Mountain Views News          Saturday, July 12, 2014

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EDUCATION & YOUTH

Mountain Views-News Saturday, Jully 12, 2014 

SCHOOL DIRECTORY

YOU’RE NEVER TOO YOUNG TO GIVE


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: Brent Forsee

bforsee@ausd.net

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: Ethan Williamson

Kindergarten - 8th grade

website: www.barnhartschool.org

Bethany Christian School

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

(626) 355-3527 Principal: James Lugenbuehl

E-mail address: jml@bcslions.org

website: www. bcslions.org

Clairbourn School

8400 Huntington Drive

San Gabriel, CA 91775

Phone: 626-286-3108 ext. 172

FAX: 626-286-1528

E-mail: jhawes@clairbourn.org

Foothill Oaks Academy

822 Bradbourne Ave., Duarte, CA 91010

(626) 301-9809 

Co-Principals Nancy Lopez and Diane Kieffaber

info@foothilloaksacademy.org 

preschool@foothilloaksacademy.org

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 

Headmaster John Higgins

626-798-8989

website: www.highpointacademy.org

LaSalle High School

3880 E. Sierra Madre Blvd. Pasadena, Ca. 

(626) 351-8951 website: www.lasallehs.org

Principal Bro. Christopher Brady, FSC

Monrovia High School

325 East Huntington Drive, Monrovia, CA 91016 

(626) 471-2800 Principal Darvin Jackson

Email: schools@monrovia.k12.ca.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) 396-5880 Principal: Gilbert Barraza

barraza.gilbert@pusd.us

website: www.phs.pasadenahigh.org

St. Rita Catholic School

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

Principal Joan Harabedian

(626) 355-9028 website: www.st-rita.org

Sierra Madre Elementary School

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

(626) 355-1428 Principal: Esther Salinas

E-mail address: salinas.esther@pusd.us

Sierra Madre Middle School 

160 N. Canon Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024

(626) 836-2947 Principal: Garrett Newsom

E-mail address: newsom.garrett@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) 396-3600 Website: www.pusd.us

ARCADIA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT

234 Campus Dr., Arcadia, Ca. 91007

(626) 821-8300 Website: www.ausd.net

MONROVIA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT

325 E. Huntington Dr., Monrovia, Ca. 91016

(626) 471-2000 Website: www.monroviaschools.net

DUARTE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT

1620 Huntington Dr., Duarte, Ca. 91010

(626)599-5000 Website: www.duarte.k12.ca.us


On Friday, little misses Katerina and Corwin Carr visited the Monrovia Center to deliver the money they raised from 
their lemonade stand. They raised $57.19 which they donated for homeless services. 

BELOVED ST. RITA 

STAFF MEMBER 
RETIRES

Sierra Madre, CA – The St. Rita community, past 
and present, gathered at their last week’s picnic 
to say goodbye to Cathie Sterling Kay. The much-
loved staff member is retiring this year after 31 
years, which includes the time she spent there as 
a parent.

 f you’ve had an occasion to visit the school’s office 
over the years, you were most likely greeted by 
Mrs. Kay with her big smile and trademark red-
rimmed glasses. Students and parents returning 
in the Fall will miss being called “Honey” and 
the comfortable, “everyone’s family” feeling she 
brought to the office.

 While she said she will miss the school families, 
she’s also looking forward to getting to projects 
she’s wanted to take on but hasn’t had the time, 
including gardening and training her new 
puppy Bo. If you’re hoping to run into her in her 
retirement, Starbucks might be a good bet!

HOW THE INTERNET CAN KEEP KIDS EXCITED 

ABOUT LEARNING THIS SUMMER

(StatePoint) In summer, keeping kids busy means camp, pool time 
and outdoor games. But all that sun, fun and physical activity 
should also be well-balanced with mental exercise.

With that in mind, here are several ways kids and parents can use 
the Internet to focus on education when class is not in session:

Online Tutoring

Nothing beats one-on-one learning time to improve grades and 
build confidence and yet most kids learn in large groups all school 
year. Students can get that one-to-one time this summer with 
online tutoring. Available 24/7 with expert tutors in more than 
40 subjects, Tutor.com is a great way to help students brush up on 
concepts and keep their skills sharp all in a secure online learning 
environment that is accessible from any computer or mobile device. 

Personalized College Prep

It’s never too early to work on college applications. Investigate online 
services, tools and resources that can assist, such as Parchment. The 
company’s newest tool, College Match, uses a proprietary algorithm 
to generate personalized college recommendations, enabling 
students to discover schools for which they may be well-positioned 
to be accepted.

 Parchment also makes ordering, tracking and sending transcripts 
to schools an easy, online process. Visit www.Parchment.com to get 
started.

Summer Reading

Free summer reading resources can help avoid “summer slump.” 
Check out Scholastic’s suite of free tools available at www.Scholastic.
com/summer.

 Consider registering children in grades K-8 for the Scholastic 
Summer Reading Challenge, a free, global online reading program. 
Kids can log reading minutes, win prizes and help beat last year’s 
summer reading world record of 176,438,473 minutes read.

 You can use the summer calendar app on the Scholastic Parents 
Facebook page, which features expert tips, articles and activities. 
Every Friday, parents can enter for the chance to win a Freebie 
Friday prize, including great books for kids.

 Monitor children’s progress and log reading minutes on-the-go 
using the free Scholastic Reading Timer app.

