06 - Carl F. Curtis, Headmaster (1940s-1964)

Carl Fulton Curtis (1908-1982), nephew of Carl Curtis, the founder, came to California from Ohio in 1925, at the age of 17, to join the physical education staff at his uncle's school on Beverly Boulevard. There he taught boxing and wrestling as well as swimming. He was later in charge of the overall physical education program at the school, before succeeding his uncle as Curtis’s second headmaster. He carried forward the school’s original mission of a strong mind in a strong body and the methodologies he learned under his uncle’s tutelage. In 1947, the Carl F. Curtis School officially began operating in a complex of several small, but charming buildings, converted to school rooms, at 8561 Beverly Place, less than a mile from the former location of the school and adjacent to Cedars-Sinai Hospital.