The abrupt ending of last Friday night’s football game between Palisades High and Venice was unfortunate and, sadly, preventable if only cooler heads had prevailed. There is plenty of blame to go around but in the end PaliHi Head Coach Leo Castro and his son, Aaronn, the offensive coordinator, were wrong to remove their team from the field and refuse to return, thus leaving the officials no choice but to stop the game. The referees erred in not informing Palisades’ coaches about the jersey presentation to honor Venice offensive/defensive line coach Ron Price, who had recently celebrated his 70th birthday and has been a high school football coach for 44 years. Venice probably picked the wrong time to conduct the ceremony and also should have sought Palisades’ approval prior to kickoff to avoid any misunderstanding. Several sources confirmed to me that the presentation was supposed to have been conducted at the two-minute warning but was done earlier because fans had begun to leave the one-sided game. Palisades is but one of many schools at which Price has coached in his career. Would the Castros have felt as offended if the ceremony had been for a coach other than Price? Leo Castro was himself honored during Palisades’ game at Granada Hills this season, although that ceremony took place at halftime and PaliHi administrators were told beforehand. Last Friday’s incident has warranted an investigation by City Section officials. If such an incident had occurred in the Southern Section, Leo Castro would likely have been suspended immediately (pending an appeal) because there is a rule prohibiting coaches from removing their teams from the field during a game. No such rule exists in the L.A. City Section, although John Aguirre, an administrator in the City athletics office, said the City may consider implementing one. Aaronn Castro overreacted, did a disservice to his players and damaged the reputation of Palisades’ program. What kind of message did he send to his team? That whenever adversity arises, whenever you feel you are being ‘shown up,’ it is okay just to quit? Coaches tell their players to play as hard as they can on every play, regardless of the score. Venice had its second string in the game and did not appear to be trying to run up the score. In addition, the clock was allowed to run continuously in the fourth quarter, which is why it was necessary for Venice to call a timeout. “Surrendering” with 5:35 left was not the appropriate way to handle the situation. If Aaronn Castro or another coach had a problem with what was transpiring he should have discussed the matter with the head official BEFORE pulling his team off the field. Coaches’ pride and egos should never come before the players (many of whom probably don’t know or even care about the fact that Price used to coach at Palisades). The other disturbing factor is that Aaronn Castro threw the ‘white flag’ after Pali, not Venice, had scored. Rather than worrying about whether or not his team was “disrespected,” he should have used that extra time to huddle up his offense and discuss the upcoming onside kick (unless he was no longer interested in trying to score) and/or making sure all of the seniors got to play in their last regular season game. If you are going to ask your kids to play hard to the end then you owe it to them to coach hard to the end. If you’re going to ask them not to retaliate to “trash talking” and “dirty play,” you need to show discipline on the sideline yourself. In a two-page letter to LA City Commissioner Barbara Fiege, Leo Castro neglected to mention that it was his son who pulled his team from the field. ‘We win with Pride and lose with Dignity,’ he wrote. Is it dignified to walk off the field with 5:35 left? Castro ended his letter by asking Venice for a formal letter of apology to Palisades’ players and parents. Does he not also owe his players and parents an apology for his role in this embarrassing incident? Pali’s administration needs to conduct its own investigation of what happened and decide on its own if disciplinary action is warranted, regardless of what the City ultimately rules.
Football Loses to Venice; Gets Home Playoff Game
The Palisades High varsity football team has seen its share of wild finishes this season, but the ending of last Friday’s Western League finale at Venice takes the cake. Venice led 48-13 with 5:35 left in the game when the Gondos called a timeout to conduct a jersey presentation on their sideline for line coach Ron Price, who was Palisades’ head coach from 1996-2000. The referees did not inform the Palisades sideline what was going on and, in protest of what he perceived as a humiliation tactic against his team, PaliHi Offensive Coordinator Aaronn Castro pulled his players off the field. Head Coach Leo Castro backed his son’s decision: ‘I was not informed of anything going on. During a timeout, a team has to stay on the field. They [Venice] didn’t so we left the field too and we weren’t coming back. Would they have stopped the game if it was 21-20? We felt they were just adding insult to injury. On top of that they were honoring a guy who everyone knows used to coach at Palisades.’ Lost amid the controversial ending of last Friday’s game (see Passing Shots, page 6) is that the next day Palisades (5-5) was seeded sixth in the City Invitational playoffs and will host tonight’s first-round game against No. 11 Marshall (8-2). Kickoff is at 7 p.m. at Stadium by the Sea. ‘Marshall lost to Eagle Rock on the final play of the Invitational championship game last year so they are a good team and they are very well coached,’ Castro said. If Palisades wins, it would either travel to third-seeded Huntington Park or host 14th-seeded Grant next Wednesday night.
