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Published on 04/06/1998 All articles from this issue

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25 years ago in the Town Crier

As reported in the Town Crier 25 years ago, the success of 50 Covington Junior High School students in raising funds during a United Cerebral Palsy "Happiness Walk" totaled $1608 - more than any other school in the county - during the walk-a-thon.

The association said a total of $11,800 was secured by the walk in the county. Ten individual walkers who raised the greatest amount were awarded trips to Disneyland.

Los Altos High School senior Barbara Foerster was the Junior Women's Club selection for the April "Spotlight on Youth."

Music was important to Foerster who sang with the high school choir and had appeared in the school's musical, "Oklahoma," and the Junior Artist Guild's production, "West Side Story."

She was a varsity cheerleader and had been active in several school clubs and as a candy striper at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View.

The Oak School Cougars, coached by Rick Vargas, earned the 1973 title of city basketball champions by logging seven wins and one loss in league competition. The team netted an overall season record of 12 wins, 4 losses.

50 years ago in the Los Altos News

The April 15, 1948, issue of the Los Altos News reported that Los Altans had voted at a ratio of 20 to 1 in favor of a $309,000 School bond issue. The school board planned to purchase sites for two additional schools, one to be located in North Los Altos and one in the Loyola Corners district. The three schools were scheduled to serve a maximum of 600 students each.

Principal Ardis Egan congratulated the community on its enthusiastic interest in the education of its youth, and said it was the culmination of an 11-year struggle to provide adequate housing and facilities for young people of Los Altos.

Los Altan Donabel Hileman, a 16-year-old junior at Mountain View High School, was chosen to attend Girls' State in Sacramento in June 1948. Candidates were selected by a faculty committee on the basis of scholarship, leadership and character.

In Sacramento, they sat in on the state assembly and attended a mythical state of their own where they learned by performing all the functions of the city, county and state governments.

Ronald Reagan and Shirley Temple were the co-stars in the movie, "That Hagan Girl," featured at the Park Theatre in Menlo Park. The companion movie was "Monsieur Verdoux," the story of a modern Bluebeard, starring Charlie Chaplain.

- Ellen Shaw of the Los Altos History House Association