 Additionally, summer-friendly literature recommendations are 
available from Scholastic experts. Their book list features more than 
700 books for children in Pre-K-8, including this year’s “Reading 
Under the Stars” themed list, which showcases books about space, 
stars and astronomy, as well as spooky stories to read by a campfire.

Learning on-the-Go

Even in summer, parents and kids are busy. Luckily, GreatSchools.
org, a nonprofit website for parents that has reviews of more than 
200,000 prek-12 schools, is launching smartphone-friendly tools 
like GreatKids, which provides advice and activities that can be 
used in just a few minutes. Its free, personalized stream of reading 
activities for parents and kids is a nice antidote to summer brain 
drain, and its mobile-based activities build reading comprehension, 
knowledge and perseverance.

 A bit of learning and preparation during the dog days of summer 
will serve kids well when they return from break


“TWO DECADES OF AMAZING!” 

PASADENA MUSICAL THEATRE 
PROGRAM CELEBRATES 20 YEARS 

 This summer the Pasadena Musical Theatre Program (formerly 
the GATE Summer Musical Program) celebrates twenty years as one of 
the premiere musical theatre education programs in the Los Angeles 
area with “Two Decades of Amazing,” a performance event on Sunday, 
July 20, from 3 to 9 p.m. at Pasadena Playhouse’s Carrie Hamilton 
Theatre. The PMTP20 Celebration will not only serve as a reunion but 
will also showcase performances from former students who have gone 
on to become everything from opera singers to lawyers. Highlights will 
include performances by Artistic Director Ryan Scott Oliver, hailed by 
Entertainment Weekly as “a major new voice in musical theater,” as well as 
Junior Company Director Emily Clark and many surprise guests. 

From 3 to 6 p.m., performances will focus on the years 1995 through 
2003, while performances between 7 and 9 p.m. will showcase 2004 to 
2013. Between performances, there will be a dinner break from 6 to 7 
p.m. featuring local food trucks. In addition to the performances, there 
will be sing-alongs to the music from the shows presented over the 
years, a display of playbills and archival footage. Admission will include 
a souvenir dog tag necklace with a special PMTP20 logo. Tickets for the 
entire day (not including dinner) are $20 and will be available at the door. 
Reservations can also be made online at pasadenamusicaltheatre.org

 Founded twenty years ago as the GATE Summer Musical Program 
by Sierra Madre educator Gayle Blumel, the program originally started 
as a family project, an opportunity to make sure her own children had 
a meaningful and nurturing summer program which was free and open 
to all GATE students in the Pasadena School District. Since then PMTP 
has served thousands of Pasadena elementary, middle and high school 
students, teaching them “to put on a show, in the very literal sense of the 
word,” according to Emily Clark, junior company director, PMTP alumna 
and Blumel’s daughter. “Our students not only learn to how to act, sing and 
dance, but are instrumental in creating the shows they put on - building 
sets, putting together costumes, creating props, assisting our directors, and 
oftentimes, developing entirely new work.” The professional experience is 
something that makes the award-winning program unique, in its staging of 
original musicals written for the company, including “Jasper in Deadland” 
which recently had its off-Broadway premiere. 

 PMTP prides itself in making theatre accessible to all students, 
those with leanings towards a professional career and those who simply 
love to perform. Ryan Scott Oliver, alumnus and Senior Company director 
adds, “PMTP is a chance to use performing arts to create professional 
young adults. Some will go on to fulfill big Broadway dreams; others will 
use their stage time to inspire great careers in other areas-- but all will learn 
what it takes to be expressive, engaging and responsible.” Blumel also cites 
the “friendships and alliances that have lasted all these years” as another 
benefit of the “long legacy” of the program.

 In addition to the PMTP 20th Anniversary, the program is 
presenting two shows this summer, the Junior Company show “The Pirates 
of Penzance” July17-19 and the Senior Company show “The Many Selves 
of Mia Scott” July 24-27 -- an original musical about a 13-year old girl 
who clones herself when the demands of her life become too much, with 
hilarious and harrowing results. 

 What will the next twenty years bring? Not one to rest on his 
laurels, Ryan Scott Oliver says it all with the word ‘more’: “More original 
musicals, more outreach, more drama!”

THE REEL DEAL: by Ben Show

TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION

 
By now, the audience should know 
what to expect from ‘Transformers’ 
movies: big, CGI robots fighting, loose 
plot lines, and big explosions. That has 
how the last three films in the franchise 
have done. What sets ‘Extinction’ apart 
is that through all the exploding and 
robots crunching, there is something 
very original and very different about 
this movie.

 Taking place several years after 
the third movie, Cade (Mark Wahlberg) and his daughter, Tessa 
(Nicolas Peltz) find themselves in a tough situation. Cade is 
struggling to get his inventions to work and Tessa is trying to get 
into college. But when Cade, Tessa, and their friend Lucas (T.J. 
Miller) meet the beat-up Optimus Prime (voiced by Peter Cullen), 
they must forget their problems and join the Autobot resistance to 
fight a human-Transformer alliance.

 The robots are shinier and the explosions are bigger. It is a Michael 
Bay movie, after all. Yet, what makes this a good ‘Transformers’ 
movie is the screenplay. Yes, it is nearly three hours long, but it is 
worth it. The story and the characters are the focus of this movie, 
not the pyrotechnics. This movie set ‘Transformers’ in a new, 
interesting direction. Take a chance and seen ‘Age of Extinction’. 
You may find that you will enjoy it more than you think.

The Frog Prince Continued