Sailors Feel Like Dancing
Photo by Rich Schmitt, Staff Photographer
Marymount High players were so relaxed, so confident before Tuesday night’s Southern Section Division I-A semifinal volleyball match against Harvard-Westlake that they were actually grooving to the music during warm-ups. ‘You’d think in that situation with that kind of pressure they would be a little tight,’ Marymount Coach Cari Klein said. ‘But my girls were dancing like they were at a party. I thought their crowd might rattle us but the girls just looked at me as if to say ‘No problem.” No problem indeed. In a matchup chock full of Palisadians on both sides of the net, the top-seeded Sailors needed less than an hour to dispatch their crosstown rivals in three straight games at Marymount Pavilion and earn a spot in the finals against Santa Barbara this weekend at Cypress College. Leading the way for host Marymount were Palisadians Kelly Irvin, Michelle Barrett, Kendall Bird, Madison Wojchiechowski and Ali Hoffman. Irvin finished with nine kills, 10 digs and two aces, Bird served six aces and sparked the Sailors to a 6-0 lead in the third game. Hoffman ended games one and three with aces. Harvard-Westlake’s lineup also featured a bevy of local players, including outside hitter Kaitlin Segal, middle blockers Audrey Eichler (a transfer from Marymount) and Cathryn Quinn, Taylor Morgan, Katherine Sebastian, KC Kanoff and Meg Norton. ‘I can’t remember a match involving two private schools where you had so many players from the Westside,’ said Klein, also a Palisadian. ‘There was a lot of talent on the court tonight.’
Final Days for Union 76 Ball
Photo by Rich Schmitt, Staff Photographer
The Palisades business district will lose a distinctive landmark in December when the Union 76 orange ball is replaced with the ConocoPhillips reinterpretation of one of the world’s most recognizable corporate logos. ‘I hate to see the ball go,’ station owner Frank Jakel said Tuesday. The orange ball, which rotates high over Sunset, was already in place when Jakel bought the franchise in 1974, but its life is far from over. Jakel has been negotiating to donate the ball to the Flight Path Museum at LAX. There is a connection. ‘The former CEO of Unocal, Fred Hartley, acquired the first DC- 3 for the museum,’ Jakel said. ‘The museum also owns a 1941 model Union Oil tanker truck and the tugboat that filled it.’ Advertising creative director Ray Pedersen designed the first rotating 76 ball in 1962 for the Seattle World’s Fair. Beginning in 1967, tens of millions were made and distributed by Union 76 over the years. ConocoPhillips acquired the Union 76 stations in 2005 and has gradually transformed them into its own corporate image. Because Unocal Corporation was acquired and merged into a subsidiary of Chevron Corporation in 2005, the new monument-style sign, which will be located at the corner of Via de la Paz and Sunset, will display the 76 numerals in blue and red. The sign will also have landscaping around it.
