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CHS STUDENTS TAKE THEIR FINAL BOW/P AG E 16 Paving the wayCOURIER photo/Peter WeinbergerDemolition on the old Rich Foods building continues this week,clearing the way for the city’s plan of adding more stores and con-dos along First Street in Village West.

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Water mandate discriminatesDear Editor:

I fully agree with Chet and EileenJaeger’s letter published June 5 that theupcoming water-aving plan discriminatesagainst conscientious, civic-minded resi-dents who have already implemented

water-saving ideas, something we wereasked to do voluntarily years ago.

The 32 percent reduction favors thosehomeowners who are responsible forClaremont having to reduce consumptionby seven percent more than the state man-date requires. It is also likely to encouragehomeowners to use more water once thedrought ends, in anticipation of future per-centage reductions.

Instead of a blanket 32 percent reduc-tion, why not implement a water-savingprogram based on the size of the lot andthe number of persons living in the house-hold? Lot size numbers are readily avail-able and household numbers could beestablished and verified with a phone call

or letter. Temporary adjustments and ex-ceptions, such as a child moving backhome, could also be put in place.

Let’s not reward the water hogs.Theodore Perry

Claremont

Walking the walkDear Editor:

Mayor Corey Calaycay and the Clare-mont City Council are a contradiction. Mr.Calaycay was espousing how wonderfulClaremont has been in providing sustain-ability practices for Claremont in recentyears at the Bill McKibben talk at BridgesAuditorium as part of the conference“Seizing an Alternative: Toward an Eco-

logical Civilization.”Yet, the council approved the cutting

down of beautiful trees at the request of aparent with unfounded evidence or proof that these trees were causing her son’s al-lergies to worsen. In addition, this samemayor and city council approved four new

housing developments to be built just thispast year, creating humongous waterusage, resources consumption, more con-gestion (traffic and emissions from cars)and taking away from the beauty of thiscity.

And then to top it off, Mr. Calaycay en-

couraged attendees to go out to shop inClaremont and be good consumers! Youcan’t have it both ways. You can’t talk outof both sides of your mouth without losingcredibility and respect.

Kae YatesClaremont

Losing ClaremontDear Editor:

Could someone please explain what ishappening to the city of Claremont? Is it just getting too crowded or are too manypeople from other cities coming andchanging the vibe?

We’ve lost something in the rush to(over)develop and get people to “DiscoverClaremont.”

Witness the following that happened onan otherwise peaceful Friday afternoonoutside Some Crust bakery: After a near-collision in front of the bakery, a customersitting at one of the tables felt okay sayingin front of everyone to the driver, “You al-most caused a crash, a#*hole.”

This was in front of the driver’s youngchild, no less. Little did the customerknow that the person he said this to is anaccomplished author and the grandson of the founder of one of Claremont’s oldestand most beloved businesses.

Even if the driver was perhaps in thewrong for the U-turn he made, that is cer-tainly no reason to call someone ana#*hole in public. The aggressive manner

in which the accuser handled himself wasunwarranted. He was in the wrong andshould have behaved in a civil way and of-fered the driver an apology for speakingto him that way.

I couldn’t help but wonder if the driverhad been a white senior citizen instead of

a youngish black man would the accushave called them an a#*hole, too?

Then, in a separate incident that ocurred shortly after that one, a young main his truck threw six or seven of hempty Camel Light cigarette packag

onto Yale Avenue as he drove away.I don’t care if it’s an unpopular viewmiss the days when Claremont was sleepy, laid-back town.

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Claremont COURIER/Friday, June 19, 2015CITY NEWS

Acity-imposed restriction preventinghomeowners from filling theirpools and ponds was lifted last

week by the Claremont City Council.Council, by a 4-0 vote, approved an ordinance re-

moving the limitation from the city’s municipal code.Opanyi Nasiali abstained after missing the previouscouncil meeting where the item was discussed.

The limitation was part of the Level 2 water supplyshortage condition declared by CityManager Tony Ramos pursuant toClaremont’s Municipal Code, a declara-tion that was confirmed by city council at its regularmeeting on April 28.

Shortly thereafter, city staff received comments andletters asking the city to reconsider the restrictions relatedto the filling of swimming pools and ponds, stating thatonce filled, swimming pools use significantly less waterthat turf on a per-square-foot basis.

Given that the state has taken no action to restrict theuse of water to fill swimming pools, city staff felt thatlifting the local restriction was appropriate and broughtthe matter to council on May 26. The ordinance wasbrought to council again on June 9, which then voted toadopt the ordinance.

It was music to the ears of Charles Madanski, whomakes his living in the pool industry and spoke in pub-lic comment on May 26 to implore the council to rescindthe ordinance. Mr. Madanski had replaced his own turf backyard with hardscape in 2009, adding a pool in 2011,and presented evidence to the council members that hiswater use has actually decreased as a result.

“I’ve pulled my water bills from June through August2009 and the same time frame in 2014. Within a 62-dayperiod, I was using 95 units of water back in 2009 com-pared to 77 units in 2014,” he told the council. “That av-erages out to 18 gallons a day in savings, just byreplacing the turf. From April to June 2009 and the sametime frame in 2014, I used 131 units of water comparedto 118 units, which averages to 14 gallons of water a day.That’s 505 gallons a week I was saving, and that’s with-out a solar blanket or solar shield or any of the solar ad-

ditives that you can add to your pool.”Mr. Madanski added, “I’m not advocating replacing

turf with pools, but I think having restrictions on fillingpools and draining pools is a little bit out of line.”

Following the closing of public comment, MayorCorey Calaycay inquired of city staff if residents couldempty their pools into the storm drain.

“If you’re under a certain size and as long as youdechlorinate the pool, you actually can release it into thestreet,” Claremont’s Director of Community Develop-ment Brian DeSatnik explained to council. “School poolsand commercial pools have other requirements. The Col-

leges are emptying a pool and they’re using the pit eaof Claremont Boulevard. The MS4 issue is where thdechlorination comes in, but they do not restrict smapools from being released into the system.”

In April 2015, Claremont city staff was notified ththe pool at El Roble Intermediate School had become ioperable. The pool’s pump had given out and as a resuthe city was forced to cease its summer aquatics prografor 2015.

In early May, the El Roble pool was drained an300,000 gallons of water were incorporated into th

City lifts pool-filling restrictions, El Roble pool drained

COURIER photo/Peter WeinbergCalifornia may be in a serious drought, but that won’t stop some residents of Claremont from keeping thepools for the hot Claremont summer. Photo taken off Scripps Drive in Claremont.

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A work crew tears down the

warehouse and office area o

the former Rich Products

building on Wednesday in

the Claremont Village. Demo

lition will continue into next

week as the process of build

ing the new Village Loftscomplex gets underway.


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Speakers’ Corner sign-ups, fireworks ticketson sale

There are a few time slots open for

speakers at the T. Willard HunterSpeakers’ Corner at Claremont’s cele-bration of Independence Day on Satur-day, July 4 in Memorial Park. Speakersorate for eight minutes or less on anytopic. There are three rules: no foul lan-guage, no nudity and no touting of com-mercial products or services.

Interested orators may [email protected] [email protected] with questionsor to sign up for a time slot.

Tickets for the city’s fireworks showare available for sale at the Hughes Cen-ter, the Chamber of Commerce, Rio deOjas, The Claremont Club, Vons andWolfe’s Market. Ticket prices are $8 pre-

sale and $10 at the gate (if available).Don’t miss the celebration.

Time travel at Broad-way musical review

Alliance for Performing Arts, a Clare-mont based non-profit theater organiza-tion, will perform Time Travelers at theSeaver Theater, 300 E. Bonita Ave.

The show pays tribute to a variety ofBroadway hit musicals with a time traveling twist. Come travel through timeand follow the clues to learn the fate ofthis most special theater while enjoyinggreat musical performances by somevery talented students.

Shows are Friday, June 19 at 7:30p.m.; Saturday, June 20 at 2:30 p.m. an7:30 p.m.; and Sunday, June 21 at 2:30

p.m. Tickets are $24 for general admission, $18 for seniors, students and children. Visit www.APAtheplace.org.

Beer festival benefitsFoothill Family ShelterCooper Museum

The weather is heating up so comeand cool down with an ice cold beer atthis year’s California Craft Beer Classon Saturday, June 20 from noon to 6p.m.

The event offers 25 craft brewers aneight foods trucks along with music inthe Cooper Courtyard at the Cooper

Museum, 210 A St., Upland. Food andmusic runs until 10 p.m.General admission is $10, beer tast-

ing admission is $40 and all proceedsgo to Foothill Family Shelter andCooper Museum. Call (909) 946-6782or (909) 982-8010 for more informa-tion.

