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Published on 06/12/1995 All articles from this issue

Looking back 25 and 50 years

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25 years ago in the Town Crier

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.

Chris Adams won the discus event with a 201-foot, 3-inch throw, breaking his own pending national high school record.

Rick Brown became the first ever to double up for wins in both the half- and quarter-mile races. He then teamed up with Bob Thompson, Larry Davis and Jim Andrew to win the mile relay race.

Merry Edwardson, first-grade teacher at Springer School, received a grant from the California Teacher's Association that helped provide a summer study tour of three African Universities - Sierra Leone, Ghana and Nigeria.

Lorraine Van DeRiet, learning assistance teacher at Loyola School, was given a grant to attend the European Seminar in Early Childhood Education at San Jose State.

Both grants were made through the Ardis G. Egan Scholarship Fund, administered by the local PTA Council.

Mass was over at noon on a calm Sunday morning June 14, 1970 at St. Williams Church. Then a young man walked up and took a wild swing at the usher, according to one priest.

Los Altos police officer Joseph Adams also received a punch in the mouth as he apprehended the young man. The struggle continued at the police station with the young man trying to butt or kick anyone near him while awaiting a trip to Valley Medical Center.

50 years ago in the Los Altos News

The June 14, 1945 issue of the Los Altos News reported that the Los Altos School Board of Trustees announced it had purchased 2 1/2 acres of land behind the existing San Antonio School building. It was the site for a new school that would be built after the war was over.

The property, with a 315-foot frontage on Hillview Avenue, was bought from P. J. Neumann, who planned to release the property after he harvested the prune crop on the trees.

The 48 graduating eighth-graders held their final exercises on the evening of June 13, 1945 outdoors on the grounds of the San Antonio School. Winners of the two American Legion awards were Thomas Summers and Alice Cooper, and the winner of the Landels scholarship was Diana Morrison.

Among the 100 American Japanese evacuees who returned in early June 1945 from Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming were several families who chose to settle in the Los Altos area.

Those arrivals brought the total who had returned to their former homes in Santa Clara Valley to approximately 600.

A series of postage stamps, a tribute to the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt, were issued in denominations of one, two three and five cents.

- Compiled by Ellen Shaw of the History House Museum