Mission Bay High School Alumni

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Request for MBHS Senior Exhibition Panel Members

MBHS is seeking parents, community members and alumni to serve as panel members for the Senior Exhibitions on Thursday, May 19, 2010.

Successful completion of the Senior Exhibition is mandatory for graduation from San Diego City Schools. The Exhibition gives each Senior an opportunity to talk about their high school course work, activities, and personal growth.

Some parents want to better understand the expectations for their own child but it is also a wonderful way to say "We as a community care about our youth." Either way, we encourage your participation.

Please contact Aida Alba, Employer Outreach Specialist, at (858) 273-1313 ext. 106 if you have any questions.

Please return the following information indicating your willingness to participate on May 14, 2009. You can reply to Aida Reynoso-Alba, Employer Outreach Specialist, via e-mail at ireynoso@sandi.net or by mail to Mission Bay High School 2475 Grand Ave., San Diego, CA 92109 or fax (858) 273-3951

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The 3rd Annual "All Alumni Homecoming Celebration" a big success!:

This year's All Alumni Homecoming Celebration not only had a record turnout but raised over $3,000 and, better yet, we had over 90 new members join the organization. SEE THE EVENT PHOTOS BY CLICKING HERE !

Thank you to the following businesses below who donated items for our silent auction or services for the event - remember the best thank you is to support those with your business who support us!

Broken Yolk
Hornblower Cruises
Roppongi Restaurant
Sammy‘s Woodfried Pizza
Pernicano’s Pizza House
La Jolla Playhouse
In-N-Out Burger
Idyllwild Inn
Better Buzz
Bears, Buddies & Toys
Barnes Tennis Center
At the Upper Level Spa
Catamaran Hotel
Fleming's Steakhouse
Great News!
H&M Landing
RT's Longboard Grill
Rubio's
San Diego Coaster Company
Society Billard Café
Stanley Steemer
The Wave House
Bogart Yogurt
Boomers

Thank you to the MBHS Staff that support our event:

Principal Fred Hilgers
Emmett Dodd
Reid Brisebois

Special thanks to all the volunteers and alumni who graciously give of their time:

Alumni

Cori Meara
Leigh Morioka
Jean Naugle
Rosalie Martin
Ellen Sawyer
Janet Allen
Cindy Palmer
Maureen Quessenberry
Sandi Jahries

Friends of MBHS Alumni Association

Sandy McClelland
Lori Libs
Pat Hom
Lori Glasgow
Tommie Deitz

MBHSAA Project Yearbooks Online:

The MBHS Alumni Association would like to put every MBHS yearbook online ! There are already some yearbooks on this website and more to follow when time and money allows it.
You can help by making a tax deductible donation ( this is the easy way ) or by scanning your yearbooks at 600dpi and sending us your digitized images.

Please contact Pam Deitz at mbhsaa@earthlink.net for more information.

To learn more about tax deductible donations and gifts to MBHSAA, please visit Give & Volunteer

True or False... Does MBHS have a Nobel Prize Winning alumni?:

TRUE!

Dr. Richard Schrock '63 received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2005. Dr. Schrock was the first honoree in the MBHS Alumni Association's Alumni Excellence Awards Series which was held January 15, 2009. A special assembly was held in the MBHS auditorium with over 300 MBHS honor students, staff, classmates and alumni attending. As a special tribute (and surprise) to Dr. Schrock's prestigious accomplishment, the Chemistry building was dedicated in his honor.

For more information on Dr. Schrock please see http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2005/schrock-autobio.html

The MBHS Alumni Association is currently in search of additional participants for this series. Please contact mbhsaa@earthlink.net with your recommendations.

MBHSAA has a new Logo:

The Mission Bay High School Alumni Association thanks Paul Sjoberg '86 for designing our fabulous new logo. Also, thank you to Kyle Ketchum '86 for working with us on this project. We appreciate both Paul and Kyle's volunteer efforts with MBHSAA. It is quite fitting our new logo was designed by MBHS alumni as it will be used for many years to come...

MBHSAA will be hosting our VIP "All Alumni Party" every year at Homecoming

UPDATE: THE SECOND ANNUAL ALL ALUMNI HOMECOMING CELEBRATION

SEE THE 2008 EVENT PHOTOS BY CLICKING HERE !

The Second Annual All Alumni Homecoming Celebration was held October 17, 2008 and, we are pleased to report, was an even bigger success than last year. Thanks to Dennis Pugh, MBHS Athletic Director, our VIP tents were again set up in the end zone area of the field which made an exciting game even better. In addition to the tents, silent auction, merchandise table and delicious food and beverages -- we had prime seating set up for the near sell out game which our alumni football fans really enjoyed. Our event is a special arrangement just for the MBHS Alumni Association and not only offered a fabulous view of the game but a great opportunity to mingle with other alumni from all years.

