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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsAnyone have a high school classmate who became famous or infamous?
The most famous former classmate I have is currently serving a life sentence without the chance for parole.
underpants
(183,043 posts)Seriously. Not one.
We did have a guy who got to the NFL...played in 2 games.
True Dough
(17,392 posts)which makes me the most accomplished of all my high school classmates!
Solly Mack
(90,803 posts)She also sang backup for Bette Midler early in her career.
One became a professional baseball player. ( St. Louis Cardinals )
Before & after my years in high school, the school also produced pro golfers, pro football players, other pro baseball players.
CatMor
(6,212 posts)Leith
(7,817 posts)Dan Kildee
I didn't know him personally.
crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)fierywoman
(7,707 posts)MANative
(4,113 posts)No shit - Rene Boucher was a classmate. Signed my yearbook and everything.
Another is a reasonably well-known film producer in LA and another is a playwright. Yet one more is a very well-known attorney who has argued multiple cases before the US Supreme Court. We were a group of underachievers, apparently.
d_r
(6,907 posts)He was a jerk.
MyOwnPeace
(16,955 posts)should have put "kick me" stickers on his back!!!!
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)What a flunky!
NanceGreggs
(27,821 posts)... Larry Hoppen, singer/songwriter with "Orleans".
snowybirdie
(5,252 posts)Jenny McCarthy would sneak into my basement when my son threw parties when we were out. She had dark hair and not so many curves
TexasBushwhacker
(20,256 posts)lunamagica
(9,967 posts)for rescuing several elderly people from a fire in their nursing home. He was hailed as a hero.
A few weeks later he was back on the news, this time because it was discovered he was the one who started the fire.
He was kind of quiet, but I noticed him because he was tall and so, so very handsome. Man, you never know.
gopiscrap
(23,768 posts)but graduated quite a few years before me
MontanaMama
(23,368 posts)PJMcK
(22,074 posts)My favorite was Marilyn Chambers who was the Ivory Snow girl. She then went on to become a famous porn actress in the 1970s and 1980s.
MyOwnPeace
(16,955 posts)she was your favorite because.....................??????
PJMcK
(22,074 posts)It's sorta obvious, isn't it?! (male snark)
Actually, what I meant was that she was my favorite because she became (in)famous because she went counter-culture. I grew up in the 1960s in a comfortable middle-class/suburban environment but I was always attracted to the opposites of my own life.
Ms. Chambers was a few years older than I but she had local fame as a model and actress. When she went into porn, nearly everyone I knew in town tried to disavow her. However, I always liked that she chose a different route for her life and she really seemed to enjoy her choices. To be clear, they were not ones I would make but I was impressed by her independence.
On the other hand, her life took some rather difficult turns and she died at the young age of 57.
MyOwnPeace
(16,955 posts)I appreciate your follow-up - quite the interesting response, for sure (and the male snark went both ways!).
And I agree, sad life path that ended way too early.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,382 posts)Back when they made actual, proper movies.
It's kinda cool that you have that sort of "seven degrees" kind of association with Ms. Chambers.
One of the few that can legitimately be called a true Great and legend of the porn film world.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)Last edited Mon Nov 20, 2017, 11:30 PM - Edit history (1)
There was Channing Trotter a former RB for UNLV recently got busted for heroim.. His brother was really good I think even better but he was a DB.
Channing Trotter, Ex-UNLV Running Back, Caught With Weed, Heroin, and Gun, Cops Say
Channing Trotter, a former running back at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, was pulled over in Mesa yesterday after leaving what police describe as a "known drug house."
According to court documents obtained by New Times, Trotter was arrested for the second time this year after police found marijuana, heroin, "several drug pipes," syringes, and a handgun inside his vehicle.
Trotter was pulled over police ran his license plate while he was parked at the "drug house," and found that Trotter had a felony warrant for his arrest, as Trotter was arrested in February on charges of theft and trafficking in stolen property.
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/channing-trotter-ex-unlv-running-back-caught-with-weed-heroin-and-gun-cops-say-6639661
That is Mesa for you a sad boring place to live.
