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For the first time ever, there is a proficiency examination, which if passed successfully, would permit a student to leave school at 16. A certificate issued by the State will be legally equivalent to a diploma. The student must also have parental approval.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 5, 1975
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 5, 1975
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Schools
Item ID
2600AN
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Newspaper Index
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William McKinley Jr. has been named principal of Maranatha High School.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 14, 1974
Pages
p. A-7
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 14, 1974
Pages
p. A-7
Subjects
Schools, Private - Maranatha High School
Item ID
3069AN
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A chronology of the city has been developed by the school district's Office of Elementary Instruction utilizing information from the Public Library, the Arboretum and the City Clerk's office. The 35+ page volume will be used by the third and fourth grade classes as they study the community's history.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 27, 1979
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p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 27, 1979
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Arcadia (City) - History - Chronology
Item ID
1726AN
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Newspaper Index
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The Principal of Camino Grove School gives Coordinating Council members background information of the Early Childhood Education program.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 8, 1975
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p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 8, 1975
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Elementary Schools
Schools-Camino Grove
Item ID
2686AN
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Since October 1975 a committee of citizens, teachers and administrators have been studying requirements for graduation from high school. They recommend raising the units needed to graduate from 160 to 170. The School Board will vote on this proposal on April 14.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 1, 1976
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 1, 1976
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p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School
Item ID
2959AN
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Newspaper Index
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Two ad hoc committees have been established to help the Board of Education make a final ruling on two major problems: Smoking (recent legislation has made smoking on campus legal at the discretion of the local school board) and Graduation requirements.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 16, 1975
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 16, 1975
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
School Board
Item ID
2450AN
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Newspaper Index
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Approximately 110 slides depicting Arcadia's history have been made into a slide show and are now available to check out along with a written narration.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 11, 1976
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 11, 1976
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Arcadia Public Library - Collection
Item ID
1930AN
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Newspaper Index
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Efforts have been made to try to find out whether Arcadia is due for a major county tax reassessment this fall. It appears very possible.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 8, 1976
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 8, 1976
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Taxation
Item ID
3306AN
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Newspaper Index
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Hal Roach will chair the Historical Committee that will put together an Arcadia Who's Who for the 75th anniversary.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 11, 1978
Pages
p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 11, 1978
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Arcadia (City) - History
Roach, Hal
Item ID
1715AN
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Newspaper Index
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History-Rancho Santa Anita (1838-1947)

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Start Date
1838
End Date
1947
Contents
1. Chain of title. Three copies given to Arcadia Public Library on the Rancho's fiftieth anniversary. 2. "Santa Anita Rancho history told in book." News clip, circa 1956. 3. "Our community." Article from Arcadia Savings and Loan brochure. 4. "Arcadia, City of Arcadia." San Gabriel Valley Adver…
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Start Date
1838
End Date
1947
Contents
1. Chain of title. Three copies given to Arcadia Public Library on the Rancho's fiftieth anniversary.
2. "Santa Anita Rancho history told in book." News clip, circa 1956.
3. "Our community." Article from Arcadia Savings and Loan brochure.
4. "Arcadia, City of Arcadia." San Gabriel Valley Advertiser, February 26, 1969 by I. Hope.
5. "Arcadia gets publicity." News clip, 1927 copied from Alton Green's scrapbook.
6. "The Romance of Rancho Santa Anita." Booklet by Rancho Santa Anita, circa 1948. Eight copies.
7. Lasca Leaves, October 1967. Three copies.
8. "The Romance of the Ranchos." Booklet by Palmer Conner, Title Insurance and Trust Company, 1941. Six copies. Insert of 1919 map of Old Spanish and Mexican Ranchos of Los Angeles County.
9. "Rancho Santa Anita ... trials of ownership." Lasca Leaves, December 1975. Two copies.
10. "The people of Rancho Santa Anita, Part II." Lasca Leaves, July 1956.
11. "From romance to racehorses." Westways, February 1974.
12. "Ranch Santa Anita." Section of the book, Brief Sketches of the History of the Ranchos San Pascual, Santa Anita ...etc. by J.M. Miller.
13. Lasca Leaves, December 1975.
14. a. "Historic Santa Anita: the development of the land." Brochure by the Arboretum, circa 1976. 14b. Historic Santa Anita the Development of the Land, undated. 14c. Historic Santa Anita the Development of the Land, originally printed by California Arboretum Foundation 1976, Revised and reprinted by Los Voluntarios 2006.
15. "Expedients." Four pages detailing Reid's claim. Copied from the collection of Huntington Library.
16. "Santa Anita Ranch, Rancho Santa Anita." Articles from The Westerner's Brand Book, published by Los Angeles Corral, 1956.
17. "The old and new Santa Anita." Westways, January 1948.
18. "Chain of horticulture." Lasca Leaves, July 1951.
19. "The restorations at Rancho Santa Anita." Lasca Leaves, January 1961.
20. "Background to Rancho Santa Anita." By Florence Slocum, circa 1969.
21. "People say." Arcadia Tribune, February - April, 1941. A series of eight articles commemorating Rancho Santa Anita's 100th birthday.
22. "Rancho Santa Anita 'Place of Many Waters.'" Lasca Leaves, October 1967 by Susanna Bryant Dakin.
