Today's beautiful Hollywood High grad

Class of 1976!

and now:

Lynn, you have not aged one day! Still as beautiful as ever!

Lynn is now the Adjunct Associate Professor at the Legal Studies…

I am impressed since I had no contact for 63 years and then very professional contact.  June Tanner Jaffee, W'49,  is my only HHS classmate with whom I have had contact since moving across the country.  Congratulations on being so organized, etc.  You can save on the invitation since I will not be able to attend.  My husband and I are going on a Smithsonian cruise to Greek Isles in June.  We were in California three years ago, and I was impressed that the campus looked the same, to my…

Did you know a student at Hollywood High who later became a Hollywood celebrity?  Who was this person and what was your most interesting memory or experience with him or her when they were attending Hollywood High?  What was this person like as a teenager?  



Your name and comment may be used in a story for Discover Hollywood magazine and that is being written by journalist Rena Dictor LeBlanc. 

Contact Rena today at: …

Teresa Oborny, a retired E6 from the United States Airforce, has been volunteering two days a week to help the Hollywood High School Alumni Association with mailing list management, data entry and phone calls. We'd like to thank Teresa for helping us out. She did not graduate from Hollywood High but she is a firm believer in giving back to her community.

Calling all HHS Class of 91 & 92 - 20th Year reunion tickets are on sale!
Get your tickets @ www.sheiksreunion.com

Certainly one of Hollywood's most glamorous ladies, Ruta Lee is also one of its most multifaceted and top-notched civic contributors. Born in Montreal, Lee is the daughter of a Lithuanian tailor. While at Hollywood High, Lee's career in show business began at the famed Grauman's Chinese Theatre… as an usherette, then candy girl. She was quickly promoted to box office cashier…

Bob Buckley was kidnapped by his Mother from Buffalo, New York, who stole away to Hollywood, California, where she did have some minor success in the movies. She didn't have a lot of roles, so of course, they didn't lead their middle-class Buffalo life, but were very impoverished. Bob said their poverty wasn't that important, because he always credited Hollywood High with having given him an extraordinarily good education, and wonderful friends. I believe it, because he was a Renaissance…

HHS Faculty retirees Betsy Eschrich, Dr. Joan Gordon, Paul Itkin, Peter Lempert, Raymond Miller, Douglas Pierce and David Snyder will be honored on Friday, June 22nd at The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. You can download the HHS Retirement flyer and RSVP form at hollywoodhighschool.net or For information you can contact Denise Ramirez at 323-993-1702 or by email at dlr9334@lausd.net

Geologist, activist Glenn Shepherd dies at home, 86

WAILUKU — Friends and family are mourning the loss of Wailuku resident Glenn Shepherd, remembered as a community activist, geologist and all-around funny guy.

Shepherd, 86, died on Tuesday at his residence of pancreatic cancer.

“He was such an outstanding person and outstanding human being,” said Council Member Michelle Anderson.

Anderson said Shepherd would regularly share information with her and was…

Massive, Countywide Volunteer Effort to be Part of Keep America Beautiful’s Great American Cleanup™ Nationwide Day of Service April 28

WHAT: Some 4,000 volunteers representing a broad cross-section of Los Angeles’ diverse population are expected to take part in the Friends of the Los Angeles River’s (FoLAR) 23rd Annual La Gran Limpieza: The Great Los Angeles River CleanUp happening April 28, 2012. FoLAR estimates more than 25 tons garbage will be pulled from the 15 river clean-up…

We are very pleased to announce that Teresa Oborny has joined our list of dedicated volunteers. She will be helping us with data entry and mailing list management. She is a retired from the Air Force and has worked as a education and training manager. She has been a para educator for special education children and a therapeutic foster parent for five years.

She is a member of the community and has offered her valuable time to help us! Thank you Teresa!

Yes indeed, Mr. Carl Johnson has been around for more than nine decades! He asked us to give him a call and talk about his life and he wants to join us for Alumni Day 2012. He is 96 years old now. Carl still drives himself (yes in a car!) and he is a talker. I enjoyed a great conversation with him today. Imagine this...he and I schedule a lunch together. What a great thing that's going to be, I want to chat with him about life at Hollywood High in the 1930's. I can't wait. Carl is…

I'm posting an email we received today from our friends over at the School of Motion Pictures & Television at Academy of Art University and for graduates of HHS who would like to consider a career in entertainment, they offer many programs that are worthy of your consideration.

The mission of the School of Motion Pictures & Television at Academy of Art University is to provide an outstanding education in the field of Motion Pictures & Television. We welcome all who strive…

We are presently on the "lookout" for the following HHS yearbooks and if you have one and are willing to donate, please let us know by contacting me at admin@hhsalum.org.

The books we're needing are:

1907

1954

An impressive 65% of Hollywood High School students went on to college after graduation in 1922, very high by national standards of the day. Source: "Hollywood High: The History of America's Most Famous Public School."

Courtesy of: Schools.com

Source: Virginia L. Sonett (his widow), Tucson, Arizona

CPL CHARLES P. SONETT

410TR Infantry Regiment, 3d Battalion, Company K

Charles P. Sonett was born January 15, 1924 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Hollywood High School in Los Angeles, California where he was active in the High School ROTC program rising to the rank of cadet…

John R. Costello

Hollywood High, Class of Summer ‘49

I was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in December of 1930.  After a somewhat spoiled early childhood, I progressed through the Minneapolis school system into the 9^th grade. I was not the best of students in the 9^th grade and had…

Russell Jervis Mays was born on 10/08/1927 and died on 12/25/2001. Russell Mays is buried in the cemetery: Los Angeles National Cemetery, which is located in Los Angeles, CA.

We're told he was an outstanding Hollywood High School student, member of the honor societies including Euphebes. He purportedly received honors for never missing a single day of…