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Famous Mariners
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Famous Page Narrative & Instructions
In no particular order, except latest entries will be at the top of the last page
| Ed Teagle Ed Teagle |
Ed Teagle was inducted into the
San Diego County High School Coaching Legends. Teagle
was head track coach and athletic director at Mar Vista between 1958-72 where
he won six league championships. He then went to Bonita Vista where
he won six straight Metro League titles as well.
He died of cancer in 1986 at the age of 59.
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| '75 | Kenney Pryce |
Kenny was a Professional baseball player for the
Chicago Cubs
organization, 1980-87. 43 wins 33 losses and 51 saves 4.07 era. in 1980 was chosen
Most Valuable player
in the Colombian League. Was voted
MVP
of the Caribbean World Series of 1983, while pitching for Ponce, Puerto Rico.
Set team record
for triple AAA Iowa cubs in 1985 appearing in 51 games. Retired at the end of the 1987 season. Now residing in Des Moines, Iowa and a
member of the triple AAA hall of fame.
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| '60 | Henry
Vargas |
Henry has created and maintained what is known as the
largest high school alumni website in the
world. He has taken the time to create a labor of love for the REAL love of his life: Mar Vista High School. |
| '84 | Joe
Quintanilla |
Joe has been lucky to have been in several movies, mainly as an extra but with some speaking parts too, such as; |
| '57 | Lou
Curtiss |
Lou graduated in 1957. He has owned a shop in
San Diego called Folk Arts Rare Records since 1967. He has been instrumental over the course of 30 years in organizing and booking over 50 music festivals in San Diego. He is
founder of the nonprofit San Diego Folk and Adams Avenue Roots Festivals. For many years he has hosted a Sunday night radio program on KSDS called
"Jazz
Roots." He has been interviewed many times by the San Diego papers, and is considered a walking musical encyclopedia who does archival work, and has been actively promoting folk music in various forms for years. Please visit his website at:
www.folkartsrarerecords.com.
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| '71 | Sam McLarty |
Sam has been collecting surfboards for fifteen years. Some of his collection is featured in his restaurant "Taco Surf". His collection has been recognized on Channel 8 and San Diego Magazine. http://www.surfshot.com/items/magazine_item.html?context_id=227&item_id=240 (restaurant) http://www.kfmb.com/features/larry_himmel/story.php?id=33387 (channel 8) http://www.sandiegomag.com/issues/jan06/featurea0106.asp (San Diego Magazine) ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| '59 | Jerry Overton |
Jerry,
along with big Les Matthews, led the Mariners to many victory's in
football and basketball, both achieved the distinction of being named to
the all SCIF teams in both sports Southern Calif.
Interscholastic Assoc. Jerry,
graduated from university of Utah, in 1962, and was selected to many all
American teams as a running back, that was the last year the "college
all-stars played the champions of the NFL. Jerry was selected to play in
this game. Jerry
was drafted by the newest team in the NFL, the
Dallas Cowboys. That first
team also featured Dick Butkus (who some consider the finest ever).
Jerry’s first year with Dallas he returned a punt for a touchdown against
the San Francisco 49ers. The next winter Jerry broke his leg in a snow
skiing accident and could never regain his old form.. so Jerry went into
coaching, sometimes in the S.D. area schools. |
| '63 | Jerry
Tucker |
In 1973 Lt. Jerry Tucker flew the Solo # 6 airplane for the World Famous
Blue Angles. In 1974 Lt. Jerry Tucker was promoted to the Lead Solo # 5 aircraft. He is now retired and lives in Bonita Calif. and plays a mean game of golf.
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| '65 | Byron Shewman |
President and founder of Starlings Volleyball Clubs, USA. Website
www.starlings. |
| '73 | Emo Coleman |
After leaving M.V. in
Dec.1972, he joined the Ironworkers Local 627. In June of 1974 he
transferred to Ironworkers Local 229. In 1997 he was appointed the organizer
for Local 229. Next on May 2002 he
appointed Business Agent.