Claremont COURIER/Friday, June 19, 2015CITY NEWS

Tuesday, June 9

A San Antonio High School studentwas cited and transported to a local hos-pital after exhibiting signs of public in-toxication. A witness told police that the17-year-old male had staggered off cam-pus around 10:30 a.m. and was havingdifficulty maintaining his balance. Offi-cers caught up with the teen on the cor-ner of St. Bonaventure and Oak Park,where he was detained and questionedby police. When asked if he’d beendrinking, the boy told officers, “I took amuscle relaxer. No, wait…I took aXanax. I’m not telling you what I took!”He was issued a citation for public in-toxication and transported to PomonaValley Hospital Medical Center for treat-

ment. * * * *A Claremont woman taking a nap

woke up to a nightmare after discover-ing thieves had broken into her home.According to Lieutenant Mike Ciszek, aresident on the 600 block of PurdueDrive had been home all day when shedecided to catch a wink in her bedroomaround 3:30 p.m. Approximately twohours later, she was awoken by the soundof footsteps and called out thinking itwas her son. When there was no re-sponse, she walked into the living roomand discovered her sliding glass doorwas wide open and her son was nowhereto be found. The victim told officers the

slider was closed and secured prior to herslumber and further investigation re-

vealed pry marks on the door. No prop-

erty was taken. The investigation re-mains ongoing.

Wednesday, June 10A limb length discrepancy wasn’t to

blame for one driver who was arrestedfor DUI. Joseph Chappa was driving onIndian Hill near San Jose Avenue whenhe was stopped by officers around 12:21a.m. for speeding and making a lanechange without signaling. While speak-ing with police, the 31-year-old man ex-hibited signs of drunkenness andadmitted he’d had two or three whiskeysours. Mr. Chappa performed a field so-briety test with some difficulty and whenasked by officers if he saw any hazards

on the sidewalk he replied, “No, my leftleg is slightly longer than my right legbut it doesn’t affect my balance.” TheFontana man was found to be just overthe legal limit and arrested for drivingunder the influence.

* * * *A Claremont woman was victimized

at Padua Park after a thief broke into herSUV and stole her fancy handbag. Ac-cording to Lt. Ciszek, the woman parkedher Honda Pilot in the parking lot around8:25 a.m. and left her designer purse onthe floor. While she was gone, an un-known person used an object to smashthe passenger window of the vehicle andsteal the woman’s $1,000 Louis Vuitton

purse containing a $400 Louis Vuittonwallet, $500 Louis Vuitton checkbook

case, $2,000 in cash and various creditcards. One of the credit cards was usedshortly thereafter at the Shell gas stationon Foothill Boulevard. Police are con-tinuing to investigate.

Thursday, June 11An Upland teenager was found to be

at fault for a collision that sent a Mt.Baldy woman to the hospital. The 17-year-old female driver of a 2006 HondaAccord was making a U-turn on Mt.Baldy Rd. near Flat River around 12:30p.m. when she pulled into the westboundlane, causing the driver of a 1997 HondaCivic to collide with her vehicle. The 65-year-old victim was transported toPomona Valley Hospital Medical Centerwith complaints of pain to her chest. Of-ficers determined the teen driver failedto yield to the oncoming car and wasfound to be the cause of the crash.

Saturday, June 13You can’t make a man do something

he doesn’t want to do, regardless of theconsequences. Around 11:47 p.m.,Claremont police spotted driver JosephCamacho leaving the parking lot of theDoubleTree and making an unsafe lanechange. Officers pulled over the driver,who exhibited signs of alcohol intoxica-tion and became argumentative with po-lice about the maneuver. The 53-year-oldman appeared to be under the influenceso police asked him to perform a volun-tary field sobriety test, He hesitated andtold police, “If they’re not required, Idon’t want to do them. I haven’t com-mitted any crimes so I don’t have to dothem.” Further testing determined the

Ontario man was just over the legal limand he was arrested for driving under tinfluence.

Sunday, June 14Officers responded to the Good She

herd Lutheran Church around 3:30 p.mafter a Phelan man stole the purse of oof the parishioners. The 63-year-old vitim witnessed Bradley Gray take hhandbag and flee the location. Poliquestioned three people that had accompanied the 32-year-old thief to tchurch. Although it was determined thhad no involvement with the theft, futher investigation revealed each had oustanding arrest warrants and were takinto custody. Mr. Gray was later locatby police and found to be in possessioof the stolen property. He was arrestand remains in custody in downtown LAngeles.

Monday, June 15They’ll be some sad kindergartne

this fall at Sumner Elementary Schodue to thieves who stole some of theschool supplies. Claremont police rsponded to the campus after hooligaused their feet and a wooden fence poto force their way into two outdoor shecontaining toys for the kindergarten stdents. Sometime between 5 p.m. on Jun12 and 12:57 p.m. on June 15, the thievremoved tricycles and balls from tshed and scattered them across the plaground before stealing five Leap Pavalued at $250. The investigation rmains ongoing.

—Angela [email protected]

POLICE BLOTTER

It was recently discoveredthat another CUSD em-ployee has been placed

on administrative leave fol-lowing accusations of inap-propriate relations with astudent, bringing the tally tofour staffers accused of mis-conduct with teens in lessthan 12 months.

Claremont High School jazz bandinstructor Rick Melanson has beencharged with unlawfully annoying andmolesting a child under the age of 18years.

The Los Angeles County DistrictAttorney’s office filed a misdemeanorcomplaint for arrest warrant againstthe teacher on July 16, 2014, claimingthat the incidents with Jane Doe oc-curred from August 28, 2013 andMarch 28, 2014.

According to an unnamed source,the 50-year-old music teacher al-legedly communicated inappropriatelywith a CHS junior; the relationshipwas not of a physical nature and didnot occur on campus.

Claremont police arrested Mr.Melanson at 3:26 p.m. on July 29,2014 and released him less than 30minutes later on $20,000 bail.

He was arraigned in Pomona Courton August 21, 2014 where he entereda plea of not guilty to the misde-meanor charge.

Kevin Ward, CUSD assistant super-

intendent of human resources, con-firmed to the COURIER that Mr.Melanson—who has worked for thedistrict over 10 years—was placed onunpaid administrative leave in July2014 but would comment no further.

A pretrial hearing is scheduled forThursday, June 25 in Pomona court,although he is not required to appear.

—Angela [email protected]

CHS jazz band instructor on leave following childannoyance chargesRick Melanson, who also taught jazz band at El Roble and SLICE

of Summer courses, has a pre-trial hearing set for June 25

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Governor Jerry Brown’s declarationof a state of emergency, and hissubsequent mandate that cities re-

duce water-use statewide, has inspiredmany a Claremonter to rethink how theirgarden grows.

The strong level of motivation was evident in thehealthy turnout at a Low-Water Expo held Sunday atthe Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden. The free event,which ran from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., was organized bymembers of Sustainable Claremont’s DRIP (DroughtResistant Irrigation Program).

DRIP, according to the Sustainable Claremont web-site, promotes “attractive, climate-appropriate land-scapes in Claremont,” encourages the use of efficientirrigation, water conservation and water reclamationand provides resources to help local property ownersachieve those aims.

The city of Claremont threw its support behind theexpo, as did the Garden, which provided space for theevent, free day-of admission and coupons for anothercomplimentary visit.

The expo fell on a dry and scorching hot day, under-lining the climactic state of affairs that prompted theevent. Still, community members showed up in droves,taking in 10-minute presentations by experts andbrowsing booths with information for those looking toswitch out their thirsty lawns and plants for water-wiseoptions.

People manning booths included representatives of Sustainable Claremont—which has dozens of membersand an estimated 1,000 people on its mailing list—andSustainable Claremont sub-groupsDRIP and CHERP (ClaremontHome Energy Retrofit Program).Golden State Water, Southern Cal-ifornia Edison and the ChinoBasin Water Conservation Districtwere on hand, as were the propri-etors of local companies specializ-ing in drought-tolerantlandscaping.

The Grow Native Plant Nurseryat the Rancho Santa Ana BotanicGarden offered expertise andplants for sale. There was livemusic, and Nuños Bistro and Barsold food and beverages. In a nodto the families in attendance, kidswere invited to pot their own suc-culent to take home.

The focus of DRIP, event coor-dinator Sheila McCarthy ex-plained, is educating the publicabout efficient water use. Mem-bers of DRIP have been focusingon getting materials up on theweb, such as a step-by-step guideto undertaking a sprinkler to drip-system retrofit.

However, since Claremonters were asked to reducetheir water use by 32 percent in April—12 percentmore than neighboring cities like Pomona—it’s be-come evident DRIP needs to do more.

