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JUDY’S KIDS: Judy Crum of Cerro Villa...

By Jerry Hicks, Helene Elliott and Steve Emmons

JUDY’S KIDS: Judy Crum of Cerro Villa Middle School in Villa Park is not content to reach her students through regular classes. Last year she went after grant money to create the Homework Club, an after-hours help session for students who can’t maintain a C average. . . . The results are in: Club members last year averaged a half-grade of improvement and Crum’s grant has been renewed. “Sometimes students just need to know someone cares,” she says.

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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