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TopSail Kids at the Helm Youth Sailing Program Trains Children for Life

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What the TopSail Program is About:

Challenges that Shape Lives, Attitudes

By Arthur R. Vinsel, Community News Reporter

ne summer day in 1933, a little boy clambered into a 12-foot Snowbird sailboat on what seemed a boundless bay off Balboa Island, where his family camped in a tent on a sandy, cottage-dotted beach.

The master of the vessel, a family friend affluent enough dispite the Great Depression to summer in Newport, gave three-year old Jimmy Gladson a task. He pointed to the centerboard trunk’s slot, in which fits the centerboard, a removable keel, that kept the small boat steady.

Through this opening a school of tiny hatchling fish could be seen swimming along, learning about their own watery world in the shelter of the boat’s shadow.

“Your job is to watch and make sure the water doesn’t start coming into the boat and sink us,” the avuncular skipper teased. The toddler bent dutifully over the opening, a tiny window into the ocean, ready to sound the alarm if the bobbing boat began taking on seawater. Of course, the slotted fixture was designed so that couldn’t happen, but the tot took his duty seriously.

“I kept my head bent over it the whole time. Whenever I think of that day I first became fascinated with sailing, I can still feel heat from the sunburn I got on the back of my neck,” reflects Capt. Jim Gladson, 75, skipper and CEO of the Los Angeles Maritime Institute (LAMI) TopSail Youth Program.

Gladson has kept his eye on the water for seven decades since, living beside or on it, a high school science teacher-turned-life-mentor to thousands of youngsters. Some, born into L.A.’s barrios and ghettos aged 10 to 13, have never even seen the ocean until TopSail brings them here.

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Above, TopSail kids on the twin brigatine the Exy Johnson with Captain Jim Gladson in the foreground. Right, kids walk up the gang plank to a learning adventure on the high seas. Photos: Bernard Kane.

in that students, parents and staff formed a three-part governing council.

They were genuinely managed by this council, including voting on school spending and the curriculum. They actually did staff hiring and firing by vote,” Gladson explains.

However, to prevent a student majority from ‘We Use the Sea to Train for Life’/ to p. 4

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Viewed by some as a revolutionary approach to education, the program— offered by LAMI, a nonprofit foundation begun in 1992 as an affiliate of the Los Angeles Maritime Museum—is simple in concept. But it is successful beyond Gladson’s greatest hopes. It developed as an outgrowth of the 1970s creation of the first magnet campus in the Los Angeles Unified School District, the Area D Alternative School that initially met for eight weeks on the sand at Venice beach.

Methods employed in establishing the school were perhaps new and liberal, but not out of line with the scholastic mood of those times. And they made immense common sense.

“The first four schools were unique

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‘We Use The Sea to Train for Life’ approving a semester-long recess, for example, mathematical adjustments were developed to offset sheer weight of numbers in voting percentages.

One vote by a teacher might equal 10 votes by parents or 20 votes by students. Still, it was democracy in action. It worked.

Today, he notes, the old campus that moved into a rented warehouse that took much of their LAUSD budget still functions and is known as Westside Alternative School in the Mar Vista area.

Students—kids—the self-selected volunteers for this unusual new educational concept, were instigators

youngsters.”

They had an idea and he had a sailboat—he still has it—the Dubloon, a gaff-headed ketch originally built by the late San Pedro activist/historian Bill Olesen, who had christened her the Lakme, a name still revered in yachting circles. Lakme is a fanciful character in an East Indian opera, a role made famous by singer Lily Pons almost a century ago. Gladson collects pre-1930 phonograph records and owns one of her singing the title song.

Where did the irrepressible Mr. Olesen come up with a name like that?

“He said he was always ‘mightily

“To ignore all three omens would have been to court disaster,” Olesen replied in his orotund verbal style.

“That was Bill,” says Gladson with a laugh.

So it was that the former Lakme, renamed Dubloon (an alternate spelling of the obsolete Spanish gold coin renowned in tales of pirates’ booty) by Gladson, became the flagship on an educational voyage of discovery. The plan was conceived in spirit and fact by his first class of kids who began with day sails on Dubloon offshore from Cabrillo Beach.

