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Lowell High School (Whittier, California)
Lowell High School was a public high school in the Fullerton Joint Union High School District from September 1961 until June 1980, when it was closed because of declining student enrollment. It was a four-year institution, with students coming primarily from Rancho-Cañada and Starbuck Junior High schools. The school athletic name was the Patriots, and its mascots were known as Johnny Patriot and Janie Patriot. Campus information Lowell High School was located on 16200 E. Amber Valley Drive, Whittier, CA 90604. The site was purchased and now occupied by Southern California University of Health Sciences in 1981. The site is , about 400m per side. Lowell had a pool, a track, a gymnasium, baseball fields, and a performing arts center. It played its football home games at nearby La Habra High School. Notable alumni * Martin Manley, 1970, US Assistant Secretary of Labor, founder/CEO of Alibris * Jack Russell, musician, Great White * Brent Boyd, 1975, football player, Minnesota ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fullerton Joint Union High School District
Fullerton Joint Union High School District (FJUHSD), founded in 1893 is a school district in Orange County, California that serves a fifty-square-mile area which includes the cities of Fullerton, La Habra, and small sections of Anaheim, Buena Park, Brea, La Palma, Whittier and La Habra Heights. Within Los Angeles County it serves sections of Whittier, La Habra Heights, and the unincorporated community of East Whittier. There are approximately 16,299 students in the union high school district and it is headed by Superintendent Steve McLaughlin. Schools *Buena Park High School, Buena Park *Fullerton Union High School, Fullerton *La Habra High School, La Habra *La Vista High School (continuation), Fullerton *La Sierra High School, Fullerton (Independent Studies) *Sonora High School, La Habra *Sunny Hills High School, Fullerton * Troy High School, Fullerton Feeder districts * Buena Park School District * Fullerton School District * La Habra City School District * Lowell Joint S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Sweet
Michael Harrison Sweet (born July 4, 1963) is a singer and guitarist from Whittier, California; he is the co-founder, songwriter, guitarist and lead singer of the Christian metal band Stryper. He's also had a successful solo career, and briefly served as singer and guitarist for Boston from 2007 to 2011. Stryper In the early 1980s, Sweet and his brother started a band called Roxx Regime and played in small venues. They were a trio for a period of time with Sweet being the only guitar player in the band. This band would later become Stryper. The band challenged the stereotype of heavy metal being satanic and took Christian rock into mainstream. With the band, Sweet was not only the lead vocalist and shared lead guitar duties, but he also wrote most of the music for the band as well as co-producing and arranging the music. The band recorded five successful studio albums. The band's reputation declined in the 1990s. Solo After nine years as the lead singer/lead guitarist of Stry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Educational Institutions Disestablished In 1980
Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty. Various researchers emphasize the role of critical thinking in order to distinguish education from indoctrination. Some theorists require that education results in an improvement of the student while others prefer a value-neutral definition of the term. In a slightly different sense, education may also refer, not to the process, but to the product of this process: the mental states and dispositions possessed by educated people. Education originated as the transmission of cultural heritage from one generation to the next. Today, educational goals increasingly encompass new ideas such as the liberation of learners, skills needed for modern society, empathy, and complex vocational skills. Types of education are commonly divided into formal, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1961 Establishments In California
Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 (Koivulahti air disaster): Douglas DC-3C OH-LCC of Finnish airline Aero crashes near Kvevlax (Koivulahti), on approach to Vaasa Airport in Finland, killing all 25 on board, due to pilot error: an investigation finds that the captain and first officer were both exhausted for lack of sleep, and had consumed excessive amounts of alcohol at the time of the crash. It remains the deadliest air disaster to occur in the country. * January 5 ** Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti marches into the U.S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ** After the 1960 military coup, General Cemal Gürsel forms the new government of Turkey (25th governm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Educational Institutions Established In 1961
Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty. Various researchers emphasize the role of critical thinking in order to distinguish education from indoctrination. Some theorists require that education results in an improvement of the student while others prefer a value-neutral definition of the term. In a slightly different sense, education may also refer, not to the process, but to the product of this process: the mental states and dispositions possessed by educated people. Education History of education, originated as the transmission of cultural heritage from one generation to the next. Today, educational aims and objectives, educational goals increasingly encompass new ideas such as the Philosophy of education#Critical theory, liberation of learners, 21st century skills, skills needed fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defunct Schools In California
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List Of Closed Secondary Schools In California