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)He walked so upright..we resented him.
I put tacs on his chair...later when I read about his death I remembered our cruelty and felt horrible.
I was not a very good person back then, I also put tacs on the desk of our history teacher who always put his hands on his desk as he taught
On edit... http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/03/arts/glenn-white-ballet-dancer-42-a-joffrey-principal-and-teacher.html
Laffy Kat
(16,393 posts)Cybill Sheperd. She was a few years ahead of me. She would occasionally come back to visit Mr. Hester, our speech teacher. This was in Memphis, TN. Although I made As in the class, I didn't follow her footsteps, obviously.
Docreed2003
(16,905 posts)I lived in High Point Terrace when I was in Med school in Memphis and drove passed your alma mater nearly everybody day!
Laffy Kat
(16,393 posts)Well my college alma mater was Memphis State, which is now University of Memphis. The high school I went to--along with Cybill--was Frayser High in north Memphis. High Point Terrace is actually a much nicer community than where I grew up. We lived in a neighborhood sort of between Frasier and Raleigh. HPT is, I think, more in east central Memphis (?) and more affluent.
Curious: I never understood why Frayser High was spelled differently than the Fraiser community.
Docreed2003
(16,905 posts)I know the Fraiser/Raleigh area, at least I did in the late ninties early 2000s...HPT may have been more affluent, but when we lived in HPT, at least the area we lived in closer to Sam Cooper....it was a ton of older folks who had built their homes there in the late 40s to mid 50s and a bunch of young professionals looking for cheap mid-century homes, lol.
Laffy Kat
(16,393 posts)I'm certain. We had the same speech teacher and it was a big deal there. She was gone by the time I was there, already a rising star by then. Now I have to validate it! I'll look for proof. I'll also ask my sister. She also went to Frayser and has a better memory than I do.
Don't know if you remember where James Road is; it intersected with Hollywood Blvd. We live around there. I haven't been back in over 20 years. No reason to.
Docreed2003
(16,905 posts)Cybill may have attended Frayser High, that I dont know...but I know for fact she graduated from East, check her IMDB bio. The only reason I knew that is because of the irony that she graduated there, and Elvis worked for the electric co that laid the electric lines when the school was built...and they dated, lol.
Now youve got me interested in why its Frayser High, also Frayser Park on James Rd and Fraiser for the area...gonna have to dig into that!!
The summer before and through my first two years of medschool at UT, I was a tour guide at Graceland...back when the tour guides were given books of info to memorize and regurgitate for tourists, before the age of tablets, which they have now, and before that tape tours, which essentially replaced my job. I used to know the majority of Memphis like the back of my hand because tourists would beg for any and every bit of info on the most esoteric places that had a connection to Elvis, even if they had long been torn down.
Laffy Kat
(16,393 posts)And her speech teacher taught at East and then Frayser many years later. Maybe that's why I think she went there, which is embarrassing because I've always told everyone we went to the same high school.
Another reason to be embarrassed: I've never been to Graceland. At one point I lived right down the street from it, in Whitehaven. I do remember when he died. I was a desk clerk at the Quality Inn right next to the old Memphis-Arkansas bridge. There was a huge convention (Shriner's, I think) and ZERO rooms available anywhere close to the city. Elvis fans just. poured. in. and there was no place to put them. It was a mess. I will always say, there is no greater fan than an Elvis fan.
Docreed2003
(16,905 posts)Other than working for EPE for two years...and frequently playing the piano when I was a lead tour guide opening and closing the house....was when I was still percolating inside my mother during that August summer when he died...I wouldnt be born until winter of 78. She and several of her friends from work made the trek from Nashville to Memphis to pay respects during the public viewing!
In all seriousness, if youre ever planning to go to Graceland, hit me up...I still remember every detail of the tour and will knock your socks off and make the tour worth your while!! Lol!
And, in a joke only people from TN will appreciate...see Nashville folks and Memphis folks CAN get along!!!
