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Don Fickas has announced he will run for re-election to the Board of Education. Article discusses his thoughts on current problems.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 18, 1981
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 18, 1981
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
School Board - Elections
Fickas, Don
Item ID
2521AN
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Newspaper Index
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Incumbents Carol Papay and Don Fickas won re-election to four-year terms on the Board.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 23, 1981
Pages
p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 23, 1981
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
School Board - Elections
Papay, Carol
Fickas, Don
Item ID
2527AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Results of the school board elections are given by precinct. The 22.6% turnout of voters returned incumbents Carol Papay and Don Fickas to office.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 26, 1981
Pages
p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 26, 1981
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
School Board - Elections
Papay, Carol
Fickas, Don
Item ID
2528AN
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Newspaper Index
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The Los Angeles County Commission on School District Organization voted 9-0 to deny Sierra Madre's petition to join the Arcadia School District. The matter will go to the state Board of Education, which may take 3-4 months to make a decision.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 5, 1989
Pages
p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 5, 1989
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Pasadena Unified School District
Item ID
2154AN
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Newspaper Index
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The Board of Education adopted a tentative $18.6 million budget. The budget assumes $14.5 million is state revenue and $3 million in local income.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2704
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 25, 1981
Pages
p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 25, 1981
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Budget
Item ID
2639AN
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Newspaper Index
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Four candidates will be running for 3 Arcadia Board of Education seats: G. Michael Allison, Gene Shepherd, James Bryant, and Robert Kladifko.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2605
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 1, 1987
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 1, 1987
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
School Board - Elections
Allison, G. Michael
Shepherd, Gene
Bryant, James
Kladifko, Robert
Item ID
2546AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Police officer Don Wilsterman is the photographic lab technician and latent fingerprint examiner for the police department. Article describes his work and personal interests.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 25, 1982
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 25, 1982
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Police - Wilsterman, Don
Item ID
2226AN
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Newspaper Index
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Four candidates to run for 3 school board seats. The four are Robert E. Kladifko, Jim Bryant, G. Michael Allison and Marilyn M. Perkins. Article has brief biographical information on each candidate.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 27, 1983
Pages
p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 27, 1983
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
School Board - Elections
Kladifko, Robert
Bryant, James
Allison, G. Michael
Perkins, Marilyn M.
Item ID
2532AN
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Newspaper Index
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A juvenile officer, Agent Don Glenn, has been assigned full time to the High School campus where he will have an office and will be available as an advisor to students, teachers and administrators. Glenn's training and background are outlined.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 20 ,1980
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 20 ,1980
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School
Item ID
2972AN
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Newspaper Index
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German style soccer debuts in Arcadia with a German coach named Werner Schmidbauer at Arcadia High School. See hard copy in Box 51.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33998
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 4, 1983
Pages
p. B1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 4, 1983
Pages
p. B1
Subjects
Arcadia High School sports--boys soccer
Schmidbauer, Werner
Item ID
34192AN
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Newspaper Index
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A discussion of the proposed changes in high school graduation requirements. Proposed changes include an increase from 2 to 3 years of English and a minimum of 1 year of U.S. history rather than the 3 quarters now required.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 18, 1981
Pages
p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 18, 1981
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School
Item ID
2974AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Don Alcorn, a 20-year veteran of the Arcadia Police Department, has been named to the new post of Emergency Services Coordinator by the Arcadia City Council. Alcorn's job is to prepare an emergency plan that will cover any aspect of any possible disaster, from earthquake to fire to nuclear disaster.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 26, 1989
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 26, 1989
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Emergency Services Coordinator
Alcorn, Don
Item ID
1525AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia High School's Associated Student body will be paying back its approximately $29,000 debt in 3 yearly increments of $9,700.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3069
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 15, 1987
Pages
p. A-2
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 15, 1987
Pages
p. A-2
Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School
Item ID
2991AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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In honor of the high school marching band traveling to Newcastle, Australia, a film crew from "Down Under" arrived in Arcadia to shoot scenes around the city. Mayor Don Pellegrino served as tour guide. A second article tells of the preparations made by Jack and Barbara Saelid, and numerous others, as the Saelids prepare to lead 164 teenagers and chaperones plus 30 others on the trip to Australia.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 24, 1982
Pages
p. A-1 photo w/first article
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 24, 1982
Pages
p. A-1 photo w/first article
Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School
Saelid, Jack and Barbara
Item ID
3008AN
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Newspaper Index
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The Board of Education adopted an $18.6 million publication budget but major changes will occur before the final budget is adopted August 3. This budget does not include $300,000 savings from the closure of two elementary schools. The board is considering dropping driver training from the curriculum.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 16, 1981
Pages
p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 16, 1981
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Budget
Item ID
2640AN
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Newspaper Index
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Mayor Pro-tem Donald Pellegrino and 2 other Arcadians have been named as defendants in a $30 million Ohio civil lawsuit charging them and their energy firm with "pirating" trade secrets for manufacturing a new, cleaner-burning fuel for steel foundries.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 7, 1985
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 7, 1985
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
City Council 1980 - 1989
Pellegrino, Donald
Item ID
1033AN
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Newspaper Index
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School district gets CAP test scores. Although Arcadia students remained comfortably above the 80th percentile in most categories in California Assessment Program test scores, the influx of Limited English Proficient (LEP) students into the district is having a definite impact. In 1976, there were 63 limited or non-English speaking students in Arcadia school district. As of October 1 this year, 539 students are in the LEP program. 78% of LEP students are Asian; 14 % are Spanish, 2 % European, with the remainder from other cultures. Fifteen languages are represented. See hard copy in Box 51.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 4, 1983
Pages
p. A1, A2
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 4, 1983
Pages
p. A1, A2
Subjects
Arcadia Unified School District
California Assessment Program (CAP) test scores
English proficiency
Languages
Item ID
34189AN
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Newspaper Index
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Donald E. Fickas elected school board president, Mrs. Papay is VP.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 21, 1983
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 21, 1983
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
School Board - Elections
Fickas, Don
Papay, Carol
Item ID
2541AN
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Newspaper Index
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In a surprise move, 2 members of the Arcadia Board of Education announced that they will not run for re-election next year. Carol Papay, an 8-year member and currently board chairwoman, and Donald Fickas, a 13-year member, both said they will step down to allow interested individuals the opportunity to consider running for their seats.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 25, 1984
Pages
p. A-1 photos
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 25, 1984
Pages
p. A-1 photos
Subjects
School Board - Elections
Papay, Carol
Fickas, Don
Item ID
2542AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Some Sierra Madre parents want to split from the Pasadena Unified School District and join the Arcadia Unified School District because of Arcadia's high-ranking CAP scores and low dropout rate. Members of Arcadia's Board of Education question whether they could handle the influx of new students.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 23, 1989
Pages
p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 23, 1989
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Pasadena Unified School District
Item ID
2151AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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