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2013 Hall of Fame Inductees |
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Category |
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Harold Busby |
Sports/Coaching |
1965 |
At Muir he was involved in Varsity football and
track (coached by legendary coach, Walt Opp.) He had an outstanding
career at Muir in track winning the CIF sprints (100 yards in 9.4
and 220 yards in 20.5) in 1964 and the State title in 1965. He was
named to the All-American team for both the 100 and 220 yard dash.
In addition, he anchored winning CIF and State relay teams in
1964-65. He also was an accomplished member of the varsity football
team (1963 and 1964).
After Muir, he continued his athletic and academic
career at UCLA where he was a 3-year Letterman in both football and
track. In the 1966 National Meet he finished 3rd in the 100 and 4th
in the 220 and was named to represent the United States on its Track
Team. He was a member of World Record Relay teams and was ranked 8th
in the world in the 220 and anchored the UCLA 4 x100 relay team
defeating USC, and leading UCLA to its first dual meet victory in
school history.
In football he was the leading receiver all three years
and ranked 4th All-Time besides a season-ending injury at the
half-way point. None the less, the Oakland Raiders professional
football team drafted him as their 8th draft choice in 1969. While
at Oakland, Harold was a member of the Raiders Taxi Squad (Practice
team) before electing to finish his BA degree (in Political Science)
at UCLA in December 1971 and later received an MBA (in Management)
from Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey.
His business success was equally impressive as his
sports success and he transferred what he learned from sports to a
successful career in business. These attitudes and skills include:
being tenacious, reliable team leader, team player, highly
adaptable, results-oriented, and interpersonal relationships.
He launched his business career at Security Pacific
Bank graduating in its first Management Training Program. He
relocated to New York City to start a sales career with Merck,
Sharpe & Dohme as a Pharmaceutical Representative calling on
physicians and surgeons. Harold began his medical technology sales
career at Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC). While at DEC, Harold became
the Top Medical Sales person in the company earning numerous sales
awards for many years.
After 18 years with DEC, Harold was recruited by IBM to
manage large corporate accounts such as Nokia and Texas Instruments.
Harold achieved a Global Small-Medium Business Winner, and six-Time
100% Club Winner. Harold retired from IBM after being stricken-twice
with a life threatening disease. After many blessings and full
recovery, Harold started a thriving business, Sales Informatica, and
ministry with his church, Servants-With-A-Testimony.
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Molly Munger |
Community Service |
1966 |
Molly grew up in Pasadena and initially attended Westridge
School. Her stepfather, Dr. Robert Freeman, a member of the PUSD
governing board in the 1960’s, opposed attempts by others on the
board to maintain racial segregation. At his suggestion, Molly
moved at age 14 to John Muir High School. At Muir her
involvement included Aquacade, 2nd Page Editor of the Blazer,
CSF, GAA, Jr. Class Recording Secretary, “M Club”, Quill and
Scroll, Senior Class Treasurer, Senior Prom Chairman, Sophomore
Class Counselor, and Youth Counselor. Her honors included: Bank
of America Award (liberal arts), DAR Citizenship Award, Exchange
Club Girl of the Year, CSF Sealbearer, and National Merit
Finalist. After graduating from Muir she attended and graduated
from Radcliffe College and in 1974 received her law degree from
Harvard Law School.
For Ms. Munger, equality has been a career long
passion. Initially her focus was on women’s rights. As a woman
at Harvard Law School in 1970, just 8% of her classmates were
female and attitudes toward women were not always positive. When
she aced a final exam in one of her law classes, the professor
wrote on her paper: “you’re not such a dumb blond after all Miss
Munger.” She was one of only six women in the Harvard Economics
Department during her undergraduate days and felt driven to
prove them wrong by becoming a great attorney.
Returning to the Los Angeles area, she served from 1974
to 1994 as a U.S. Attorney, a partner in the all-women
litigation firm of Baird, Munger & Meyers, and a partner in the
Los Angeles office of New-York based law firm of Fried, Frank,
Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. Prompted by the L.A. riots and its
aftermath, she left private practice to serve, with one of her
current law partners, as Western Regional Counsel for the NAACP
Legal Defense and Education Fund from 1994-1998. With her
husband and partner, she co-founded the Los Angeles law firm of
English, Munger & Rice in 1999.
Some of her other activities and accomplishments
included the following: helped support propositions to fund
education, supported campaigns of school reform candidates, won
lawsuits to gain more money for school construction, helped to
improve and expand early childhood education, served on boards
supporting education (Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools,
The James Irvine Foundation, UNITE-LA, Children Now, Occidental
College, Southern California Grantmakers, Westridge School) and
was a commissioner on the First 5 California Commission. She is
currently a co-founder and director of the Advancement Project,
a public policy change organization rooted in the civil rights
movement. The Project engineers large-scale systems change to
remedy inequality, expand opportunity and open paths to upward
mobility. In recent years, Molly has become deeply involved in
efforts to improve and expand early childhood education in
California. Her work was critical to the development of
thousands of preschool spaces that serve low income children in
Los Angeles County.
