Burbank High School

We have had some very interesting weather lately. One day the temperature shoots up to the 80s, and the next day, we are freezing. But April 29 turned out to be a gorgeous day with the sun shining brightly on the Burbank Sunrise Kiwanis Mayor’s Cup 14th annual Charity Golf Tournament organized by Mike Caggiano. The most important winners of this fundraising event are the 2011-12 beneficiaries of the Burbank Sunrise Kiwanis Foundation’s sponsored youth programs in our fair city. The Flight A winners were Team Comcast NBC Universal (second year in a row!

Burbank High School show choir students gained hands-on experience putting on the annual Pop Show this weekend. Not only did students perform, but they worked on the technical aspects of the show — lighting and sound. During a rehearsal Tuesday, a few of the students talked about how the experience might help them with their career choice after graduation. Ellen Marlow, 17, a junior in the InSync choir, had just finished a fast-paced group set with the Dance Ensemble performing to a medley of songs.

The Masons of Burbank hosted a Public Schools Recognition Night recently at the Burbank Masonic Center. The event was hosted by the two presiding officers of the local lodges Al Moen, master of Burbank #406, and Michael Strand, master of Magnolia Park #618. The master of ceremonies duties were shared by Erik Adams and Mike Campbell, senior deacons of their respective lodges. Special recognition went to three of Burbank’s finest local teachers, who were recommended by their principals and selected for their devotion to their profession and dedication to their students.

Mary Jeanette and Don Boles Long time Burbank resident, Mary Jeanette Boles, died peacefully on March 3 rd at age 90 in Burbank. She followed her husband, Don Boles, by under two years. He died at age 91 in 2009. Mary Jeanette (Goodwin) was known as “Merry Balls” by her late husband, but preferred to be called Jeanette. Both Don and Jeanette came as youngsters to Burbank with their families and stayed to make their lives here. They met at Burbank High School and married a month after her graduation.

Mary Ann Copping There is another angel in Heaven. Mary Ann Copping passed on to heaven, Wednesday, February 16, 2011 after a long illness. Mary Ann was born on August 22, 1929 in Rusk County, East Texas. She came to Burbank in 1944 and enrolled at Burbank High School where she met Al Copping, her future husband. After graduation, they were married on September 23, 1946. She was active in the Irish Setter Club of America and the Irish Setter Club of Southern California.

RuthAnn Talley was born February 25, 1932 to Vernon F. Nuttelman and Blanche Ann Nuttelman (Ross). She spent her early years growing up near Sechlerville, WI. In 1944, when she was 12, she and her family moved to Burbank, CA. She graduated from Burbank High School in 1949 and went on to study first at Glendale City College and later at UCLA where she entered a teacher preparation program.   On June 18, 1955 she married Harry L. Talley Jr. of Glendale. They would remain united for 52 years until the Lord called him home in August of 2007.

DOWNTOWN — A 20-year-old man charged in connection with the 2008 death of his father will not face jail time after pleading this week to lesser charges. Noah Loock, of Burbank, pleaded no contest Tuesday in Pasadena Superior Court to one count of misdemeanor battery stemming from a fight with his father, Timothy Loock, an assistant football coach at Burbank High School. Noah Loock was sentenced to eight days in jail, but will not spend additional time behind bars based on credit for time served, prosecutors said.

Robin Leslie was only 15 and just getting to know her father, Jack R. Lewis, when he was killed in a private-airplane crash in Newhall in 1962. Leslie knew he had been a prisoner of war, but her father never spoke about what he endured in a Japanese internment camp during World War II. “I never heard the story, but I knew he had been in the POW camp, and that he had been tortured,” the Burbank resident said. It wasn’t until she went through a wooden box filled with his mementos that she found a letter Lewis had written for the Navy, recounting his experience with the enemy.

Kelly Blatz is living his dream of becoming an action hero, and landing the lead role on a new Disney station — Disney XD — makes it that much sweeter. The 21-year-old Burbank native plays Charlie Landers in the new show “Aaron Stone.” Landers is a video game world champion whose expertise lands him a job as a secret agent. Now he must fight crime while learning to use all the nifty top-secret gadgets in between keeping up his school work and home life.