23. Historic calendar of events of Ranch Santa Anita. Peacock Call, September/October 1978.
24. Manuscript of Mrs. C.W. (Emma Elinor Hines) Young. From the Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley, October 1978. Photocopy of handwritten manuscript and typed copy.
25. "Owners and cattle brands of the Rancho Santa Anita." The Branding Iron, June 1979 by Jack McCaskill.
26. "The Baldwin legacy." Lasca Leaves, June 1976 by Sandy Snider.
27. "Santa Anita Rancho - history told in book." Pasadena Independent, January 11, 1953. Pasadena Star News, September 23, 1956.
28. "Pasadena the Crown of the Valley: a souvenir." Pasadena Board of Trade, 1893-1894 by E. Norman Baker. From the historical collection of William F. Salisbury.
29. "Rancho Santa Anita - 'Place of Many Waters'." Junior League Community News, October 1957 by Susanna Bryant Dakin.
30. "Rancho Santa Anita's colorful past." News clip, undated.
31. "Rancho Santa Anita, chuck full of early California memories; one of the Southland's most beautiful spots." Arcadia Tribune, December 6, 1937, page 1.
32. "Historic ranchos' sale recalls pioneer days." Los Angeles Times, April 5, 1936, Part V, page 1.
33. "Two famous holdings to be subdivided soon. Santa Anita and La Cienega Ranch acreage purchased for vast residential development." Los Angeles Times, April 5, 1936, Part V.
34. Town Rambler by Marjorie Hesse: description of Rancho Santa Anita and the arrangement of the rooms at the old adobe house as told by Miss Lena McCulley and second cousin of E.J. "Lucky" Baldwin, Mrs. H. H. Cross. Arcadia Tribune, June 22, 1938. Copied from Rancho Santa Anita Scrapbook #1, April 1936-Jan. 1, 1939. Arcadia Historical Society.
35. "The Romance of California Land Titles" by Stuart O'Melveny. Title Insurance and Trust Company, 1928. (Rancho Santa Anita mentioned on page 13.)
36. Rancho Santa Anita and the development of San Marino and Sierra Madre. From pages 91, 93, 94, 100 of the book Pasadena Area History by Manuel Pineda and E. Caswell Perry (1972).
Subjects
History-Rancho Santa Anita (1838-1947)
Physical Description
2 folders
Item ID
103AF
Collection
Subject Files
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Gold Seal graduates, honor students lauded at Arcadia High School. In photo are Mark Horstman, Gloria Horstman, Max Ryan, Dr. Ed Ryan. See hard copy of newspaper in Box 51.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 26, 1978
Pages
p. A4
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 26, 1978
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
California Scholastic Federation Gold Seal graduates
Horstman, Gloria
Horstman, Mark
Ryan, Ed
Ryan, Max
Item ID
34135AN
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Newspaper Index
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The Arcadia Board of Education made firm its plans for the Junior High pupils. First Avenue 8th and 9th graders will attend classes on their own campus, while incoming 7th graders will be divided between Dana and Foothills junior high schools.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 5, 1979
Pages
p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 5, 1979
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Junior High Schools
Item ID
3030AN
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Newspaper Index
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Dr. George S. Parcells, a chiropractor who has been in practice in Arcadia since 1940, has recently retired at the age of 87. Biographical sketch included.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 9, 1979
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p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 9, 1979
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Parcells, George S.
Item ID
2102AN
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Newspaper Index
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Article discusses proposed Huntington Bank. Arcadia's first locally-owned bank in 50 years, plans are being made for a spring opening.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 14, 1979
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 14, 1979
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Huntington Bank
Item ID
783AN
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Newspaper Index
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The local chapter of the California School Employees Association has made an initial proposal to the Arcadia Board of Education. The CSEA chapter is requesting a 21.5% raise in salaries.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 15, 1979
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p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 15, 1979
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Employees
Item ID
2730AN
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Newspaper Index
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Filing opens December 26 for candidates for three seats on the School Board. The seats up for re-election are: Lewis May - just completed his first 4 year term; George Frempter - 8 years; Gloria Horstman - appointed to fill the vacancy created by the death of Gary Mills. The election will be held April 5.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 24, 1974
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p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 24, 1974
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
School Board - Elections
Item ID
2484AN
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Newspaper Index
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Elaine Larkin, mother of 5 Arcadia High School graduates, was presented with a Golden Apple Award by the Arcadia School District. The award honors top supporters of local school districts.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 22, 1979
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p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 22, 1979
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Larkin, Elaine
Item ID
1906AN
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Newspaper Index
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The School Attendance Review Board is being called the most promising juvenile welfare reform measure in more than a decade. It's intent is to solve behavior and school attendance problems before they get out of hand.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 8, 1975
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p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 8, 1975
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Schools
Item ID
2595AN
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Newspaper Index
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David Hales, who earlier took himself out of the race for the Arcadia School Board because he was leaving the district, may run after all.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 15, 1979
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p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 15, 1979
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
School Board - Elections
Hales, David
Item ID
2505AN
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Newspaper Index
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Chris McGuire files for a seat on the School Board. Gives a biographical sketch and his views on the issues.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 13, 1975
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p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 13, 1975
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
School Board - Elections
McGuire, Christopher M.
Item ID
2489AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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