In Sept. 2003 he was appointed to the head
position of Business Manager/Financial Secretary-Treasurer.
Ironworkers Local 229's jurisdiction covers all of San Diego-Imperial
Counties, and parts of Orange/Riverside Counties.
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| '68 | Ray Mounts |
"I have been the
head coach at Helix High School for past two years, coaching track
and field in some capacity since 1990. This year the
boy's team became only
the third H.S. in San Diego History to win the California State Track
and Field Championship.
League Champs 4 of last 5 years , San Diego CIF
Champs '03, runner -up in "02 "00. El Camino H.S. was the
last team to win in 1978, San Diego High won in it twice
1929 and tied in '30 , and won again 1938. Photo
1 photo 2
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| '57 | Cal Rayborn Jr. |
"Whenever there’s a
discussion about who is
America’s best road racer of all
time, Cal Rayborn’s name
inevitably is mentioned. Rayborn
won 11 AMA nationals
during his relatively short seven-year professional racing career. Ten of
those victories came on road racing courses, making him easily
the top American road racer of his
era. Rayborn’s fame spread
to Europe in 1972 when he rode a Harley-Davidson XR750 in the popular
Transatlantic Match Races and
won three of the six races to
tie as top scorer in the series. Rayborn’s performance proved once and
for all that Americans could road race." |
| '98 | Jorge Isaac Garci | Jorge
plays in a punk band by the name of 3RDNLONG he is the
singer/song writer/and guitar player
for this band, they are currently signed to SPROCKET records in southern
Texas and they have toured the east coast of the united states. Have play major events like the valley palooza were they shared the stage with acts like
UNLOCO (maverick rec.),DYNAMITE BOY (fearless rec), Fat JOE(RAPPER),
Ataris (mca records), 3RDNLONG has 2 albums available and have 2 videos recorded that have aired on much music! If you
don't remember Jorge he graduated in 1998 and he was the goalie, capt, for our mariners! his nick name was "CHOCHA" with his
soccer teammates! 3rdnlong's web page www.angelfire.com/stars3/3nl email info for gigs solong0529@yahoo.com also email that same email for any info about this
submission I'm his manager Felix! thank you!
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| '92 | Rooz Bahjat | I am
proud to announce that since my graduation from Mar Vista High 92, I
have had the privilege to serve the Iraqi-opposition to
Saddam Hussein.
From 2000 - 2001 I was the Director General of the Kurdistan Regional Government's Public Relations Office. From 2001 - Present, I'm the Deputy Director if the Information and Public Relations in the Prime Minister's Special Bureau. I'm also the Prime Minister's Assistant on Media affairs. I'm currently working on a book, that is the
result of 3 years of independent
research in Iraqi-Kurdistan, titled: The Kurdish-Talaba: Islamic Fundamentalism
as Proxy Destabilization Surrages in Iraqi-Kurdistan.
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| '58 | Bruce Osterberg | Bruce was
the first consultant certified by
the Intel Corporation. It
meant that Intel vouched for his ability to design applications for their
new single chip computer dubbed the MC4. That was in 1971 and Intel
has certified thousands of engineers since, but Bruce was the first.
Among Bruce’s other pioneering achievements, was the first computer-controlled printer, the first computer controlled mechanical slot machine and routing devices for the first credit card network. Even the familiar magnetic stripe on credit cards and paper passenger tickets bears his imprint. In 1964, he designed and installed the world’s first automatic fare collection system using magnetic cards. Bruce is retired and living in Escondid.
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| '60 | Frank Estrada | Frank was the lead singer of a rock n band in Mexico called the
Rocking Devils.
He did
3 movies and
received 5 Golden Records, and
3 Silver Records in
his Career as a singer.
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| '88 | Margarita Salazar | Margarita
'Margie' Salazar is the first Mariner to serve as a White
House Intern. She is
working for the White House Office of
Media Affairs Office
during the Winter of 2002.
