Four people standing in front of palm tree and other tree. They are, L-R: Elmer Westerhouse, superindentent of schools; Ellison Leake, first graduate of Arcadia School; Mary Robelard, first teacher; and Walter G. Coombs, principal.
First Avenue Middle School welcomes new principal Semeen Issa. Dr. Issa had been assistant principal at the school for the past 6 years and this will be her 17th year at First Avenue Middle School.
Group of 16 faculty members from First Avenue School pictured. Front row, L-R: Fannig Duvall, Elvira Orsburn, Faye Penny, Genevieve McMahon, Virna Ruth, Ethel Flory, unknown, Dorothy May Butts, and Thelma Johnson. Back row, L-R: unknown, Walter Coombs, Etta Russell White, Helen Rinde Diedrich, Agnes McInturff, unknown, Miriam Haddox Wibeck, unknown, unknown, unknown, Frank Boyer, unknown, Elmer E. Westerhouse, unknown, Constance Ellison Rose, unknown.
First Avenue class picture with no identification of the students. There is a row of boys sitting Indian-style in the front row, then two rows of girls and a fourth row of boys at the top.
First Avenue Junior High has been nominated as a 1990 California Distinguished School by the State Department of Education. First Avenue will be one of six schools in Los Angeles County to be so nominated.
The Arcadia City Council voted to authorize closure of California St. between Santa Anita and First Avenue so that the Arcadia School District can install temporary classrooms while First Avenue School is being rebuilt.
Midwinter graduation class at First Avenue School on January 27, 1944. Includes teacher and students. Published on p. 112 of VISIONS OF ARCADIA, A CENTENNIAL ANTHOLOGY.