“People are ripping out their lawns without knowingwhat to do. We realized people are desperate for infor-mation, so we whipped this expo together in twomonths,” she said. “This is the time to strike. We’rehoping to do this a couple times a year.”

Claremont’s mandatory reduction may sound steepbut it’s “totally doable,” according to Richard Haskell,a Harvey Mudd physics professor who serves as chairof Sustainable Claremont’s Water Action Group.

“Frankly, it’s been a no-brainer for a long time,” Mr.Haskell said. “Commercial and residential water use isabout two-thirds landscaping, so certainly by re-land-

scaping we can make a big reduction.”When you remove turf from your property and uti-

lize drought-tolerant plants, you reduce water use by afactor of four or five, according to Mr. Haskell. “Sud-denly, you realize, Oh, my gosh! We can do 32 per-cent.”

Anthony Perez was one of the employees manningthe Grow Native Nursery booth, which was stockedwith flowering plants and specimens like woodlandstrawberries as well as shrubs and succulents.

“Every day, we get people asking for recommenda-tions on plants,” he said. “Even though they’re forcedto look at gardening in a new way, they’re really ex-cited to learn about a whole different world of flowersand plants. It doesn’t have to be all gravel and cactus.”

And many people at the expo were ready to helpguide residents towards greener lives. This included the

Claremont Environmental DesignGroup (CEDG), which is the com-pany behind the Packing House renovation and Uncommon Good’s

Whole Earth Building, which servesas a storefront as well as a beacon oenergy-efficient design.

Located on a portion of the Claremont UnitedMethodist Church campus, the structure features tun-nels providing earth-cooled air, thick walls using on-site soil, solar power and a light/shade orientationmeant to keep temperatures warm in the winter andcool in the summer.

Business has picked up significantly in recentmonths, according to CEDG landscape designer LeeKrusa.

“We’ve definitely been inundated with calls. Withrebates on lawn conversation, the drought has openedopportunities where they weren’t before,” he said.“There’s a greater awareness now among people.There’s a level of openness to the idea of ingenuity tha

wasn’t there a few years ago.” —Sarah [email protected]


COURIER photos/Steven FelschundneFive-year-old Vincent Popper gets help from volunteer Christine Olanio planting a succulent at the Sustaiable Claremont booth on Sunday during a water-wise landscaping expo sponsored by Claremont’s DrougResistant Irrigation Program. The expo included lectures, merchant booths and plant sale as well as musand food.

Sustainable Claremont volunteer Sorrel Stielstra, left, works the information booth on Sunday

during the Low-Water Landscape Expo at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden. A sub group ofSustainable Claremont the Drought Resistant Irrigation Program, sponsored the event.

Water-wise expo offers torrent of sustainable ideas

Sophia Eifert, 7, and her sister MEifert plant succulents.


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No, I haven’t seen the Hall of Fame.I have never been downstairs. AndI didn’t know that Winston

Churchill had been there.My friend had returned from using the restroom at

Bridges Auditorium, and, although I thought “Wow!”when he told me that a picture of Winston Churchill isamong the pictures of those who have appeared on itsstage that are on the wall in the basement, I wasn’t sur-prised. From the time I grew up here in Claremont, Ihave heard about famous performers and speakers whohave appeared on this stage, and I have enjoyed seeinga good number of them.

I have always felt, in fact, that it’s too bad that moreperformers and speakers don’t appear there. It’s ashame that this great theater, the biggest collegiate au-ditorium on the west coast with something like 2400seats, doesn’t have performances and presentations (asopposed to graduations and other such semi-privateevents) every week, if not every evening. Big Bridgesclosed for weeks or months, including during theschool year, is a terrible waste. So I was glad to go

there a few weeks ago—all the more so with the Col-leges not in session for the summer—with my friend.We were there to see the Claremont High School pro-duction of The Addams Family.

It is always a treat to see the big, end-of-the-year,musical production in the big theater, even if I still wishthere was live musical accompaniment as in the past.This is big-time stuff—Winston Churchill, after all,was once on this stage—and the hardworking kids,working under the direction of the even harder-workingKrista Elhai, deserve it. Once again, they didn’t disap-point.

The Addams Family may not be My Fair Lady,and it’s definitely no Carousel, but it is a lot of fun.Based on the old popular television sitcom, which wasinspired by the cartoons of Charles Addams, the musi-cal is about what happens when Wednesday, the daugh-

ter in this family of ghouls, falls in love with a“normal” boy and her parents, Morticia and Gomez,host a get-acquainted dinner for the boy’s parents. Onthis simple plot hangs lots of silly puns and gags, in-cluding a troupe of zombie dancers, and the studentshad fun and did their best to let fly with them.

Like I said, it was a treat—and an inspiring one—tosee these young people doing what they clearly love so

well. Jason Acosta was extra fun in his make-up-ladenrole as Uncle Fester, who serves as a narrator of sortswhile having his own private adventure. And XavierReynoso, playing Wednesday’s bratty younger brotherPugsley who loves nothing more than being torturedand miserable, was a pint-sized revelation. The realtreat is that this kid, who my friend said “has chops,” isonly a freshman, so we’ll hopefully be seeing muchmore of him.

Yes, hooray for the CHS kids and Ms. Elhai onceagain, but I have to say that, as bright-eyed and bright-ening they were, they still didn’t prepare me for what Isaw a days later. Not only was there another presenta-tion at Big Bridges, in the quiet (or relatively quiet)month of June, there was Pete Seeger greeting the audi-ence that had gathered and singing “Where Have All

the Flowers Gone” for the occasion.This was on video, of course, but it was nevertheless

breathtaking. I could hear gasps in the audience, as therenowned folk-singer and activist, filmed at his ruralhome nearly a year and a half ago, explaining that hehad been invited but, because of advancing age and de-creasing energy, wasn’t sure where he would be at thistime. He died months later, the tape now a whallop-packing reminder that hope and energy live on.

This was a message that was most appropriate forthis audience that had gathered. It was a huge, eageraudience, almost filling the cavernous hall, and it wasgathered for the four-day Tenth International White-head Conference, held in conjunction with severalother international conferences and including a signifi-cant contingent from Asia, with the theme, “Seizing theAlternative: Towards an Ecological Future.”

The Seeger video was shown during the first of sev-eral free, open-to-the-public plenary sessions held inBig Bridges over the long weekend of numerous pre-sentations and discussions exploring how people fromall walks and faiths can work together to fight globalwarming and develop a sustainable, thriving worldcommunity. There were numerous other greetings, in-cluding from Claremont Mayor Corey Calaycay, who

confessed to being nervous about speaking in front of such a large audience as he touted Claremont’s effortsin being an ecologically-friendly town (including byhim and his fellow councilmembers in their ownhomes and lives). Also featured in this and one otherplenary session I attended were the Pilgrim Pickers,Pilgrim Place’s resident string band and perhaps Claremont’s unofficial go-to house band.

Following the Seeger video on the first evening, BiMcKibbon, the famed climate change activist, spoke.While he essentially gave the same talk that he gavewhen he was here a few years ago, it was an importanmessage: yes, the planet is in dire shape due to warm-ing which we humans have caused—indeed, it couldbe that it is too late to reverse the effects of the warm-ing—but there is hope in the activism that he has in-spired and evident in the weekend’s gathering.

This activism, with a diversity of people coming together, is what the conference was all about. An important aspect, and a key image, was the kick-off to a neworganization and website called Pandopolus, bringingtogether research and information about climate changand the efforts to stop it. As explained in another ple-nary session and illustrated in another video, this un-dertaking is inspired by the Pando, the aspen grove inUtah which is the largest living organism on earth sharing a root system and which is now endangered.

It is hoped that these four days in Claremont werethe beginning of a movement, a movement based inshared roots and a common passion. At least that’s howJohn Cobb, a retired noted theologian and philosopherwho lives at Pilgrim Place, sees it. This conclave, itseemed, was his baby, something of a life-culminatingachievement.

And, as he explained during extended remarks during the second plenary session, the passion that isshared for caring for our planet is the key. As Mr.Cobb outlined, we need to have a new outlook, basemore in our hearts and on caring, different from theoutlook developed in the 1700s, when the world camto be seen as a clock, a mechanism to be observed analso used objectively. When we see the planet as amachine, he maintains, it is too easy not to be con-cerned when it is used too much or is even breakingdown (after all, a machine can always be repaired).

Putting on a musical takes a lot of passion andworking together. So does saving our planet. That’swhat a great building like Big Bridges is for and whyit needs to keep being used.


