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Development & Alumni Office
Main Building - Room 117
Twenty years of involvement in elementary, middle and high school awakened a passion for education and community engagement. In 2004 Joyce became the part-time administrative manager for the newly formed neighborhood council – Mid City WEST Community Council – where she met the co-founder of Greenway Arts Alliance & The Melrose Trading Post, a non-profit organization partnering with the local secondary school - Fairfax High.
As Joyce’s third child, Eric, was nearing high school age and after disappointing experiences sending her older children to a high school outside their neighborhood, Joyce was determined to send him to Fairfax. In 2007 she joined Greenway as their part-time Director of Development for Fairfax High School with a two-fold mission: raising funds for much needed projects and helping to restore faith in the local public school. The success of this mission resulted in Greenway's deciding to fund a full time Development and Alumni office, with additional staff, on the Fairfax High campus. The office opened in September of 2010, with Joyce as its director.
Joyce Kleifield
Director of Development
Bev Meyer (nee Mendelson) grew up in Los Angeles, attending John Burroughs and Fairfax High School. Following graduation from UC Berkeley, she returned to Los Angeles to earn her teaching credential at UCLA and joined the staff at Fairfax High School, teaching drama with her mentor and former teacher Marilyn Moody.
Bev moved to Switzerland “for a year or two” in 1973. There, she continued teaching at international schools in Zurich and Geneva and at a Swiss Gymnasium (high school) in central Switzerland, as well as organizing drama clubs and ensemble groups at local elementary and middle schools. Her unexpectedly long stay overseas ended in 2008, when Bev returned to L.A. When funding from Greenway Friends of Fairfax made it possible for Fairfax to open its Development and Alumni Office in September 2010, the position of Alumni Coordinator seemed ideally suited to Bev’s background, interests, and commitment to educational reform. It not only gave her an opportunity to reconnect with her own past, but also provided a way for her to introduce Fairfax and its community to the school’s rich traditions and history.
Bev Meyer
Alumni Relations Coordinator
7850 Melrose Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90046 | email: info@fairfaxhighalumninews.org | call: (323) 370-1062
Jeann(i)e graduated from Fairfax High School in 1973, and had originally pursued an acting career. After several promising and somewhat lucrative years in “the business,” she embraced a different kind of lifestyle in Northern California and moved to San Francisco...
Once both of Jeanne’s children went away to college and continued their pursuit of independence, she decided to give them their space, and made her move back to Southern California. Volunteer work and working with non-profits had become a part of Jeanne’s life, and she has continued efforts in those areas. Before being hired as a contractor to work with the Fairfax High Development and Alumni Office as Grant Writer and Fund Raising Support, she worked at a non-profit in South Central Los Angeles, successfully leading the revitalization of a child development center, as well as assisting with many community outreach and charitable endeavors.
Jeanne Weldon Travis
Grant Research/
Fund-Raising Support
