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Published on 02/16/1998 All articles from this issue

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25 years ago in the Town Crier

As reported in the Feb. 28, 1973, issue of the Town Crier, in the continuing saga of a home for the Los Altos school administration, major decisions were made by the board of trustees in a meeting on Feb. 21, 1973.

Plans were approved for the design development phase of a new administration building to be built adjacent to Hillview Avenue off San Antonio Road.

A decision was reached to demolish the old administration building on San Antonio Road.

The minimum acceptable for the 4.3-acre administration building property, with a depth of 258 feet, was set at $484,400. Proposed total cost of a new building was estimated at $470,000.

The district, at that point, planned to sell the land that fronted on San Antonio Road and erect a new administration building on the rear portion of the parcel.

Los Altan Elisa Buckley, a senior at Homestead High School, was the February choice of the Los Altos Junior Women's Club for its "Spotlight on Youth" salute.

An excellent student, Elisa also was involved in the school's drama club productions and in choir activities. As a member of Young Life, she devoted much time to church-related activities.

50 years ago in the Los Altos News

As reported in the Feb. 26, 1948 issue of the Los Altos News, Los Altos Grammar School had experienced a growth of critical proportions during the period from l942, when enrollment of children stood at 39, through 1947, when the classrooms were over crowded with 877 children. This represented a 125 per cent increase in enrollment. During that time only two emergency rooms, accommodating 35 pupils each, had been added.

Faculty of the school, which five years earlier had numbered 10 (including the principal), totaled 26 by 1948, an increase of 160 per cent.

Plans had been completed for adding seven more classrooms during the summer of 1948. Still, the school needed 12 more to meet expected enrollment.

The campaign for collection of clothes for the destitute in Europe, following the war years, ended in Los Altos at the end of February 1948, according to the chairwoman, Mrs. George Keith. She indicated that her group planned to reopen their drive in May, hoping to obtain summer clothing for shipment abroad.

- Ellen Shaw of the Los Altos History House Association