He’s been a longtime member of the Buccaneers Yacht Club, based near Cabrillo Marina, where many fellow sailing folk became volunteers and generous TopSail donors.

“The kids had come

In The Wake of LAMI,Troubled Kids Can, Do Blossom

By Arthur R. Vinsel Community News Reporter A black-and-white photo poster from 1973 shows an old sailing yacht standing to off Cabrillo Beach, its crew of ebullient teens topside, one clinging to the mast pinnacle, a joyous gesture of where his life might take him.

That first picture of the youngsters then in a Los Angeles Unified School District’s experimental magnet alternative school program—now middle aged–symbolize the spirit of the TopSail youth program that grew out of it.

“That’s Chipper, up there at the top,” says Captain Jim Gladson, Executive Director of the Los Angeles Maritime Institute (LAMI), which in 1992 launched the TopSail youth sail training program. He based it on his work at a West L.A. facility where he taught for 18 of his 32 years in the school

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district.

Chipper, he noted was dyslexic and a disruptive hellraiser in class and around campus.

Above, the Exy Johnson sails the Los Angeles Harbor. Inset, the Dubloon, Captain Gladson’s boat in 1973. Top right, Captain Steve gives instruction to a student. Right, TopSail students have a close encounter with an echinod. Photos: Jim Goss.

of the sailing program that became a blueprint for TopSail once Gladson took early retirement from the Los Angeles Unified School District to found the LAMI organization.

“I took early retirement so we could reach larger numbers of kids,” he explains. “It took me a long time to understand the fundamental positive things that PB were happening with these

“That’s Debbie there,” he says, pointing to a girl. “She

taken’ with Lily Pons’ singing of that song. The Lakme also happened to have been built at the foot of Lakme Avenue, in Wilmington,” Gladson explains. Olesen’s own late father was also a mariner. And his Dad’s first command as a sea captain was a coastal lumber schooner, also, coincidentally, named the Lakme…”

Olesen, who died several years ago, was an epic poet at heart with a flair for the florid in his speech.

had a terrible time in junior high.” Chipper changed through the sailing course and so did

for all sorts of reasons,” says Gladson.

No one was assigned to our magnet or alternative school. Some were just not challenged enough. They found regular school booooorrriinnnggg!

Others wanted to escape the gang activity. Others wanted to escape a LAMI’s TopSail Program/ to p. 6

Debbie and many others.

Gladson recalls with a wry grin on his neatly bearded face, appearing almost a stand-in for John Barrymore in that old movie “Down to the Sea in Ships.”

LAMI Students/ to p . 13

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On the Cover Pictured with Jim Gladson (center) are the grandchildren of Elderhostel members, a non-profit organization that provides educational trips for older adults. Though not a part of the TopSail program for at-risk youth, LAMI as per its mission, aims to educate all interested in the sea.

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LAMI’s TopSail Program tough reputation they had developed somewhere else.”

Shortly after it started, the magnet campus and its small cadre of students—most brilliant, a few troubled by personal issues or educational handicaps like dyslexia—

had a potluck beach picnic for their monthly governing council meeting.

“It was one of those absolutely marvelous December days on our coast,” Gladson recalls. Several of his pupils—informality was more a rule than a choice—approached him with

Tale of Two Brigantines

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Captain Jim Gladson, above, holds a model of the hull during the design of the brigantines; the keel and ribs are prepared, below, at the on-site boat works at the foot of Sixth Street.

Dr. Pete Lee, former Curator of the LA Maritime Museum addresses the crowd at the keel laying ceremony. Archive photos Random Lengths News.

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a new idea for their educational experience, but the Dubloon couldn’t carry many hands.

“Jim,” they announced. “We’ve got it all figured out. You’re always talking about that old sailboat of yours. Why don’t we make sailing part of the curriculum? We’ll help out.

“We’ll charter another, bigger boat so enough kids can come along that it will justify the district assigning a female chaperone.

“That way, you won’t have to crossdress part of the time so people will think we have a woman teacher on board to watch the girls.”

