Ardis G. Egan was the founder of Egan Junior High School

Egan Junior High School

Ardis G. Egan Junior High School is a middle school for seventh and eighth graders in Los Altos, California. A lot of people go here. It is part of the Los Altos School District. Most of Egan's five hundred students live in Los Altos and Los Altos Hills, though a few live in Mountain View. Egan is...

, in Los Altos

Los Altos, California

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, California

California

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. He was also superintendent

Superintendent (education)

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 of the Los Altos School District

Los Altos School District

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 during the 1950s. During his 21 year-term, he spearheaded a campaign that resulted in the construction of 14 new schools as he watched the elementary school population grow from 350 to more than 6,000. Egan, with the help of Bert Schweitzer, Don Gordon, and Wallace Stanley, founded Los Altos's first service club, the Kiwanis Club. Earlier that same year, those four also organized the town's first Pet Parade, now an annual event in Los Altos. Egan also started an annual Special Games for physically handicapped youth.