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[edit] Famous Students

Yo, EvKnight13! Is it you who removed Liza Minelli and Rex Allen Jr from the celeb list? If so, why? I knew these kids; they were at Buckley, the old Woodman campus, in about 1956 or '57. Maybe '58 too, not sure......Dan


Removal
I am a student now, and neither I nore anyone else has been able to find any records of these people having attended the school. I have asked the head of school and any of the older teachers who would know, but no one has been able to corroborate. Dlayiga 01:23, 17 February 2006 (UTC)


Yes, I noted your page, and rather thought that the process you described was indeed what happened. Doesn't surprise me that no one around now remembers them. However, I was there, knew and liked those kids. Also there at the time were Clark Gable's kids, Glenn Ford's son Peter who was also a friend, Jeff and Laura Green whose mother appeared frequently on "Bonanza" - and I suppose I'm the only one around who remembers them. Try asking Bruce Denny; he's in the alumni association and was there then. Meredith MacRae would too, were she still alive. Anyway, my father, Ed Strickland, was a teacher and business manager during the mid to late 50's, my mother, Jane Strickland, taught reading readiness for a year or so, and I, Dan Strickland, was a student. If you can confirm any of that, it should bolster my case, but in any event I think you're going a bit against the spirit of a wiki. After all, how many of your contacts remember Mrs. Buckley? I do - we even went swimming at her house in Malibu........Dan 16:45, 4 August 2006 (UTC)


Added Jamie Erlicht, the co-head of programming Sony. He was in my class of 1986. Removed another vandalism while I was at it - MJB

[edit] History

It'd be nice if someone could remember/look up some of the history of the school. Mrs. Buckley started it in 1933 (at age 33), where? When I was a kid in the Buckley School I always heard that the Doheney branch was the original school; is that true? Followed by Hayvenhurst, then Woodman. Anyone know the history of those locations? And what about headmasters preceding the ones listed in the main article? Of course, the headmaster was Mrs. Buckley, but there were principals at each site. For most of the time I was at Woodman, the principal was Mr. Butler, followed by - Mr. Young? Was that his name? And I think Carol Proffit was principal at Hayvenhurst at that time. I've got some old Buckley Beagles around, in boxes in my garage, well-buried and guarded by black widows, so if someone else were knowledgable about these things it'd be nice. --Dan 22:28, 30 May 2006 (UTC)


From the 2004-2005 Annual Report (google for "buckley school" doheny to find this):

  • 1932-33 Primary school campus opens on Doheny Drive in Beverly Hills.
  • 1946 Second primary school campus opens on Hayvenhurst Avenue in Encino.
  • 1951 Elementary school and Upper Division campus opens on Woodman Avenue in what is now considered Sherman Oaks.
  • 1959 First senior class graduates.First yearbook called Lucerne published.
  • 1959-60 Riverside Drive campus opens and incorporates elementary grades from the Woodman Avenue campus.
  • 1960-61 Woodman Avenue campus is remodeled and modernized with first air-conditioned classrooms.
  • 1964-65 Stansbury property acquired from the Glenaire Country Club for proposed consolidation of campuses.
  • 1965-66 Lower Division classes begin on Stansbury Avenue campus in Sherman Oaks.
  • 1966-67 Yearbook renamed Images.
  • 1973 Complete student body consolidated on Stansbury Avenus campus.

Also, I seem to recall Yves Thepot was the headmaster before Baumhoff. Big power struggle between him and Buckley. He lost, and spent a year teaching Latin and manning the book room before leaving. (that's from my brother - just before my time)


-- MJB (former student, graduated 1986)

Nice, thank you. I took French from Mr. Thepot; he was one heck of a teacher - especially by comparison with Madame DeCouverville, who essentially gave me the same year of French 6 times. --Dan 15:06, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kite Club

Who deleted the kite club section? It's a very important part of the school's modern culture and future history. -63.193.91.60 16:35, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

It probably wouldn't have been deleted if there were a source for it. Has it been described in any locla newspapers? -Will Beback · † · 17:28, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
The Student Voice. -Kingurth 02:02, 25 February 2007 (UTC)