She has urged attorneys interested in a public service
career to live frugally so they don’t get too used to an
extravagant lifestyle and listen to their instincts. She has
been quoted as saying: “You can really tell when talking to
somebody and after talking to them for a while you know what
really makes them light up and what doesn’t. I think people
ought to do the things that make them light up.”
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Starla Lewis |
Education |
1968 |
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At Muir she was involved as a Flag Girl, Girls League,
Adelphians and the Junior Prom Committee.
After graduating from Muir, she went to Pasadena City College
(earned her A.A. in Sociology in 1971), then attended San Diego
State University (earned her B.S. in African American Studies in
1973) and also (earned her M.S. in Counseling in 1974).
Her extensive 40-year teaching career in the San Diego
area included San Diego High School and Lincoln High School, as
well as being a Professor at San Diego State University, Palomar
College, Union Institute and Webster University. She is
presently a professor at San Diego Mesa College where she has
taught since 1993 and served as the Department Chair of Black
Studies for many years. She is an outstanding educator in Ethnic
Studies, Women Studies, African Studies, and Oral
Communications. She has developed and facilitated seminars in
Cultural Diversity, Life Mastery and Emotional Healing both
nationally and internationally. Students and clients are taught
how to use love to address life issues. She works with
corporations, community and social organizations, penal
institutions, and school districts. She has met and worked with
political figures, social activists, writers, and television
personalities including President Bill Clinton, Congresswoman
Shirley Chisholm, Angela Davis, Dick Gregory, Cornel West, Susan
Taylor, Mamie Till (mother of Emmett Till), Rosa Parks, Iyanla
Vanzant, J. California Cooper, Octavia Butler (Muir 1992 Hall of
Fame Inductee), Michael Eric Dyson, Maya Angelou, Steadman
Graham, Mos Def, Queen Latifah, and more.
Starla has utilized her creative abilities as an
author, poet, illustrator and performer to create a unique
environment for experiential lectures, workshops and seminars.
She has appeared on numerous television and radio programs, and
was profiled by the San Diego Tribune as the Bob Marley Peace
Award recipient for Leadership in 2002 and 2003. In 2004 she was
the recipient of the Helen Hawkins Feminist Activist Award from
the Department of Women’s Studies at San Diego State University.
In 2011 the World of Difference Award was presented to Starla by
the San Diego Health Department. In 2012, the Department of
Africana Studies at San Diego State University honored her as an
Outstanding Alumni and Faculty. She is a seven-time recipient of
the Mesa College “Teacher of the Year Award.” Recently, in March
2013, Starla was presented the Outstanding Alumni Award from the
Association of Black Employees of Pasadena City College.
Throughout her career, she has shared her knowledge
with many using a variety of methods and techniques including:
community service (34 times), workshops (30), publications (16),
media appearances (13), serving on Boards (7), and serving on
Committees (20)
Starla is a published author of “Sunkisses” which is
written in English, Spanish, and French. It was created so that
young people of diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds can
learn to love, accept, and see themselves in one another. Her
latest book is “I am Brilliant Powerful Limitless Love.”
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Tim Estes |
Business |
1973 |
At Muir he was involved in playing sports with friends at lunch,
JV Baseball, Pep Activities and working with teachers to improve
his academics. After graduating from Muir he earned his A.A.
from PCC and attended California State, Los Angeles, taking
engineering classes. Some of his time was spent working
part-time in various odd jobs (delivering newspapers) but spent
most of his time working in the float business, his first love.
He had the work ethic to be self-supporting and did not want to
rely on his parents for spending money.
Tim began his passion for float decorating at the age
of 8 when he began helping on the decorating crews that cover
the floats with flowers, seeds and other natural materials for
the Rose Parade. This year he celebrates 50 years of being
involved in float building and decorating. Sweepstakes trophy
winners in recent years include Dole Packaged Foods, Rain Bird
Corporation, FTD, Target Stores and California State PTA. What
all these winners have in common is they enlisted Fiesta Parade
Floats (FPF), established in 1988 by Tim Estes, to help build
and decorate their floats
Tim Estes, CFEE (Certified Festival & Event Executive),
is President of Fiesta Parade Floats, a well-known name in the
parade float building industry. With over 35 years’ experience
in building floats, Tim has assembled an extremely qualified and
talented Team in all areas of design, construction, engineering,
animation, sculpturing and decoration that has created an
impressive record. Tim has led Fiesta Parade Floats in being the
highest prize winning rate Float Company in the Rose Parade for
the last 25 years, including a Rose Parade record 20 Sweepstakes
winners in a row, awarded for the best float each year in the
Rose Parade. Since 1992, 69% of all FPF entries have won one of
the top coveted trophies.
