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Santana High School is in the Grossmont School District, whose contentious board of supervisors has faced criticism over their handling of racial tension and creationism in the past. The most recent outrage was the defeat of a school board member because he voted to add sexual orientation to the district's nondiscrimination policy. Ted Crooks, the school board president, barely survived a recall effort because of his vote...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: Editorial Notebook: Intolerance and School Violence | 3/8/2001 | See Source »

...feel unsafe." In a room of 800 angry parents, who claimed the protection "would be promoting a homosexual agenda," the three board members were the ones who felt unsafe. After the vote, Crooks was handed the recall petition, already filled with signatures. He was nonplussed: "It comes with the Grossmont territory. It was not unexpected...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: Editorial Notebook: Intolerance and School Violence | 3/8/2001 | See Source »

When Mrs. Floyd Hutchens, 33, of El Cajon, bore twin sons in San Diego's Grossmont Hospital July 2, they were joined for 1½ inches at the base of their spines. This is the commonest form of joining in "Siamese" twins, but there was only one case in U.S. medical annals where both twins so joined had survived an operation to separate them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Spinal Joint | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

Gastil, Raymond Duncan of Route 1, Box 79, Alpine; Grossmont Union High, Grossmont. Leabow, Richard Drag of 8946 Olin Street, Los Angeles; Alexander Hamilton High...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scholarship Lists Released | 6/21/1949 | See Source »

Ernestine Schumann-Heink, soprano, gave her estate at Grossmont, Calif., valued at $230,000, to the disabled American Veterans of the World War. They will use it as a rest home. Said she at a dinner of disabled veterans in Minneapolis: "I make this gift . . . because you called me 'Mother'. . . . Six years ago in Minneapolis you disabled men drank a silent toast to the two sons I lost in the War-one on the American side and the other on the German. May you all go to California and rest in the most glorious spot I know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 23, 1928 | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

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