Just setting the record straight!
     I'm a 1960 graduate of Venice High and Francis Reinhart Goldsmith was my father's sister, my aunt. While attending Venice my friends and I would plan to "meet at my aunt." Way back then I knew that my aunt had posed for the arms of the statue because as I was told, 'Myrna's arms were too thin.' My aunt had been a competitive swimmer and had shapely arms as well as hands. I remember being jealous of her long nails because mine were always breaking. She told me it was in the way the manicurists filed the nails and to never let them cross file.

     No one is coming out of the 'woodwork' now with stories about the statue. The story that Myrna didn't pose for all of it was well known way back when. I was proud of my aunt, she was a lovely, lovely person. She wouldn't have said it if it were true. BTW my father, Raymond Reinhart also attended Venice but graduated from Lincoln when the family moved.

     It was serendipity that we moved back to the west side of LA and I was in the Venice High School school district. In fact, I was in the first graduating class of the new Junior High School, Daniel Webster, which then fed into Venice as well as Uni and Hamilton.

     Maxine A Reinhart (Rothman, Wagner)
Class of 1960, Trouvers
Jun 28, 2005