Mountain Views News          Saturday, October 2, 2010

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EDUCATION & YOUTH

 Mountain Views News Saturday, October 2, 2010

PASADENA HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR NAMED NATIONAL MERIT 
SCHOLARSHIP SEMI-FINALIST

SCHOOL DIRECTORY

 
The Pasadena Unified School District 
(PUSD) announced that the National Merit 
Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) recently 
named Marjorie Hunt, a senior at Pasadena 
High School, a semifinalist in the National 
Merit Scholarship Program.

Marjorie competed for selection as a 
semifinalist with more than 1.5 million 
students who entered the 2011 National 
Merit Program. Students are considered 
for the program when they take the 
2010 Preliminary SAT/National Merit 
Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMST) 
as high school juniors.

Marjorie, along with 16,000 other 
semifinalists, now has the opportunity to 
advance to the finalist level and compete for 
one of 8,200 National Merit Scholarships, 
worth more than $36 million.

To become a finalist, semifinalists must 
have an outstanding academic record 
throughout high school, be endorsed 
and recommended by their high school 
principal, and earn SAT scores that confirm 
the student's earlier performance on the 
qualifying test. Semifinalists must also

submit a detailed scholarship application, 
which includes a self-descriptive 
student essay and information about the 
semifinalist’s participation in leadership 
and community activities.

Marjorie plans to major in history, or 
public administration and/or nonprofit 
organizational studies and she will 
be applying to several Colleges and 
universities: College of William and Mary, 
Wesleyan University, UC Berkeley and 
Tulane University and Brown University. 
Merit Scholar designees are selected on the 
basis of their skills, accomplishments and 
potential for success in rigorous college 
studies.

The NMSC is a non-profit organization 
that was established in 1955 to conduct 
the annual National Merit Program. 
Scholarships awarded through the program 
are underwritten by NMSC's funds and 
more than 500 business organizations and 
other educational institutions with the goal 
of honoring the nation's scholastic students 
and the pursuit of academic excellence.

Alverno High School

200 N. Michillinda Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024

(626) 355-3463 Head of School: Ann M. Gillick 

E-mail address: agillick@alverno-hs.org

Arcadia High School

180 Campus Drive Arcadia, CA 91007

Phone: (626) 821-8370, Principal: David L. Vannasdall

Arroyo Pacific Academy

41 W. Santa Clara St. Arcadia, Ca, 

(626) 294-0661 Principal: Phil Clarke

E-mail address: pclarke@arroyopacific.org

Barnhart School

240 W. Colorado Blvd Arcadia, Ca. 91007

(626) 446-5588 Head of School: Joanne Testa Cross

Kindergarten - 8th grade

website: www.barnhartschool.com 

Bethany Christian School

93 N. Baldwin Ave. Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024

(626) 355-3527 Principal: James Lugenbuehl

E-mail address: jml@bcslions.org

Carden of the Foothills School

429 Wildrose Avenue, Monrovia, CA 91016 626/358-9414 
626/358-5164 fax office@cardenofthefoothills.com

The Gooden School

192 N. Baldwin Ave. Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024

(626) 355-2410 Head of School: Patty Patano

website: www.goodenschool.org

High Point Academy

1720 Kinneloa Canyon Road

Pasadena, Ca. 91107

626-798-8989

website: www.highpointacademy.org

LaSalle High School

3880 E. Sierra Madre Blvd. Pasadena, Ca. 

(626) 351-8951 Principal: Patrick Bonacci

website: www.lasallehs.org

Monrovia High School

325 East Huntington Drive, Monrovia, CA 91016 

(626) 471-2000, email: schools@monrovia.k12.ca.us

Norma Coombs Alternative School

2600 Paloma St. Pasadena, Ca. 91107

(626) 798-0759 Principal: Dr. Vanessa Watkins 

E-mail address: watkins12@pusd.us

Odyssey Charter School

725 W. Altadena Dr. Altadena, Ca. 91001

(626) 229-0993 Head of School: Lauren O’Neill

website: www.odysseycharterschool.org

Pasadena High School

2925 E. Sierra Madre Blvd. Pasadena, Ca. 

(626) 798-8901 Principal: Dr. Derick Evans

website: www.pasadenahigh.org

Pasadena Unified School District

351 S. Hudson Ave. Pasadena, Ca. 91109

(626) 795-6981 website: www.pusd@pusd.us

St. Rita Catholic School

322 N. Baldwin Ave. Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024

(626) 355-9028 Principal: Joanne Harabedian

website: www.st-rita.org

Sierra Madre Elementary School

141 W. Highland Ave, Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024

(626) 355-1428 Principal: Gayle Bluemel

E-mail address:gbluemel220@pusd.us

Sierra Madre Middle School 

160 N. Canon Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024

(626) 836-2947 Principal: Gayle Bluemel

Contact person: Garrett Newsom, Asst. Principal

E-mail address: gbluemel220@pusd.us

Weizmann Day School

1434 N. Altadena Dr. Pasadena, Ca. 91107

(626) 797-0204

Lisa Feldman: Head of School

Wilson Middle School

300 S. Madre St. Pasadena, Ca. 91107

(626) 449-7390 Principal: Ruth Esseln

E-mail address: resseln@pusd.us

Pasadena Unified School District

351 S. Hudson Ave., Pasadena, Ca. 91109

(626) 795-6981

Website: www.pusd@pusd.us

SCHOOL CONSOLIDATION STUDY COMMITTEE TO HOLD 
COMMUNITY FORUMS List of Schools will be Narrowed from Seven to Five 

Pasadena, CA – The Pasadena Unified 
School District (PUSD) School 
Consolidation Study Committee 
(Committee) will convene two community 
forums next week to offer community 
members the opportunity to learn more 
about school closures and possible program 
moves. Community Forums are scheduled 
for Monday, October 4, 2010 at the Eliot 
Middle School Auditorium from 6:30 to 
8:30 p.m., and Friday, October 8, 2010 at the 
Wilson Middle School Auditorium from 
6:00 to 8:00 p.m. 

The Committee will meet this week on 
Friday October 1 from 5:00 to 8:30 p.m., 
and Saturday October 2 from 9:00 a.m. to 
1:00 p.m., both at McKinley. 

The Committee, composed of 21 stakeholders 
representing Altadena, Pasadena and Sierra 
Madre, parent groups, collective bargaining 
units, school site administration, and other 
community groups, has held four meetings 
since September 11 to explore options 
for school consolidation and closure to 
narrow the budget deficit. In response 
to an unprecedented $30 million loss of 
funding over the past three years, and the 
prospect of sustained enrollment declines 
in the foreseeable future, the Board of 
Education approved school consolidation 
to help decrease expenditures and generate 
ongoing revenue to support instructional 
priorities. 

The three-year budget adopted in June 
identified the closure of a minimum of 
three schools in 2011-12 to reduce operating 
expenses associated with excess capacity on 
school campuses. The Board of Education 
established the School Consolidation Study 
Committee to assist the Superintendent 
in developing a recommendation 
regarding school consolidation and 
closure. Over the past several weeks, the 
Committee has reviewed a broad range 
of information including: a list of sixteen 
sites recommended for consideration by 
the asset management report, academic 
achievement, special educational programs, 
transportation, and neighborhood impacts. 

The Committee will make final 
recommendations in a report to 
Superintendent Diaz in October. Following 
his review of the Committee report, the 
Superintendent is tentatively scheduled to 
make a recommendation to the Board of 
Education at its meeting on November 23, 
2010. 

Members of the public may obtain additional 
information about the school consolidation 
and closure process, including meeting 
summaries and documents, at www.pusd.
us.


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