Linda Mustion - Glendale 2011 Patriot Of The Year

Linda Mustion, BHS 1967 Alumni was honored by the City of Glendale as their 2011 Patriot Of The Year! The ceremony took place at the Glendale Elks Lodge at their Flag Day Luncheon, on Friday June 10, 2011.

Burbank High Grad at Equestrian National Championships

Burbank High graduate Becca Murray helped Texas A&M win an equestrian national championship. (Courtesy of Graig Murray)

Murray takes reins for national champion

Burbank Leader, Jeff Tully

Burbank High graduate shines on center stage at Equestrian National Championships for Texas A&M, clinching title.

Becca Murray got her first taste of collegiate national championship competition as a freshman last season at Texas A&M University. However, as some her teammates were busy winning a title at the Varsity Equestrian National Championships, Murray wasn't chosen as one of the Aggies' riders and didn't get the opportunity to compete.

"Even though I didn't compete last year, it was kind of nice to be able to just watch everybody and see what happens at the competition," said Murray, a 2009 Burbank High graduate. "I helped out a lot and I was able to warm up horses. It was nice to be there supporting our team and seeing what it was all about."

This season, Texas A&M's western team again made its way to the championship event — the 10th Varsity Equestrian National Championships April 14-16 at Waco's Extraco Events Center in Texas. But instead of watching from the sideline, Murray, a sophomore, got her chance to shine as a participant at the event.

"I definitely felt more prepared this year after watching last year," Murray said.
Murray didn't disappoint. As a matter of fact, she came through with the decisive win in the reining competition that put the No. 1-ranked Aggies over the top in a 5-3 victory against Kansas State.

It was Texas A&M's third straight national championship and ninth in the history of the program since the national event began in 1999.

Murray said being able to compete, and to win her event, was thrilling.
"It feels pretty amazing," she said. "I really, truly can't believe that we were able to win it. For the school to win its ninth title is incredible."

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Clark Jellison BHS 1973 Float Designer

Returning designer imagines new float

Clark Jellison won first prize on his first Rose Parade design when he was 16 years old.

By Gretchen Meier, gretchen.meier@latimes.com
March 15, 2011, Burbank Leader

Clark Jellison has entered the annual Rose Parade float design contest since he was a Burbank High School student. Now 56, Jellison is the official float design contest winner for a seventh time for the "Just Imagine" theme entry into the 2012 Pasadena Tournament of Roses.

When he was just 16 years old, his design, "Neptune’s Daughter," took first place in the 1973 parade.This year’s sketch, with a working title of "The Great America Dream Machine," was a design Jellison originally submitted 10 years ago that came in second for the local contest. READ FULL STORY

Genevieve Sultenfuss BHS 28, 100th Birthday

On Sunday, August 15, 2010 I, along with Jana Jordan Guest - also BHS '70 and a longtime friend of the honoree, attended the 100th birthday party of Genevieve Cowden Sultenfuss, BHS '28, at the Glendale Elk's Lodge on Colorado in Glendale. Over 250 (closer to 300) people were there to congratulate Genevieve. She and some of her family sat at a head table and the guests filed past to give Genevieve their birthday greetings and best wishes. At 2:00 a serve yourself ice cream sundae bar began, with numerous kinds of Baskin-Robbins ice cream, and toppings galore, (sundaes on Sunday)! At 3:00 two large cakes with 50 lit candles on each were brought out, and everyone sang "Happy Birthday" to Genevieve. (The candles were then blown out with an air cannister!) One cake was chocolate and the other was white cake, and after being cut were served to all the guests. At 4:00 was a champagne toast to Genevieve, with several of her family speaking, along with a Glendale City Councilwoman and two former Mayors. Also, a resolution was read from L.A. County Supervisor, Mike Antonovich, who also knows Genevieve. Besides champagne, wine and Martinelli's cider was available. It was a grand celebration! Genevieve's younger brother, 97 year old Willis Cowden, came from Salt Lake City with his daughter for the celebration. Willis is a BHS winter '32 grad. He and his family have lived in Salt Lake City for many years, and Willis was a police officer for the SLC Police Department for 29 years. Genevieve and Willis had two older sisters who have passed away that were from the BHS '25 and '26 classes. The mother of Genevieve and her siblings lived to be almost 103!