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WANTED: Old tube guitar amplifiers, ’50s, ’60s, etc. Tommy, (310) 306-7746 – profeti2001@yahoo.comChautauqua: A Grove of Trees, A Body of Water
Photo by Rich Schmitt, Staff Photographer
Certainly no history of Pacific Palisades can be understood without knowledge of the Chautauqua movement, a phenomenon that grew out of the religious revival in the late 19th century, manifested in Protestant camp meetings across the United States. After the Civil War, large groups of people were attracted to the exhortations of evangelists who brought a personal message of salvation. At the same time, the lyceum movement began to flourish, which offered ordinary people the opportunity to expand their knowledge through the study of history, art, science and public issues. The Chautauqua movement grew out these social, religious and educational impulses that average middle class Americans enjoyed with their newfound leisure time following the Industrial Revolution. We can think of the Chautauqua assemblies as summer camps for adults with a religious, intellectual and recreational component. John Vincent, a Methodist minister from New Jersey who was involved in the countrywide Sunday school movement, and Lewis Miller, a successful businessman from Ohio who was superintendent of his Methodist Sunday school, founded the original Chautauqua in upstate New York. Both men valued Sunday school education, which in the late 19th- century was often the only opportunity ordinary people had for formal education. The men proposed offering a summer school to prepare Sunday school teachers, and opted to hold the first Chautauqua Sunday School Assembly in 1874 ‘in the woods’ on Lake Chautauqua in upstate New York, chosen for its convenience, ‘midway between Chicago and New York, and accessible by two railroad lines.’ ‘Chautauqua’ is an American Indian word that has been given several different meanings, among the most popular being a ‘bag tied in the middle,’ which describes Lake Chautauqua’s hourglass shape. The notion of holding the meeting outdoors was in tune with a popular belief at the time that nature has spiritual, inspirational and even curative powers, and displays the hand of God. In her new book ‘Frontier Chautauqua: The Chautauqua Movement on the Pacific Coast,’ Palisadian Betty Lou Young describes the extraordinary scope of these community gatherings, and characterizes in successive chapters the unique assemblies that took root in California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada and Idaho. A noted historian and co-author of the definitive history of Pacific Palisades (‘From the Mountains to the Sea’), Young was logically the best one to bring this integral part of American education into a book, although, she says, her early knowledge of the Chautauqua movement was thin. ‘When Randy (son and co-author Randy Young) and I were asked to write a history of Pacific Palisades, I had only two connections with a Chautauqua: I grew up in Long Beach, the site of a large Chautauqua, and my husband Tom almost drowned in a swimming pool in Elsa, Illinois, the site of another Chautauqua on the Mississippi River.’ Chautauquas began to spring up around the country, spurred on by the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle students who were unable to make the long trip east to attend summer courses offered by the ‘mother’ Chautauqua. The ‘circles’ were sort of correspondence courses based on a letters and sciences curriculum, which by 1900 had an enrollment of more than 2.5-million students. Many communities started their own Chautauqua patterned after the New York Chautauqua Institution, and by the turn of the century, between 200 and 300 communities had established Chautauquas. Pacific Palisades was the site of the last, most ambitious Chautauqua, Young says. An outgrowth of the Methodist’s Chautauqua assemblies, the Palisades Chautauqua was always intended to be more than a summer assembly; it was to incorporate a town, from the beginning. As with many Chautauquas, the idea was to sell lots, with the proceeds helping to support the programs. Patterned on the ‘mother’ circle in upstate New York, the Palisades location was ideal. As with all outlying assembly leaders, the Palisades founders strived to emulate the original by locating their site in a grove of trees and on or near a body of water. ‘If the grove didn’t occur naturally, one was planted, and the bodies of water ranged from trickling brooks to frontage on the Pacific Ocean,’ Young writes. Dr. Charles Scott, charged with finding a location for a growing Methodist community in Los Angeles, held the first Methodist summer camp meeting in Rustic Canyon on a site that today remains the historic eucalyptus grove. He chose the level mesa to the west for the town. Pacific Palisades officially came into being in 1922, and the first Chautauqua and summer assembly began in Temescal Canyon that summer. For many years, large gatherings were held at the outdoor amphitheater, which held 1,600. Meals