Laffy Kat
(16,393 posts)Thanks for the offer, although I don't see Memphis in my future. It was fun talking about it though. I just kind of want to remember it as I left it. I'm sure I wouldn't recognize it now.
mercuryblues
(14,562 posts)But where me and my friends went to get high before school is now on the National Register of Historical Places.
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)Guy who played Buddy Holly (Gary Busey) went to my HS, but I think he transfered to a diff school in town to graduate.
Several famous musicians of Tulsa sound graduated same year as one of my brothers.
Leon Russell. David Gates
OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)Friends:
David Tanis (author)
Susan Saiger (actress - Eating Raoul)
Classmate:
Edwin C. Moses (track star)
In my brothers' classes:
Mike Schmidt (baseball star)
Murray Horwitz (creator of Wait, Wait
Dont Tell Me)
SeattleVet
(5,485 posts)Rodney McCray, Scooter McCray, Earl Tatum, Gus Williams, Ray Williams, Lowes Moore - all basketball
Ken Singleton - baseball
Denzel Washington - attended, but went to a private school before graduation
Heavy-D
Al B Sure
Jay Hoggard (jazz vibes player - knew him from Kindergarten to graduation!)
And a few before my time:
Art Carney
Dick Clark (was in the class ahead of my mother. His yearbook picture is a sort of Dorian Grey type of thing - he always looked the same!)
Ralph Branca (Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher of the 'shot heard round the world' in the 1951 World Series)
E.B. White (writer of 'Charlotte's Web' and 'Stuart Little')
Michael Imperioli ('The Sopranos')
Some that also lived there at various times but didn't attend the high school when I was there:
James Bailey (of Barnum & Bailey)
Art Buchwald
Rudy Hackett
Sean Combs
Betty Shabazz
Phylicia Rashad
Actually, not too bad for a little 4-square-mile city of about 70,000 people!
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,256 posts)He graduated a year before me, but we both went on one of those 3 weeks on a bus student trips to Europe in the summer of '74. He was sweet and shy.
I've known Sec of Education Margaret Spellings since 3rd grade. Her family lived down the street from mine and I went to one of her birthday parties as a kid.
She played a major roll in "No Child Left Behind". She was also the one who objected to a PBS episode of a children's program where child had mom and a stepmom. I found her homophobia interesting considering she dated a gay guy in high school.
Docreed2003
(16,905 posts)One of my favs!!
Mrs. Overall
(6,839 posts)They are cousins--Nicholas Cage was "Nick Coppola" in high school.
Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)benld74
(9,912 posts)Twitter founder graduated from our oldests high school
The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,003 posts)so I didn't really know her - I just knew who she was because she was one of the popular girls and got to be one of the "queens" of something (Homecoming, maybe). She's not a natural blonde.
Freddie
(9,282 posts)"My Life In High Heels" - written not long after her ugly divorce from Burt Reynolds. She was happily making a living doing dinner theatre etc. in her native Minnesota but her husband at the time, also an actor, wanted to try for the big time in Hollywood. She kept getting parts, not him, especially after she went blonde; she wanted to keep her natural brunette hair but needed to put food on the table. Husband #1 couldn't deal with her fame while his acting career went nowhere.
LeftInTX
(25,812 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,003 posts)Same pic is in my very own yearbook! In those days we teased our hair and used buckets of hairspray (at least when dressing up for the school photo). The hair didn't move.
maxsolomon
(33,473 posts)Actors, Singers. I went to an Arts School.
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)The three of them are often known as the Springfield Three.
Kaleva
(36,404 posts)Link to an article about the 3 with a timeline:
http://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/ozarks/2017/05/30/25-years-after-three-springfield-women-went-missing-tips-still-trickle/101753510/
LeftInTX
(25,812 posts)I remember they dug up part of a parking garage to no avail.
Archae
(46,377 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,930 posts)He's probably best known for his first novel, Crazy Heart, that became a movie starring Jeff Bridges.
I didn't really know Tom in school, but he was at our 50th reunion a couple of years ago, and was quite nice and friendly. He's probably not famous enough to be recognized out in public, and his simply a guy who earns his living writing books.