Genevieve Cowden Sultenfuss was born on August 12, 1910. She still lives in her own home in Glendale that she and her husband had built in 1940. She still sold real estate occasionally after she was 90, and she drove until she was 93. She was the first female president of the Glendale Board of Realtors in 1968, and the first female president of the Glendale Chamber of Commerce in 1977. Her daughters both graduated from Hoover High School in Glendale, Audrey Sultenfuss Carr in 1956, and Julie Sultenfuss Shermer in 1960. Genevieve has seven grandchildren, and about the same number of great-grandchildren. Genevieve from the BHS class of 1928 rode in a 1928 Ford in the BHS Centennial Parade on September 13, 2008. There is a story about her that I wrote that is included in the BHS Centennial book, "The Blue and White Wave High". Genevieve and some of her family will be at the next Senior Bulldogs alumni luncheon on September 13 at the Burbank Elk's Lodge where there will be recognition of Genevieve's 100th birthday in a Bulldogs celebration.

Alan Landros '70

David Machuca, BHS 2002 Coach at Chaminade

David Machuca

Chaminade College Preparatory High School

Receivers: Coach David Machuca

Coach Machuca, graduated from Burbank High School in 2002 where he was a three year Varsity football player. After graduating he enlisted in the U.S Coast Guard in 2002 and was Honorable Discharged in September of 2006. He now attends Cal State Northridge, where he will earn a Bachelor's Degree in Kinesiology. His coaching experience started in 2007 at Monroe High School where he was the Varsity wide receiver's coach and in the 2008 season was promoted to Offensive Coordinator. He also coached in the East West all-star game in 2009 and has began working with former NFL players Erik Kramer and Curtis Conway in the offseason.

Rita Mansuryan, BHS 2010, Warner Bros Reach Scholar

Rita Mansuryan - BHS 2010, Warner Bros. REACH Scholars

Rita, a lifelong Burbank resident, attended Burbank High School. Wanting to combine her passions for entertainment and legal studies, she believes entertainment law is the perfect profession for her. This summer, Rita is working in Warner Bros. Television's (WBTV) Legal Affairs group, and she will attend UCLA in the fall and major in political science.

Connections to the Famous!

This is from a Palm Desert Newspaper about regular people who had meet Hollwood Stars in normal places:

Connections

Edie Thoreson of Palm Desert, a corporate wife who moved everywhere with her husband, was first a student at Burbank High School.

She remembers a girl there called Mary Frances Reynolds with a whole chest full of Girl Scout badges. Edie was in the audience when Mary Frances won a talent contest with a lip-sync performance, which led to her signing with Warner Bros. and becoming Debbie Reynolds.

Edie felt like hot stuff by going to her junior prom at Burbank High in Jane Wyman's navy blue Cadillac convertible. Her date's father was foreman of Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman's San Fernando Valley ranch, and they let him borrow Jane's car.

Howard Katz, BHS 1959 runs for office

Howard Katz Candidate for Congress
Democrat, California's 49th
Congressional District

I was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1941, and moved with my family to Los Angeles, California, in 1942. I started grammar school at the Wilshire Crest Elementary on Olympic Boulevard in Los Angeles. In 1951, I moved to Burbank, California, where I finished grammar school, attended Luther Burbank Junior High School, and then Burbank High School, from where I graduated in 1959. I began university at the University of Southern California (USC) in 1959. I transferred to California State University Northridge (CSUN) in 1960 and graduated from there in 1963 with a degree in History and Anthropology. I did graduate work in Anthropology at Cornell University after graduating from CSUN.

I started working for IBM as a Systems Engineer Trainee in 1963 and retired from IBM as a Senior Program Manager after 30 years in 1993. After I retired from IBM, I worked as a Management Consultant for a Dallas, Texas, consulting company, worked as a Consulting Practice Manager for Oracle Corporation at several locations in the US, returned to work as a Senior Project Director for a Dallas consulting company, worked as Director of Development for 24 Hour Fitness in Carlsbad, California, and finished my working career as a substitute teacher in Perris, Murrieta, and Temecula, California.

