Black-Foxe Military Institute
The Black-Foxe Military Institute was a private school in Hollywood, California, USA. It was located adjacent to the Wilshire Country Club to the west and south and the Los Angeles Tennis Club to the east.[1]
Black-Foxe was founded in 1928 by Charles E. Toberman, a Hollywood developer and financier, and Majors Earle Foxe and Harry Lee Black, both World War I veterans, on the site formerly occupied by Urban Military Academy, where Black had been commandant.[2] Foxe was president, remaining in that post until 1960, Black commandant of cadets, and Major Harry Gaver headmaster. From the start the school attracted the sons of people involved in the film industry, thanks to its location and Foxe's Hollywood connections.
In 1954 Gaver died, and in 1959 Toberman sold the school to Raymond Rosendahl. In the early 1960s the name was changed to The Black-Foxe School.
In 1965 Rosendahl sold the school to a nonprofit group that was unable to make a success of it, and in 1968 the mortgage holder foreclosed and Black-Foxe closed.[3]
Notable alumni
- Jack Banta, American football halfback in the National Football League (NFL) for the Philadelphia Eagles, the Washington Redskins and Los Angeles Rams.
- Harry Carey Jr., actor.[4]
- Charles Chaplin, Jr., actor, son of Charlie Chaplin.
- Guillermo Endara, President of Panama from 1989 to 1994.[5]
- Larry Hagman, actor.
- Alan Hale Jr., actor known for playing The Skipper on Gilligan's Island.[6]
- Gary Lewis, musician, leader of Gary Lewis & the Playboys, son of comedian Jerry Lewis, attended from 1951 through 1963.
- Brown Meggs, record executive, novelist; signed the Beatles to Capitol Records in 1963.[7]
- Robert Wagner, actor.
- Gene Wilder, actor, attended briefly; he wrote that he was bullied and sexually assaulted, primarily because he was the only Jewish boy in the school.[8]
References
- Memoir by R. S. Wachter www.lausd.k12.ca.us accessed 1 May 2022
- Hank Adams letter dancingbadger.com accessed 1 May 2022
- "Black-Foxe: A Brief History". Archived from the original on January 6, 2009. Retrieved July 31, 2008.
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- Ana Teresa Benjamin (September 29, 2009). "La vida política de un hombre bueno". La Prensa (in Spanish). Archived from the original on October 2, 2009. Retrieved October 27, 2012.
- Eddie Deezen (August 16, 2017). "Alan Hale Jr. "the Skipper"". Retrieved August 16, 2017.
- Hicks, Cordell (May 31, 1954). "Brown Meggs to Wed Miss Meachen in East". Los Angeles Times. p. III-1.(subscription required)
- Wilder, Gene. Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art. St. Martin's Press, 2005. ISBN 0-312-33706-X; page 13