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• Castelar PTA meeting

  Group photograph of the Castelar Elementary School parent-teacher association inside the school's auditorium.
• Los Angeles Times clipping, "Chinatown Festivities"

  Photograph of children doing a dragon dance at a Chinese New Year parade. The caption reads, "Chinatown Festivities--Youngsters with "dragons" march in parade marking Chinese lunar new year, the Year of the Serpent."
• Children hanging on the monkey bars

  Children playing on the monkey bars at the Castelar Elementary School playground.
• Children playing Chinese jump rope

  Children playing Chinese jump rope at the Castelar Elementary School playground.
• Chinese jumprope

  Children playing Chinese jump rope at the Castelar Elementary School playground.
• Third grade class at Castelar Elementary School

  Susan Sandburg teaches her third grade class with her students sitting in a circle around her.
• Chidren posing on playground blacktop

  A group of boys on the playground at Castelar Elementary School.
• Children playing on the climbing tower

  Castelar Elementary School students on a jungle gym.
• Beautification group

  A group of school administrators, members of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (CCBA), Castelar Elementary School students and parents stand on and around a brick raised bed at Castelar Elementary school to commemorate a landscaping project funded by CCBA. Several students dig into the soil in the garden bed with shovels. Included in the photo are, from left to right: Assistant Principal Walter Simmons, JoAnn Semon, CCBA member Cheang Yue Chuck, Principal William Chun-Hoon, CCBA president Poy Wong, CCBA member Gary Yee, teacher Ellen Inafuku, Regina Lai, and CCBA secretary Lin Po.
• June 1983 calendar photo

  Dr. John Lingel, superintendent of Los Angeles Unified School District Area F, and Poy Wong, president of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (CCBA), pose with shovels outside Castelar Elementary School with prinicpal William Chun-Hoon, teachers, parents, and students to commemorate CCBA's donation of landscaping to the school. Also in the photograph are CCBA members Lin Po, Cheang Yue Chuck, and Gary Yee, Regina Lai, teacher Ellen Infafuku, and JoAnn Semon. The photograph is annotated with crop marks for use in the Castelar Elementary School centennial calendar.
• New Castelar School building

  View of the newly-built building at Castelar Elementary School from Yale Street. Two cars are parked in front.
• Children listening to tape player while reading in a classroom

  Students wearing headphones follow along to a cassette recording as they read in a class at Castelar Elementary School.
• Castelar School Staff, 1973-74

  Portraits of Castelar Elementary School staff
• Fundraising Dinner for Library Building

  A group of school and community leaders at a fundraising dinner for the Chinatown Branch Library in Los Angeles, which was located at Castelar Elementary School. From left to right: Dr. John Lingel, Area F Superintendent; Phillip Bardos, member of the Los Angeles Board of Education; March Fong Eu and husband; Delbert and Dolores Wong; Poy Wong, CCBA president, and wife; Cheang Yue Chuck, CCBA member.
• Girl looking at wall

  A student in a bilingual class at Castelar Elementary School looks at a collection of text and drawings about the Mid-Autumn Festival.
• New Castelar School building

  Exterior of new building at Castelar Elementary School designed by Choy and Associates.
• Group photo with children digging

  A group of school administrators, members of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (CCBA), Castelar Elementary School students and parents stand on and around a brick raised bed at Castelar Elementary school to commemorate a landscaping project funded by CCBA. Several students dig into the soil in the garden bed with shovels. Included in the photo are, from left to right: Assistant Principal Walter Simmons, JoAnn Semon, CCBA member Cheang Yue Chuck, Principal William Chun-Hoon, CCBA president Poy Wong, CCBA member Gary Yee, teacher Ellen Inafuku, Regina Lai, and CCBA secretary Lin Po.
• Planting a small shrub

  A group stands around a shrub at Castelar Elementary school to commemorate a landscaping project funded by the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (CCBA). Two children lower a smaller potted shrub into a hole next to the larger one. Back row, from left to right: William Chun-Hoon, principal of Castelar; a student; Regina Lai, parent; JoAnn Semon, parent; Walter Simmons, assistant principal; a student; Poy Wong, president of CCBA; Lin Po, secretary of CCBA; unidentified individual. Front row, from left to right: Ellen Inafuku, teacher; Gary Yee, CCBA; and three students.
• Group photo next to a shrub

  A group stands around a shrub at Castelar Elementary school to commemorate a landscaping project funded by the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (CCBA). Poy Wong, president of CCBA, stands holding a shovel. To his immediate right are Lin Po, secretary of CCBA, and William Chun-Hoon, principal of Castelar. To the left of the tree are Ellen Inafuku, a teacher, and Gary Yee from CCBA.
• John Lingel and William Chun-Hoon with CCBA members and students

  Dr. John Lingel, superintendent of Los Angeles Unified School District Area F, and Poy Wong, president of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (CCBA), pose with shovels outside Castelar Elementary School with students and school principal William Chun-Hoon to commemorate CCBA's donation of landscaping to the school. Also in the photograph are Lin Po and Cheang Yue Chuck from CCBA.
• March Fong Eu at ground breaking ceremony

  March Fong Eu poses holding a shovel with a ribbon at the ground breaking ceremony for the new building at Castelar Elementary School.
• Donald Newman speaking

  Donald Newman, president of the Los Angeles Board of Education, speaking at Castelar Elementary School.
• Principal William Chun-Hoon's office

  Castelar Elementary School principal William Chun-Hoon at his desk.
• Starting Out - bilingual education

  A group of students sit at a table working on a cut-and-paste activity. Instructions for the activity hang on the wall next to them are written in English and traditional Chinese.
• "Oriental Expressions" flyer, red

  Flyer for "Oriental Expressions" a fashion show and luncheon, presented by the Los Angeles Chinese Drum and Bugle Corps, on Sunday, January 20, 1974 at the Hollywood Palladium.