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Jennifer S. Frautschi '95, of Altadena, said she was concerned when a friend told her about the fires. "My house was evacuated and the mountainside behind us was destroyed," she said...
Philip M. Grant '94, of Altadena, said, "myparents had their car ready to evacuate with alltheir valuables." He said they did not end upevacuating...
...seemed downright preposterous to Donald O. Cram of Altadena, Calif., when he got a phone call notifying him that he had just won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Reason: Cram is in the rug-shampooing business. The Swedish Academy of Sciences had rung up the wrong man. Quipped UCLA Chemist Donald J. Cram after hearing about the mix-up: "There is some chemistry involved in carpet cleaning." Cram, Pedersen and Lehn, working independently, shared the award for their work in "host-guest" chemistry. "The basis of our work," explains Lehn, "is the way molecules are able to recognize each other...
...weddings and funerals, and several mortuaries. Today the Hawkins family runs a loose conglomeration of 18 firms that includes nursing homes and construction companies and a 35-acre farm. Family members drive a BMW, Lincoln Continental, Mercedes and Rolls-Royce, and live in such affluent suburbs as Sherman Oaks, Altadena and Palos Verdes Estates. But Hawkins continues to inhabit the tidy three-bedroom home, American flag fluttering over the garage, that long ago replaced the wooden shack. Dressed in shirt and tie and black cowboy boots, he works daily at the grocery store. He gives birthday parties for neighborhood children...
...Four years ago I came here and talked my way onto the team," says Quincy House junior Laing-Ronay. "I just wanted to get enough experience playing polo so that I could go home and play for a summer league team in Altadena, California that was going to make a trip to Hawaii...