Tag: Marlborough School

Lynn Baran McCarthy is a local fundraiser extraordinaire

Lynn Baran McCarthy is a local fundraiser extraordinaire

| July 27, 2023 | 0 Comments

The granddaughter of Croatian immigrants, Lynn Baran McCarthy grew up in Palos Verdes, but she has lived in the Larchmont area for the past 25 years with her husband Ted (Theodore) Leary, Jr. McCarthy attended USC and then transferred to the Rhode Island School of Design. She has a degree in interior architecture. Coming back […]

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Traffic slows on Rossmore after striping

Traffic slows on Rossmore after striping

| March 30, 2023 | 0 Comments

Increased speeds led to new lane striping In February, without warning, residents of Rossmore Avenue found their street painted with new traffic mitigation lines, including dashed stripes indicating spaces for driveway access. “The new traffic lines on Rossmore were added as a design feature to reduce speeding, which is a major concern of mine and […]

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Marlborough School is in capable hands

Marlborough School is in capable hands

| December 29, 2022 | 0 Comments

As the ninth head of school at the oldest independent girls’ school in Southern California, Jennifer Ciccarelli has her hands full. Hancock Park’s Marlborough School, originally called St. Margaret’s School for Girls, was founded by Mary Caswell in 1889. It is the educational home to 530 girls and young women in grades seven through 12 […]

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New head of school on board at Marlborough

New head of school on board at Marlborough

| September 1, 2022 | 0 Comments

New Head of School Jennifer Ciccarelli could be seen in the halls of Marlborough on Aug. 29, the first day of the 2022-2023 school year. Ciccarelli began her tenure at Marlborough on July 1, 2022. The Marlborough Board of Trustees and the Head of School Search Committee announced via email in 2021 that Ciccarelli would […]

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Debut cookbook by former resident hot off the grill

Debut cookbook by former resident hot off the grill

| September 1, 2022 | 0 Comments

Ali Slagle, author of many recipes for the New York Times and the Washington Post, recently wrote a new cookbook, “I Dream of Dinner (so you don’t have to).” Slagle started experimenting with food in high school. Growing up in Hancock Park with her mother and nonna busy in the kitchen, she attended Marlborough School […]

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Pomp, circumstance is back, in person

Pomp, circumstance is back, in person

| June 2, 2022 | 0 Comments

Graduation season is here, and unlike recent years when the pandemic curbed ceremonies to socially distanced virtual and drive-by events, this year’s graduates will be flipping their tassels live before moving on to the next stages of their lives. Here are some of our area schools’ graduation ceremony plans: Episcopal School of Los Angeles will […]

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