Kenneth Branson, 18, a senior at Arcadia High School, is one of only 6 San Gabriel Valley students to receive a $200 National Merit Scholarship. He is one of 1800 nationwide winners.
Description of the activities of the High School's TV technology class. Programs are written, produced and performed by students for broadcast over the school's two television channels.
Noted organist Elsie Mae Emerson to present concert at Arcadia Music Mart, announced owner Mel Pratt. Emerson is an organist on the famous "Queen for a Day" show both on television and radio. She will play and demonstrate the Minshall electronic organ.
Focus on the Family, Arcadia's 5th largest employer, has run out of room and may have to leave town. The mushrooming non-profit organization with a Christian radio, publishing, counseling, film and television ministry, could leave within 6 months to a year.
The start of the school year will bring cable TV to the Arcadia Unified School District, which is hooking up to the nationwide Cable in the Classroom program.
A nationwide forgery scheme uncovered by the Arcadia Police Department has resulted in the arrest of three men at the Santa Anita Avenue branch of the Bank of America.
Group W Cable celebrated the hook-up of its first cable television subscriber south of Foothill Blvd. Group W and Arcadia city officials gathered at the home of Frank Waite on La Sierra Dr. in Arcadia to present the new connection and a new television as a gift.
In the past 2 years, after 7 years of declining, Scholastic Aptitude Test verbal scores have begun to rise slightly nationwide. But in Arcadia they have continued their downward trend.
David Park, 17, a senior at Arcadia High School, is one of only 6 San Gabriel Valley students to receive a $2000 National Merit Scholarship, on of 1800 nationwide winners. Park is one of only 2 students in California to also be honored in the U.S. Presidential Scholars Program, where he is one of 500 national finalists competing for 141 scholar awards.