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Updated June 17th, 2010 Community Scholarship Foundation Awards $31,000 in Grants
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The Community Scholarship
Foundation recently honored its
2010 scholarship recipients at a
luncheon at the home of Wendy
Wyatt, president of the foundation,
and her husband, Phil. This year,
CSF gave more than $31,000 to 19
students, with new and renewed
awards ranging from $500 to
$2,000.
Guest speakers Joel Peterson
and Karen Mathison related their
personal stories about the impact of
community scholarships.
Peterson, a La Cañada Unified
School District Governing Board.......
The International Trombone
Association recently announced
that the late Robert Marsteller, former
principal trombonist with the
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Orchestra, has received the
Lifetime Achievement Award.
Marsteller was principal trombonist
of the L.A. Philharmonic for
25 years. When he retired, he
became head of the music department
at USC.
Several years ago, the
International Trombone Association
established a Marsteller
Scholarship, which is awarded
annually to an outstanding trombonist.
There is also a.......
Karen Hurley didn’t need a GPS
to find her way to La Cañada
Flintridge as the new principal at
Palm Crest Elementary School.
She had been in the district in a
cameo role just a few years ago,
when, as a literacy coach in the
Pasadena Unified School District,
she was invited to La Cañada
Elementary to teach a GATE (gifted and talented education) enrichment
French class.
“We put on a big French café
for the parents. It was a lot of fun,”
said Hurley, whose appointment
was approved by the La Cañada
Unified School District Governing
Board in a special meeting Tuesday
morning.
She replaces Anais Wenn, who
was promoted to.........
The La Cañada Flintridge 14-and-under
Gold team captured its first tournament championship
of the summer season with a 5-2 win
over Ojai Valley at the June Jamboree All-Star
Tournament at Moorpark.
The win capped an undefeated weekend
for LC Gold, which included wins over
Westlake-Agoura and Newberry Park, and a
hard-fought tie against Ojai Valley, the team
they eventually defeated for the championship.
The weekend started with a 7-1 dominating
win over Westlake-Agoura, also known as
the WAGS. Selina Mohr struck out 10 batters in her return to 14U softball. Mohr.......
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