Le Lycee Francais de Los Angeles - Actualites Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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Traditional guests at Lycee graduations include Senator John Tunney (left) and City Council President, Councilman John Ferraro. This picture was taken at the 1980 commencement with Madame Kabbaz. When President Reagan was shot in late March, Le Lycee went through its archives to reprint a photo of then-private-citizen Reagan presenting Bill of Rights Essay Contest Awards to Lycee students. Mounting the photo on a four by five poster board, a giant get well card was developed, and signed by more than 550 students at Le Lycee. After the final signatures were added by Rachel O ' Connor (kneeling), Brian Lotte and Marc Balestrieri, the mammoth card was air-freighted to the White House. The Result? A delightful thank you from the President. And we ' ve invited Mr. Reagan to visit the Lycee on one of his California trips!

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THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON May 11, 1981 Dear Friends: 1 wish I could thank everyone personally who signed your wonderful get-well message. It is certainly not your everyday card, and I am convinced that being remembered in such a special way has helped to speed my recovery along. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for your thoughtfulness. Sincerely, (iV r-«»fi VoL ij — Students of Le Lycee Francais de Los Angeles 3261 Overland Avenue Los Angeles, California 90034

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Scenes From the Riviera Campus Key speaker for this year ' s morning awards program is Judge Elvira S. Austin, judge of the Municipal Court in Long Beach. Ma- dame Kabbaz was a guest at the enrobing ceremony of )udge Austin earlier this year. Judge Elvira S. Austin Judge Elvira S. Austin has led an exciting life, seemingly one step ahead of disaster. She was born in Kiev, Russia at a time when Stalin ruled the Soviet, and Nikita Krus- chev was the local governor. Her family fled the Soviet Union with retreating German troops in 1943, moving to Poland, and finally set- tling in Austria. They survived the final horrible days of World War II in Vienna, and in 1947, moved to Venezuela, which was in need of skilled professionals. (Judge Aus- tin ' s mother was a physician and her father was an engineer.) She moved to the United States in 1963, after receiving a bachelors degree from the Andres Bello Loy- ola University in Caracas, and law studies at the Universidad Central de Venezuela. In the United States, she graduat- ed from the Whittier School of Law in 1968 and was assigned to the public defender ' s office in Los An- geles. She was appointed a munici- pal court judge in 1980 by Gover- nor Brown, and currently presides in Long Beach. Among the many facilities at the new Lycee Riviera Campus will be a large Cafetorium which is a combination auditorium-cafeteria-gymnasium adjacent to classroom and adminis- trative buildings. Mi t Y i 3 i S R A typical classroom at the new Riviera Campus is this science room, complete with built-in equipment. The large, airy classrooms will welcome new Lycee students from throughout the South Bay area beginning this coming September. The new Lycee Riviera Campus has more than seven acres of land, and overlooks the Pacific Ocean. Apart from several classroom buildings, the recreational areas include a large paved area with basketball facilities (to the right of the fence) as well as several acres of grass with both baseball and soccer facilities in place.