Mountain Views News          Saturday, December 18, 2010

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EDUCATION & YOUTH

 Mountain Views News Saturday, December 18, 2010 

SCHOOL DIRECTORY

Alverno Students Enjoy A “Merry Masquerade”


Tiny lights created a festive yet romantic 
mood as Alverno High School’s Villa del Sol 
de Oro became home to a Merry Masquerade, 
the school’s winter formal dance.

Open to all grades at the independent 
Catholic girls’ school, students from freshmen 
to seniors came with dates or groups 
of friends to enjoy music, dancing, food, 
and fun. Evergreen boughs, gold beads, and 
swags of red satin and tiny handmade masks 
decorated with feathers, sequins, and glitter 
carried the masquerade theme throughout 
the elegant Villa.

Many of the guests took the masquerade 
theme to heart and wore masks for at least 
part of the evening. Members of the Alverno 
Student Union (ASU) planned and 
hosted the event. “The theme was an inspired 
choice,” says ASU moderator K.C. 
Merchant. “The girls took the idea and really 
ran with it.”

The Alverno mission is to empower each 
young woman to be exactly the person she 
wants to be. Alverno High School is the 
independent, Catholic college-prep high 
school for girls in Sierra Madre, with a 
college-prep curriculum and emphasis on 
leadership that attracts students from public 
and private schools throughout the San 
Gabriel Valley. The school is celebrating its 
50th anaiversary of preparing young women 
for the future with a series of events during 
the 2010-2011 school year.

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 

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 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

Walden School

74 S San Gabriel Blvd

Pasadena, CA 91107 (626) 792-6166 

www.waldenschool.net

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


La Salle Hosts 16th Annual Adopt-A-Family Christmas Party

Pasadena, CA – La Salle High School Student Life members 
joined with Bienvenidos Family Services and Hillsides Services 
for its 16th annual Adopt-a-Family program. On December 
4, alumni and students came back to La Salle and helped wrap 
gifts for the 32 foster children from Hillsides and the 30 families 
from Bienvenidos that the student body and the Alumni 
Association “adopted” for Christmas. 

The following Saturday, August 11, hundreds of students, 
parents, children and families enjoyed games, attacking the 
Grinch, face painting, Christmas Carols, bingo and a delicious 
lunch at the Adopt-A-Family Christmas party. Santa and his 
elves arrived to visit with the children at the party and help 
distribute Christmas presents. “It is a wonderful and generous 
way to start the Christmas Season,” said Brandon Burr, Student 
Life Service Coordinator.

Alumni pictured include: Jamie Bennison ’06, Elaine Lugo 
’06, Ileana Montano ’03, Paola Bisharat ’09, Lisa Jutsum 
’05, Lisa Russo ’03, Robin Quintanilla ’03, and Brittney 

Medrano ’03.


By Lina Johnson

 Bishop Amat High School in La Puente 
held it’s third annual math competition 
on Saturday, December 11, 2010. There 
were 466 student from across the San 
Gabriel Valley competing this year.The 
competition, called the Mathapalooza 
gives mathematically strong students an 
opportunity to compete and win prizes. 

 Saint Rita’s school and Sierra Madre Middle school 
participated in this event.

Saint Rita’ s placed third overall out of approximately 30 
public and private

schools. Sierra Madre middle school student, Emily Tcheng 
was the highest overall winner and she earned a thousand 
dollar scholarship.Glendowlyn Howse and Cathy Johnson, 
6th graders at St. Rita placed second and third in their 
division. Kristine Kuhn of St Rita 7th grade and Kathryn 
McDougal of Sierra Madre Middle school both placed third 
in their divisions. Both of these school earned honors in 
multiple categories.

 Bishop Amat High School Mathematics Director Dan 
Lodolo, a resident of Sierra Madre initiated this math 
competition because he wants students who might not

usually compete or participate in athletic competition 
a chance to experience a competitive environment and 
possibly win trophies for their successes.It is very exciting 
for these students to participate in this event and the parents, 
teachers and students themselves should be applauded for all 
the time and energy it takes to

compete in a mathematical arena.

 The competition will take place around the second week 
in December next year and consists of students solving 50 
problems in 50 minutes .It starts with registration at 7:00 
am.Problem solving begins around 8:00 am and goes for 
50 minutes.Competitors have a snack and play a game,such 
as “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” while they wait for the 
results.Students interested in participating should begin 
training as soon as possible because this competition is not 
for the feeble minded.

SIERRA MADRE 
SCHOOLS DO WELL 
IN LOCAL MATH 
COMPETITION

 St. Rita’s and Sierra Madre Middle 
School competed at the 3rd Annual 
Bishop Amat Math Competition.

St. Rita’s placed 3rd overall (out 
of nearly 30 public and private 
schools). Sierra Madre Middle 
School had the overall winner.

Both schools earned honors in 
multiple categories.

Emily Tcheng Sierra Madre Middle School , Dr Hemenway Principal Bishop 
Amat School and Joshua Alaan Saint Martha’s School Photo by Dan Lodolo

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PUSD NEWS AND NOTICES


DISTRICT AWARDED $250,000 
EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY 
GRANT

Federal Funds to Boost College and Career 
Readiness and Graduation Rates

Pasadena, CA – The Pasadena Unified School District 
(PUSD) announced that it will receive a $250,000 federal 
Enhancing Education Technology (EETT)/American Recovery 
and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) grant to support 
college and career readiness and raise graduation rates. The 
grant will support an early warning system that uses student 
attendance, discipline and behavioral data to identify and 
provide early intervention for students who may be at risk 
of dropping out of high school.

“This grant recognizes the District’s strategic approach to 
improve graduation rates, and to use data to support the 
individual student,” said Superintendent Edwin Diaz. “We 
actively sought this grant to ensure that we can maintain 
our focus on dropout prevention and college and career 
readiness despite the current budget crisis.”

The funds will be used to make data part of the ongoing cycle 
of instructional improvement, teach students to examine 
their own data and set learning goals, establish a clear 
vision for the use of school-wide data, and to provide training 
to support teachers’ use of online grading to increase 
student and parent engagement. The grant will also support 
intervention activities that improve students’ ability to pass 
the California High School Exit Exam.

The federal Ed-Tech grants seek to improve student 
achievement through the use of technology in elementary 
and secondary schools. Additional goals include helping all 
students become technologically literate by the end of the 
eighth grade, through the integration of technology with 
both teacher training and curriculum development, and 
establishing innovative, research-based instructional methods 
that can be widely implemented.

 
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1720 Kinneloa Canyon Road Pasadena, CA 91107 
626.798.8989 
www.highpointacademy.org 
Grades K – 8 
Forty–five years of quality education in Pasadena 
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