A huge building full of hopeby John Pixley

observer observer

Our master’s wishes

were we leave

healthcare and

climate change

discussion outside

the meditation and

practice areas.


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VMG and the museumDear Editor:

This letter is in response to the View-point by Kirk Delman in last week’sCOURIER. Mr. Delman’s points regard-ing the Pomona College Art Museum arewell-taken, and we’d like to add a fewother thoughts as Pomona and the city of Claremont work out details regarding themuseum’s location.

We are longtime Claremonters. One of

us is a third-generation resident and theother here for more than 30 years. We’veowned two Village businesses and livewithin a couple of blocks of the proposedbuilding site. We are both ardent support-ers of all that makes Claremont the city itis, and believe the new art museum willadd to Claremont’s legacy as a communitythat supports the arts.

We’ve been watching the to and fro re-garding the location of the museum withinterest, and believe the following pointsmay assist in making a positive decisionthat the museum be located in the middleof town at the southwest corner of Collegeand Bonita.

As we understand, there is the possibil-

ity of the new museum being deeply em-bedded inside the grounds of Pomona Col-lege. We believe this is not the mostadvantageous spot for the college or forthe community. We see Bonita and Col-lege—a natural bridge between the Villageand the Claremont Colleges—as a way tohighlight both “town and gown.” The mu-seum is promised to be a beautiful archi-tectural structure that will hold Pomona’simpressive art collection, which includesRembrandt, Picasso, JMW Whistler,Andy Warhol, Karl Benjamin, AnselAdams, Goya, Orozco and more.

Imagine walking near the corner of Col-lege and Bonita and being able to view

RSVP Los Angeles, the project serieshighlighting emerging and under-repre-sented artists, then turning the corner andviewing Pomona’s comprehensive col-lection of Native American art. All of thisright in the heart of Claremont for stu-dents, community residents and visitors to

explore. The college is including a wel-come addition in the design: a room com-munity members may use for meetingsand events.

We are excited about all that will bepossible once the new structure is built andthe museum becomes a local art treasurefor all to enjoy. Diana Miller

CLU community stageVillage Marketing Group

Catherine CurtisJohn Fisher Sculpture Project

Village Marketing Group

Brahms and StradsDear Editor:

Thank you for your article publicizing

the extraordinary musicians who per-formed on the Stradivarius violin dating to1714, the Guarneri violin dating to 1742and a viola similar to the Stradivarius dat-ing to the the 18th century, under the ban-ner of the chamber music group Salastina.

The musicians included the principalcellist and also the principal violist for theLos Angeles Philharmonic, a violin soloistwith the LA Phil and a teacher at theCoburn School of Music, alongside a fas-cinating and detailed explanation of themusic by KUSC’s Brian Lauritzen.

Being in Little Bridges, just a few rowsaway from such outstanding musiciansplaying instruments that I never thought I

would get to hear live in my lifetime, wasincredibly moving and inspiring.

Many thanks to J. Brown Violin Makerfor bringing this music into our midst andto Dr. William Sloan for loaning his rareinstruments to the musicians so that wecould hear them played. I hope that

Salastina will return to Claremont onceagain, and that many more people willtake advantage of the opportunity to ex-perience their transcendent music.

Nancy MintieClaremont

Clever title, misinformed opinionDear Editor:

YouYoung Kang’s comments in theMay 22 COURIER reek of fear and mis-understanding about the future of tech-nology in education. To say that the useof iPads in our CUSD classrooms bene-fits only the Apple corporation shows lit-tle insight in how this iGeneration learns.

Smart technology has been available tothese students since their birth; why

would we take that away from them in aneducational setting? Today’s devices areonly limited by the user’s imaginationand skills on the device. By conceptual-izing an iPad as only an “expensive toy,”Ms. Kang exposes her own limitations.

This year, each of my third gradershad their own iPads to use and learn justas they have textbooks. In my 21-yearprofessional opinion, iPads have trans-formed my students into the type of 21stcentury learners that the new CommonCore State Standards expect and chal-lenge our students to become. Our dis-trict’s investment in this unparalleledtechnology has enabled access to previ-

ously inconceivable and sophisticateaudio/visual projects and presentation

My third grade students have useiPads to conduct research, write reporand make traditional shoe box dioramcome to life by utilizing Green ScreeTechnology.

Recently, my students completed project to learn about adaptation. To adress this state standard, my third gradeworked in collaborative groups on a pa

ticular biome. IPads were used to complete the research in an interesting anengaging manner. Green Screen videtechnology was used to present their proect from within the biome. They piecethe video clips, photos and narrative dscriptions of animal and plant adapttions into an iMovie production, thus crating sophisticated audio/visupresentations that truly redefined the curiculum in a way previously unimaginable.

Finally, Ms. Kang writes about glitchduring testing. In my classroom anschool site, I can positively claim thtesting has gone very smoothly with rgards to the technology. Throughout th

year, when problems arose, albeit infrquently, our iPads helped us learn how become better problem-solvers. It woube “laziness” and a “lack of creativthinking” to discard these devices bcause of our own limitations.

Clever opinions without research eaily captivate those who are uninformeThe truth of the matter is, CUSD hadone its homework and has extensivetrained its excellent and amazing teachers. The district is committed to our 21century vision of education.

Jennifer JenseThird grade teach

Condit Elementary Scho


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OBITUARIE

Rosa Louisa Letechi Augusto, alongtime Claremont resident, diedpeacefully in her sleep on Saturday,June 6, 2015. She was 95.

She was born in the middle of theearth on March 22, 1920 in the coastaltown of Guayaquil, Ecuador in SouthAmerica. She and her childhood friendsMaria and Josephine were very sup-portive of each other, and Rosa wasconsidered more like a family memberthan a friend. In fact, Maria made Rosathe godmother of her youngest daugh-ter Maria. To be a madrina or god-mother is a special role in the Catholicreligion, similar to being a spiritualmother of a child all their lives.

After a series of events, including thedeath of Rosa’s mother, she and herfriends made plans to immigrate to theUnited States together. Josie left first,then Maria made plans to leave herchild in Rosa’s care while she soughtwork in America. A year later, in 1949,Rosa and little Maria left together forNew York City where the other twowomen had found work. It was winterand Rosa, who had come from a tropi-

cal land, had never seen snow. In fact,she had never traveled outside her ruralhomeland, so it took courage to be in

one of the largest cities in the world andto begin a new life without knowing thelanguage.

As with so many immigrants, she ac-complished this task with courage and

determination and without an educationor special work skills. The threewomen encouraged each other and likeher friends, Rosa found work, first asan au pair and afterwards as a designerof hats for her employers’ business. Afew years later, she met and married aPortuguese seaman, Jose Augusto, andthey had three children, Jose, Anthonyand Maria. They lived in Long Islandfor many years.

In the late ‘70s, Ms. Augusto was en-couraged by her two friends to move toCalifornia, and it was then that she andher husband bought a home on ArrowHighway in Claremont. Although theywould divorce many years later, Rosaand Jose remained friends until theends of their lives.

After her divorce, her godchild en-couraged Ms. Augusto, who was afriendly and caring person, to use herpeople skills and to be more a part of her community. Although she was inher 60s, she became a caretaker for sen-iors who were in their 90s. Rosa enter-tained them with her storytelling andher amusing proverbs. For example,when she described someone who wasmaking excuses she would say, “If someone wants a kiss, they find thelips.” Or if she felt a person was notbeing truthful, she would add, “It iseasier to catch a liar than a lame man.”These were colorful sayings from hernative culture that often made peoplelaugh.

Ms. Augusto eventually began tovolunteer at the Joslyn Senior Center,and continued to serve devotedly for 25years. She made many friends and be-cause of her dedicated work, the city of Claremont gave her an honorary certifi-

cate. Some years later, the CaliforniaSenate celebrated her with a commen-dation as a “Heroine for the Day,” anaward she joyfully received.

Ms. Augusto was in her 90s when

she died, yet her friendships with peo-ple of all ages were of long duration.Once you were Rosa’s friend, she neveforgot you during holidays, your birthday or your anniversary. She did thisthrough visitations, phone contact andwhen she could no longer get around,by keeping the art of letter writingalive.

She prayed for people both livingand dead and, because of her loving nature and her advancing years, herprayer time increased as she com-mended the living and the dead to God

Rosa’s friendship with Maria lasted88 years, longer than most marriages!They lost Josie, who passed a few yeaago in her late 90s. Maria is now 96and, when asked how she felt about loing her lifelong friend, she answered,“It is a profound sadness than onlyRosa would understand.”

Rosa leaves her children, Jose, An-thony and Maria, six grandchildren ansix great-grandchildren as well as hergodchild, Claremont resident and counselor Maria J. Andrade. She also leaveher extended family and many otherfriends who will not forget her.