This is a list of closed secondary schools in California. There was a noticeable increase in closures starting about 1979, the year following the passage of Proposition 13. A change in funding changed the financial situation for these school districts. Schools were also closed for other reasons, including declining enrollments at the end of the Baby Boom, long term property ownership, population shift (older residents are less likely to produce new students), and white flight. Each of these local decisions were taken by individual school boards (or entities who operated private schools); many of those attributions are discussed in the linked articles. School name discontinued Certain events, such as closure, can result in the discontinuation of a school's name. In some cases, the same location has been reopened with a similar name. Moved This is a list of schools which have changed locations, resulting in closure or reuse of the old campus. Closed and reopened References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twister (1996 Film)
''Twister'' is a 1996 American epic disaster film directed by Jan de Bont from a screenplay by Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie Martin. It was produced by Crichton, Kathleen Kennedy and Ian Bryce, with Steven Spielberg, Walter Parkes, Laurie MacDonald, and Gerald R. Molen serving as executive producers. The film stars an ensemble cast that includes Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Jami Gertz, Cary Elwes, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Alan Ruck, Todd Field, and Jeremy Davies as a group of amateur but spirited storm chasers trying to deploy a tornado research device during a severe outbreak in Oklahoma. ''Twister'' was officially released in theaters on May 10, 1996. It is notable for being the first film to be released on DVD in the United States. ''Twister'' grossed $495 million worldwide and became the second-highest-grossing film of 1996; it sold an estimated 54.7 million tickets in the U.S. It received generally positive reviews from critics, as some praised the visual effects ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Police Academy (franchise)
''Police Academy'' is a series of American comedy films, the first six of which were made in the 1980s and the seventh in 1994. The series opened with ''Police Academy'' (1984), which started with the premise that a new mayor had announced a policy requiring the police department to accept all willing recruits. The film followed a group of misfit recruits in their attempts to prove themselves capable of being police officers, and succeeding both in spite of and because of their eccentricities. The main character in the first four films, Carey Mahoney (Steve Guttenberg), was a repeat offender, who was forced to join the police academy as punishment. The seventh and to date last installment, ''Mission to Moscow'', was released in 1994. Guttenberg in September 2018 announced that a new ''Police Academy'' film was in the works. In general, all of the films and television shows depended on simple slap-stick humour, usually based on simple characterizations and physical comedy. As with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Thomson (actor)
Scott Thomson (born October 29, 1957) is an American actor. He has appeared in the films ''Twister'' (1996), ''Ghoulies'' (1985), ''Fast Times at Ridgemont High'' (1982) and ''Police Academy'' (1984). Early life Thomson was born on October 29, 1957. He graduated from Lowell High School in Whittier, California in 1972. Career His film appearances include ''Parasite'', ''Jack Frost'', ''Clockstoppers'', and '' It Runs in the Family''. Thomson played the role of Chad Copeland in the 1984 movie ''Police Academy'' (1984), a role in which he reprised in '' Police Academy 3: Back in Training'' (1986) and '' Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol'' (1987). Filmography * ''The Greatest American Hero'' (1981) – Young Boy * ''Jessica Novak'' (1981) – Richie * ''Parasite'' (1982) – Chris * ''Fast Times at Ridgemont High'' (1982) – Arnold * ''T. J. Hooker'' (1982) – Deke * '' Frightmare'' (1983) – Bobo * ''Police Academy'' (1984) – Cadet Chad Copeland * ''Ghoulies'' (1985) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stryper
Stryper is an American Christian metal band from Orange County, California. The group's lineup consists of Michael Sweet (lead vocals, guitar), Oz Fox (guitar), Perry Richardson (bass guitar), and Robert Sweet (drums). Formed in 1983 as Roxx Regime, the band soon changed their musical message to reflect their Christian beliefs, and the band's name was also changed to Stryper. They went on to become the first overtly Christian heavy metal band to gain acceptance in the mainstream. In 1983, they signed with major label Enigma Records and released their debut album '' The Yellow and Black Attack''. In the mid-1980s, Stryper enjoyed their most successful period beginning with the release of ''To Hell with the Devil'', which achieved platinum sales status. Stryper went on to release two more gold albums before disbanding in 1993. In 2003, Stryper came out of retirement for a reunion tour and subsequently signed a multi-album contract with Big3 Records in 2005. In 2013, they signed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Leiper
David Paul Leiper (born June 18, 1962) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Oakland Athletics (1984, 1986–87 and 1994–95), San Diego Padres (1987–89), Montreal Expos (1995 and 1996), and Philadelphia Phillies The Philadelphia Phillies are an American professional baseball team based in Philadelphia. They compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member of the National League (NL) National League East, East division. Since 2004, the team's home sta ... (1996). In 8 seasons he had a win–loss record of 12–8 in 264 games, 65 games finished, 7 saves, 278 innings pitched, 282 hits allowed, 141 runs allowed, 123 earned runs allowed, 25 home runs allowed, 114 walks, 150 strikeouts, 12 wild pitches, 17 intentional walks, 3 balks, 3.98 ERA and a WHIP of 1.424. References External links , oRetrosheet oPelota Binaria (Venezuelan Winter League) {{DEFAULTSORT:Leiper, Dave 1962 births Living people American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