Yonnie3
(17,516 posts)We went to some of the same schools, but he was more than several years behind me. He graduated with my sister's high school class.
seaglass
(8,173 posts)Orangeutan
(204 posts)In the 131-year history of the high school.
The most famous was Arthur C. "Dutch" Lonborg.
You'll have to look him up.
But I did meet a guy once who went to high school with Farrah Fawcett.
MyOwnPeace
(16,955 posts)I knew someone that had one of her posters!
royable
(1,266 posts)I suppose that's moderately famous.
Unfortunately she had an R next to her name.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)I might get his name a little wrong. I can not remember if he was ahead of me or behind but the German basket ball player Detlaf Shrimp or something like that. He was a exchange student at Centralia High School. Any basket ball fans can correct me on his name.
ClarendonDem
(720 posts)He was a very solid NBA player.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,955 posts)In high school we had a "yearbook geek" who was always walking the halls with his "twin-lens reflex" camera. After graduation he went to Kent State in Ohio and was walking around with a camera when the riot took place.
He'd done an internship at a local newspaper and called them to tell them that he had some pics of the "incident" that had taken place. They told him to take a cab home to deliver the film and it went "national" via the news wires.
His photo was on the cover of national magazines and papers. It was the girl kneeling by one of victims of the National Guard shootings.
The paper won a Pulitzer Prize that year and he went on to be photographer for a national news service.
Right place - right time!
Way to go, John!
beveeheart
(1,373 posts)LeRoi Moore, founding member, saxophonist for Dave Matthews Band. I always encouraged my students to choose a French name for French class and Leroy changed his to LeRoi.
I'm that he is no longer with us.
ClarendonDem
(720 posts)And friends with one. A friend of a friend turned out to be a relatively famous actress.
ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)TV, movie writer. I barely knew him then but we were classmates.
FloridaBlues
(4,014 posts)auntAgonist
(17,252 posts)FloridaBlues
(4,014 posts)auntAgonist
(17,252 posts)sweetroxie
(776 posts)Gloria Allred (nee Gloria Bloom)
Doreen
(11,686 posts)to our high school while we were there. I can not remember her name as I tried to be ignored by people and not pay attention to them and I watched about one minute and thought was stupid.
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)is a multimillionaire investment banker and publisher. He sold his newspaper to Hugo Chavez. He is gradually working his way up in broadcast news with emphasis on Venezuela.
A member of the Mississippi Supreme Court
Baseball coach for a major college program
At my first High School. I was classmates with Lenny Dykstra.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)But I love my job of making magic happen
Kaleva
(36,404 posts)I enjoyed reading each comment.
madaboutharry
(40,247 posts)My mom went to high school with a current United States Supreme Court Justice. One of the good ones.
Freethinker65
(10,116 posts)The right wing asshole kid that formerly attended Boston U and was in the news after the Charlottesville rally. I joked to my son that Fuentes just wanted to be on the high schools wall of fame.
sweetloukillbot
(11,163 posts)1) Baseball Rookie of the Year Tim Salmon
2) Shannon Merketic - the beauty pageant winner who was held captive by the Sultan of Brunei.
Chester Bennington went to my high school as well, but after I graduated.
tymorial
(3,433 posts)secondwind
(16,903 posts)FuzzyRabbit
(1,970 posts)graduated from my high school a year or two before I entered.
One of my sister's classmates (3 years after me) was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list.
dubyadiprecession
(5,739 posts)Were practically related!
solara
(3,836 posts)went to my high school and graduated a year before me. She was on the debate team. I was in theater, so I knew who she was but we didn't hang out or anything.
LeftInTX
(25,812 posts)She and Liz became fairly chummy at law school and have remained friends since.
worstexever
(265 posts)She won a couple of Grammy awards for her Native American flute recordings.
I was good friends with her in high school, where I knew her as Mary Edwards (she was adopted). She plays around locally and says she's semi-retired now and tired of travelling. I ran into her at our 40th year reunion a couple of weeks ago.
