The Weekly Newspaper of El Segundo
Herald Publications - El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 111, No. 2 - January 13, 2022
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Professionals.......................6
Classifieds............................4
Crossword/Sudoku.............4
Entertainment......................3
Legals..............................9-10
Pets......................................11
Police Reports.....................3
Real Estate.......................5-7
Travel............................... 2,11
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Enjoy a Special Ride on Sundays
The Zimmerman Automobile Driving Museum has fun rides in classic cars on the second & fourth Sunday from 10:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Enjoy the day in a blast from the past in our own town of El Segundo.
Rides are free with museum admission, no reservations are needed. Children under four feet, unfortunately, can not ride in vehicles due to safety precautions. Please help support the preservation of
history for future generations. Photo courtesy The Zimmerman Automobile Driving Museum.
Paulette Caudill: A Passion for
Education and Sporty Little Cars
By Duane Plank
Paulette Caudill always knew that she
wanted to become a teacher. But, she noted,
back in the day, young women did not have
many career pathways. A peek at parts of
the Caudill resume: As a parent, she served
in the PTA, becoming council vice-president.
She was active in Little League and Boy
Scouts programs and has been a member of
the Reach Out Against Drugs program since
its inception.
She spent 20 years at ESHS, teaching special
education and college prep history courses.
She has a master’s degree in special education
and school administration. Before her tenure
at ESHS, she taught for fourteen years in
Downey. Over her 34 years of teaching, she
taught all grade levels: K-12, adult school, and
graduate school, and served as the El Segundo
Teacher Association (ESTA) president.
Caudill was born in Bozeman, Montana,
and moved to Manhattan Beach at the age
of four. She graduated from Aviation High
and CSU Dominguez Hills with a degree in
history and earned her teaching credential
from CSU Los Angeles. When she attended
El Camino College, she lived on the Strand
in Manhattan Beach, where she began her
infatuation with motor cars.
When Caudill was looking at career options:
El Segundo Aquatics Center Hosts
Global Athletes for Triathlon Training
By Kiersten Vannest
El Segundo secretly has one of the best
beaches in Southern California. Residents
know that there will be little to no crowding
on a good day, and the seaside community
is home to many surfers and ocean lovers.
But on the other side of town, an indoor
water oasis exists in the El Segundo
Aquatics Center. Here, athletes worldwide
train for open water triathlons with coach
Jim Lubinski and his company, Tower 26.
A triathlon consists of three events:
cycling, running and swimming. Though
the length of the races differs, competitors
typically complete all three events
themselves, meaning they must have skills
in all three areas. Lubinski, in particular,
helps to train athletes both locally and
remotely to become better swimmers.
Lubinski has always been athletically
inclined. He won the state championship
for running in seventh grade, making under
a five-minute mile. He played baseball,
studied as a division one athlete at Fairfield
University, and played professional ice
hockey.
Having kept up his running during his
hockey years, he began recreationally
dabbling in triathlons, relatively new to the
world of cycling and swimming. In 2009,
he got serious about the competitions and
earned a coaching certification through
USA Triathlon.
“I knew when my racing days were
over, and coaching was something I’d
she said young women were steered
towards selecting one of three fields: nursing,
secretarial, or teaching. The employment field
narrowed for Caudill. “I don’t like the sight
of blood,” she said, so becoming a nurse was
a non-starter and she said that a secretary gig
was not going to happen because “I struggled
in school. I had an affinity towards kids and
teaching.”
Her first teaching job was in Downey. “I
called every school district within a 25-mile
radius,” she said. “I got someone on the line
in Downey,” and as the conversation was
ending, Caudill offered that “I will substitute
special ed” and was told, “come right in.”
She relished her special education assignment
because of the small class sizes and that she
had her students for the entire school day. “If
you have a student all day,” she said, “you
can do a lot. Keep reinforcing your message.
They did not have any choice but to learn.”
She moved to El Segundo in 1974 and
was later able to land a job at El Segundo
High School. The ESUSD had an opening,
and El Segundo educator Bill Watkins hired
Caudill. Caudill said that before her move to
El Segundo, she was “flipping houses” when
a deal in El Segundo came into her focus.
She scored a two-bedroom, two-bathroom
house in town for the sum of $36,000. “I
could not pass that up,” she said. The plan
was to “flip-it and move on,” but that plan
never came to fruition.
She started thinking about running for the
school board when she was the ESTA president,
Paulette Caudill
See Paulette Caudill, page 8
See Jim Lubinski, page 8
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