I have lived and worked in several locations in the US, Venezuela, Japan, and Europe. I've traveled extensively in the US and abroad, including: Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Mongolia,

Netherlands, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Trinidad/Tobago, and Venezuela.

My wife Kathy and I have been married for 47 years. We have two children, Travis and Heather. Travis is married, has four children, and lives in Dallas. Heather is single and lives in New York City. For most of our married life, Kathy and I have been avid horse people. We currently have three horses at our ranch in the Temecula Wine Country. We have taken our horses to many locations in the Western United States to camp and ride, including: Sequoia National Forest (California), Pecos National Wilderness (New Mexico), Big Bend National Park (Texas), Point Reyes National Seashore (California), Death Valley National Park (California), Canyon de Chilly National Monument (Arizona), Cleveland National Forest (California), Anza Borrego Desert State Park (California), and the Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve (California).

We are growing Japanese black pines, coastal redwoods, piñon pines, and giant sequoias on our ranch. Besides the trees we are growing, we have planted over 200 other trees on our ranch. We believe that trees provide habitat for birds and other animals and substantially helps air quality.

Howard Katz Website

Larry L. Maxam Memorial Park Dedication Ceremony more photos

Marines raise the American Flag over the Memorial.

Marines unfold the American Flag and raise it to the sky in salute as taps was played. Then the flag was folded back up and presented to the Maxam family.

Congressman Adam Schiff

California State Senator Carol Liu

Two marines who served with Larry Maxam

Film Star and T.V. Host R. Lee Ermey


A marine salutes

Mickey Depalo speaks after marines lay a photo of Larry Maxam and his medal of honor citation in front of the podium

Pam and Jon Kirkwood, Burbank High, Class of 1964 attended the ceremonies.

Larry L. Maxam Memorial Park Dedication Ceremony, April 17, 2010

On Saturday April 17, 2010 at 11: 00 a.m. Pacific Park was officially renamed the Larry L. Maxam Memorial Park in honor of the City of Burbank only Medal of Honor recipient. Cpl Maxam was killed in action on 2 February 1968 at Cam Lo District Headquarters, Quang Tri Province. Vietnam. This is the new sign and memorial quad welcoming people to the park.

In the center is Larry Maxam's brother Robin with the suit and tie, standing along with the men who served with his brother in Vietnam and who were there the day Larry was killed.




Chairman of the Burbank Veterans Commemorative Committee, Micky Depalo, Burbank High Class of 1964 welcomes everyone to the ceremony.





A black and white photo of Cpl Maxam with a folded American Flag.





Guest Speaker, Marine Veteran, Film Star and T.V. Host - R. Lee Ermey

A Marine speaker acknowledges the Maxam family.



Burbank Mayor Gary Bric, Burbank High Class of 1970 presents a certificate to John Muir Middle School Essay Contest Winner, Samantha Morales. Larry Maxam attended John Muir Junior High as it was called back then when Larry was attending the school.

A Marine bugler plays Taps!




A close up of part of the entrance sign telling a little about Larry Maxam attending the local schools in Burbank.

Here yours truly Linda Mustion, Burbank High Class of 1967 had her photo taken in front of the sign.



Linda Maxam, sister of Cpl Maxam clutches one of two American Flags presented to her and her brother Robin.

Robin Maxam, Linda Maxam and an unidentified Marine have their photo taken.


Cathy Nicholls Coyle, Burbank High Class of 1967 stands next to Larry Maxam's photo as she knew Larry Maxam at John Muir Junior High.


A Marine holds a banner with Larry Maxam's image on it. The Marines in Larry's unit had several of these made along with T-Shirt's and cards and they are posted all over the Marine Corp Base to inspire the new and upcoming Marines.

Members of the Maxam Family and members of the Burbank Veterans Commemorative Committee and members of Cpl Larry Maxam's unit gathered at the Elks for one last group photo.

Larry Maxam Park-Last Update

These photos were taken last weekend as the city finished their final preparation for tomorrow's Saturday Dedication Ceremony in the renaming of Pacific Park to the Larry L. Maxam Park. The pavement and walkway is down, the grass is in, the flowers, plants, shrubs and trees are planted. The flag pole was done and the monument in the center covered in plastic waiting for tomorrow's ceremony at 11:00. Larry's Medal of Honor Monument is ready.