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1. Article and photos on First Avenue School. CALIFORNIA ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE, pp. 24-25. October 1940. Gift from Peggy Buddy.

2. Original section of First Avenue School. news photo, M.D.

3. The current extensive interior-lifting of First Avenue School.. Information sheets given by First Avenue personnel to visitors to school in 1960-61.

4. Dana Junior High School. Student Handbook, 1975-76.

5. First Avenue Junior High School. Student Handbook, 1975-76.

6. Foothills Junior High School. AUSD brochure 1967-68.

7. Your Junior High Schools. AUSD brochure 1967-68.

8. Whole new world opens up to ham operator. Arcadia Tribune January 6, 1974. (Rich Alexander, ninth grade student at First Avenue Junior High School.)

9. OK $101,600 purchase of Soberly School site (for future Foothills Junior High School). news clip September 22, 1958.

10. Arson suspected in school fire. Arcadia Tribune May 31, 1979.

11. Richard Henry Dana Intermediate School PTA Yearbook 1956-57.

12. "Mariner Log" from Dana Middle School April 26, 1995.

13. "Mariner Log" from Dana Middle School December 21, 1995.

14. Promotion ceremony program for Dana Junior High School, First Avenue Junior High School and Foothills Junior High School June 15, 1994.

15. "Dana Overboard" magazine of Dana Middle School. March 1998.

16. Letter from Christeen Taniguchi of Galvin Preservation Associates, dated May 15, 2007, requesting public comments and information regarding potential historical resources located within the Foothills Middle School development project area. Enclosures include aerial map of the campus and layout of the campus with buildings marked for improvements 1) addition to the music room 2) new amphitheater 3) new joint-use multi-gymnasium.

17. Joint Use Gymnasium Project groundbreaking ceremony, Dana Middle School, November 5, 2009.

18. Dana Junior High School graduation program, June 15, 1966. Later known as Dana Middle School.

19. Dana Gym Grand Opening Ceremony program, January 11, 2011.

20. Arcadia schools, well-heeled but still pinched. The upscale school district finds itself with an embarrassment of riches as it seeks to win community support in avoiding cutbacks and layoffs (First Avenue Middle School). Los Angeles Times, June 7, 2011. By Sandy Banks. Retrieved from latimes.com on June 8, 2011.

21. "Footnotes," the Foothills Middle School PTA newsletter. October-November 1999.

22. AUSD expands AVID Program to First Avenue and Dana middle schools. AVID is Advancement Via Individual Determination. AVID places a renewed focus on students in the academic middle who have the potential and motivation to be among the top-performing students in the district. Arcadia Weekly, p. 23, October 24, 2013.

23. Night at the Movies, a music program at First Avenue Middle School, June 7, 2006.

24. First Avenue Middle School celebrating 110 years, invitation to December 9, 2017 event.

Subjects

Schools - Junior High Schools

Item ID

226AF

Collection

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1. Lay corner stone for this fine high school tomorrow. News photo and caption, n,d, (circa 1926?) - completed 1928.

2. Fifty-Seventh Annual Commencement Monrovia-Arcadia-Duarte High School, June 1951. Last commencement for combined high school.

3. Arcadia students had been attending high school in Monrovia since 1920. History of Monrovia City High School by Thelma Thompson, former English teacher there.

4. Union High School at Monrovia. Photo and caption from rotogravure section of early Los Angeles Times (?) , n.d.

5. The Wildcat. Copy of school paper dated November 5, 1943. Gift received June 1980.

6. Copy of mid-year graduation program and commencement, January 28, 1943. Copied from the original loaned by Vera Van Houten Iwaaden in September 1980.

7. Help Arcadia Get Justice. Copy of hand bill for Arcadians opposing bond election for funds for a unified district. States that Arcadians pay a disproportionate amount - 41% of taxes with only 80 pupils in school against 330 from Monrovia and 25 from Duarte. April 1923.

8. Bulletin and Catalogue of Information, 1937. Copied from original in Rancho Santa Anita Scrapbook #1, p.101.

9. The Foothill School Bulletin, February 1938. Copied from original in Rancho Santa Anita Scrapbook #1, p.99.

10. The Foothill School Bulletin, January 1939. Copied from the original in Rancho Santa Anita Scrapbook #3.

11. The High School Bulletin, April 1940. Copied from original in Rancho Santa Anita Scrapbook #1, p.91.

12. Directory of Schools 1937-38. Copied from the original in Rancho Santa Anita Scrapbook #1, p.97.

13. Parent-Teacher Association of Monrovia-Arcadia-Duarte High School annual dues envelope for 50 cents c/o Lorna Frey. (Found in the American Rose Annual for 1948)

14. Girls Physical Education Department towel receipt dated January 24, 1944.

15. Welcome to High School, map of the school and The Merit System. 3pgs

16. MAD Forty Year Reunion book for class of 1948. 2 copies

17. Monrovia Arcadia Duarte High School Catalog of Information dated January 11, 1944.

18. MAD Wildcats . Three decals (transfers). c. 1943

19. MAD Information for New Girls. c. 1944.

20. Notepad and stationery pages of "The Wildcat" school newspaper.

Subjects

Schools - High Schools - Monrovia-Arcadia-Duarte

Item ID

220AF

Collection

Subject Files

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