Where is the LaGuardia Bust?

Mayor La Guardia speaks over WNYC on Grade A milk from Budget Room, 1940.

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I came across this article from the Daily News newspaper (N.Y.) from October 4, 1969, about the renaming of the High School of Music and Art. The person instrumental in the school's creation, Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, had his name added on October 17, 1969.

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Daily News (N.Y.), Oct. 4, 1969, page 7, by Richard Mathieu

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Also mentioned in the news item is a bust of Mayor LaGuardia that was to be presented to the school back in 1969. To my knowledge, that bust doesn't exist.

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The LaGuardia Arts website states, "In 1969, the Board of Education honored Mayor LaGuardia by naming the new building after him."* No bust mentioned.

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I've checked throughout the 1969 or 1970 yearbooks but no mention there either. I can't find any evidence of the bust anywhere. Am I missing something?

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Students from Music and Art give their experiences.

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Jackie Zinman Goldberger, Class of '70, contributed these photos from her yearbook and said:
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​"It was renamed in October '69. Mayor Lindsay came up for the ceremony and some kids from Performing Arts came as well. There is a picture of me and Don Reeves and the Mayor on stage with Principal Klein in the auditorium in our '70 M & A yearbook."

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Larry Satorius, Class of '71, said:

"They unveiled the bust of LaGuardia when they renamed it. I was there. Whether it stayed there. I don't know."

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Do you know where the mystery bust is or have you ever heard of it? Let me know and I'll enter an update.

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* https://www.laguardiahs.org/mission__history

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