[3] After college graduation, Chadwick accepted a teaching position in the now defunct city of Metropolis, near Elko, Nevada.
[7] The other two were Mark and Jean Roessler, whose parents Fred and Edna, early residents on the Palos Verdes Peninsula.
[1] Through deeding more than 33 acres from developer Frank A. Vanderlip for a permanent site and the initial buildings paid for by the Robert Roessler family, in 1939, the school moved to a hilltop in Palos Verdes with 75 day and boarding students, and was the first high school on the Palos Verdes Peninsula.
[7] Margaret Chadwick wrote in her 1978 book A Dipperful of Humanity, her emphasis on the school was a "dedication to enrolling a student body, that reflects a broad economic, cultural and ethnic mix," mirroring the real world and stressing the importance of attracting a student body that represented "a dipperful of humanity.
[11] Adams also took a portrait of Chadwick and her husband, in uniform after he was called back to duty during World War II.
The couple originally met Adams during an annual ski trip to Yosemite on which Commander Chadwick would take the then small student body.
The Chadwicks, he wrote, "infused the entire organization with a kind of creative drive (and evoked a marvelous human quality) ... it was an unforgettable experience, and I only wish I had done more and better work for the school.