Upper School Quad and Senior Lawn: Then
Then & Now THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE LINDA VISTA CAMPUS
BY PAT FLYNN, '75 When students, faculty and staff arrived for the first day of school on the Linda Vista Campus in the fall of 1971, it was as if the air was charged. I was a freshman. We buzzed with excitement about our new library, classrooms, labs and gym. We marveled at how much space we had in contrast to the cramped conditions we left
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behind in Mission Hills, where we had numbered about 500 K–12 students. And we admired the vision of the trustees, led by department store owner George Scott, that brought about the purchase of land with views spanning from the mountain peaks to the Pacific. But as thrilled as we were, anyone who remembers what the former San Miguel School for Boys looked like would wonder what all the
buzz was about if they saw the School then, in contrast to the gleaming, airy Linda Vista Campus of today. "It's night and day," said retired teacher and coach Tony Ghironi, one of several faculty and staff members who lived on campus in residences left over from San Miguel's boarding school days. Ghironi lived in the former head-