A mass was held in her honor at OuLady of Assumption Church. Contributions may be made in Rosa Augusto’sname to the Friends of Claremont Senior Foundation, 660 N. Mountain AveClaremont, CA 91711.

Rosa AugustoCourageous immigrant, devoted friend

Robert “Bob” ThorneA Celebration of Life will be held in

honor of Dr. Robert F. Thorne at Ran-cho Santa Ana Botanic Garden on Sat-urday, July 11 at 5 p.m.

Dr. Thorne was professor emeritus atthe Claremont Graduate University De-

partment of Botany at Rancho SantaAna Botanic Garden as well as PomonaCollege, and taxonomist and curatoremeritus of the RSA-POM herbarium.

He died on March 24, 2015 at age 94.The Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Gar-

den is located at 1500 N. College Ave.in Claremont. In lieu of flowers, thefamily requests that Bob Thorne’s lifebe honored by donations to RSABG to

be used to advance the kind of scien-tific work to which he dedicated hisprofessional life.


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OBITUARIE

Joanne Hobo, a La Verne residentwho was involved in the Claremontcommunity with her daughters andgrandchildren and also worked for theClaremont-based certified public ac-counting firm Gray, Salt & Associates,

died on June 8, 2015. She was 80.She was born Johanna Christina VanIngen Schenau on September 26, 1934in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her fa-ther, Willem Jan Batiste Van IngenSchenau, was an organist, choir director,church music composer and head of purchasing at the nation’s leading sugarcompany, CSM Sugar Factory.

Joanne, or Hanny as she was calledas a child, grew up giving declamatoryreadings of poetry and scripture inchurches, prisons and such renownedconcert halls as Het Concertgebouw.Her mother, Johanna Wilhelmina VanIngen Schenau-Breman, was a devotedhomemaker and volunteer with the In-

ternational Red Cross. Joanne was themiddle child—her older brother Warnerand she often got into mischief—andshe had a younger brother Bert whomshe liked to mother.

She lived in Amsterdam and attendedProtestant schools there. During her ele-mentary school years, Joanne and herfamily survived World War II and Hol-land’s “Hunger Winter” during the NaziOccupation. As a child, she walked toschool daily through a Jewish middle-class neighborhood and often shared thehorrors of witnessing the razzias, orraids, on the Jews who were beingrounded up in trucks and sent to depor-tation camps. She described how help-

less she felt seeing families screamingfor each other and shoved in separatewagons.

Her father, the organist of the WaalChurch where her family attended, or-ganized the children of the church tostay with farming families at a sisterchurch in Friesland. Travel was risky,undertaken in boats in the dead of nighttrying to escape the eye of the oppres-sor. Upon arrival in Friesland, the fam-ily slated to house her was disappointedthat she was a girl as her nickname was“Hans,” typically a boy’s name.

When the war was over, she and hereldest brother Warner traveled a few

hundred miles back to Amsterdam byfoot and sometimes by bike.

After the war, she graduated a yearearly from an all-girls’ high school

where she excelled at language, art andmathematics. A girl of many talents, shewas also a skilled gymnast, and oncewon a silver medal in the City of Ams-terdam championships. Joanne subse-quently spent a year on a farm in Franceand then returned to work at abookstore as a bookkeeper. During thistime, she was still active in her churchand was part of an acting group calledCon Spirito (with spirit), a Christiandrama troop which performed all overthe Netherlands.

It is there that she met her future hus-band Gary, or Ger, Hobo. As the storygoes, the group from upscale Amster-dam South where she lived needed an-

other male actor. Gerrit Hobo, from themore working-class Amsterdam West,was appointed. The duo soon performedin a host of plays together includingEen Vesting Viel (A Fort Fell), wherethe couple was engaged to be married aspart of the plot of the play. Threemonths later, Ger asked for Hanny’shand in marriage in real life. She ac-cepted and they were married on Octo-ber 21, 1955 at city hall in Amsterdamand began their work as managers of aChristian Inn in Holland’s countryside.

During this time, with great joy andexcitement, they were blessed with theirfirst daughter, Johanna Wilhelmina.

Blessings kept coming as two yearslater came Hilde Annemarie.

After 10 years of hotel and restaurantmanagement, with a few renovations in-cluding a castle, the couple set off for anew life in the United States following

Joanne’s brother Warner, or Warren, ashe was then called. Before they left inJune 1966, Mrs. Hobo was expectingtheir third child. She and the family ar-rived in southern California, and in Jan-uary 1967 blessing number three arrivedin the form of Inge Janice. Inge was thefirst of the family to be born on US soil.

Not one to waste time, Mrs. Hoboquickly got to work using her account-ing skills, first at a drapery companyand then at Cable Commuter Airlines,later Golden West Airlines in Ontario,where she was chief accountant. Therewas another blessing on the way: in1970 her fourth daughter, Christina Jo-hanna, was born.

In 1971, she continued to utilize heraccounting skills as vice president andcontroller at William E. Myers Corp., aresidential building company. After thisexposure to the construction industry, in1975 Mrs. Hobo became one of the firstwomen in the state of California to ob-tain her General Contracting License.License in hand, she established herown commercial building firm entitledHeritage Development Company andused Amsterdam canal houses as thecompany logo. During this time, shebuilt several high-rise buildings used forthe legal and medical fields in SantaAna near the federal courthouse.

In 1984, she moved her business to

the Pomona area under the new nameLeyden-Pacific. She continued to workup until her mid-70s, using her account-ing skills at her daughter Johanna’s CPAfirm.

Not one to limit her talents to the pro-fessional world, Mrs. Hobo was a con-summate volunteer as a Girl Scout troopleader, Sunday School teacher, churchchoir member, accountant for ValleyCommunity Drive-In Church, presidentof the Reformed Church Women atNew Hope Community Church, re-gional director and national treasurer of the National Association of Women inConstruction, event manager for the

Dutch American Heritage Day Gala, active member and newsletter editor forthe Netherlands American Society, andone of the founders of the NetherlandsAmerican Business Association, whichlater became the Netherlands Chamber

of Commerce in Los Angeles.Anyone who met Joanne knew she

loved a good party, and she was the deinition of an extrovert. Not only couldshe organize an entire event, she wasthe life of the party and a force to bereckoned with. She knew just abouteverybody at any event she attendedand never shied away from meetingnew people, nor from telling you heropinion about things. She was tena-cious, talented, dutiful, faithful andproud. She took the message of Jesusurging his followers to use all of theirtalents quite literally. By day, she was aprofessional businesswoman and in hefree time she was devoted to her family

her church and her community.She will be sorely missed, but herlegacy of duty, service, faithfulness andhard work is not only evidenced in herfour daughters who all work professionally and concurrently volunteer, but alsin her grandchildren who do the same.

Mrs. Hobo is survived by her daughters and sons-in-law, Johanna SweaneySalt and Jonathan Salt, Annemarie andMatthew Snyder, Inge Hobo-Scheinfarand David Scheinfarb and ChristinaOudshoorn-Hobo and Stevin Oud-shoorn, and by her grandchildren, CallDalton and Allyson Sweaney, Evan,Brendan and Grant Snyder, Jacob,Sarah and Ethan Scheinfarb and Neale

Eden and Lieve Oudshoorn-Hobo.She also leaves her brother and sistein-law, Bert and Janneke van IngenSchenau; her nephew and his wife,Willem and Anita van Ingen Schenau,and their children Jesse and Sil; and henephew and his wife, Warner and Suusvan Ingen Schenau, and their son Mik.

A memorial service was held on Sat-urday, June 13 at Sierra Vista Church iUpland. Donations may be made inJoanne Hobo’s name to the ChallengesFoundation (challengesfoundation.org)an organization aimed at improving thelives of veterans and foster kids througsailing.

Joanne HoboContractor, loving matriarch, active volunteer


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OBITUARIE

Maxine Thornton Denham died onFriday, June 5, 2015. With her husbandJohn, she was for 24 years a resident of Pilgrim Place. She celebrated her 100thbirthday on August 12, 2014.

Born Maxine Belle McKinley in Ver-

million, South Dakota, she grew up inManhattan, Kansas and graduated fromKansas State University in 1936. Herfirst jobs were as executive director of YWCAs in Oklahoma and at BostonUniversity. She earned a master’s de-gree from Columbia University and aMaster of Divinity from Union Theo-logical Seminary, both in New YorkCity. In 1939 she was a delegate to theWorld Conference of Christian Youth inAmsterdam and returned just beforetransatlantic travel became hazardous.

She was married in 1941 to Leonard“Ted” Frend Thornton, with whom shehad four boys. When he was ordained,the family lived in Kirkwood, Missouri.

