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Volume 48, Number 24, Published on 06/12/1995

News

Measure D approval for five-year high school facilties overhaul

It took three tries, but the Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District won taxpayer approval June 6 to fix and update its 40-year-old high school buildings.

Organized, disciplined campaign made difference for Measure D supporters

Supporters of the proposed high school bond measures say they worked hard to pass initiatives last year, only to fall just short of two-thirds majority passage by mere percentage points. So what went right this time?

Lawsuit dropped in wake of Los Altos affordable housing compliance

The people suing the city of Los Altos for failure to provide affordable housing dropped their lawsuit last week because the city now complies with state law, according to the city's attorney.

Los Altos Hills Council Action

A request for a lot-line change and a de-annexation of a portion of Los Altos Hills property at University Avenue and Old Altos Road and annexation to Los Altos was presented to the Los Altos Hills City Council June 7. The property at 220 University Ave. is where the town crossroads and a railroad stop once existed. The estate, now 70-years-old, was recently sold and the property is presently in three parcels.

Catholic Diocese of San Jose proposal offers solution to St. Joseph Avenue

The Diocese of San Jose announced today that, after careful planning and in response to concerns by Los Altos neighbors, its proposal for selling church property in Cupertino to housing developers could be accomplished without using St. Joseph Avenue.

Volunteers cover Mountain View to help prevent children's diseases

More than 600 volunteers dressed in white T-shirts and colorful sun caps walked the streets of Mountain View Saturday, June 3, convincing families to immunize their children against dangerous diseases.

Wiener of LAHS named Presidential Scholar

The Presidential Scholars Program was established in 1964 to recognize and honor our nation's most distinguished graduating high school seniors. Wiener is one of two Presidential Scholars from California, selected from more than 2,600 semi-finalists nationwide.

Alleged Ponzi from Los Altos Hills schemer caught, brought to court

Special to the Town Crier

People

Heston Beaudoin

Mr. Beaudoin and his wife, Flora, ran Beaudoin's Dance Studio as a team. His wife continues teaching there.

Helen Margaret Rouse

Mrs. Rouse lived in Los Altos for more than 50 years and was active in community affairs and the Presbyterian Church. She served as caregiver to several families throughout most her life. She moved to Ashland in 1994.

Gladys Margaret Lank

Mrs. Lank lived in Los Altos with her daughter Cynthia for 12 years, formerly living in Frankfort and Templeton, Ind. She was an avid reader, wrote poetry and several of her poems were published. She was a pianist for the VFW Ladies Auxiliary for 25 years and a member of St. Patrick Catholic Church in Indiana. She was a member of the Senior Day Health Center and Swedish Lodge in Palo Alto.

Ann Cochran, taught elementary school for nearly 30 years

Special to the Town Crier

Robert J. Keely

A 24-year Los Altos resident, he served as the agency's real estate editor and later as night club editor and Owl columnist before the Chronicle and Examiner merged in 1965. He also edited the "Nevada Scene" for the agency.

Community

Longtime, respected Los Altos teacher to retire

Diane Finch was teaching sixth grade at Loyola School in 1961 when Donna Carlson Gardner and her twin sister entered her class. Gardner's mother brought her to school because the family just moved from Paris and couldn't speak English very well.

Mike Northcutt plays the Plaza

Northcutt, who was born and raised in the Los Altos/Palo Alto area, has performed with Huey Lewis and the News and the Elvin Bishop Band. He will also play July 9 at the Los Altos Arts and Wine Festival.

Pre- festival bike safety day set for June 25

This first-time safety event for residents is sponsored by the Los Altos Village Association (LAVA), Valley Cyclery and the Los Altos Police Department. Police officer Matt Hartley, who holds the newly formed position of bicycle pedestrian safety officer, will assist in hosting the event. Downtown's Valley Cyclery, 395 First St., will be giving away free water bottles to all attendees that day and will host a raffle to win a new mongoose mountain bike.

Restoration to start on Griffin House

The Foothill-De Anza Community College District Board of Trustees at the June 5 meeting unanimously agreed that work could start on the stabilization of the Griffin House.

FBI agent describes agency's changing focus with fall of Soviet Union

The way David Szady sees it, The Federal Bureau of Investigation is a great place to work.