Iggo
(47,597 posts)I never stayed long enough to know everybody, though, so who knows?
My little brother went to school with that "Blackie" kid from General Hospital. I heard he did rather well for himself.
EDIT: Oh yeah, I just remembered! I was on the tennis team in 10th and 11th grade with a kid named Stoney Jackson. He was in a bunch of TV movies back in the 70s. Don't get old, people. You forget shit.
KT2000
(20,605 posts)though a few years after me. A year ahead: Franklin Raines, ex Director of Fanny Mae (controversial), Gary Locke, ex governor of WA, past head of US Dept of Commerce, ambassador to China.
Terry Metcalf - football player for St. Louis Cardinals & Washington Redskins
JDC
(10,152 posts)A few in the media also. One works for Al Jazeera now. Used to cover the Middle East for the AP. Youve probably seen him reporting before. Hes no nonsense.
Efilroft Sul
(3,586 posts)I've known him since first grade, and he just had his big 5-0 this past week.
evemac
(134 posts)Roger Clemens
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,365 posts)He was a couple years ahead of me.
But still, David fucking Hasselhoff.
Kaleva
(36,404 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,365 posts)Oh yeah, and someone named Nan Woods from a show I've never seen - China Beach. But I can't remember her.
Kaleva
(36,404 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,365 posts)Some day...
And then there is Jeff Hornacek
csziggy
(34,140 posts)Harris had gone to private schools but I think her family wanted her to graduate from the local public school for her political career so she attended the high school her senior year. The thing is, my sister got into college with early admission and never was in the school building for what should have been her senior year. She graduated from high school and got her AA degree at the same time.
So while my sister and Katherine Harris are listed as being in the same graduating class, my sister never met her. Too bad - they both have narcissistic personalities and probably would have gotten along great.
unblock
(52,503 posts)And my babysitter was Beverly d'angelo.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)known education guru. A quirky artist who's had her work shown in coffee table books. And a girl who is in a Dustin Hoffman movie.
Mostly, though, they were students of mine: A judge on a Reality Competition show. Parents of a famous pro golfer. An accessory to murder. A twice-published novelist.
But my biggest claim to vicarious fame is my first college friend. She won the Nobel Peace Prize as a member of a group of experts on uranium and nuclear science.
becca da bakkah
(426 posts).....off hand. I shared a gym locker senior year with Theresa Graves. She of "Laugh In" fame, and later her own, pioneering, series, "Get Christie Love." ("You under arrest, sugar!" And baseball great, Doc Ellis was a few years ahead of me. His wife, or maybe former wife, Paula Washington, was in my typing class. She was also prom queen.
I just remembered, also US District Judge Garland Burrell, who presided over the Unabomber trial, back in 1997. He was in my grade, although we never had any classes together. Quite the track star at the time.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)ended up playing for Stanford, setting records that were only broken by John Elway, and ultimately, he played pro ball for both the Vikings and the Rams.
But, he never achieved any fame at that, and after Howard Cosell in his column referred to my classmate as a third string benchwarmer, it was pretty much over for him.
Still, nobody ever heard about the rest of us.
stollen
(419 posts)after I graduated.
stollen
(419 posts)Our family friend was the brother of Mare Winningham. Mare went to Chatsworth HS, where she met and "worked" with Kevin Spacey in HS performances, each getting further involved in drama classes and beyond. I only knew the brother.
Upthevibe
(8,108 posts)RGinNJ
(1,021 posts)He was two years ahead of me. I never heard of him until that World Series.
yankeepants
(1,979 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,540 posts)One is a Broadway star, and another was on MadTV.
woody44
(34 posts)A year ahead of me was Kathy Young.........she had a one time gold record for a song "A Thousand Stars in the sky" in the 60's. I remember her coming to the school and singing it at the auditorium.
Also, a band member of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
Of late, years after I was gone is Snoop Dogg.
