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Ba c k To Sc h o o lLarchmont chronicLe • 2012

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She’s also excited about the chance to work with older kids. “It’s definitely a new expe-rience that I embrace. It’s an amazing opportunity to work with high school youth and to have direct influence and im-pact on their college and life choices,” said Yoon-Fantamil-las. “I find it powerful and in-spiring to engage in conver-sation with students about

college, their hopes and dreams,” added the principal, who holds three masters’ de-grees as well as a doctorate in K-12 Leader-ship in Educa-tion from USC. Her focus at L.A. High is to build a strong learning com-munity and help foster school pride by working toward increasing stu-dent achieve-

ment. “I plan to work closely with the faculty to strengthen our instructional program to at-tract the best and the bright-est students, and to work col-laboratively with community stakeholders to rebuild L.A. High to its premier days,” she said.

the community,” said Yoon-Fantamillas. Her accomplishments there included building a rapport with students and families and creating a strong professional development program for teachers. She also served as the school-community liaison with Hancock Park residents. In addition, she worked side by side with school neighbor and supporter Joanne Med-erois—who Yoon-Fantamillas calls a true friend of JB—on a three-year beautification project. “Take a look at the front of the school and see just how gorgeous it is,” she said. “It’s a great honor knowing that I had a part in creating some-thing beautiful that will last a long time for many to enjoy.” Now Yoon-Fantamillas is looking forward to the exciting and challeng-ing work of leading the high school on Olympic Blvd. “I know that L.A. High, like John Burroughs, has a long and rich history. There is tremen-dous legacy and pride being a Roman, and I feel extremely honored to be a part of the school’s history.”

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By Laura Eversz For Helena Yoon-Fontamil-las, who recently took over as principal at Los Angeles High

School, leaving John Bur-roughs Middle School—where she’d been assistant principal for the past five years—was a

bittersweet experience. At John Burroughs, “I built so many wonderful relation-ships with students, staff and

New principal aims to foster school pride at Los Angeles High School

AbOuT THE cOvErThe kindergarten students on the cover attend Christ the King School. Photo by Bill Devlin.

By Jane Gilman Christ the King Catholic School is inaugurating the first transitional kindergarten in the Los Angeles Diocese. “We are adopting the Mon-tessori method,” said Ruth Anderson, principal of the el-ementary school at 617 N. Ar-den Blvd. Anderson, a native of Ire-land, said her first teaching experience in her home coun-try was as a Montessori teach-er. The kindergarten class is for four- to five-year-olds to get them ready for the older kindergarten. “It encourages independent learning,” said Anderson. The method, founded by Maria Montessori in 1907 in Italy, involves constant in-teraction, problem solving, child-to-child teaching and socialization. Children are challenged according to their

Christ the King School debuts transitional kindergarten

ability. Montessori materials let the students learn at their own pace. They learn to tie bows, unbutton buttons and lace shoes. Other materials are used to teach arithmetic and geography. The youngsters learn the alphabet by tracing letters. Shannon Holeva, who is beginning her sixth year as a kindergarten teacher at the school, is excited about the program. The children will be learn-ing how to build words and put them into sentences. “This is among the methods that prepare them for the next level,” she added.

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Flower arranging class at Huntington Using locally grown flow-ers, kids can create summer bouquets and learn fun facts about California’s flower farms at a workshop on Sat., Sept. 8 from 1 to 2:30 p.m. The event, for children ages seven to 12 accompanied by an adult, is at the Huntington Library, 1151 Oxford Rd., San Marino. For more information, go to www.huntington.org.

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A recent open house intro-duced The City School, a pub-lic, tuition-free charter middle school that opened its doors on Aug. 27. The school has started with grades 6th and 7th this year, and will add a grade each year until it becomes a 6th through 12th grade school. The City School emphasizes “student-centered education” with small class sizes of ap-proximately 14-24 students per class, said cofounder Lind-say Sturman, Larchmont Vil-lage. She is also co-founder of the Larchmont Charter School. Sheri Werner is the school’s founding principal and has been a professional educator for the past 22 years. Werner has taught at both elemen-tary and middle school levels. She cofounded Foundations School Community, a K-8th grade constructivist-based school, where she served as head of school for 15 years. "Offering an exceptional, student-centered education is what The City School is all

Tuition-free charter schoolopens on Robertson Blvd.

about," said Werner. "We're deeply committed to offering Los Angeles students a dy-namic alternative public mid-dle and high school option." The school espouses blend-ed learning and an education-al philosophy and approach designed to serve the needs of different learners, including gifted and special education students. To contact the school at 1518 S. Robertson Blvd., visit www.citycharterschool.org

Cool saber-tooth cats on stage at the Page Museum

Night of music, comedysupports school programs

Starting this month the Ice Age’s coolest cat will have a regular gig at the Page Mu-seum, 5801 Wilshire Blvd. The extinct relative of the house cat and her kitten Nib-bles will be on stage at the East La Brea Theater on Mon., Sept. 3. Show times are at 11 a.m., 12:30 and 1:45 p.m. The Ice Age Encounter of the life-size cats in puppet form continues bi-weekly ev-

ery Wednesday and Saturday starting Sept. 12. Same hours apply. Visitors can also witness on-going fossil excavations of the fanged cat that once prowled the area. Fossils are also on display inside the museum. The stage show takes the experience a step further to imagine what this gnarly, fur-ry creature acted like 20,000 or so years ago, museum of-ficials said.

