergy “with the most frenzied and merciless energy, not stopping at suppressing any resistance … The more representatives of the reactionary bourgeoisie and the reactionary clergy we manage to shoot on this occasion, all the better”.

1923, liquidation of the ARA

Korney Chukovsky wrote in 1923: “Do you know, my dear Rockefeller, what these three sendings of the ARA meant to me? Do you understand how grateful I am to Columbus for the fact that one day he discovered America? . . These three parcels mean more to me than just salvation from death. They gave me the opportunity to return to literary work, and now I feel like a writer again.

The Chekists quickly grasped the change in the population’s attitude towards the Americans. The Yankees began to be perceived not only as saviors, but also as the most efficient apparatus in the field. The ARA received letters from the villages asking for a portrait of Hoover to be placed in the red corner. This damaged the state ideology of the Bolsheviks. Despite the fact that in many parts of Russia and Ukraine the threat of famine remained, 29March 1923, at a meeting of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP (b), a resolution was adopted to eliminate the activities of the ARA on Soviet territory. Quite far-sightedly, they decided “to begin liquidation when the ARA cargoes, which are on the way and in the ports, will be transported to local bases, i.e. since June.”

By that time, Hoover had received another slap in the face from Lenin. It turned out that the Bolsheviks, accepting food aid from America, exported and sold their own grain to Europe. The proceeds went to finance the “world proletarian revolution” and friendly communist parties. The vast majority of the confiscated Russian church valuables went to be melted down, and the money received from the sale was not used to fight hunger, but to maintain the party and Soviet bureaucracy (it was at this time that the salaries of state officials were increased, various types of allowances, etc.)

It is worth noting that in neighboring Poland, the philanthropist and philanthropist Hoover was revered as a saint. A postcard came out with a portrait of Hoover with a wreath held over him by angels. Streets in cities and a square in Warsaw were named after him. In 1922, a monument was erected on this square: a woman, symbolizing America, holds two babies in her arms (the monument was destroyed during the Second World War).

In the summer of 1923, the activities of the “American Relief Committee” in Russia completely ceased. The remnants of food – flour, cereals, tea, sugar, canned milk, cocoa, as well as stocks of medicines – were left by the Americans to the local Soviet authorities. When the Hooverites were leaving, an order came from Moscow: “At the departure of the ARA, greetings, gratitude, farewells can be arranged, but they must have an absolutely official character … In no case should there be mass acts of gratitude and speeches on behalf of the population.”

It is worth noting that in 1922 the famous polar explorer and public figure Fridtjof Nansen received the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian was awarded “for many years of efforts to help the defenseless”, primarily for his efforts in repatriating refugees and helping the starving in Russia. Hoover, who fed millions of people in Russia and Europe, was never seriously considered. In the next two years, the Nobel Peace Prize was not awarded.

In the USSR, at the same time, there was a propaganda campaign aimed at discrediting the American Relief Organization. Articles began to appear that Uncle Sam was selling stale and useless goods to Russia. Spring 1924 years in Kyiv, “spies hired by the APA for food” were arrested. On May 18 of the same year, Izvestia wrote about the trial of two former APA employees. They received prison terms for disclosing “secret information” about the number of fields sown and the number of cattle in Belarus. Upon learning of the repression, Hoover declared that the door for any future American humanitarian aid to Soviet Russia was now closed.

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia of 1950 summed up the activities of the Americans in Russia: “The ARA used the opportunity given to it to create its own apparatus in Soviet Russia for espionage and subversive activities and support for counter-revolutionary elements. The actions of the ARA provoked a strong protest from the broad masses of the working people.

Unfairly forgotten savior of millions

Herbert Clark Hoover remained America’s most popular politician in the 1920s. His election to the White House caused jubilation. Unfortunately, in the very first year of his presidency, the Stock Exchange crashed (October 1929), which began the worst economic crisis in US history. Hoover is to this day accused of failing to come up with an effective strategy to get out of the Great Depression. The images of the era that have stuck in the memory of Americans are the queues for charitable soup and the slums of the homeless that have appeared in all American cities, nicknamed “hoovervilles”.

Many historians, however, believe that President Hoover was simply unlucky. At the peak of the crisis, no measures helped, and the most active politician would have stumbled upon the limits of his abilities, and the New Deal of his successor Roosevelt became effective when the lowest point of the depression was already behind. In addition, Roosevelt continued and significantly strengthened a number of measures taken by the Hoover administration. Nevertheless, highlighting the successes of the “white knight-Democrat Roosevelt under the black Republican Hoover” became a favorite pastime of the mass media for many years.

The ex-president, who lived in seclusion, was needed twenty years later, after the end of the Second World War. Europe was on the brink of an economic abyss, and the head of the White House, Harry Truman, asked Hoover to head overseas again. “You know more about hunger than anyone on earth,” Truman said. Seventy-year-old Herbert Hoover traveled to many countries in Europe, Asia, Latin America, without pomp, speeches and ceremonies, collecting the necessary information for the US government. As a result of his work, the bill presented by Truman on appropriation of 425 million dollars for rendering assistance to two dozen countries received the approval of Congress.

Historian Richard Pipes wrote: “Many statesmen are prominent in history by sending millions to their deaths; Herbert Hoover, soon forgotten in Russia, and later President of the United States, has a rare opportunity to take his rightful place in people’s memory as the savior of millions. It only remains to add that these millions of Russians saved by Hoover were able to win a great victory over fascism twenty years later at the front and in the rear. But will Russia ever want to erect a monument to one of the most unfortunate American presidents?

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