Upthevibe
(8,108 posts)She graduated in 1965 with my Brother....I graduated 10 years later in 1975. Chris Layton, who graduated one year ahead of me with my Sister in 1974, was the drummer in Stevie Ray Vaughan's band Double Trouble. And the gal whose family owns What-a-Burger also graduated one year ahead of me - Lynn Dobson. She's worth 2 BILLION dollars now! She's a wonderful Liberal/Progressive who has been very involved in philanthropic endeavors throughout the world. Go W.B. Ray Texans!
Kali
(55,032 posts)(he also played the wedding march at my wedding, his sister was my maid of honor)
also Hugh Hallman who went on to become Mayor of the City of Tempe
some other people I don't know (sports, mostly)
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)Tim Kazurinsky. I don't remember ever seeing him on SNL however.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,256 posts)He was on at the same time as Joe Piscopo and Eddie Murphy. He also wrote a few screenplays. I think the character he was most known for on SNL was Dr. Jack Badofsky.
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/newsbreak-segment---dr-badofsky/n8933?snl=1
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)but he did a regular skit that involved holding up flash-cards. I remember liking his bits.
I went all 4 years of high school to a private religious school in Texas. My graduating class was a whopping 17 people. 2 of whom I know are dead and the rest pretty much right-wing fundies. But none are famous for it (or anything else that I know of)
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)My graduating class was around 1200, if I remember correctly. It is much smaller now, but it's hard to believe that so few famous people came out of a school with that many grads. Oh well!
blaze
(6,396 posts)DFW
(54,506 posts)When I was in DC, Roger Ferguson was in the class ahead of me. He always had an entourage of students following him around asking questions about everything--because he KNEW everything. It came as no surprise to me that he ended up as vice-chair of the Federal reserve. His IQ is so high, he could have shared it equally with another person and they would both have been brilliant.
My last year of high school was at a boarding school that I entered (and subsequently hated) when I got back to the States from Spain/Catalunya. A couple of years ahead of me, there had been a very undistinguished legacy student (his dad, a congressman at the time, was my alumni interview). This student went on to become the 43rd president of the United States--a position he was accorded just as undeservedly as the diploma he got at graduation.
PennyK
(2,302 posts)in Bellmore, Long Island. Also, Ben and Jerry became friends doing extra laps around my high-school track.
malthaussen
(17,241 posts)... but other than that, I got nuthin'.
-- Mal
samnsara
(17,665 posts)samnsara
(17,665 posts)Freddie
(9,282 posts)Fun fact: His real name is Daryl Hohl.
Skinner
(63,645 posts)I did high school plays with Sean Patrick Thomas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Patrick_Thomas
And I sang in the school chorus with Dennis Brockenborough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Brockenborough
Not exactly household names, but I think they qualify as famous.
bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)Couple of years behind the actress that played Donna on All my Children.
Couple of years ahead of Bella Shaw from CNN
Little Star
(17,055 posts)also my stepbrother William Joel "Taz" DiGregorio (January 8, 1944 October 12, 2011) was a longtime member and keyboardist for the Charlie Daniels Band. He was born and lived in Southbridge, Massachusetts until 1962 when he went on the road. He was self-taught on the keyboards, practicing from tunes by Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, and Little Richard following his attendance at a Ray Charles concert.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_DiGregorio
enid602
(8,678 posts)Eddie Munster and Sharon Tate's sister.
Noodleboy13
(422 posts)He wrote and directed WALL-E, Monsters inc., Up. and was involved in the writing of pretty much most all of the Toy Story movies.
peace,
Noodleboy
Grammy23
(5,815 posts)But it was Betty Buckley who is a Broadway star. Arlington Heights High School, Fort Worth, TX. I think she graduated in 1965.
She sang at Casa Mañana in Dallas, I think, during her high school years.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)that Jon Stewart called everyone first girlfriend.
Same drama class.
Brother Buzz
(36,505 posts)The drug addled idiot burgled Daniel Ellsberg's house in Mill Valley, California, and a copy of the papers was part of his booty. I did not even know Ellsberg lived in my town at the time.