Keepin’ Music Beyond the Bell, hosted by comedian Tom-my Chong, is at The World Fa-mous Conga Room @ LA Live, 800 W. Olympic Blvd. on Wed., Sept. 5. The fundraiser supports after-school programs in L.A. public schools in music, art, recreation and academic ac-tivities. Doors open at 6 p.m.; Chong’s performance is at 7:15 p.m. Additional entertainment

will be provided by Wil-Dog from Ozomatli and his Banda Viento de Oro as well as The Latin All Stars featuring Rudy Salas from Tierra. Tickets are $25 for general admission, $60 for reserved seating and $75 for VIP, which includes priority seating and the chance to meet and greet the performers. For more information, go to btb.lausd.net. For tickets, go to www.congaroom.com.


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PUPPETEERS bring Ice Age creatures back to life.

Nature-themed story time for kids at Descanso Bring your little ones, two and older, to hear nature-themed stories in the giant Lit-tle Owls Reading Nest at Des-canso Gardens, 1418 Descanso

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on Tuesdays and Saturdays at 10:30 a.m. Free with admission. For more information, go to www.descansogardens.org

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Languages taught at preschool Evidence suggests that sur-rounding young children with a foreign language has a positive effect on intellectual growth. The Language Garden Pre-school at 1067 Fairfax Blvd. offers full-day Spanish and French immersion for pre-

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WILSHIRE WARRIORS are pictured following their play-off vic-tory over the New Hampshire Diamond Dawgs.

By Laura Eversz The Wilshire Warriors have come a long way in the past couple of years, finishing ninth overall in a recent tour-nament held in Cooperstown, N.Y., home of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. The Warriors, made up of the best players from Wilshire Sports Assoc. baseball teams, started in 2010 as a 10 and under travel team. They lost their first game 23-0. Later that season, coach David Adams was introduced to Ryne Tacker, who played baseball in college and with the Oakland A’s minor league team. Before long, Tacker was on board, and the Warriors be-gan to improve. The thing about baseball, said coach Adams, is that it prepares you for life. “It teach-es you how to work together as a team, strive for successes and recover from failure.” As news of the team s p r e a d throughout the neigh-b o r h o o d , additional teams were added for boys ages six to 10. And by spring of this year, s e v e n teams com-peted in weekly trav-el games as well as a recreational league that played at Pan Pacific Park. At the Cooperstown tourna-ment, which was sponsored in part by Chocoholics in Larch-mont Village, “the boys played better than they ever had,” said Adams. After losing their first game, the team came back strong and defeated the Fort Wayne Cubs, with Avery Plum pitching the entire game and starting a four-game winning streak. In the end, the War-riors were defeated by the Mil-waukee Angels.

It was a great end to two years of hard work for the team, especially the five origi-nal players who have been with Warriors from the begin-ning, said Adams. In addition to Plum, team members include Tiger Ad-ams, Isaac Rose, Ethan Fab-

ricant, Jake G a n n o n , Eric John-son, Austin Lee, Finn S t a r z e k , Nick Silk, Jack Lip-man, Hiram Smith, Alex Terry and Jacob Marti-nez. “These play-ers are all ind iv idua l stars and great play-

ers in their own right,” said Steven Johnson, assistant coach. “When they first started playing together, they got de-stroyed by the competition because they were playing as nine individual stars,” he added. “But after nearly 200 games, they realized that the whole was greater than the sum of the parts. When they let go of their individual am-bitions, they started to win.” The team recently elected new offers, including Jeff Rake, president; John Wells, vice president; and Chad Saul,

Wilshire Warriors finish strong at Cooperstown


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secretary. Aliza Lesser remains as treasurer. Anyone interested in par-ticipating in the Warrior pro-gram should contact Rake at [email protected]

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The daughter of Angela Wilson Gyetvan of Wind-sor Square, this was Cassidy’s sec-ond summer on a foreign vacation. Last year she helped to build a school and teach English in Fiji. The Immacu-late Heart High School senior spent her first week in Thailand in a small village. “When we got off the plane, we were given $30 to buy clothes with. I bought long- sleeve blouses and long pants. We learned the natives think it is rude to show shoulders or knees.” The only Californian in a group of 11 girls and three boys, she helped to build a wa-ter tank in the first village. The girls slept in a church and the boys were in private houses. “The natives were very friendly, especially the kids,” she said. Their day began at 7 a.m. with breakfast, sometimes served out-side (the weather was humid and in the 90s). Work began around 9 a.m. Then lunch was served and the group had free time. “Often we went to nearby waterfalls where we could go swimming,” Cassidy said. “The waters were an amazing bright blue.” Dinner was at 6 p.m. fol-lowed by more free time. Rustic Pathways provides several leaders with the group as well as cooks. The people weren’t as friend-ly in Laos, she noted during her stay in two different villages in that country. The group stayed in private homes, and the rou-tine was the same. The project in Laos was building community bath-rooms. “We didn’t finish, but another group would be com-pleting the jobs.” Cassidy discovered the Rus-tic Pathways community ser-vice projects while attending a summer camp fair. The 29-year-old organization offers travel programs for high school and college students, families and groups. Summer programs are available for stu-dents from 12 years of age. Rustic Pathways says its goal is “to expand children’s horizons, teach them about their wonderful planet, chal-lenge them to dream, and pump them full of positive en-ergy they can carry home for future use.” After spending three weeks