Attendees give Silicon Valley leadership conference high marks

George Bush, Colin Powell, Mario Cuomo and Gerald Ford topped the list of favorite speakers according to the more than 2,000 evaluation forms returned to Richard Henning, dean of community services for Foothill College and coordinator of the event.

Looking back 25 and 50 years

As reported in the June 17, 1970 issue of the Town Crier, Los Altos High School won first place in the state high school track meet because of five remarkable students. The meet was held at Berkeley's Edward Stadium.

PTA benefit hits new high mark

Chairman of the event, Dave Leary of Murphy's Pizza and Rancho Video, presented the donation to Parent-Teachers Association representatives of Almond, Bullis, Loyola, Montclaire, Oak, Santa Rita and Springer schools.

CHAC holds second annual art auction/fund-raiser

Every bearer of a ticket ($35 for a bearer and guest) is guaranteed to take home an art piece from the drawing. Live music and complimentary refreshments also will be featured.

Community Briefs

More than 400 volunteers are needed for the upcoming Arts & Wine Festival in all areas. The event is July 8 and 9, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. The booths choices are glass/token soda or beer. Three hour time shifts are 9 a.m. to noon, noon to 3 p.m. or 3-6 p.m. Phone the Los Altos Village Association office at 949-5298 and leave your full name, address, and booth and time slot request. Leave first and second choices for booth slots.

Military Service News

Price is a 1994 graduate of Calaveras High School of San Andreas. He joined the Navy in August 1994.

Flea market and 'fun day' for kids at St. Luke's

Other events on Family Fun Day are a church rummage sale, a cake-walk, face painting, and food and bake sales. Also scheduled is a 1 p.m. performance by Circus Soozee. The event is open to the community and free of charge.

Schools

Hewlett Packard gives $232,000 in scholarship money to local students

Local recipients are among 425 children of the company's U.S. employees who were awarded a total of $850,000 or $2,000 each to help cover college expenses in the fall. This year's contributions set a record for the 44-year-old program.

St. Francis High Graduates 1995

Bryan C. Acly

June Graduates

California State University, Chico

School Briefs

Toki Rehder, a Los Altos High School student, was recently awarded a $5,000 scholarship in the 1995 College Scholarship Essay Contest. The contest is sponsored by the League of Women Voters of California Education Fund.

Teacher of the Month: Dan Mindich

In 1991 Mindich came to Los altos High School. In addition to teaching English, he has been coordinator of the Multicultural Program for four years. "Los Altos High School is the perfect school to teach - it has an incredible diversity of students and is a place that has its share of problems but a very high level of success in solving them," Mindich said.

Departmental Students of the month

ESLMARIA GODINEZ

Honors abound among MV-LA high school students this year

Students have achieved an incredible number of honors and scholarships this year according to Los Altos High School Career Center Counselor Elaine Cooper and Barbara Bogomilsky, who runs the Career Center at Mountain View High School. "And more are coming in every day," Cooper said.

School Briefs

EF Educational Homestay Programs is looking for host families to offer a "home-away-from-home" for high school students from Indonesia this summer, June 20 to July 8. Students speak English and are fully insured. They are kept busy with the EF program during the day and are with their host families evenings and weekends.

Silicon Graphics CEO to deliver address at Santa Clara University graduation

President Paul L. Locatelli presented McCracken an honorary doctor of technology management degree. Locatelli officiated at his seventh annual commencement exercise since taking the reins of his alma mater in 1988. Founded in 1851, Santa Clara is California's oldest institution of higher learning.

ESL teacher at Santa Rita enjoys national honor

Dorothy Dickson discovers new languages and cultures every day as the Los Altos School District's only full-time English-as-a-second-language teacher at Santa Rita school.

Foothill graduation ceremonies set for June 16

Two students, Sean Fuller and Richard La Mere, will be the principle speakers. The two were chosen from open auditions and were such strong contenders that both were selected, said Bill Frankeberger of the students affairs office.

AISE seeks host families for foreign students

Each year, AISE places thousands of students with families across the United States. Families may select their students according to country, sex, age, religious beliefs, hobbies, grades and family background. Local area representatives are on hand to show student profiles, and help families select the student who best suits them.