The interesting story was Ellsberg trying to get the papers back, but they were being held as evidence at the county seat. The Feds were fighting to get them, too, because it was their property.
A genuine copy of the Pentagon Papers sat in the evidence vault at the Marin County Civic Center because they hadn't invented eBay yet. Hell, my drug addled idiot 'buddy' must have written a million letters of authenticity over the years, "Would have, could have, should have been".
kwassa
(23,340 posts)David, Chris, and Tina.
also future film director Gus Van Sant.
Glass artist Dale Chihuly was teaching there, before he became famous.
Martin Mull had graduated earlier, came back and performed. Charlie Rocket, was also briefly on SNL, and played a role on "Moonlighting" as whats-his-name's brother used to MC all the school events. He was hilarious.
Nobody famous from my high school, that I know of.
musette_sf
(10,209 posts)but we sang in the chorus together for years.
Some famous (and infamous) alums after my time:
Elena Kagan
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Chris Hayes
Cynthia Nixon
Thunder Levin (writer of Sharknado)
and... (the infamous) Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli, who, PS, never graduated...
Initech
(100,149 posts)bearsfootball516
(6,378 posts)Cincinnati Bengals tight end. Had a couple of short conversations with him. Really nice guy.
Misskittycat
(1,916 posts)Prime Minister of Israel. I'm not a fan.
During his teenage years, his father was a visiting history professor at a university in Philadelphia, so he attended my high school in suburban Philly.
wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)His younger brother Joe was in my class. We all caddied together at the local country club. My cousin married one of his brothers.
His real name is Ramon Estavez. We still see each other at funerals but that is about it.
llmart
(15,569 posts)It was much too small. However, my father went to high school with Jesse Owens.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)He was from Hibbing, MN. and 5 years older than I am. The pictures I have seen of him from that game are embarrassing, he could jump at least a foot higher than any player on our team.
CottonBear
(21,598 posts)She was very beautiful, became famous as a "Breck (shampoo) Girl" model and only dated college boys.
Many years ago, my then boyfriend spotted her and her then husband, Alec Baldwin, shopping in our local Kroger at Thanksgiving.
Orrex
(63,291 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,831 posts)I knew her a little.
WyLoochka
(1,629 posts)Liggett School - in Detroit then moved to Grosse Pointe. Now - University Liggett
"lower school" - I went to a different "upper school". Gilda was the best - always. Very kind and thoughtful person. Huge heart. Especially fun at slumber parties.
Rhiannon12866
(206,868 posts)Natalie Cole, Laura Linney, Uma Thurman and Valerie Jarrett were all fellow graduates, but Valerie Jarrett is the only one who was close enough that we might have crossed paths, but we never did.
And the only one I know about who was infamous was William "Cujo" Wolfe - of Symbionese Liberation Army fame. I recognized the name among alumni deaths when he died, but the school never took credit for him, unlike the others. I didn't cross paths with him, either.
eppur_se_muova
(36,317 posts)Nomination to the FEC by Shrub withdrawn, appointed to 45's Advisory Committee to Suppress Democratic Votes.
Also a climate change denier (after being a star science pupil in high school !) and Muslim immigrant ban apologist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_von_Spakovsky to examine his "qualifications".
milestogo
(16,829 posts)at his college. He was a Republican, but he wanted to be president of the club. He got in some legal trouble, but I don't remember what it was.
July
(4,752 posts)He was a year behind me in high school. Didn't know him well, but knew him as a good guy. He played both football and basketball, IIRC. Also academically talented.
