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EDUCATION AND YOUTH 

Mountain View News Saturday, May 24, 2025

SCHOOL DIRECTORY

 
MOUNTAIN VIEWS NEWS TO 

HONOR 2025 GRADUATES

The June 1st edition of this paper will be dedicated to the Class of 2025! In order to be 
included, please send your graduates picture, full name, age, school and a line or 2 about 
the graduate. The Class of 2025 - tomorrow's leaders - deserve to be honored! 

Send to: editor@mtnviewsnews.com Subject: Class of 2025

Alverno Heights Academy

200 N. Michillinda Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024

(626) 355-3463 

Head of School: Joanne Harabedian

E-mail address: jharabedian@alvernoheights.org

Arcadia Christian School

1900 S. Santa Anita Avenue Arcadia, CA 91006

Preschool - TK - 8th Grade

626-574-8229/626-574-0805

Email:inquiry@acslions.com

Principal: Cindy Harmon

website: www.acslions.com

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

Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary School

Ms. Rose Navarro, Principal

2660 East Orange Grove Blvd.

Pasadena, Ca 91107

626-793-2089

https://school.abvmpasadena.org/

Barnhart School

240 W. Colorado Blvd Arcadia, Ca. 91007

(626) 446-5588 

Head of School: Tonya Beilstein

Kindergarten - 8th grade

website: www.barnhartschool.org

Bethany Christian School

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

(626) 355-3527 

Preschool-TK-8th Grade

Principal: Jonathon Hawes

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 E. Bradbourne Ave., Duarte, CA 91010

(626) 301-9809

Principal: Nancy Lopez

www.foothilloaksacademy.org

office@foothilloaksacademy.org

Frostig School

971 N. Altadena Drive Pasadena, CA 91107

(626) 791-1255

Head of School: Jenny Janetzke

Email: jenny@frostig.org

The Gooden School

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

(626) 355-2410 

Head of School, Jo-Anne Woolner

website: www.goodenschool.org

High Point Academy

1720 Kinneloa Canyon Road 

Pasadena, Ca. 91107 

Head of School: Gary Stern 626-798-8989

website: www.highpointacademy.org

La Salle College Preparatory

3880 E. Sierra Madre Blvd. Pasadena, Ca. 

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

Principal Ernest Siy

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: Dr. Eric Barba

website: http://phs.pusd.us

St. Rita Catholic School

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

Principal: Jon McMaster (626) 355-6114 

mcmaster@st-ritaschool.org

Website: www.st-ritaschool.org

Sierra Madre Elementary School

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

(626) 355-1428 

Principal: Dr. Jodi Marchesso

E-mail address: marchesso.jodi@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@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

A LASTING LEGACY: LONGTIME 
ARCADIA UNIFIED EDUCATORS 
DR. HACKING AND MR. BRAMLEY 
RETIRE 

(Scott Bramley, left, with fellow Dodgers fan Dr. Daniel Hacking, right)

ARCADIA- The end of the school year will be the end of an era for a pair of longtime 
Arcadia Unified educators. Two notable changes will come with the retirements of Scott 
Bramley and Dr. Daniel Hacking. 

For Bramley, his ties to Arcadia Unified are deep and very meaningful. He attended Bonita 
Park Elementary School, which is now the site of the District Office where he worked for 
the past decade, and down the street from his childhood home. A graduate of Arcadia High 
School (Class of 1983), his grandmother, Maxine Friesen, started working at Holly Avenue 
as a Supervisor of the cafeteria in 1951. She retired after 32 years in Arcadia as the Director 
of Food Services. Bramley, who put in 34 years with AUSD, says his grandmother was his 
hero and inspiration, who taught him about work ethic and passion for education. 

(Left: Bramley at Dana Middle School 
as PE Teacher & Coach in 1991)

Education and AUSD run four generations 
deep in the Bramley family, as his 
father was also a custodian and maintenance 
worker for Arcadia, and his 
son Matthew is a Computer Systems 
Support Technician. His youngest son, 
Jacob, worked part-time for AUSD in 
years past and is now working for the 
LPGA as a Graphic Designer. His mother, Cheryl, was the Director of Preschool at Santa Teresita Hospital, and his sister, Lisa, was an 
Administrative Assistant for nearby Baldwin Park Unified School District for 30 years. 

"I was so fortunate to grow up in Arcadia, attend Arcadia schools, and to spend my entire 34-year career in this incredible organization. 
My wife Paula, our sons Matthew and Jacob, and I are incredibly grateful to Arcadia Unified School District for the opportunities my 
career provided for our family," Bramley said. 

Education was also the Hackings' family business. His wife, Michelle, is a longtime educator and currently a school counselor for the 
Burbank Unified School District. Burbank is also where Dr. Hacking first started his career teaching social science at John Burroughs 
High School in 1990. 

(2016, Former Assistant Principal Jeff Hunter, left with 
Dr. Hacking, right, after agreeing to dye their hair Mariner 
red to support a student fundraising effort) 

Both of Dr. Hacking’s sisters pursued the family business 
in higher education as well. Alison Pike is a professor 
of psychology at the University of Sussex in Brighton, 
England, and Jane Hacking is a professor emeritus 
in Slavic Languages at the University of Utah. They 
took a more direct route in following their very well-
known and accomplished father, Ian Hacking, who was 
a world-renowned Canadian philosopher and author 
who wrote a dozen highly regarded books. He taught 
at some of the most prestigious universities, including 
the University of Cambridge and Stanford. He won the 
Holberg Memorial Prize in 2009, which came with an 
award of $750,000. That was just one of several awards 
and recognitions, which included being elected Fellow 
of the British Academy, the Royal Society of Canada, 
and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

“He was the smartest man I have ever known,” Daniel recalled. “He demanded intellectual curiosity and academic excellence. He was also a fantastic teacher who loved to take his son camping. 
We would hike for hours to some remote campsite, cook steaks over the fire, and sleep under the stars, where he would explain the constellations in the night sky. We cycled through 
Northern California, the Italian Alps, and the flatlands of Holland and Germany. Never a dull moment. He actually led me to a career in K-12 education because I was not going to try to 
follow in his footsteps as a college academic.” 

While taking a slightly different route, Dr. Hacking ends a career in education that his late 
father would be extremely proud of. The elder Hacking dedicated his third book, written in 
1975, The Emergence of Probability, to his son Daniel, who calls it his most prized possession. 

“My father was a tough man to love, but he made me a non-complaining tough son of a gun,” 
Daniel said. 

After being promoted to Principal at John Muir Middle School in 2003 where he was for 7 
years, Hacking made the journey to Arcadia in 2010 when he was named the Principal of 
Dana Middle School, a position he held for 11 years before being promoted to the Secondary 
Director of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment for Arcadia Unified. 

“Arcadia Unified School District is simply the best, most effective, most functional school 
district I have ever had the pleasure of working for. Everyone here works collaboratively.

The leadership is wise, not reactive, and very supportive. I will miss the people and the district, 
but it's time to relax for the first time in 35 years. I can't wait,” said Dr. Hacking.

Dr. Angela Dillman, who spent the last seven years as the Principal of Arcadia High School, 
will succeed Dr. Hacking at the district office. Greg Gazanian, an Arcadia High alum, will 
take over for Bramley in the same department where he started in 1997 as a student-worker 
while in eighth grade. 

(Left, 2016, Former Assistant Principal Jeff Hunter, left with Dr. Hacking, right, after agreeing 
to dye their hair Mariner red to support a student fundraising effort)


(Newspaper article from July 21, 1983, about Bramley’s Grandmother retiring from 
AUSD)


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