La Cañada History: Hundreds attend Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy’s 75th anniversary
Ten Years Ago
More than 600 people attended an evening Mass and reception at Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy in August 2006 to help celebrate the private Catholic school’s 75th anniversary.
Twenty Years Ago
St. Francis High School was gearing up to celebrate its 50th anniversary year. The all-boys Catholic school was established in 1946 on the property of the former Flintridge Country Club.
Thirty Years Ago
A Memorial Mass was celebrated in the chapel at Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy for one of its students, Dinorah Gonzalez of Navojoa, Sonora, Mexico, who was one of 67 people on two planes — and 11 on the ground — killed when Aeromexico flight 498 collided midair with a private plane over Cerritos. Dinorah, 17, had been returning to California for her senior year at the private La Cañada school. Two other FSHA students were expected to be on the same flight but were not, due to last-minute changes in their itineraries.
Forty Years Ago
Los Angeles County, on urging from the La Cañada Chamber of Commerce, installed a sidewalk system on the south side of Verdugo Boulevard between Fairlawn Drive and Foothill Boulevard to better insure safe passage for pedestrians along the busy street.
Fifty Years Ago
La Cañada Unified School District Supt. Donald Ziehl reported that enrollment for the 1966-67 school year, set to begin on Sept. 12, reflected a 400-student increase over the previous year. The breakdown by campus was: La Cañada High School, 1,625; Foothill Intermediate School (grades 6-8), 1,194; La Cañada Elementary, 680; Paradise Canyon Elementary, 613; Oak Grove Elementary, 561; Palm Crest Elementary, 444 and Chilao Mountain School, 11.
Sixty Years Ago
A La Cañada resident of several years, the Countess Elektra Rosanska was appearing in the Pasadena Playhouse production of “Tonight or Never.” The countess taught adult classes in drama and speech on the La Cañada Junior High campus.
Compiled from the Valley Sun archives by Carol Cormaci.
