- John Thomas Dye School
The John Thomas Dye School, nicknamed JTD, is an independent private
coeducation alnonsectarian elementaryday school located in the Bel-Air area ofLos Angeles ,California , serving students in kindergarten through sixth grade.The school was founded in 1929 as the Brentwood Town and Country School by Cathryn Robberts Dye and her husband, John Thomas Dye II, with its first classes held in the Dyes' living room, and their son John Thomas Dye III its first student. The first permanent facility was built in 1949 and named the Bel Air Town and Country School, on the site still occupied by the school today. The school building was designed by noted Santa Monica architect John Byers. [ [http://www.uusm.org/newsletters/archives.php The Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica] ] In 1959, the School was renamed The John Thomas Dye School in honor of John Thomas Dye III, who while serving as a fighter pilot was killed by enemy action in
World War II . [ [http://www.jtdschool.com/aboutjtd/abtHIST.htm All About JTD] ]Notable alumni
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Eric Avery [http://www.so-to-speak-if-you-will.com/biography/ Biography of David Michael Navarro] ]
*Monica Lewinsky [http://weeklywire.com/ww/03-15-99/memphis_book.html Review of Monica’s Story, By Andrew Morton, St. Martin’s Press, 279 pp.] , "Memphis Flyer ",March 15 ,1999 ]
*Dave Navarro
*Lisa Marie Presley
*Maureen Reagan cite book|title=Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan|author=Edmund Morris|year=2000|page=318|publisher=Modern Library ]
*Ron Reagan
*Melissa Rivers [ [http://abc.go.com/primetime/imacelebrity/bios/melissa_Rivers.html Participant Biography: Melissa Rivers] for "I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! "]
*Rod Roddenberry [ [http://www.roddenberry.com/roddenberry.cfm Biography of Eugene W. Roddenberry] ]
*Tori Spelling .
* Fresh Prince
* Erik Laykin
* Melanie MorrisReferences
External links
* [http://www.jtdschool.com/ John Thomas Dye School]
* [http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/privateschoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&SchoolID=00080971&ID=00080971 National Center for Education Statistics data for John Thomas Dye School]
* [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=11414+Chalon+Road,+Los+Angeles+CA+90049&ie=UTF8&z=15&om=1&iwloc=addr/ Aerial Photograph from Google Maps]
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