Sherman Oaks Center for Enriched Studies - Excalibur Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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The Maquee — We are looking more and more like a real high school every day. Sherman Girichea : ) f EDUCATI EVERYO How long hare we been here — Mrs. Cathy Nissen. Mrs. Sue Lee. and Mrs. Carrigan were the first staff member and the only ones currently at SOCES iVhal ' s going on here? — Dan Mayer is telling the two fourth grades what it is like here. Community Growth Opening

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j- i ' ' C X) fJirsudaaee oj .7] ccx e Dressing to impress — Pam Jenkins, Jody Shehon agree what you are is what you Hurry is the expression on Ms. Lewis ' s face as she con- versed with students at fire drill. School Progress Opening page D

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T en i ears grown t all started with a small bang ten years ago. We had to work our way to the top from almost nothing, but we started on Sherman Oaks ele- mentary school ' s campus with grades fourth through eighth. We only had a very small portion of the school. Our stu- dent numbers were growing. We needed a larger campus. We start- ed sharing the campus with Sequoia Junior High School in Reseda. Sequoia did not like splitting up the campus with another school, so finally, after enough per- sistence, we were able to take over the whole cam- pus. The reason for start- ing the magnet school was to provide a volun- tary environment for learning. Every magnet school was to be different from the next. Our school was to be for en- riched studies. This was the main emphasis on this particular school in the magnet system, said Ted Schuman, former advisory councel chair- person. When we took over Sequoia ' s campus, we merged with West Val- ley. This is when our school doubled it ' s size. When this happened the parents became very up- set about the school be- coming so large. The parents thought that there would be less atten- tion given to the stu- dents, thought the class Ripping it up — John Cristy is walking by where the electrical wires go for the sign. room sizes stayed the same, said Ted Schu- man. the reason that we merged with West Val- ley was not to make our school bigger, it was be- cause West Valley could not hold a high school there. West Valley was built to accommodate an ele- mentary school, not a high school. They did not have a grass field, a gym, or science class rooms, said Mrs. Carrigan. one of the original office clerks. In 1984 we had our first twelfth grade class graduate, there were only twelve student graduating. Now in 1989, we will have 90 high school graduates. By Chris Giroux fti VAav-G V3ten Wrz m uvnm i a ' , r U V Vj Community Growth