Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Bouelle, Frank A. February 9, 1875 - 
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Author: The Lewis Publishing Company

California and Californians, Pages 33-33

	FRANK A. BOUELLE had thirty-six years of consecutive experience in 
practical work as a school man, leading up to and preparatory to his 
succession to the duties of superintendent of public schools of the City of 
Los Angeles on February 1, 1929.  Mr. Bouelle, long regarded as one of the 
outstanding educators of Southern California, was born in Los Angeles, at 
First and Spring streets, February 9, 1875, son of August and Marie Louise 
(Viellet) Bouelle.
	Frank A. Bouelle attended the elementary school at Eighth and Grand 
Avenue, later attended the Los Angeles High School, completed the teachers’ 
course at the State Normal School at Los Angeles in 1893, and in 1912 was 
graduated Bachelor of Arts from the University of Southern California.  During 
1893-1895 he was principal of the Lamanda Park Grammar School, then taught in 
the schools of Los Angeles five years, and between 1900 and 1924 had a 
consecutive service as principal of elementary and junior high schools.  In 
1924 he was promoted to assistant superintendent of schools, and supervised 
the Hollywood division of elementary schools.
	Mr. Bouelle is an educator of broad and generous ideals, and his 
election to succeed Mrs. Susan M. Dorsey as superintendent of the Los Angeles 
city schools was a very popular choice and one regarded as significant of 
continued steady progress in the advancement of the educational program of the 
city.
	Mr. Bouelle was for three terms a member of the Board of Education of 
Los Angeles County.  He was the first president of the Los Angeles City 
Principal’s Club.  He is a member of the French Academy and has long been 
prominent in the Masonic fraternity, being a past master of Vallee de France 
Lodge No. 329, A.F. and A.M., has served as presiding officer of the various 
Scottish Rite bodies and has attained the thirty-third degree of Scottish Rite 
Masonry.  He is a member of the Masonic Club, the Jonathan Club, and is a Phi 
Beta Kappa, Phi Delta Kappa, and a member of the Skull and Dagger Society of 
the University of Southern California.
	He married, August 8, 1906, Miss Leah Bletso, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Albert J. Bletso, of Los Angeles.  They have one daughter, Mary Louise Bouelle.


Additional Comments:
California and Californians, Volume IV, Edited by Rockwell D. Hunt, A.M., 
Ph.D., Assisted By An Advisory Board, The Spanish Period, By Nellie Van de 
Grift Sanchez, The American Period, By Rockwell D. Hunt, California Biography, 
By a Special Staff of Writers, Issued in Four Volumes, The Lewis Publishing 
Company, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, 1932.

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