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Description
1 image. Girls Day (Week), 18 March 1958. Irene Arenas -- 17 years (as Postmaster) Otto K. Olesen (Postmaster) Laurel Fleming -- 17 years (Post office superintendant). Supplementary material reads: "Public Relations Department -- Los Angeles Post Office. Larry Anderson -- Madison 5-7411, extention 257. (For immediate release). Standing left, Irene Arenas, 462 Casanova Street, a 17-year-old student leader at Belmont Senior High School, today (Tuesday, March 18) took over the desk of Postmaster Otto K. Olesen, standing right, during annual Girl's Day in Government program. Miss Arenas is president of the Belmont High Girl's league, captains a drill team, is a member of the school Pep Club and of the Student Council, and chairman of the Sweetheart's Ball Committee. A basketball and volleyball player, the Postmaster-for-a-Day also is interested in cooking and sewing, making most of her own clothes. Her goal, however, is a career in nursing. Seated middle, Laurel Fleming, 23220 Leonora Drive, Woodland Hills, assumed the duties of the Los Angeles Post Office Superintendant of Classification, a position held the last nine years by Mrs. Nelle C. Wood, the highest ranking woman supervisor in the postal service. Miss Fleming, 17, is president of the Girls' league at Canoga Park Senior HIgh School. She, too, is interested in training to become a registered nurse. 3/18/58".
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image
Format
1 photograph : negative, b&w 13 x 10 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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