There have been six attempted rapes reported at Arcadia High School since April 15, 1979. At least five are believed to have been committed by the same individual.
Arcadia High School's counseling program has been selected as a model program by the L.A. County Office of Education for its improvements during the past 2 years.
To save Arcadia High School $41,500 a year on energy costs, the Board of Education has selected the firm Pacific Energen, Inc. to design a joint electricity-generating & hot water-producing system for the school.
All Arcadia High School students have now been granted permission to participate in voluntary drug urinalysis testing, an option previously open only to athletes and student body officers.
Arcadia High School had a ceremony unveiling a new semi-truck & tailer which has been purchased by the Arcadia Unified School District to carry the instruments of the Arcadia High Marching Band.
An engineering firm has been hired to consult for the Arcadia Unified School District in planning and construction of an all-weather track at Arcadia High School.
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.
Arcadia High School's Marching Band, Tall Flags, and Tom Tom Drill Team took the Sweepstakes Award for street competition at the Mt. Carmel Invitational Tournament of Bands, October 24.
Beginning October 1, Arcadia High School athletes and student government officers will have the opportunity to participate in a "strictly voluntary" urinalysis drug testing program.
The State Department of Education has announced that Dana Junior High and Foothills Junior High have been nominated as Distinguished Schools in the 1987-88 California School Recognition Program.
The Arcadia High School Apache Marching Band will travel to Arcadia's sister city, Newcastle, Australia, in late June. Parents have agreed to make up the difference, if the $37,000 still needed cannot be raised. Besides Newcastle, where they will perform for 5,000 high school students, the band will sight-see and perform in Canberra and Sydney.
Arcadia High School students are victorious in Decathlon. Entering for the first time this year, the Arcadia High School Decathalon Team garnered three first places among 34 Los Angeles County high schools. See hard copy in Box 51.
The Arcadia High School Apache Marching Band won the Sweepstakes Award at the annual state championship All-Western Band Review for the third consecutive year which earns them the perpetual trophy. This makes the third time they have won the perpetual trophy which goes to a school that has won the Sweepstakes Award three times in a row. This is a "first" in the All-Western Band Review.
Arcadia students receive diplomas. Class of 1983--Arcadia High School, First Avenue Junior High School, Dana Junior High School, and Foothills Junior High School. Arcadia Tribune staff photos by Jay Hoover and Louis Nunez.