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John Marshall High School Alumni Association Newsletter 3939 Tracy Street, Los Angeles, California 90027 Spring 2018 Volume 38 • Issue 1 Our 2018 Distinguished Alumnus is Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Barry C. Barish or the first time in the 87-year history of John Marshall High School, a Barrister has won the Nobel Prize for Physics! Dr. Barry Clarke Barish, FClass of Winter 1954, shares the 2017 Nobel Prize with two colleagues for “decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.” Dr. Barish and his colleagues, Rainer Weiss and Kip S. Thorne, were selected by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in October of 2017. Dr. Barish is Linde Professor Emeritus of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1957, and his Ph.D, also from Berkeley, in 1962. He began his career at Cal Tech in 1963 as a Research Fellow, and was an Assistant Professor, then Associate Professor there. He was named a full Professor of Physics in 1972. He became the director of the LIGO Laboratory at Cal Tech in 1997 and served in that capacity until 2005. LIGO stands for “Laser Interferometer Gravitational- Wave Observatory.” It is for this LIGO project that Dr. Barish won the Nobel Prize Dr. Barry C. Barish W’54 in Physics. But before he became world-famous for his achievements, Barry Barish was a shy student who attended Micheltorena Elementary, Thomas Starr King Junior High, and Marshall. We asked Dr. Barish some questions about his work and about his time at Marshall. continued on page 4... Marshall Wins L.A. City Football Championship! by Peter Arbogast S’72, School Sports Historian For only the second time in school history, Marshall’s varsity football team won a post-season playoff championship, taking home the L.A. City title in Division Three with a convincing 62-21 win over Verdugo Hills in early December in a game played at El Camino College in Torrance. The 2017 team joins that of 1982 in winning official championships in the sport, while the undefeated 1942 squad was named City Champion by a panel of expert writers and broadcasters following that season. There were no playoffs that year due to World War II. This team was led by City Coach of the Year Clay Johnston, and the City Player of the Year, running back Johnny Hernandez, who actually set an all-time Marshall career record with most passes caught during his four years at JMHS. Placekicker Jack Wakefield was named the City Kicker of the Year, and quarterback Daniel Soto, who wound up his career at Marshall as one of the top three rated signal callers of all time, throwing for 3200 yards and 37 touchdowns, being honored as the Northern League Offensive Player of the season. There were seven Barristers named to all-league teams including four named to the All-City First Team, running back Brian Cuevas, Wide Receiver Rynee Rangel, Offensive lineman Chris Montenegro and Linebacker Gary Chew. Wideouts Doug Garcia and Matt Reyes made the Second Team All-City squad. The Varsity and the JV team each finished in second place in the Northern League, and each defeated old time rival Belmont in the season’s opening game on the road, along with varsity league wins against Wilson, Franklin, Sotomayor and Lincoln. continued on page 9... Page 1 President’s Message... As a new year dawns, it is important for us to look back at what was accomplished last year. When the John Marshall High Alumni Association held its Annual General Meeting on January 9, 2018, we reviewed our achievements for 2017. We were pleased with the list but, for 2018, we want to do more. Marshall turned 87 this year; our school opened on January 26, 1931. As the decades progressed, the Board Meetings & Important Dates In 2018 traditions of excellence were solidified and we celebrate today an amazing history of students and teachers and All Board meetings are held on the first Tuesday of the administrators who shaped our legacy. month at 6:30pm in the staff cafeteria Part of this legacy is the support of the alumni unless otherwise noted. association. Since the 1930s, alumni have returned to the school to assist current students and strengthen the bonds Tuesday, May 1: Board Meeting between them. When we organized and incorporated the *Saturday, May 12: Grad Night at Disneyland alumni association in 1979, we looked