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Flynn was born in Los Angeles to Australian-American actor Errol Flynn and French-American singer and actress Lili Damita.His paternal grandfather Theodore Thomson Flynn was the first professor of biology in Tasmania and served as a marine biology and zoology professor at both the University of Tasmania and at Queen's University of Belfast where he served as the Chair of Zoology.
Margrethe Mather met Edward Weston in the autumn of 1913, soon after Mather proposed that Weston, Mather and a small circle of friends that included Fred R. Archer form a new camera club, the Camera Pictorialists of Los Angeles. The club eventually became very influential, but Mather and Weston dropped out after only a year. [1]
University High School in Los Angeles, California, United States. The following is a list of notable alumni of University Senior High School. The list includes all notable former pupils who attended the school anytime since opening its doors in 1924, including for the four years it was named "Warren G. Harding High School".
Mitchell Camera Corporation 1950 ad. Mitchell Camera Corporation was an American motion picture camera manufacturing company established in Los Angeles in 1919. It was a primary supplier of newsreel and movie cameras for decades, until its closure in 1979.
The first principal of Crenshaw High School was Robert Case, who opened the high school in January 1968. Former Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Sidney A. Thompson was the school's second principal. Jewell Boutte was principal in 1988 when she was awarded the prestigious Milken Educator Award for innovations she brought to the ...
Polytechnic High School opened in 1897 as a "commercial branch" of the only high school at that time in the city, Los Angeles High School.As such, Polytechnic would be the third oldest high school in the city, after Abraham Lincoln High School in Lincoln Heights, (founded in 1878), and the fourth oldest in the LAUSD, after San Fernando High School., which was founded in 1896.
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The school was named after Susan Miller Dorsey, the first female superintendent of the Los Angeles public school system.Dorsey was born in 1857 in Penn Yan, New York.She graduated from Vassar College in 1877 and spent a year teaching at Wilson College in Pennsylvania, returning to Vassar to teach Greek and Latin.