He was a college chaplain and sheheaded the campus YWCA. The familyreturned to New York, where he studiedat Union Seminary and was on the staff of the Church of the Ascension inGreenwich Village. She was head of theYWCA in Yonkers, New York. Ted diedof cancer in 1955. As a widow, Maxinespent many hours obtaining full scholar-ships to enable her four fatherless sonsto receive quality education in east coastprep schools and colleges.

The national office of the YWCA inNew York City recognized quality andhired Maxine for its staff. While serv-ing there, she developed lifelongfriends who many years later encour-

aged her to move to Pilgrim Place in re-tirement. Her YWCA reputation led thenational staff of the Episcopal Churchto recruit her to help develop a newchurch school curriculum and trainadults to implement it. While living inGreenwich, Connecticut, she was direc-tor of Christian education at ChristChurch, Greenwich. She traveled allover the United States as aneducator/trainer. With the organizationunwilling to let her go entirely, she waselected to and served for six years onthe National Board of the YWCA.

It was while in her traveling Episco-pal Church position that she met JohnDenham, an Episcopal clergyman in

Baltimore who was in similar work on

a regional level. In 1968, the NationalCouncil of Churches appointed her to a

six-week Intercultural Education Lead-ership Exchange to the Republic of South Africa. There she introduced hu-man relations training to mixed-racegroups, not approved by the govern-ment at that time.

Pilgrim Place resident Anne Hopeparticipated in one of the weeklongworkshops Maxine helped lead. It in-volved three groups of about a dozenpeople, representing various Christiandenominations and people of all ethnicbackgrounds. After a period of silence,the participants spent 40 hours engag-ing in an unprecedented way. “This wasa situation where blacks and whiteshardly mixed at any depth at all in nor-

mal situations. Churches tended to bevery separated, because residential ar-eas were separated,” Ms. Hope said.

The trainers largely served as ob-servers, discovering the dynamics of the disparate group members. After set-ting up some ground rules, Maxine andher colleagues watched as the groupdiscovered issues to be addressed andwork to be done as well as becomingfamiliar and comfortable with one an-other.

“Maxine was a very skilled trainer,someone who had deep insight intopeople’s motivation, anxiety, fears andexcitement,” Ms. Hope recalled. “Ex-traordinary trust was built by the end of

the program.”

While still employed in New York,she went back to grad school, this timeto study individual, marriage and fam-ily psychotherapy at Blanton-PealeGraduate Institute. After leaving her na-tional Episcopal Church position, she

established pastoral counseling centersat churches in Manhattan andBronxville, New York.

By spring of 1971, all four of Max-ine’s sons had graduated from college:Oberlin, Macalester, Princeton and Har-vard. She then said she felt free tomarry John Denham. He had started anew leadership development organiza-tion in Washington, DC and she openeda pastoral counseling center at St.John’s Episcopal Church in George-town, at the invitation of John’s bestfriend. They were married there thatfall. Later she established a new coun-seling center at St. Alban’s Parish onthe Washington Cathedral grounds as

well as serving on the faculty of thenascent Interfaith Metropolitan Theo-logical Education Center (InterMet).

Encouraged by those YWCA friendswho had moved to Claremont in the1980s, the Denhams joined the PilgrimPlace community in 1990. Mrs. Den-ham was 76 but shunned retirement.She promptly became interim directorof the Clinebell Institute of PastoralCounseling for three years.

Maxine worked all her life for insti-tutions dependent on volunteers. Fi-nally in retirement she could becomeone herself. For 15 years she served onand chaired the family selection com-mittee of Pomona Valley Habitat for

Humanity. For 14 years she observedand reported on the Claremont Com-munity Services Commission for theLeague of Women Voters. From 1996to 2007, she was a chaplain at PomonaValley Hospital Medical Center. At age94, she became a community patrolvolunteer with the Claremont PoliceDepartment, complete with uniformand badge.

At Pilgrim Place she established andcoordinated for 12 years the ChristianPresence service at the Health ServicesCenter, a volunteer visitation programto benefit persons with dementia. Shethen founded and led from 1996 to2008 the Compassionate Harps pro-

gram, a service to bring live harp music

to chronically and critically ill people Pilgrim Place and in the wider community.

Miriam Olson, a longtime neighborof the Denhams, first approached MrsDenham with the suggestion for a vol-

unteer harp ministry. She wasn’t sur-prised when Maxine made it a success“I knew she was someone who wouldrun with a good idea. She was very caing,” Ms. Olson said. Later, Ms. Olsontook up the harp herself, allowing herto keep Mrs. Denham’s vision alive.

Mrs. Denham also served on PilgrimPlace’s Health and Welfare Committeeand co-chaired its Residents Health anSupport Program for those whose fundare limited in their retirement. She wathe Food Court head cashier at PilgrimPlace Festival for many years. Aboveall, she loved the sense of communitythat characterizes Pilgrim Place.

Fellow Pilgrim Janet Vandevender

first met Mr. and Mrs. Denham inWashington, DC. Years later, she andher husband visited Pilgrim Place,looking for a spot to retire. When shelooked across the dining room, shespotted an old friend. “There was Maxine. It was so exciting. It was a lovelygift to find her in this place,” she said.

After Janet Vandevender and hus-band Paul Kittlaus moved to PilgrimPlace in 1999, they enjoyed many yeaof friendship with the Denhams, incluing shared travel adventures and theatand Los Angeles Philharmonic per-formances. Maxine always greeted hefriend Janet in a way Ms. Vandevendefeels epitomizes her friendly and en-

gaged spirit.“She always had two questions whe

she saw me,” Ms. Vandevender said.“One was, ‘How is your spirit? And ifmy sweetheart wasn’t with me, shewould ask, ‘How is your man?’ It summarizes her in a lovely way. She wassuch a good listener.”

This bright, energetic and lovingwoman is survived by her husbandJohn, who in the last year of her lifewrote a poem, “Longtime Lover,” tohonor her. She also leaves her foursons, Tobit of Santa Cruz, Larry of Annapolis, Maryland, Kirtley of Clover,South Carolina and Tad of Picton, On-tario as well as many friends from

Maine to California.

Maxine DenhamCounselor, people person, loving wife


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School’s out, and that means ourschools have completed yet anotheryear of standardized testing.

What this should mean, in an education town likeClaremont, is that we will be evaluating these tests be-

fore we start gearing up for the next round. However,I’m not sure that this will happen.In the past, Claremont has not been very critical of

these tests. Like our fictional counterparts in GarrisonKeillor’s Lake Wobegon, our children tend to be“above average” and many of us have looked at thetests as an opportunity for our children to score high.It’s all been an academic “smackdown” where we getto show the stuff we’re made of. That said, there areplenty of good reasons for us to question the tests andto weigh the expenses against the benefits.

It’s not news that our California schools are cash-strapped. Here in Claremont, we run school fundrais-ing campaigns, but even an affluent community likeClaremont can’t raise enough money to fill the gaps.

If California were considered a country, we’d beone of the top 10 economies in the world and, yet,

California public schools finish dead last in the coun-try in our student-to-teacher, student-to-counselor, stu-dent-to-librarian ratios. During the Great Recession of 2008-09, California cut 10 percent of its public educa-tion labor force—30,000 from a previous 300,000—and though there are promises of an influx of newfunds, I have not heard of plans to maneuver Califor-nia out of our last-place finish in our student-to-educa-tor ratios.

Therefore, it’s imperative that we receive optimumeducational value for every dollar we spend. So how is

it that we can continue to find money for tests, com-puters for testing, test prep materials and seminars that

serve our testing culture when our classrooms con-tinue to be underserved?The new version of the tests is more expensive than

ever. We’ve replaced the pencil and paper tests withcomputerized ones. The government mandate to pro-vide computers to all our students has proved and willprove to be enormously expensive.

There are certainly sound educational reasons forinstalling technology in our schools, but it would seemthat the best way to meet our schools’ technologicalneeds would be by using a measured instructional per-spective rather than a testing-giving one. We’re lettingthe tail wag the dog on this one.

This mad dash to install technology in our schoolshas created a windfall for our country’s ed-tech corpo-rations, raising legitimate concerns that our publicschools have succumbed to pressure from private

companies with a profit incentive. Los Angeles USD’srecent iPad scandal provides a cautionary tale of money squandered on technology at the expense of other valuable programs.

It’s not enough to frame the debate about these testson the single issue of expense; the bigger issue iswhether the tests have educational value.

