Naming A Campus WE Pay For, But Most of Our Kids Won't Attend

South Region High School #15 is the 810-seat campus being built about 1.8 miles from the main San Pedro High School campus and its original use will be as an annex to the main school.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=GlJMAI7O%2fPJ%2fJcTaUUI%2fsg%3d%3d is the URL regarding the naming of the new campus, slated to open in 2013.

Residents of the Eastview portion of Rancho Palos Verdes continue to have their property tax portions for education going to the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Los Angeles Junior College District.

Since almost the first day Eastview residents' school children have been allowed to attend LAUSD or Palos Verdes Unified School District schools, 80% of the students attend PVPUSD schools rather than Crestwood, Dodson, then San Pedro High School.

Since we are still paying into LAUSD, we should take the opportunity to help provide the name of the new campus that sits on the Upper Reservation of Fort MacArthur.

Some years ago, a Notice of Preparation and Initial Study was begun on a campus for an LAUSD high school along Western Avenue and within the boundaries of the Ponte Vista at San Pedro project development site.

That proposed school was to be built for up to 2,025 students to relieve over crowding at both Narbonne High School and San Pedro High School.

In May, 2008 the Board of LAUSD broke apart that proposed campus, then known as SRHS 14 and created a new campus/annex for San Pedro High School.

I mention this because all the way back to the time the original 2,025-seat campus was proposed, a small but growing group of community members stated that, SRHS 14 must carry the Olguin name.

SRHS 14, after being downsized to 1,215 students to relieve Narbonne H. S. was canceled.

Calls for naming any new campus of any new school after John M. and Muriel Olguin began in 2004 and into 2005.

There has never been any real question whether any new campus should have the Olguin name incorporated. The vast majority of community members who cared enough to be interested have stated for years that there is no question about part of the name of any new school or campus.

Please vote for your choice among those listed, for what you feel the name of the new campus should be.

There are those within our community that believe that the new campus may only be an annex for a short period of time. With more parents of students demanding local control and local attendance at schools, the new campus may become a separate LAUSD or charter high school within a couple of years of its opening.

I chose "John M. and Muriel Olguin Campus of San Pedro High School. I do know that John didn't necessarily want his name used at the begining of the campus identification, but I also know he would not like to have the site named after him, but not Muriel.

John M. Olguin graduated from SPHS in 1941. He copied what he found at Washington High School, with that school's "Knight" program, and brought it to the SPHS campus while he was still a student.

Muriel graduated from Banning High School and she is a proud Pilot.

John earned his P.H.D. (Pedro High Diploma) and he remained a proud Pirate.

We are so fortunate to have had John in our community and we still receive great fortune celebrating the life of Muriel.