IT
CERTAINLY wasn’t the cakewalk Titan tennis fans have become accustomed to, but
San MarinoHigh School’s netters did enough Tuesday afternoon to advance to the
CIF semifinals, when they travel to Palm
Desert next Tuesday with
yet another spot in the finals hanging in the balance and the sands of their
stay in Division II sifting away.

Thanks to
the overall improvement of the Rio Hondo League – Temple City and La Cañada also earned berths
in Tuesday’s quarters – the Titans will do business with the Division I big
boys next season. Co-coaches Paula Bush and John Kuramoto hope their charges can
strike while the iron’s hot, and the team’s 10-8 victory over neighbor Arcadia did the job –
barely. Burnt in the CIF finals last year after shanking a seemingly
insurmountable advantage, Titan tennis has learned to count every point, and
the calculators could be heard Tuesday.

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academic performance by turning in the highest API –
Academic Performance Index – test scores of any unified school district on the
State of California
for a remarkable sixth straight year. In the process, San
Marino High School
and Huntington Middle School both achieved a 10/10
rating, the highest marks achievable.

The results
of the state-wide testing was released last Thursday by State Superintendent of
Public Instruction Jack O’Connell.

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“It is the most exciting idea I ‘ve heard in years and it
could totally change opthalomology,” said Dr. Stephen J. Ryan, president of Doheny
Eye Institute and a resident of San
Marino. He was guest speaker at the
Luminaires luncheon meeting May 13th at the Valley Hunt Club.

Ryan is the
founding President of the National Alliance for Eye and Vision Research (NAEVR)
and is Home Secretary of the Institute
of Medicine of The National
Academy of Sciences.

Ryan
explained the revolutionary idea being developed at Doheny, that instead of
having to go back and forth to see an ophthalmologist or go to an office for scheduled
tests you would just look into a set of binoculars, then data would be
transmitted electronically to a physician who would be able to interpret that data..
He said” Now you can go into a pharmacy or places where you can put out your
arm to check your blood pressure or have your pulse checked, etc. Wouldn’t it
be great if you could have your vision checked and screened in a similar way so
you didn’t need to go the doctor or technician?”

He
illustrated this concept with an iphone. Holding it up, he touched an icon that
might check your vision, touched another one that might do a retina
examination, touch another that could do a muscle balance test, all the while
looking into the binoculars.

At the
conclusion of his talk a check for over $83,000 was presented to Dr. Ryan.

New members
include San Marino residents Mrs. George Good, Mrs. Fritz Seitz, Mrs. Marvin Solomon
and Mrs. Billie Youngblood-Knolle, Pasadena
residents Mrs. Willis Blakeslee, and Ms. Shirley Goldsmith and from Arcadia Mrs.
Joseph Sposato and Mrs. Gregory Jennings, a Los Angeles resident.

President
Barbara Heublein handed over the gavel to incoming president Lucy Hilands of San Marino
as the new board for 2010-11 was presented.

Incoming
officers are: President, Mrs. James H. Hilands (San Marino); Vice President,
Mrs. Lynn Reitnouer (San Marino); Recording Secretary, Mrs. Hamilton Kelley (Pasadena);
Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Granvillle Thurman (South
Pasadena); Treasurer, Mrs. Charles Crowley (Pasadena);
Assistant Treasurer, Mrs. Edward Wopschall (La Canada). Historian, Mrs. Virginia
Barger (San Marino); Hospitality, Mrs. Eugene Bell (San Marino), Mrs. Austin
Hathaway (San Marino); Membership, Mrs. George Thomas (Glendale), Mrs. Austin
Smith (South Pasadena); Newsletter, Mrs. Herbert Hezlep (San Marino);
Nominating, Mrs. William Still (Pasadena); Parliamentarian, Mrs. Charles Malouf
(Pasadena); Public Relations, Mrs Richard Cooper (San Marino); Roster, Mrs.
Edward Teal (LosAngeles); Ways & Means, Mrs. Carl Hulick (Pasadena), Mrs. Charlotte Acret; four Members
at Large plus Past President Heublein.

On
Wednesday May 12th, members of the San Marino Woman’s Club met at the Blinn
House for a delicious luncheon and to celebrate the installation of the
incoming Board.

Centerpieces of colorful spring flowers
adorned each table.

Talle Peery performed the ceremony, presenting
each officer with a potted plant as she read their duties.

In keeping with the Club’s goals, donations
were made to five worthy charitable and community organizations.

Mama Korell introduced the
representatives who gave a brief description of how the donations would help
their organization.

Accepting the K donations were Joan
Whiteneek and Cathy Klose for Foothill Unity, Victoria Stubrin from Union
Station, Floraline Stevens from Blinn House Foundation, Gretchen Romey of Hill
Harbison House and Ann Dallavalle from San Marino’s Crowell Public Library.