As President of FPF, Tim has overseen the construction
of over 400 Rose Parade floats and countless floats in parades
throughout the United and Canada, including the annual MLK
parade in Los Angeles. In addition, they have produced well over
300 other floats for such parades and events as the Hollywood
Lane Christmas Parade in Hollywood, California, the Boise River
Festival in Boise, Idaho, Universal Studio’s 25th Anniversary
touring float and producing seven floral floats in the United
Arab Emirates for their parade in Abu Dhabi. Over the years, Tim
has participated in parades in Portland, Phoenix, Albuquerque,
Chicago and El Paso, as well as numerous cities in California.
In addition to parades, Fiesta has produced numerous
props and displays for a variety of clients. This list includes
a Japanese Shopping mall in Tokyo; the Bellagio, Palazzo and
Mandalay Bay Hotels in Las Vegas; the Smithsonian Institute in
Washington, DC; Disneyland; Knott’s Berry Farm and the South
Coast Shopping Mall in Costa Mesa, California. He has been
successful by treating his clients as his most important
sponsors and their beautiful float is the culmination of an
awesome, positive, exciting, and unforgettable experience with
his company.
Tim is an active member of IFEA (International Festivals and
Events Association) for over 20 years and for over 15 years with
Cal Fest (California Festival and Events Association). Tim has
served on the IFEA President’s Council, the IFEA Foundation
Alliance Board and is currently a member of the Cal-Fest Board
of Directors, having served as Vice President and is currently
Treasurer.
As a proud graduate of John Muir High School, Tim has
strived to assist in the Pasadena community. For a number of
years, has visited Washington Elementary School, reading books
to children, donating time and supporting causes that have
improved the community, such as the Pasadena Ronald McDonald
House and the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
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Richard J.
Jimenez |
Science (Medicine/Health) |
1976 |
At Muir he was involved in the Pep Commission,
Fishing Club, MECHA Club, Photo Production Staff,
Publications Commission, Activities Commission and
the Track team. After Muir, he attended Mission
College, De Vry University, Mt. San Antonio College
and the University of Southern California (USC).
He has over 30 years’ experience in research and
development of new products, Photovoltaic Solar
panel design, Deep Space satellite system design,
Avionics flight navigation systems and aircraft
instrumentation repairs, Weapon control systems and
Fiber Optical communication systems. His experience
also includes Software Diagnostic Testing and
related engineering specifications, qualification
testing, developing maintenance manuals and test
procedures, designing and maintaining production
test fixtures. He also has much experience in
operating Agilent HP3070 ATE board testing,
programming in BT basic and Visual Basic and
developing automated Test equipment fixtures for an
automated production testing area. His varying
experiences included Network development, loading 3D
computer aided design programs, Autodesk, Revit,
CISCO, Linux, Unix and Novell LAN Network.
All of these experiences were spent in many local
companies including: Loral Electro Optical
(Engineering Specialist), Lockheed Aeronautical
Systems Company (Senior Test Engineer), General
Dynamics (Lead System Engineer) Custom Electronic
Design (Manager of Engineering), OTTO Instruments
(Senior Test Engineer), Rogerson Kratos (Manager
Test Engineering Department, Avionics Test Manager,
Avionics Test Supervisor), Canoga Perkins (Senior
Test Engineer), and Optical Communications Products
(Senior Test Engineer). Part of his engineering
experiences led him to work on the Space Shuttle,
Air Force One, Galileo satellite, counter weapon
systems for military aircraft and training for the
military.
In addition, he spent a year (2002-2003) as a Regional
Occupational Program (ROP) Engineering teacher at
John Muir High School. He instructed students on
programs using real life projects with various
business partners (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, City
of Pasadena and SBC). He was the Muir Technical
Coordinator and was responsible for maintaining
school network and classroom computers. He was
nominated as teacher of the year.
He also was a mentor for the first Robotics team
(Team 980 and Team 2404) at John Muir High School.
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Hon. Jacqueline C. Robinson |
Government |
1996 |
At Muir she was involved in Varsity Basketball, the Finance
Academy, Class of 1996 Class President and Editor-In-Chief and
Organizations Editor of the Hoofbeats Yearbook. After graduating
from Muir she earned her Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in American
Studies from the University of California, Berkeley (2000) and a
Masters in Public Administration (M.A.) from California State
University, Northridge (2010).