It’s difficult to debate test content because few of usknow what’s on these tests. The private companiesthat own the tests have been allowed to operate in se-crecy. Teachers who administer the tests are required

to sign confidentiality agreements that they will notread them. Students who take the tests are told not todiscuss the questions. With taxpayer dollars, testingcorporations hire corporations to monitor children onsocial media to ensure that they are not discussing tesquestions.

There are few systems in place to determine that thtests adhere to CA ED Codes that assure “validity, reability and non-bias,” and it is precisely this atmos-phere of powerful, enforced silence that prevents thetests from having educative value.

Commonly, when classroom teachers administer atest, they hand back the graded tests and allow stu-dents to debate the questions. However, the standard-ized tests have not set up any platforms for suchdebates. Testing corporations could publish their testsafter they’ve been administered, but they have neverdone so. Chasing profits, the companies keep the quetions secret, and taxpayers have not demanded publicscrutiny. It is ironic that the tests we use to determineschool accountability have not, themselves, been heldaccountable. This lack of transparency continues to bthe single most perplexing aspect of these tests.

We’ve been testing for over a decade now and thelongitudinal studies are complete. Test scores correlawith students’ zip codes, parent incomes and parenteducation levels. The tests were sold to us as a tool topromote equity. However, the tests have done little tolevel the playing field in our poorer schools in our seregated California neighborhoods. While the schoolsin wealthier neighborhoods have had the luxury of continuing to offer a diverse curriculum, our poorerschools have been reduced to “teaching to the test.”

Question the testsby Pamela Casey Nagler

VIEWPOINT


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Claremont City Councilappointed residents tothe Public Art Commit-

tee on June 9, following rec-ommendations presented by

the ad hoc committee.“This was one of the most exciting

and difficult appointment processes,”said Mayor Pro Tem Sam Pedroza.“You’ll recognize some names andsome names you won’t, but I’m hopingwe’re going to be seeing some reallyneat things coming from the committeethat the whole community will benefitfrom.”

The Public Art Committee was estab-lished by the city council and will beresponsible for upholding the PublicArt Master Plan, ensuring that the city’spublic art policies and procedures arefollowed, and supporting the develop-ment and stewardship of Claremont’s

public art collection and other public arton municipal and private property.

A total of 10 applicants vied for sixspots on the committee, with a seventhmember who will serve as a liaisonfrom the Architectural Commission notyet appointed. The six members of thePublic Art Committee are as follows:

Amy Croushore: four-year termA 17-year resident of Claremont, Ms.

Croushore is a former marketing andfundraising consultant with a BA inEnglish from UCLA and an MBA inMarketing from Claremont GraduateUniversity. She was involved with theClaremont schools’ Parent Faculty As-

sociation for 17 years in various capaci-ties including PFA president at CHSand served at insurance officer for the

Claremont Parent Faculty Association.She was also chosen for the hiring com-mittee for the Assistant Supervisor,Curriculum and the WASC Accredita-tion Committee. Ms. Croushore wasalso a member of the Claremont Coor-dinating Council, the Youth and Family

Master Plan Committee, and the cam-paign manager for Steven Llanusa’s re-election bid to the CUSD Board of Education.

As a veteran marketing and fundrais-ing professional, the committee willbenefit from her acumen when search-ing for grants and private funding, ex-amining the details of the loan of awork of art, placement strategy andevent management.

Karen Neiuber: three-year termWith an interest and passion for art,

Ms. Neiuber began using her art back-ground to delve into colors and texturesby producing monoprints and ceramic

assemblages following her retirementfrom 40 years in public education as anelementary teacher and district curricu-lum administrator. She has served onthe Architectural Committee, is a mem-ber of the After Work Planning Com-mittee for the Committee on Aging andholds a BA in art from Cal State Fuller-ton as well as two master’s degrees, in-cluding both teaching andadministrative credentials.

Ms. Neiuber has lived in Claremontfor nearly 12 years, and became con-nected to the local art community manyyears ago when she facilitated the firststrategic plan for the dA Center for theArts in Pomona. Through those associ-

ations, she has become friends andworked with many Claremont artists,participated in discussions in the Public

Art Master Plan and became involvedwith the Maloof sculpture show and theArboretum show.

Adriana Tchalian: three-year termAs an adjunct professor of art history

at Chaffey College, Fullerton Collegeand East Los Angeles College, Ms.Tchalian has a genuine interest in and acommitment to being actively engagedin the Claremont art scene. She haslived in Claremont for over two yearsand has taught a course on California artat East LA College featuring Claremontartist Milford Zornes, among others.

Christopher Toovey: four-year termHaving grown up in Claremont dur-

ing the ‘60s and ‘70s, Mr. Toovey hasexperienced first-hand what the arts cando to create, nurture and expand com-munity in the City of Trees. Many of his friends were the sons and daughtersof Claremont artists and he’s beenknown as an artist himself since ele-

mentary school. Mr. Toovey’s artworkhas been shown at the Claremont Com-munity Foundation Gallery, ClaremontCity Hall and Bunny Gunner. Mr.Toovey holds a BFA from Pitzer Col-lege, has participated in the city’s ad-hoc group on public art and has beeninvolved with the production of a dozenmurals through public art programs inthe cities of La Verne and Pomona, andseveral as lead artist.

Georgette Unis: four-year termMs. Unis has lived in Claremont for

39 years and has contributed both ex-pertise and financing to public artthroughout the city. A painter and sculp-

tor for 35 years, she holds a Masters of Fine Art from Claremont Graduate Uni-versity and serves on various public art

committees, art boards of directors andhas curated art shows. Ms. Unis cur-rently serves on the Claremont BannerCommittee and the Claremont Community Art Committee and is the ClaremoArt Museum site coordinator for the annual Art Fiesta at Padua Hills Theatre.

As an exhibiting painter/artist, Ms. Unirecently held shows at Square I as wellas the Claremont Community Founda-tion. She has also exhibited her work inLos Angeles, Pomona and Oregon.

Jessica Wimbley: three-year termMs. Wimbley is a practicing artist

with a BFA from Rhode Island Schoolof Design, an MFA in Visual Arts fromUC Davis and a MA in arts manage-ment from Claremont Graduate Univesity. Looking to augment her skills anddiverse background in the arts into ad-vocacy for the arts at the municipallevel, Ms. Wimbley believes her profesional experience as a visual artist, art

administrator, and academic not only ilustrates her passion for art but will bean asset to the Public Art Committee.

A seven-year resident of ClaremontMs. Wimbley also works in the city shcalls home. She held the position of Museum Coordinator at Pomona Col-lege Museum of Art from 2008-2012,creating the weekly program “Art AfteHours” and worked with dA Center fothe Arts during her tenure, creating theprogram In Front of the Real Thing,where local artists visited museum collections and made new works in re-sponse that were exhibited at the dA.

The Public Art Committee is set tomeet on the second Monday in Clare-

mont City Council Chambers at 7 p.m—Angela Baile

[email protected]

Public Art Committee ready to beautify Claremont


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FRIDAY NIGHTS LIVE Enjoy freelive music throughout the Village from6 to 9 p.m.

FAMILY BIRD WALK Bring binoc-ulars if you have them and join WildBirds Unlimited on guided bird-watching walks. RSVP required. 8a.m. Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Gar-den, 1500 N. College Ave., Clare-mont. (909) 625-8767.GELENCSER HOUSE CONCERT

John York is a singer, composer and in-strumentalist well-known as a former member of the Byrds with Roger McGuinn, Clarence White and GeneParsons. He was a member of the Sir Douglas Quintet (with Dr. John) and TheMamas and The Papas touring band. He played bass for Johnny Rivers and Light-nin’ Hopkins. He has played with GeneClark, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, Nicky Hopkins, David Carradine and

CALENDAR Performing arts

Summer concerts are a hotevent over the next months

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Friday, June 19 through Saturday, June 27

YOUR WEEK IN 9 DAYS

NightlifeRumble King performs atThe Press on Saturday

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June

Friday 19JuneSaturday 20

COURIER photo/Peter WeinbergeIt almost looks like fall at Larkin Park in Claremont as the sun sets in the west, sending a warm glow through the trees. Our weathewill not feel like fall, however, as the summer heat will continue this weekend with highs in the low 90s, and lows in the mid-60sPartly cloudy skies and haze are also in the forecast.


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many other great musicians. Mr. York sings with a rich emotional voice and fa-vors the 12-string guitar. He performssolo or with his own band, The JangleBrothers. Currently, he is performingwith Barry McGuire and P.F. Sloan. Allages welcome. 7:30 p.m. Call (909) 596-1266 for price information and directionsto the Gelencser House.

BUTTERFLY PAVILION The But-terfly Pavilion combines science edu-cation with interactive fun to teachvisitors about California native butter-flies and conservation. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden,1500 N. College Ave., Claremont.(909) 625-8767.

