As a parent of a student at Moorpark High and as a high school teacher with 13 years of experience, I believe that I can speak with some credibility about the recent controversy surrounding the demotion of Mary Quirk from the principal's job at Moorpark High.
Thanks for your outstanding article on the Los Angeles Community College athletic program.
I witnessed Donna Duke's hole-in-one at Sunset Hills on Sept. 10.
How heartwarming to read that 26-year-old Ellen Collett, director of development at Gail Ann Hurd's Pacific Western Productions, reads an entire screenplay in 15 minutes, and between phone calls.
I was shocked and amazed to read Stanley Meisler's article on French singers and their songs ("French Sing Blues Over Their Songs," Part I, Jan. 24) and note the absence of any mention whatsoever of Charles Aznavour, the leading French singer and songwriter since Piaf.
We can but hope that someday a real opera company visits Segerstrom Hall at the Orange County Performing Arts Center ("New York Exports 'Candide' to Orange County" by Martin Bernheimer, Jan. 22).
Of all of the atrocities of the American Music Awards, one particular award really disgusted me ("Houston Wins With Old News" by Dennis Hunt, Jan. 28): Billy Ocean being awarded Favorite Male Video Performer was absolutely ridiculous.
It can be clearly seen that the Los Angeles Times has not done its legwork in its positions on Santa Ana's ballot Measures G and H.
Re "A Stroll Through Hollywood's Gaudy Early Era" (by Robert Pierson, Oct. 25): As a native Southern Californian, I have enjoyed walking this city for as long as I can remember.
Was it The Times that once referred to itself as the "use" paper?
We very much enjoyed your article, "The Historic Elegance of West Adams."
Beverly Beyette's Dec. 10 View story on retired Rabbi Leonard Beerman ("Roast Yields More Light Than Heat") should be expanded into a text for study by all religious teachers.
While riding my bicycle along the Santa Ana River trail in Huntington Beach, I witnessed an accident involving a cyclist.
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Last week we suggested that "Night Nurse" (1931) might have been the only movie Clark Gable made for Warner Bros.
Thanks to the Times and reporter Martha Willman for an excellent report ("Goode House Renovation Seen as Feasible but Not Lucrative," Dec. 12) on the Glendale Historical Society's Goode House feasibility study.
An article on Sept. 24 tells of still another case of a burglar's receiving undue sympathy.
Jay Sharbutt omitted some very significant information from his article, "NBC Names Shriver, Matson Co-Hosts" (May 15).
Enough already!