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106 Beverly Hills Gothic
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Invitation to a school event.
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A cartoon-style drawing circa 1940, done shortly after I graduated from La Rew.
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I’ve always loved costume parties, dancing and high fashion, and spent many hours when I was young drawing and designing clothes for the imaginary, very glamorous, “Vicki Verelle.”
la ReW school FoR GIRls
After I graduated from John Burroughs Junior High, my dad enrolled me in a private boarding school in Azusa called La Rew School for Girls. It was located in the middle of an orange grove. There were only one hundred students, and our dorms accommodated four beds to a room with a bathroom. It was a far cry from my beautiful house on Hayworth. Azusa is thirty miles from Los Angeles, and when I came home for weekends, I stayed with my best friend, Lilian Warshawer, and her wonderful family.
I always loved to draw and continued doing so at La Rew. I began to chronicle my adventures in a girls’ boarding school. However, an evil English teacher, Miss Crist, destroyed all of my work, saying she was “tired of everyone reading the cartoons.” My art was beyond salvaging, so I was heartbroken.