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| '94 | Tony Hernandez | Tony will be on the syndicated version of the
Weakest Link. It will on channel 7 at 3:00
PM, on January 17, 2002,
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| '05 | Kara Chavez | Kara
was a famous
model appearing in several
commercials and was a an extra when he was just 4 years old in the Teenage
Mutant Ninja turtles, He now models
for Ken Dorfman Inc. in Hollywood, You might have also seen him in a
recent 7up commercials
that appeared on the last super bowl. He also appeared in Dennis
the Menace as Dennis the menace
friend. All though he is a very quiet person Kara is going to have a great
future.
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| '90 | Fred Olande | Fred was a
professional skateboarder from 91-94 competing in competition with such greats as Tony Hawk. He did several
commercials and appeared in several
Nikelodeon shows and traveled to almost 20 countries. He now works in Sales as a Sales manager.
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| '93 | Coreena Mulloy | Miss
Imperial Beach, 1994, Charger Girl , 1999 -2000. Now a budding
Country
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| '96 | Angie Ramirez | Angie
is
currently a
Charger Girl
in her rookie season (2001)
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| '92 | Becky Robinson | Becky was
a
Charger Girl
for the 1997 season.
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| '88 | Trishaa Crockett | Trisha was
a
Charger Girl
for the 1996 and 1997 seasons.
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| '54 | Hugh Ord | Hugh is
among the best slow pitch softball players in the
nation. He is so good that people pay him to travel all over the country to play in
tournaments. He was seen at a tournament in Virginia and he was said to be
awesome. He went something like 20 for 24 with about 10 home runs. It is
said he does this type of performance on a regular basis. He was, of course, the player of the
tournament. He hits the ball out of parks that stifle players in their twenties. He might be in the slow pitch
hall of fame..
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| '69 | Tony Padilla | Tony was elected president of city of
San Diego American Federation of State, County, Municipal Employees, Local
127. He represents City Employees in San Diego & Coronado.
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| '69 | Evie Avinante | Evie is an
Interior Architectural Designer. Her work has been featured in
San Diego Home Garden Lifestyles
Magazine and on
television.
This past year, Evie completed work on San Francisco State University's "Centennial Square." It consisted of seven mid-rise student apartments (474 of them!) a new multi-level Student Services Center, three levels of subterranean parking, six retail spaces and a variety of community meeting halls and support offices. It just won a national award for student housing design. And as notable past clients, she did Col. Frank Borman's custom home in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He is one of the original Gemini 7 astronauts, who went to the moon. And locally, she did professional baseball player, Roberto Alomar's vacation house in Del Mar, California------and flew to Maui, just to buy the artwork! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| '75 | Frank Urtasun | Frank still lives in IB and
has been on the SD Port Commission for close to 10 years, and is currently the
Chairman. This is
his second term as the Chairman of one of the most powerful organizations in
the greater San Diego area. (2/1/01) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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WHAT IT'S NOT: I respect, applaud, and hold in high esteem those many "every day heroes" in our Mariner community. To the mom who sacrificed her dreams and ambitions to devote her total "being" to raising and caring for her number one priority, her family.... to the dad who worked hard all his life to provide for his family, with the hope his children might have a better life... to the many volunteers who give of their time and resources for good causes... and to the many other honest, law abiding, good Mariner citizens who lead their lives in virtual anonymity.. I salute you.
WHAT IT IS: But this page was not meant to honor those many heroes, nor is is meant to glorify the Mariners listed above. It is less seriously devoted to providing you with interesting, little known information relating to the unusual occupations, achievements and fame, however local it may be, of some of your classmates. I'm sure you, and the school, will take pride from the successes of our classmates, I know I do. - Henry Vargas
SUBMISSIONS: Please make sure of your facts, we wouldn't want to embarrass anybody. Include in your submissions, the School name and Class Year. There are no other qualifications.. your judgement is good enough for me. Email additions, deletions, corrections and suggestions ( or critiques) to: mva-alumni@cox.net