They were, of course, kidding about cross-dressing.

Those first day sails to learn the ropes of sailing and seamanship, which is the crux of success in other areas of life, led to 18 years in the magnet and alternative school field— much of it aboard the Dubloon. He was rarely at the helm, although he holds a bonafide U.S. Coast Guard captain’s license and in 1963 sailed to the Galapagos Islands, retracing the route of naturalist Charles Darwin aboard the HMS Beagle.

Often, youngsters steer the sail training vessels under the experienced eyes of Gladson or one of the program’s salaried skippers or qualified volunteers.

The LAMI/TopSail mission statement spells out the values and qualities inculcated by staff and volunteers including educators, mariners and mentors throughout each year: “They are charged with encouraging and fostering the growth of awareness, understanding, communication, cooperation and teamwork, along with the maturation of youth attitudes and skills regarding persistence, patience, endurance, courage and caution. These are all definite milestones with the ultimate destination being individual responsibillty, competency and leadership.”

“TopSail does not train youth for lives at sea…We use the sea to educate youth for life,” is how they capsulize it.

“Teaching a kid to sail is very good therapy for dyslexia,” he adds, referring to the educational handicap involving the inability to read and

comprehend words, a devastating disability for many. The same holds true for those with attention deficit disorder and attention deficit/ hyperactive disorder, known as ADD and ADHD for short.

“Sailing basically involves sequencing and cause-and-effect. It is multi-modal, you use every one of yours senses. And it is outdoors, so most kids look at it as fun,” says Gladson.

Lessons learned in this nonprofit enterprise that evolved from a class literally dreamed up by a cadre of kids who wanted to learn about life in new ways, have carried many on to prosperity and prominence.

One of that original group in the ‘70s heard what his old sailing mentor had done in founding TopSail and wrote him a note with a $5,000 check to help out.

“I’m a little short right now because I just opened another new restaurant,” noted the onetime Bart Simpson prototype, who’s become wealthy as a restaurateur with highend dining rooms in affluent communities. “But there will be more.”

Once they’ve absorbed the full TopSail training experience, Gladson says, they tend to rise to the top like cream on fresh milk.

One high school in the San Gabriel Valley recently signed on with the TopSail program, which serves 6,000 youths annually from 78 different schools and organizations including 28 L.A. Bridges programs for at-risk youngsters of upper elementary through middle school age.

The administration did so, Gladson explains, after analyzing why they were getting so many kids from a poverty area junior high campus who got high grades, never ditched school, participated in extracurricular activities and planned to go on to college and universities. All had completed the TopSail curriculum before coming in as freshmen. They were standouts One of its administrators took Gladson aside at a conference to explain their motives for signing on with TopSail.

“We want some of that for our campus,” he declared.

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Juliette’s in the Sheraton is the only restaurant I know, in the area that serves Malaysian food. Chef Xavier took first place in the shrimp challenge with his Sheraton Signature Shrimp Basket. Juliette’s in the Sheraton is located at 601 S. Palos Verdes St., San Pedro, (310) 5218080.

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For a closer view, here are some restaurants right on the Main Channel: Ports O’Call Restaurant has huge picture windows and a patio right on the Channel. Seafood, meats, and a huge salad bar and the biggest Sunday Brunch, plus full bar are served here. Ports O’Call Restaurant is located at Berth 76, Ports O’Call Village, San Pedro, (310) 833-3553.

Crusty Crab Seafood Market has great seafood deals. You may select from their fish market and eat indoors or out on the waterfront deck. Crusty Crab Seafood Market is located at 1146 Nagoya Way, Ports O’Call, San Pedro, (310) 519-9058.

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Fisherman’s Seafood Restaurant serves Chinese style seafood in the great view upstairs dining room and has special seafood to take out downstairs to enjoy in the patio. Fisherman’s Seafood Restaurant is located at 950 Sampson Way, Port’s O’Call, (310) 5197333.

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of learning shows that sailing teaches

LAMI Students

troubled kids lessons that make for far better lives on land. There’s even a can

“We had one teacher, Johanna

of Old English lemon furniture wax and a

Bernstein. “She was always suspicious of

bottle of Lysol disinfectant in a corner of

anything I did and the first to question it.”

the massive bookcase.