Oak school celebrates carnival - a tradition going strong

Special to the Town Crier

Sports

Buffaloes plow through water polo tourneys

Led by goalie Evi Schueller and defender Tiffany Duncan, Mountain View notched fifth place out of 12 teams in Annapolis. Rejoining the Buffaloes for the tourney were former players Dimple Patel (Princeton University freshman) and Mary Letson (Boston College sophomore).

Sports shorts

As coach of the Lancers for 23 years, Bradford's teams have won three CCS titles and six West Catholic Athletic League crowns. At St. Francis, he teaches French and English and has served as the Dean of Men.

Weigel holes second at CCS

Town Crier Sports Editor

Jumping to state: Dan and Jeff Nord

Los Altos High twin tracksters Dan and Jeff Nord (center) competed in the state championships June 2-3 at Cerritos College in Norwalk.

Mtn. View Flyers aim for playoffs

Standouts in the 28-7 Marin win were Dave King (47-yard field goal) and defensive linemen Carl Stevens and Kevin Woods. Scoring for Mountain View in its 23-18 triumph over Oakland were Sadao Langfeldt (20-yard reverse), James Smith (9-yard out pattern) and Woods (fumble return).

Business & Real Estate

Cornish & Carey give 22 scholarships to local seniors

The program honors outstanding students in the communities served by the company's 22 Northern California offices. A total of $138,000 has been awarded since the program's inception seven years ago.

Assessment notification cards mailed to property owners

The information is particularly important to the 385,000 homeowners," Stone said. "It is generally recognized that the real estate market has declined from its peak in 1989. As a consequence, we have reduced the assessed value of more than 97,000 since 1989."

Eureka Bank workshop explains over-paying on Social Security tax

A lot of retired people living on Social Security were upset when they paid their taxes this past April. If their income exceeded $34,000 as a single filer or $44,000 as a joint filer, they had to dig deeper and return 85 percent of their social security payments to the government.

Business Briefs

The Los Altos Golf Company is hosting a workshop on how to build your own golf club from 6:30 -8 p.m. today at the store, 215 Main St., in downtown Los Altos. The workshop will provide golfers an introductory lesson on components.

McWhorter's initiates another

Last year, McWhorters donated $96,000 to Bay Area schools in its back-to-school fund-raiser and officials are hoping this year's promotion will be more successful.

Discovery Shop to open at new location in downtown Los Altos

The Discovery Shop, which was located at 142 Main St. for the last five years, was asked to move when remodeling of their current location began.

Weekly Special

Classic 'Our Town' showing at Foothill College Theatre

Directed by Jay Manley, the play is being staged by the Foothill College Repertory Theatre and is part of Foothill's Fine Arts Performances for summer 1995.

DateBook of Community Activities

CITY OF LOS ALTOS YOUTH THEATRE presents "Anne of Green Gables" Friday-Sunday and June 22-25 at Hillview Studio Theatre, 97 Hillview Ave. in Los Altos. "Gables" includes all of the tragedies and triumphs that mark Anne's growth from adolescence to early adulthood. The play will be performed in the round with authentic period costumes. For tickets and times, call 948-6903.

Dance Attack! heats up Flint Center

"The show is not a recital," said Sioux Lehner, director and choreographer. "It's a full musical production with singing, acting and dancing, along with incredible costumes and sets."

Treat Dad to big band tunes this Sunday

Music to be performed includes Bernstein's overture to "Candide," Gershwin's "An American in Paris," Copland's "Outdoor Overture" and works by Sousa, Clifton Williams, Persichetti, John Barnes Chance, Bagley and Robert Russell Bennett.

Cruising with a Mexican touch

Time-pressed travelers who are looking for a quick getaway with a Miexican touch may find a mini-cruise on Royal Caribbean Cruise Line's Viking Serencade in ideal solution. The 1,512-passenger vessel sails from Los Angeles every Monday and Friday year-around to the Mexican Baja. Three-night cruises call at Ensenada, while four-night cruises add a full day in Catalina.

Travel Notes

Serendipity Travel, in association with Australia/New Zealand Down Under Travel, in Los Altos, received high accolades from the New Zealand Tourism Board recently, when they were chosen as New Zealand destination specialists.