The MBHSAA was especially proud to bring back the Hall of Champions inductions this year honoring outstanding athletes and, for the first time, outstanding coaches from 1999-2004 who are listed below:

Ricky Frink - Baseball '99

Vernon Smith - Football '00

JaJa Riley - Football '01

Shannon Nowden - Football/Track '01

Scott White - Football -'02

Marcus Smith - Football - '03

Jared Bray - Football/Track -'03

Brock Ungricht - Baseball '03

Ron Rocket - Football '03

Shawn Harper - Football '03

Phien Dinh - Badminton

Amanda Rego - Basketball '04

Amber Sprague - Basketball '04

Larry Willis - Coach

Anne Rosser - Coach

We kicked off the Homecoming game with the Hall of Champion induction ceremony in which the Hall of Champion inductee walked through a line up of cheering football players and cheerleaders. Each inductee and their accomplishments were announced to the crowd by Athletic Director Dennis Pugh as they received their personalized Hall of Champions plaque. Current Hall of Champions and past Hall of Champions Directors attending the event were invited to attend the event and were on the field to celebrate the new inductees.

Special thanks to this year's Hall of Champion Committee:

Coach Dennis Pugh

Coach Dennis Kane

Coach Mike Seaman (retired)

Steve Henson

Cori Meara '81

Pam Deitz '80

Thank you to Robert Harutunian, former MBHS coach and Hall of Champion Board of Director who was a wealth of information and extremely supportive in getting this program reinstated.

Also adding to this year's success were three class reunion weekends who planned activities around Homecoming - Class of '73, 88 and 98. It made the day even more festive seeing old classmates reunited. To make the day even more fun, we had the Homecoming Queen from 1958 in attendance who crowned our new 2008 Homecoming Queen 50 years almost to the day after she had been crowned. All in all, this year we doubled our attendance from last year with over 150 people joining us for the event and added 82 official new Mission Bay High School Alumni Association members. Overall, we made about $3,500 in merchandise sales, memberships and donations which is welcome "seed money" for future events.

MBHSAA will be hosting our VIP "All Alumni Party" every year at Homecoming (The 2009 Home coming date will be available early Spring 2009. Please keep in mind, this is a convenient and fun venue to start a class reunion weekend or just a casual class gathering. The "All Alumni Homecoming Celebration" is free to alumni with a paid admission to the game. If you are an ANNUAL(current in 2008 - annual memberships have to be renewed each year), LIFE or SUSTAINING member entrance to the Homecoming game is free. It is a goal of MBHSAA to start alumni traditions on campus and we are off to a good start. Please join us next year! Everyone commented how much fun it was to be back at a football game, hearing the great jazz band play once again, seeing old friends, meeting new friends and cheering on our team. On behalf of the MBHSAA it was our pleasure to host this event and alumni from Class of '55 through Class of '08! We look forward to many years to follow…

Thank you to the Special Volunteers

Cori (Smith) Meara '81

Janet (Noble) Allen '71

Cindy Palmer '71

Ellen (Brotman) Sawyer '80

Tommie Deitz

Laura (Brown) Hanzlik '80

Retired MBHS Coach Mike Seaman

Thank you to the MBHS Staff

Principal Cheryl Seelos

Athletic Director Dennis Pugh

Thank you to David Bark '80 for a most generous contribution…

Thank you to the following businesses below who donated items for our silent auction or services for the event - remember the best thank you is to support those with your business who support us!

California Candids – Evan Bloom ‘81
Crown Point Clippers – David Hingeley ‘79
Bogart Yogurt
Broken Yolk
Catamaran Hotel
Cheek 2 Cheek Dance Studio
Evans Hotels
Filippi’s Pizza Grotto
Great News!
Ichiban PB
Islands Restaurant
Kristen Victor Design
LIBS Chiropractic
Lotsa Pasta
Magic Mountain
North Shore Printery
Pernicano’s Pizza House
Phil‘s BBQ
Roppongi Restaurant
Rosarito Beach Hotel
Sammy‘s Woodfried Pizza
San Diego Coaster Company
San Diego Harbor Excursions
Sunglass Shop & Optical
Zoological Society of San Diego
Seaforth Boat Rental‘s
See‘s Candy
Shore‘s Restaurant
Society Billard
Stanley Steemer
The Old Globe
The Wave House
Velocity Audio Visual Services – Toby Russell ‘81