SITTING ZEN Come join in commu-nity to meditate, chant, learn and share to-gether. Everyone is welcome. Suggesteddonation is $5 to $10. This is a donation-

based meeting and no one will be turnedaway for inability to pay. BuddhamouseEmporium, 134 Yale Ave., Claremont.6:30 to 7:30 p.m. (310) 562-8474.

MUSIC AND THE MIND University

Club program with speaker MatthewKeating. 11:30 a.m. $13 includes buffetlunch. Hughes Community Center,1700 Danbury Rd., Claremont.THEATRICAL READING Edgar W.Reece Foundation and Bridget Healy

present the Inland Valley Repertory The-atre’s Tuesday and Wednesday Reader’sTheater Series on June 23 and 24 atEddie’s Pizzeria and Eatery. Sylvia is aromantic comedy by A. R. Gurney. Greg

and Kate have moved to Manhattan after 22 years of child-raising in the suburbs.One day Greg brings home a dog hefound in the park (or that has found him),

bearing only the name “Sylvia” on her nametag. To Greg, she offers an escapefrom the frustrations of his job and theunknowns of middle age. To Kate, Sylvia

becomes a rival for affection, but inSylvia’s view, Kate simply does not un-derstand the relationship between manand dog. For ages 16 and over. Dinner seating at 6:30 p.m. Reading begins at7:45 p.m. Admission is $36 and includesthe reading by IVRT actors and three-course dinner, including soft beverage,

tax and gratuity. Wine and beer may be purchased separately at the event. Eddie’sPizzeria and Eatery, 1065 W. FoothillBlvd., Claremont. (909) 859-4878.

FROZEN SING-ALONG Watch Dis-ney’s Frozen, sing along and cool off atthe library for a little winter in the sum-mer. 3 to 5 p.m. Free to the public.Carnegie Cultural Center, 123 E. D

St., Upland. (909) 931-4213.LIVE MUSIC Thaddeus. 6 to 8:30

p.m. Hotel Casa 425, 425 First St.,Claremont.

TAI CHI The low-impact exercise TaiChi increases strength and flexibility,reduces stress, improves balance andhas been shown to lower blood pres-sure and increase bone density.Classes are held indoors or outdoorsdepending on weather conditions;wear comfortable attire and shoes withflat soles and bring a bottle of water.

No experience necessary, all are wel-come to attend. Limit 20 students eachsession. Preregistration is required on-line or at the admissions kiosk. 9 to 10a.m. Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Gar-den, 1500 N. College Ave., Claremont.(909) 625-8767, ext. 224.

FRIDAY NIGHTS LIVE Enjoy freelive music throughout the Village from6 to 9 p.m.

DANCE Bust a move and learn somedance routines with Arthur MurrayDance Studio. 10:30 a.m. Free to the

public. Upland Public Library, 450 N.Euclid Ave., Upland. (909) 931-4213.

9-DAY CALENDARcontinued from the previous page

JuneSunday 21

JuneMonday 22

JuneTuesday 23

JuneWednesday 24

JuneThursday 25

JuneFriday

26JuneSaturday 27

Eureka is featuring cocktail special foFather’s Day unt

Sunday, June 21.The “Go Ask Your Mother” O

Fashioned features Old Overholt RyWhiskey, Corsair Triple Smoke, house-made Stone Smoked Portsimple syrup, bitters and orange fo$12. Check out the recipe below.

“Go Ask Your Mother” Cocktail Recip• 1 oz Old Overholt Rye Whiskey• 1 oz Corsair Triple Smoke

• 1/2 oz Stone Smoked Porter simple syru• 2 dash Angostura bitters• 2 dash orange bitters• 2 orange rind

Procedure:- Add syrup, bitters and orange rind a mixing glass- Muddle orange rind- Add both whiskeys- Add ice and stir until chilled- Strain over one solid ice cube- Garnish with second orange rind

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Claremont COURIER/Friday,June 19,20

Sporting his new short haircut, Zachary Pedroza waves to his parents, Councilmember Sam Pedroza and Julie Pedroza, moments after the teen graduated from CHS.

Mohammad Alhassani congratulates new graduate Ibraheem Hafuda as the CHS graduation wraps up.

Ryley Settles, left, and Reem Shafik share a moment during CHS graduation last Thursday.

aduate Mackenzie Orr is cheered on by her grandparents Paul and Trudy Orr as well as her father Donr during commencement at Claremont High. Altogether, there were 570 graduates from CHS and an-her 42 from San Antonio High and the adult school.

Noah Daniel points to his diplomamoments after walking the stage.

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uate Anesa Stevenson performse Nicks’ “Landslide” during CHS

mencement . Ms. Stevenson was ac-panied by Sean Tchen and Gideonki.


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CANDLELIGHT PAVILION: 455 W. FoothillBlvd., Claremont. Candlelightpavilion.com or (909)626-1254, ext.1 —Through June 28: Eva Perón used her smarts andcharisma to rise meteorically from the slums of Ar-gentina to the presidential mansion as First Lady.Adored by her people as a champion for the poor,she became one of the most powerful women in theworld—while her greed, outsized ambition andfragile health made her one of the most tragic.Evita , with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber andlyrics by Tim Rice, tells Eva’s passionate and un-forgettable true story, and features some of theater’smost beautiful songs, including “Don’t Cry for MeArgentina,” “Another Suitcase in Another Hall” and“High Flying, Adored.”HAUGH PERFORMING ARTS CENTER : 1000W. Foothill Blvd., Glendora at Citrus College. Dis-counts available for students, seniors and youth.(626) 963-9411 or haughpac.com. —Saturday, June 20: Claremont’s Village DanceArts features over 95 ballet students in Hansel andGretel in the Land of Sweets. 4 to 6 p.m. $10 pre-

sale or $15 at the door. Free parking. (909) 624-1415or [email protected] HALL: Thatcher Music Building, 340 N.College Ave., Claremont. —Friday, June 19: Claremont Clarinet Festival.Clarinet Masterworks, 13 clarinetists play musicof Bozza, Martinu, Stravinsky, Weber, St. Saëns,Schumann, Brahms and more. 8 p.m. Free admis-sion. (310) 464-7653 or [email protected] claremontclarinetfestival.com for more information. —Saturday, June 20: Claremont Clarinet Festival.Clarinet Matinee, clarinet solo and duo music byDebussy, Poulenc, Finzi, Denisov, Okamura, Os-

borne, Lutoslawski and more. 2:30 p.m. Free admis-sion. (310) 464-7653 or [email protected] claremontclarinetfestival.com for more information.REPERTORY OPERA COMPANY: (909) 230-4949,[email protected] visit repertoryoperacompany.org. —Through June 27: Repertory Opera Companycontinues its sixth season in Pomona with Rossini’scomic opera, The Barber of Seville. Arguably thefunniest of all comic operas, it is a delightful, viva-cious romp that kicks off with an instantly recogniz-able overture, gains speed with a non-stop parade of hit tunes and concludes with an “all is forgiven” fi-nale, bubbling over with joy. Rossini’s melodies cre-ate the perfect atmosphere for this ever-popular comedy, which revels in outrageous scheming, mas-terful disguises and hilarious antics. Sung in Italianwith English dialogue, this show is fully staged andcostumed with Musical Director Brian Farrell at the piano. First Christian Church of Pomona, 1751 N.Park Ave., Pomona. Saturday, June 20 at 2 p.m. andSaturday, June 27 at 2 p.m. All ages welcome. Ticketsare $30 for adults or $10 for children and students.SEAVER THEATRE COMPLEX: Pomona Col-lege, 300 E. Bonita Ave., Claremont. The box officeis available Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to4 p.m. and one hour prior to curtain times. Call (909)607-4375 or email [email protected].

—Friday, June 19: Time Travelers Tribute, a liveshow paying tribute to a wide variety of Broadwayhit musicals with a time traveling twist. An originalstoryline, collaboratively written by APA studentsand teachers, Time Travelers Tribute takes audi-ences to a magical musical theater that is on the en-dangered species list. All ages welcome. Friday,June 19 at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, June 20 at 2:30 and7:30 p.m. and Sunday, June 21 at 2:30 p.m. Generaladmission is $24 and tickets for seniors, studentsand children are $18. Group discounts are available.Doors open a half-hour before show times. (909)596-8811.

PERFORMING ARTS

Claremont Symphony Orchestroffers free summer concert

Claremont Symphony Orchestra will saluthe 50th anniversary of the beloved movThe Sound of Music at Ganesha Park

Pomona on Sunday, July 12 at 6:30 p.m.Listeners may also conjure up images of a primeval ju

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