For three minutes and 41 seconds in March, the Villa Gardens parking lot and driveway in Pasadena was a daytime dance floor. Two of the 36 dancers, a couple dressed like the others in blue jeans and white T-shirts, were total novices — even though the group activity, part of a worldwide social media challenge,
As the daughter of a famous World War II submariner and later admiral, for Wesley Palms resident Beth Coye the Navy was a powerful career draw. She joined up in the 1960s—a time when opportunities for women in uniform were limited. “I graduated top of my class in an otherwise all male postgraduate program, but
When Casa de Mañana resident Dr. Jack Clausen was five years old, his parents introduced him to the piano. “I wasn’t forced to play but encouraged,” Jack said. “My father was a music professor and department chair at Los Angeles City College, so in that sense I was motivated. He and my mother were the