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VISITING a temple in Thailand is Cassidy Gyetvan, pictured with a guide.

traveling with only a backpack, Cassidy said she no longer wor-ries about having possessions. “The people were happy with the minimum of things.” Cassidy may have “come with nothing,” but she re-turned with a trunk full of wonderful memories.

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By Suhauna HussainStudent Intern

Congresswoman Karen Bass is deeply concerned about foster care. As a result, she founded the bipartisan Con-gressional Caucus on Foster Youth, she told Miracle Mile Chamber of Commerce mem-bers at a meeting in August at Park La Brea.

Bass, who r e p r e s e n t s the 33rd dis-trict of Cali-fornia, said she hoped to improve the lives of chil-dren receiv-ing foster care through the caucus.

B a s s ’ s group is bi-partisan, al-lowing peo-ple of both parties to come together and work at improving the foster care system. “That’s why I chose Congress-woman Michele Bachmann

as a co-chair,” said Bass. “We might not agree about other things, but we agree about foster care.” The new foster youth caucus is working to protect and pro-mote the welfare of all chil-dren in foster care and those who have “aged out” of the system. Bass said she strongly op-

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Kids can enjoy plant and nature stories, learn about in-sects or take an art class at the L.A. County Arboretum at 301 N. Baldwin Ave. in Arcadia. Explore the Arboretum li-brary and its story trees at Bookworms, a free storytell-ing program that meets on Wednesdays, Sept. 5 and 19 from 10 to 11 a.m. and Sat., Sept. 15, 2 to 3 p.m. At Family Fun classes, kids and their families will learn

Storytelling, art classes, bug huntseverything they want to know about bugs and then head out on a bug hunt on Sat., Sept. 22 from 10 a.m. to noon. Youngsters can develop at-tention, ability and self-confi-dence at a series of art classes on Saturdays from 10 to 11 a.m.; 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. and 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. from Sept. 22 through Dec. 1. For more information, call 626-831-2222 or go to arbore-tum.org.


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STUDENTS AT Page Private School, Larchmont Blvd., welcomed the school year with a new computer lab outfitted with iMacs. Preschoolers play educational games and kindergarteners are introduced to the keyboard. Elementary students are tested on typing speed and accuracy, and by third grade, are introduced to Microsoft Office.

and practices will start. Curtis has a swim team, a football team and a basketball team.

Film on Marco Polo at Echo Horizon Author, explorer, and film-maker Denis Belliveau will present his PBS documentary, “In the Footsteps of Marco Polo” at Echo Horizon School

on Mon. Sept. 24 at 7 p.m. It is open to the public. Belliveau’s 90-minute film showcases his and his partner, Francis O’Donnell’s two-year

Curtis sCHoolBy Jasper Gough

3rd Grade For Curtis students, school began on Aug. 29. Kindergar-ten and develop-mental kinder-garten already had their Ice Cream Socials. All the stores advertise Back to School sales. Everyone is going into a new grade. Parents and students need to pay attention to the Calendar so they do not miss important events. Back-to-School Night in-cludes the headmaster’s address, refreshments on the quad and classroom presentations. Up-per elementary’s Back-to-School Night is on Sept. 13 and lower el-ementary’s is on Sept. 20. Luck-ily, Mulholland Bridge won’t be closed until Sept. 21. Students look forward to play-ing on school teams. The calen-dar mentions meetings for the 4th, 5th and 6th grade parent athletic orientations. In the next few weeks, teams will be formed

PAGE sCHoolBy Karthik Jayaraman

5th grade My name is Karthik Jayara-man and I’m the new Page Private School student author for the Larch-mont Chronicle. The first day of school was Mon., Aug. 6, and it was awesome thanks to all of the students and teachers. There were several changes that I noticed coming back. To name a few, our computer lab had a makeover during the summer with new iMacs, rooms have been repainted and are more colorful, and new and exciting after-school programs are being offered. We had our first field trip to Soak City, and we will have our first iJog for Technology this month, where we will jog as a fundraiser for our school.

Back to Schoolexcursion retracing Marco Polo’s journey from Venice to China and back. To attend the screening at the school at 3430 McManus Ave., Culver City, contact Sar-ah Aleksich at 310-838-2442.

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