Re-elected in March 2011, Jacque Robinson is serving
her second term as member of the Pasadena City Council, District
1 and currently is Vice Mayor of the City of Pasadena. First
elected in 2007 at age 28, Jacque became the youngest elected
female in the history of the city. Born and raised in Pasadena,
Jacque is a product of the district she now represents and is a
proud public school graduate. Her policy initiatives lie in
economic and business development, public safety,
transportation, and youth development. Ms. Robinson has worked
professionally on congressional, state, and local electoral
campaigns for the California Teachers Association, Service
Employees International Union, Philadelphia AFL-CIO, and serves
as a speaker and trainer on topics including civic engagement
and running for office. Jacque recently started a small
consulting firm and has served as adjunct faculty at Pasadena
City College. She is the current Chair of the Foothill Workforce
Investment Board and was recently appointed as a Commissioner to
the Burbank Bob Hope Airport Authority.
Jacque is a graduate of Now President Barack Obama’s
Hopefund—"Yes We Can Training Program" and the Los Angeles
African American Women’s Public Policy Institute. Locally,
Jacque is an active member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
and serves on the advisory board for Rosemary Children’s
services, a foster care and adoption nonprofit. Nationally, she
works closely with the Young Elected Officials Network and
currently serves as California State Director of the National
Foundation for Women Legislators. In 2011, she had the honor of
being selected as 1 or 3 United States fellows for the New
Generation Seminar at the East-West Center studying Asia
Pacific-U.S. policy and was chosen by the American Council of
Young Political Leaders for international exchange to China. She
is the recipient of multiple community awards and recognitions
including being featured as 1 of 15 “Power Women of Pasadena” in
Pasadena Magazine.
She is most proud of her collaborate work spearheading
the Pasadena-Altadena 20/20 initiative
(a grassroots coalition of individuals and organizations working
to stop gang and community violence by focusing on the highest
risk, highest need gang-impacted youth, young adults and their
families), securing funding and completion for the first Lincoln
Avenue Specific Plan and providing yearly emergency preparedness
training for her constituents.
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Mildred Turner |
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Brownfield Service Award |
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Mildred Turner was born and raised in Toledo, Ohio, and attended
Scott High School in Toledo. She attended Toledo University and
majored in Social Work/Psychology. She married her childhood
sweetheart, Raymond (in 1957), and they moved to Pasadena where
she attended PCC and majored in Spanish. They were married for
55 years until her passing on July 23, 2013.
Mildred Turner’s passion for empowering kids through
education began in the late 1960s, when her sons, Kevin (Muir
c/o 1979) and Cameron (Muir c/o 1981), were students at Audubon
Elementary School. Along with maintaining high academic
expectations for their own children, Mildred and her husband,
Ray, united with other parents to motivate and inspire all
students. Mildred and Ray served as co-presidents of the Audubon
PTA and, like many local parents of that era, campaigned
vigorously for school integration through busing. She also
worked at San Rafael Primary School as a Community Liaison
Specialist, from 1974-1982. Mrs. Turner’s dedication as a parent
volunteer continued as her sons matriculated through Audubon,
Edison, the Pasadena Alternative School, Eliot Junior High and
of course, John Muir High School. It was, therefore, perfectly
natural when she launched her career with the Pasadena Unified
School District.
Cherished are Mildred’s memories of her wonderful years
at Don Benito and San Rafael Elementary schools where she
advocated for families as a Community Liaison Specialist. Her
natural warmth and belief that all students could achieve
enabled Mrs. Turner to bond easily with parents and kids. In
order to better serve the school communities, she took night
classes to master Spanish and American Sign Language.
Ultimately, her special ability to connect with kids and parents
led Mildred Turner to John Muir High School where she worked as
a Community Liaison Specialist from 1982-1994 for the School
Improvement/School Site Council Program. At Muir, she expanded
her parent advocacy and her unflagging faith in the potential of
every student to achieve excellence.
As advisor to the Pride Task Force (along with Loren
Shirar Inductee in 2012 and retired teacher and Curator of the
Muir Alumni Museum), Mrs. Turner helped Muir students boost
Mustang pride by organizing activities including Homecoming
events, Spirit Buttons, Friday Night Live, campus painting
projects and the planting of the memorial tree in honor of three
students who were murdered on Halloween, 1993. In 1988, under
Mildred Turner’s guidance the Pride Task Force founded the John
Muir Alumni Hall of Fame, which reflects the spirit of service
that Mrs. Turner embodies.
Perhaps the greatest testament to Mildred Turner’s
service at Muir are the countless former students who
affectionately call her “Mom” and who know that they can still
turn to her for advice and comfort in times of challenge and for
enthusiastic congratulations in times of triumph. Mildred Turner
represents the very best qualities of Mustang Pride! She was a
true Mustang, a Muir Icon, and will be missed by all who knew
her. If it were not for her efforts, the Alumni Hall of Fame may
never have existed.
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2016 Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony is scheduled for
Saturday, November 5th at 1:00 PM
(Location to be determined)
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