“What have you done to Chipper?”she

For this is a tight ship Capt. Gladson

demanded one day after the magnet

runs, but his rank’s privileges don’t

school’s unorthodox sailing component

include immunity from the work of the

began.

lowliest apprentice swabbie.

“What’s he done now?” Gladson

“I may be the CEO, but sometimes I’m

groaned.

also the one who cleans the heads

“He is reading! And, he’s writing! But

(toilets),” declares the onetime Eagle

he won’t read or write anything that

Rock Junior High School science teacher

doesn’t involve sailing,”

who became a pioneer in LAUSD

Likewise, Gladson notes, the aca-

alternative education. He finally gave that

demically struggling Debbie underwent a transformation through sail training and graduated from the UCLA School of

TopSail students hauling away on the Irving Johnson. Photo: Jim Goss.

wonderland of nautical books on sailing,

She is now chief of a pediatric clinic.

naval architecture, artifacts from afar,

Chipper is a wealthy restaurateur and

drawings, paintings and photos depicting

generous TopSail donor.

life at sea.

the Los Angeles Maritime Museum is a

couldn’t do enough, while LAMI does its damnedest with the money it raises.

Medicine with high scholastic honors.

Gladson’s portable bungalow office at

up because the public school system

The record begun at the 1973 magnet school for kids seeking new ways

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A USC study showed its effectiveness, tracking a group of 60 eighth graders in three groups of 20 each. Two groups sailed on the now-beached Swift of Ipswich and the remaining 20 were a control group. They did not get that opportunity, at least until later.

Of the 40 in TopSail, every one remained in school; truancy among them dropped to zero, and 100 percent increased their grade-point averages during and after TopSail. The other 20 remained at a dismal status quo.

“I couldn’t believe it. I threw a fit. I said, ‘No group of kids could do that well,’” Gladson admits. But they did.

He likes to quote State Attorney General Bill Lockyer’s calculated cost of approximately $2 million to society for every California child who drops out of school and leads a customary dysfunctional life including crime and social welfare costs. Lockyer notes it costs $84,000 a year for each boy or girl held by the California Youth Authority, wards of the state’s juvenile justice system. By contrast, it only costs $26,900 a year to keep an otherwise-healthy adult male in prison.

“If we’re wiling to spend $84,000 on a kid (who gets into trouble) we could be spending it a lot better,” says Gladson.

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Treasures of San Pedro

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Though officially a part of the City of Los Angeles, San Pedro has nonetheless, retained its own name and cultural distinctions.

A familiar saying among Harbor Area residents is that San Pedro is “L.A.’s best-kept secrets.” Many people want to keep it that way, but others think the world should know about the wondrous sights an historic places—the “secret treasures”—that abound in San Pedro. This map will show you where a few of those treasures are, but come to San Pedro and discover more!

1. Vincent Thomas Bridge 2. SS Lane Victory Ship 3. Cruise Ship Promenade at the World Cruise Center 4. Historic Red Car Line 5. Liberty Hill Monument 6. Monument Row, home to the American Merchant Marine Veterans Memorial, the Fisherman’s Memorial, and the USS Los Angeles (CA-135) 7. Los Angeles Maritime Museum and Los Angeles Maritime Institute (LAMI) 8. Old City Hall, Seventh Heaven Jail House on the 7th floor 9. Warner Grand Theatre 10. US Post Office, WPA murals inside 11. Municipal Fish Market 12. Muller House, home of the San Pedro Bay Historical Society 13. Warehouse One 14. Harbor View Memorial Cemetery, San Pedro’s oldest resting place 15. Cabrillo Marine Aquarium 16. Cabrillo Beach Bathhouse 17. Sunken City 18. Walker’s Cafe 19. Point Fermin Lighthouse 20. Korean Friendship Bell 21. Three-Eyed Fish mural 22. Angels Gate Cultural Center 23. White Point Nature Preserve 24. Royal Palms Beach 25. Friendship Park 26. Averill Park 27. Peck Park

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