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Robert Barnes |
Education |
1956 |
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Alice Brown |
Sports |
1978 |
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 Alice
Brown (far right) was a two-time Olympic gold medalist, as a
member of the U.S. women’s 4x100-meter relay teams at the 1984 Games
in Los Angeles (which included Evelyn Ashford) and the 1988 Games in
Seoul (which included Ashford, Sheila Echols and Brown's former Cal
State Northridge teammate Florence Griffith
Joyner). Brown also won a silver medal in the ’84 Olympics, placing
second behind Ashford in the 100m dash with a time of 11.13 seconds.
She also was a semifinalist in the 100 meters and a gold medalist
along with Echols, Griffith-Joyner and Ashford in the 4x100 meters
at the 1987 World Track and Field Championships in Rome. A fast
starter, Brown ran the first leg on the Mustang girls 640 relay team
including Regina Jordan, Gwen Jordan and Lissette Milliner, which
broke the CIF record in the 1975 Times Indoor Games at the Forum in
Inglewood. The four came back the following year and broke their own
record at the same event in 1976. Brown also won the 60-yard dash at
the Long Beach Invitational during her junior year. |
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Elbie Hickambottom |
Government Service |
1942 |
A longtime member of the Pasadena Unified
School District Board of Education (1979-2004), Elbie
Hickambottom was one of the last graduates of John Muir Tech. He
served his country in the U.S. Army during World War II as one of
the youngest sergeants in Europe, and as a second lieutenant in the
Korean War. In 1967 he was appointed as Director of Relocation and
Property Management for the Pasadena Redevelopment agency and later
as Senior Vice President of Municipal Services, a private consulting
firm, until his retirement in 1985.
Mr. Hickambottom will be forever remembered as a champion of
excellence in education and a strong voice for improving academic
achievement for all, particularly for disadvantaged and minority
students. |
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Nathaniel Rosen |
Performing Arts |
1965 |
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 Nathaniel
“Nick” Rosen is an award-winning cellist and professor of music. His
cello was crafted in 1738 by Domenico Montagnana, the "Mighty
Venetian." The instrument was previously owned by Adrien-Francois
Servais (1807-1866) who invented the endpin.
At the age of six, Rosen began studying with USC professor Elonore
Schoenfeld. At age 12 his teacher encouraged him to move on, first
intending to study with Gabor Rejto but, when it was announced that
Gregor Piatigorsky was joining USC, Rosen auditioned and was
welcomed into his studio and the newly created Institute for Special
Musical Studies at age 13. He also studied chamber music with other
renowned teachers that joined Piatigorsky and the institute,
including Jascha Heifetz and William Primrose.
At age 17, while a student at Muir, Rosen won a prize at the
prestigious International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. While a
student at USC, he became a founding member and eventually principal
cellist of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. He also studied with
Laurence Lesser. By age 22, the same year he graduated from USC, he
had also become Piatigorsky's assistant — a post he maintained for
five years. In 1977, at the age of 30 he became principal cellist of
the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under Andre Previn. The following
year, he later became the second-ever American gold prize winner
(after pianist Van Cliburn) at the Tchaikovsky Competition in 1978.
The victory thrust him into the forefront of the classical music
circuit.
Rosen has soloed for, among others, the philharmonic orchestras of
New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Dresden, the Czech
Philharmonic and the London Symphony Orchestra. He has taught at the
University of Illinois, has been a faculty member for the Manhattan
School of Music and currently teaches at USC. |
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Gail Tusan-Joyner |
Community Service |
1974 |
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