PALMDALE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL LEAVES POST TO FIGHT ILLNESS.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Daily News Staff Writer Battling a rare form of brain cancer, longtime Tumbleweed tumbleweed, any of several plants, particularly abundant in prairie and steppe regions, that commonly break from their roots at maturity and, drying into a rounded tangle of light, stiff branches, roll before the wind, covering long distances and scattering seed as School principal and Palmdale historian Fred Strasburg has taken a leave from his job. The Palmdale School District The Palmdale School District is a school district that serves a major part of the city of Palmdale, California (USA). The Palmdale School District was first formed in 1888. Approximately 28,000 students are enrolled in the Palmdale School District. has named Tamarisk tamarisk (tăm`ərĭsk), shrub or small tree of the genus Tamarix, native chiefly to the Mediterranean area and to central Asia. The plants are often heathlike and thrive in arid and coastal regions. School Principal Paul Nakabayashi co-principal at Tumbleweed. ``Because of the treatments that Fred is undergoing, he hasn't been able to work full time, so we made a co-principalship there,'' said Superintendent Nancy Smith. ``It will be up to Fred and his doctor to determine when he can come back.'' Tamarisk Assistant Principal Linda Wagner has been named interim principal at Tamarisk. Strasburg, who has been with the district for 27 years and has served as principal at Tumbleweed since 1980, has been undergoing chemotherapy and drug treatments. He has been out for several months on sick leave. ``He is such a great person and has done so many great things,'' Smith said. ``Hopefully he will conquer this.'' Strasburg is married and has a grown son and daughter. He donated his collection of old newspapers, more than 200 maps, 250 to 300 books and more than 150 photographs to the city library last year. A longtime resident who came to Palmdale in 1948 with his family at age 4, Strasburg started collecting Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley artifacts artifacts see specimen artifacts. in the late 1970s. His mother was a school nurse. ``An accident and a hobby turned out to be a compulsion COMPULSION. The forcible inducement to au act. 2. Compulsion may be lawful or unlawful. 1. When a man is compelled by lawful authority to do that which be ought to do, that compulsion does not affect the validity of the act; as for example, when a court of or a compassion and it turns out to be a runaway train,'' Strasburg told the Daily News in an interview in December. |
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