were served in the cafeteria (which still stands). Guests lived in tents or casitas, and the large assembly hall (tabernacle) hosted a variety of programs and lectures. Highlight of the first season was a performance by the world’s greatest contralto Madame Schumann-Heink. Other celebrities included Dr. Rufus B. von Klein Smid, president of USC, poet philosopher James W. Foley and a young baritone named Lawrence Tibbett. The opening of the new campus for UCLA in Westwood in 1929 also provided a broad range of intellectual talent for Pacific Palisades. Nationwide, the Chautauquas drew speakers from all fields, often men who were as renowned for their rhetorical flair as for the subject at hand. William Jennings Bryan, a prominent leader of the Progressive Movement and one of the most popular speakers in American history with his deep, commanding voice, was a popular draw. President Theodore Roosevelt was an anticipated speaker at the Yosemite Chautauqua, and John Muir gave lectures and led nature walks at the 1879 Yosemite assembly. Topics were controversial, such as women’s suffrage and evolution, but balanced with speakers on both sides of the issue. The aim of the founders was to provide learning with a religious bent, but without sectarian bias, in the belief that such programs would have a broad appeal for knowledge-hungry visitors. Although Young has traversed the Pacific Coast many times and visited numerous Chautauqua sites along the way, which she includes in her book, two favorites stand out. ‘Perhaps La Grande really got to me more than any other one,’ she says of the site on the banks of the Grande Ronde River in eastern Oregon. ‘There it is, way out in the east; there’s nothing out there. It feels like the bleakness of the Oregon Trail. But to those people, the Chautauqua meant so much. They believed so deeply in its values for opportunities for learning.’ La Grande was once touted as the pioneer Chautauqua assembly town in eastern Oregon, bringing music, light entertainment and philosophy right to the threshold, but the story ends sadly, as in the waning years the independent-spirited town struggled with recruiting talent. In what turned out to be the last summer (1924), they had invited three speakers to talk on utterly ridiculous topics, Young says. ‘The attendance was sparse, and due to the lack of printed programs, a large part of the audience left at intermission.’ On the other hand, Young picks Gladstone Park in the Willamette Valley and the third largest Chautauqua in the country after New York and Ocean Grove in New Jersey, as ‘the darndest place.’ ‘Eva Emery Dye ran it for 33 years and recruited great speakers, including rabbis and African Americans, and very daring programs, such as women’s suffrage,’ Young says. ‘She believed that ‘its intellectual privileges were meant to apply equally to college men and women and to worn-out farmers’ wives, teachers, preachers, and working men.” Although it survived for 35 years, Gladstone became more of a commercial enterprise, as did many assemblies, as they began to rely more on the Chautauqua circuit’s booking agency for ‘talent.’ Over the years, Young has visited Gladstone several times. She has befriended the head of the historical society and attended the summer festival, which they still call a Chautauqua. Events include games, carnival rides, tours of historic houses and Senior Citizens Day, featuring the crowning of a local resident as ‘Queen Victoria’ and recognition of her prime minister, ‘William Gladstone’–a surprise bestowed on Betty Lou and Randy one summer. Today, there are about 15 Chautauquas going strong across the country, and another 20 or 25 exist in some form, including the Chautauqua speakers’ series, sponsored by the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy at the site of the original site in Temescal Canyon. Young has spent 20 years researching and writing this book, interrupted, she says, by other books, including the ‘Street Names of the Palisades’ and ‘Santa Monica Canyon: A Walk through History,’ yet her knowledge and fondness for all the sites she has visited remains fresh and lively. ‘I can smell a Chautauqua,’ she says. ‘I can go through a town, whether it’s Northampton, Massachusetts, or Biloxi, Mississippi. There is a feeling you get, where there is a grove of trees near a body of water, a funny feeling of peace.’
Marisa Aronoff and Thomas Cox Plan June Wedding
Steve and Marina Aronoff of Pacific Palisades announce the engagement of their daughter Marisa Lia Aronoff to Thomas Newton Cox of Branson, Missouri. Marisa attended Marquez Elementary, Paul Revere Junior High and Palisades High School. She is a graduate of the University of Washington in Seattle, and works as a development and production executive for Fox Reality. Newt attended the University of Missouri. He is a freelance television writer and is currently working for the Jimmy Kimmel Live Show. The couple met while both were working for Comedy Central. They plan to be married on June 23 at Rancho Sol del Pacifico in Malibu.