VOX
(22,976 posts)What must be only a partial list of UniHi notables (grad year noted if available):
Richard Anderson (actor)
Mackenzie Astin 1991 (actor)
Eric Avery (rock bassist, Jane's Addiction)
Jan Berry 1959 (singer/songwriter, Jan and Dean)
Karla Bonoff (singer/songwriter)
Jeff Bridges 1967 (actor)
James Brolin (actor)
David Cassidy (actor)
Darby Crash (born Jan Paul Beahm) (musician, punk-rock pioneer, the Germs)
Sandra Dee, born Alexandra Zuck, 1958 (actor)
John Densmore (rock drummer, The Doors)
Bobby Driscoll (Academy Award-winning child star)
Danny Elfman (musician, Oingo Boingo, film composer)
Kim Fowley 1958 (rock musician/producer)
Judy Garland (singer/actor)
Peggy Ann Garner (actor)
Jill Gibson 1960 (singer and artist)
Omar Gooding (actor)
Barry Gordon 1966 (actor)
Kim Gordon (musician, bassist, Sonic Youth)
Jane Harman 1962 (congresswoman for California's 36th Congressional District 199399, 200111)
Jason Hervey 1990 (actor)
Bruce Johnston (Beach Boys singer-songwriter, Grammy Award winner)
Jack Jones 1957 (singer)
Brian Kingman 1971 (professional baseball player for Oakland Athletics and San Francisco Giants)
Kathy Kohner-Zuckerman 1958 (real-life Gidget, who inspired the novel and its later film and television adaptations)
Patricia Krenwinkel 1966 (convicted murderer, member of Manson family)
Robby Krieger (guitarist/songwriter, The Doors)
Bill Lancaster (screenwriter, son of actor Burt Lancaster)
David Lang 1974 (Pulitzer prize-winning composer)
Nan Leslie (actor)
Lorna Luft 1968-70 (singer/actor, daughter of Judy Garland)
Betty Lynn (actor)
Sue Lyon (actor)
Bryan MacLean 1964 (singer/composer, musician with the band Love)
Samantha Mathis 1988 (actor)
Doug McClure (TV and film actor)
Roddy McDowall 1946 (actor)
Maria McKee 1982 (singer/songwriter, Lone Justice)
Kevin Millar (professional baseball player)
Penelope Ann Miller (actor)
Marilyn Monroe (actor)
Shelley Taylor Morgan (actor)
Dave Navarro (musician, Jane's Addiction)
Randy Newman (singer/composer)
Ryan O'Neal (actor)
Mel Patton (1948 Olympic gold medal sprinter; former world record holder, 100 yd & 220 yd dash)
Paul Petersen (actor)
Bonnie Raitt (singer-songwriter/guitarist)
Stephen Reinhardt 1949 (judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit)
Tommy Rettig 1958 (actor)
Herb Ritts (photographer)
Kira Roessler (musician/bassist, Black Flag)
David E. Shaw (investor/computer scientist)
Frank Sinatra, Jr. (singer/conductor, son of Frank Sinatra)
Nancy Sinatra 1958 (singer/actor, daughter of Frank Sinatra)
Pat Smear (musician, punk rock pioneer, the Germs, Nirvana, Foo Fighters)
Steve Smith, Sr. (NFL wide receiver)
Felicia Stewart (doctor/author)
Elizabeth Taylor (actor)
Marshall Thompson (actor)
Tone Lōc (born Anthony Terrell Smith) (hip-hop artist)
Dean Torrence 1958 (singer, Jan & Dean)
Rick Van Santen 1980 (co-founder Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival)
Jay Walker (NFL quarterback, 19941998; Maryland House of Delegates District 26, 2006present)
Howard Wolpe 1956 (Congressman, Michigan's 3rd Congressional District from 1979 to 1993)
Steve Wynn (musician, songwriter, The Dream Syndicate)
Titus Young (NFL wide receiver)
Jordan Zevon 1988 (musician, music producer, son of Warren Zevon)
GusBob
(7,286 posts)Our mascot was A Nobody
Close brush with infamy: guy I graduated went missing when Jeffery Dahmer was on the prowl in Milwaukee, just disappeared without a trace. Presumed to be a victim
For years, that was the claim to fame for our high school, a victim of cannibalism
Then long story short, after 2 decades, it turns out he just took off and started a second life far away from Milwaukee, he died and his wife called his family to clear up the mystery.
Kaleva
(36,404 posts)After graduation, he moved to Milwaukee and disappeared shortly after. Jeffery identified him from photos as a victim.