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Inger Miller |
Sports |
1990 |
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huge contributor to Muir’s unrivaled track-and-field success,
Inger Miller is the daughter of the late Lennox Miller
(1946-2004), who ran for Jamaica and won a silver medal in the
100-meter dash at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City; and a bronze
medal in the same event at the 1972 Munich games. He was a dentist
in the Pasadena area for more than 30 years. Both attended USC and
Inger followed her father’s footsteps by becoming a world-class
sprinter, winning Olympic gold in Atlanta (1996) and Athens (2002)
as a member of the 4x100-meter U.S. relay team. Miller and her
colleague, former Muir cheerleader Jill Hawkins, are
co-owners of
Miller Hawkins Productions, an
event-planning company. |
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Samuel Estrada |
Government Service |
1971 |
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Bobby Hutcherson |
Visual/Performing Arts |
1958 |
 Bobby
Hutcherson grew up in Pasadena, he was exposed to jazz from an
early age, and his family had some connections to the local jazz
scene. He started studying piano at age nine, but he found the
formality of the training stifling. In his teens, Hutcherson decided
to take up the vibraphone after hearing a Milt Jackson record. He
studied informally with vibist Dave Pike, but, for the most part, he
is self-taught on the instrument. After high school, Hutcherson
played with local jazz musicians Les McCann, Charles Lloyd, Paul
Bley, Scott LaFaro, and Curtis Amy. He joined an ensemble co-led by
Al Grey and Billy Mitchell, and the band went on to record several
albums. In the late-Sixties Hutcherson formed a quintet with Harold
Land. To this day, the dry-toned tenor saxophonist is probably most
well-known for his work with the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet in
the middle 1950's. The two had similar musical visions, and their
collaboration produced some amazing work. |
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Habib Balian |
Government Service |
1979 |
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 Habib
Balian is an extension of his family’s American success story.
The son of Syrian immigrants who built a successful ice cream
business, Habib excelled in school, serving as student body
president at Muir and earning a degree in international relations at
USC. From 1999 until its completion in 2003, Balian was chief
administrative officer of the Los Angeles-to-Pasadena Gold Line
light-rail construction project, which is currently
operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and runs
between Union Station and east Pasadena. In 2004, the five-member
board of the Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction
Authority unanimously promoted Balian to chief executive officer of
the 24-mile Pasadena-to-Montclair project, which is scheduled for
completion in 2014. The job involves securing funding
for the engineering, design and repair of new and existing rail,
bridges, stations, public art and other infrastructure. |
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