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Garfield High plans tribute to Jaime Escalante

By Claire Noland
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Garfield High will pay tribute to prominent former math teacher Jaime Escalante early Thursday morning at the East L.A. campus with a gathering of the school’s ROTC, leadership students, band and drill team, administrators, staff and current and former students.

The school’s memorial service is planned for 7:00 to 7:20 a.m. at 5101 E. 6th St.

Escalante, 79, died Tuesday at his son Jaime Jr.’s home in Roseville, Calif. Click here to read The Times’ obituary that appeared in Wednesday’s paper. More coverage is here.

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-- Claire Noland

Afterword
Claire Noland

Claire Noland, who joined the Los Angeles Times in 1994, became editor of curated email newsletters in spring 2015. She had been in the Obituary Department since 2006, the last six years as editor. Before that, she was an editor in Sports. A California native and graduate of Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles, she worked at the Antelope Valley Press, Los Angeles Daily News and Minneapolis Star Tribune. She left The Times in December 2015.

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