Nicole Vaupen, Brian Sheard Exchange Vows in Malibu
Nicole Vaupen and Brian Sheard were married on July 2 at Calamigos Ranch in Malibu. About 120 people attended and judge Bernie Kamins (a Palisadian) performed the ceremony. Nicole, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vaupen of Pacific Palisades, graduated from Loyola Marymount University with a B.A. degee in liberal studies in 1995. She spent the past 10 years teaching at Palisades Elementary Charter School. Recently she was promoted to assistant principal, splitting her time between Topanga Elementary and Kenter Elementary (both part of the Palisades Charter complex). Brian grew up in Brentwood and attended California School of Culinary Arts after graduating from Palisades High School. For the past four years he has been working as a sous chef at Napa Valley Grille in Westwood. The couple met 10 years ago at the Westside YMCA, where they both continue volunteer work with a residence camp summer program. They just purchased their first home in Mar Vista where they plan to live happily ever after with their dog Kona.
St. Matthew’s Christmas Faire to Ring in Holidays
The Parish of St. Matthew and St. Matthew’s Parish School hosts its annual Christmas Faire at 6 p.m., Friday, November 17 at the Sprague Center, 1031 Bienveneda Ave. The annual event serves not only as a kick-off to the holidays but more importantly as a great way to help those less fortunate in our community. All of the proceeds go directly to the parish’s outreach partners–19 organizations in total. Among some of the local ministries that receive funds are Angel Interfaith Network, which provides housing and transportation for needy families with children at Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center; OPCC, which provides food and shelter for the homeless and counseling and aid for victims of domestic violence; CLARE Foundation, which supports teens at risk for substance abuse; Common Ground, which supports HIV/AIDS- related services including education, prevention and counseling; and Westside Food Bank, among many others. The faire offers something for everyone to enjoy–including the gift boutique, which features handmade goods and unique specialty items; the food boutique, selling delicious homemade treats wrapped and ready to go; the St. Matthew’s Thrift Shop, which showcases some of its best finds; the wine auction for all the wine connoisseurs; the silent auction offering amazing items in categories such as travel, sports, jewelry, shopping and more; and the parties auction, which entices with a wide variety of fabulous parties, including a private art tour, in which guests will visit a world renowned private art collector’s collection and are treated to a fabulous dinner–and a ladies progressive shopping party, which will include cocktails and limousine transportation to preselected hot spots like Diane von Furstenberg and Tory Burch. This year’s Christmas Faire will also feature a raffle offering items such as iPod Nanos and UCLA basketball tickets. All of the funds from the raffle will be specifically used to support the work of the Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance (GAIA). Admission is free and open to adults and children over 12.
Pali Adds Math Club
Seven Palisades High School juniors and seniors recently participated in an induction ceremony for Mu Alpha Theta, an international high school and two-year college mathematics society. The PaliHi chapter, started a year ago by Ashley Schendel, celebrated its accomplishments, including starting a math tutoring program to help other students with the subject. ‘Each of you meets the requirements for membership,’ Schendel told the inductees. ‘This includes work done with distinction in college-preparatory mathematics and in other academic subjects. In this way, you have demonstrated the qualities of industry, initiative and reliability.’ Schendel, a senior and president of Mu Alpha Theta, said students must have a 3.5 GPA in math and be enrolled in Algebra II or higher in order to be a member. They also are required to tutor once a week at PaliHi’s tutoring center. The club, sponsored by math teacher Libby Butler, meets once a week for about 35 minutes and talks about math, including homework problems. ‘This year, the focus is recruiting new members and building the organization,’ said Schendel, who also founded PaliHi’s chapter of Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) last year. Mu Alpha Theta has more than 1,450 chapters in the United States and in some foreign countries. PaliHi’s chapter currently has about 25 members who, in addition to tutoring on campus, have reached out to students at Palisades Elementary School. Cheryl Yashar, a senior, said that before she came to PaliHi in ninth grade, she didn’t like math. Joining Mu Alpha Theta, she said, changed her feeling about the subject and ‘has helped me feel as if I’m making a difference by helping people through tutoring.’ Jed Bassein, also a senior, said, ‘Some students understand math easily, but for others you have to explain it so many times. The job of a tutor is to take complex structures and translate them into simple English.’ At the end of the induction ceremony, Schendel told her classmates that she hopes they will continue with their momentum, challenging themselves and working with Pali Elementary students as well as branching out to other schools. Butler also congratulated the students and said, ‘Your accomplishments in such a short time last year were powerful. You have begun something that will hopefully continue through the school’s history.’ For information about math tutoring, e-mail Butler at ebutler@palihigh.org.
