Vol. 52, No.20
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May 28, 2014
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Maxson Elementary School Celebrates 65th Anniversary by Michele Earle El Monte
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Benjamin Franklin Maxson Elementary School in the Mountain View School District (MVSD) celebrated 65 years of educating students in the El Monte community, and to commemorate this milestone a special 65th Anniversary Celebration was held to honor the six and half decades of academic excellence the school has provided. Coinciding with the school’s original dedication date of May 2, 1948, the anniversary celebration took place on May 2, 2014 and included current and former students and staff and Maxson family members who joined in to celebrate the school’s distinguished legacy of learning.
Welcoming everyone to the celebration, Maxson’s proud principal, Dr. Aileen La Corte congratulated the excited students and everyone affiliated with Maxson School for this great milestone. “Today, we re-dedicate our beloved school, but more ever, we re-dedicate ourselves to the promise that Benjamin Franklin Maxson and the founders of the Mountain View School District gave: to ensure the highest quality of education to the children of El Monte,” said La Corte. The school’s namesake, B.F. Maxson was an early pioneer of the El Monte community. He and his
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Members of Benjamin Franklin Maxson’s family were on hand for the celebration and proud of the legacy of learning the school has provided all these years.
Just like at the original dedication of the school on May 2, 1948, the school celebrated with dance and song featuring Maxson School’s 2014 Ballet Folklorico Troop and 6th Grade Chorus.
family were walnut growers entertaining the crowd. and owned lots of land in the Among the distinguished El Monte area. Maxson’s guests joining in the celebracommitment to provide an tion were members of the excellent education to the B.F. Maxson family includchildren of El Monte was ing his great grand-daughter evident as he generously doMarilyn Lewis and his great nated property to the Moungrand-son Wallace McIntontain View School District to ish who was joined by his build a new school. Maxson wife and their daughter, B.F. also served as one of MounMaxson’s great great grandtain View’s first Board of daughter. Education members. “I remember the original “Sixty-five years ago, on dedication day fondly,” said May 2, 1948, our school was McIntonish. “I served our established and dedicated country in World War II and in Mr. Maxson’s name. On I came dressed in my naval that day, the school celuniform for the ceremony. It ebrated with dance and song. was a great day and a proud And, so we do now with our day for our family,” he said. Ballet Folklorico Troop and Other special guests our 6th Grade Chorus who included retired and former will perform for all of us,” MVSD and Maxson School said La Corte as the groups administrators and retired took to the stage and did an Maxson staff members. outstanding job 65 Years of Education continued on page 15
El Monte High School 1st Annual Career and Technical Education Fair
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by Keith Richardson El Monte
On May 22, 2014, El Monte High School hosted the 1st Annual Career and Technical Education Fair. It was a success event with over 200 people in attendance. The Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Programs are intended to build the knowledge, skills and attitudes and experiences needed to enter and succeed in the workforce and creates pathways and articulates with the local colleges.
The students and teachers had a great opportunity to display their amazing talent and student work. The Districts in the various CTE categories represented were: • Industrial Technology Wood Tech; Graphic Arts; Architectural Design; • Business - Accounting, Careers in Teaching, Entrepreneurship, International Business, FBLA a business student leadership organization – Future Business Leaders of America; • Family and Consumer
Sciences – Culinary Arts, Way - Principles of EngiChild Development, Experineering; Digital Electronics; encing Teaching as a CaIntro to Engineering Design) reer); FHA-HERO, FCCLA an outstanding engineering – both student leadership program offered by the EL organizations; El Monte CTE Fair continued on page 2 • Project Lead the