ahead into the future *Monday, May 28: Memorial Day (school closed) and understood that it is important to give back to the school *Wednesday, May 30: Senior Awards Night, 6pm that gave us so much. The leadership of the association in the Auditorium over the last thirty-nine years has been a vital link to fulfilling Tuesday, June 5: Board Meeting that goal. *Thursday, June 7: Distinguished Alumni As I prepare to lead the association into its 40th year, I Luncheon; Graduation thank the presidents who came before me. They are: *Saturday, June 16 or 23 Endless Summer Picnic (tentative) George Young W’68 1980 through 1992 *Tuesday, July 10: Board Meeting (off campus) Founder/current VP *date to be changed Tuesday, August 7: Board Meeting (off campus) Tom Abraham S’64 1980 through 1987 (co-President) *Tuesday, August 14: New School Year begins Principal of JMHS 1996-2006 for students *Friday, August 31: Admissions Day Holiday James Kopp W‘42 1993 through 1994 (no school) *Monday, September 3: Labor Day (school closed) Milton Lowrey S’49 1995 through 1996 Tuesday, September 4: Board Meeting Also served as Treasurer Tuesday, October 2: Board Meeting *Friday in October or November Homecoming Jose Vargas W’43 1997 through 1998 (to be announced) Tuesday, November 6: Board Meeting Nora Wejbe *Monday, November 12: Veterans Day (no school) Mosqueda S’69 1999 through 2006 *Thursday, November 15 and Friday, November 16: Alumni Basketball (tentative) Susan Fuzesi S’75 2007 through 2009 Monday, November 19 through Friday, November 23: School closed for Thanksgiving Holiday Ynez Herrera Tuesday, December 4: Board Meeting (off-campus) Reinschmidt S’59 2010 through 2017 *Monday, December 17 through Friday, January 4, 2019: Current Board member Winter Recess *Tuesday, January 8, 2019: Annual General Meeting - I encourage all alumni to join us to create events that all alumni who are current will bring together Marshall graduates of all nine decades in dues are invited. with the common goals of camaraderie and support of our school. *denotes special event or date With our newly elected Board of Trustees, we look forward to an exciting year of celebrating John Marshall High School. All dates subject to change: please contact the alumni association by e-mail at [email protected] or So Proud to be a Barrister! call 323-953-6542 to confirm dates and locations. Joanna Erdos S’1970 Page 2 Expressions of Marshall Pride! The Alumni Association continues to offer some very special keepsakes for JMHS grads. For a specified donation, you can own an Alumni polo shirt, baseball cap, or any of four ornaments now available in a series! Caps are one-size fits all. Short-sleeved polo shirts are 100% preshrunk cotton. All ornaments are made of real pewter and weigh less than 3 oz. each. The first Alumni Cookbook, Someone’s In The Kitchen With Johnny also makes a great gift idea for a fellow classmate or alum from any year. Order now! Limited availability on some items. You may order your JMHS merchandise by using PayPal at [email protected]. Be sure to list your complete order in the comment box. Short-sleeved Baseball Alumni Cookbook Polo Shirt Cap 80th Anniversary Johnny Barrister “M” Ornament School Seal Ornament Ornament Polo Shirt: For a donation of $25 per shirt . ($27 for 2X, 3X, or 4X) Choice of Royal or Navy Blue Small (34-36) #____ Medium (38-40) #____ Large (42-44) #____ X-large (46-48) #____ (2X) #____ (3X) #____ (4X) #____ Ornaments: For a donation of $18 per ornament. 80th Anniversary #____ Johnny Barrister #____ “M” #____ School Seal #_____ Baseball Cap: (one size fits all) For a donation of $16.50 per cap. # of caps _____ Alumni Cookbook: For a donation of $20 per cookbook. # of books_____ Total donation for Shirts $ _______+ Caps $ _______ + Ornaments $ _______ + Cookbooks $_______ Total donation enclosed $ _______ (Shipping & Handling included in all donations) Make check out to: John Marshall High Alumni Association, P.O. Box 39847, Los Angeles, CA 90039 Name __________________________________________________________________ Class of ________________ Address ________________________________________________________________________________________ City, State, Zip ___________________________________________________________________________________ Phone # _____________________________ E-mail address _____________________________________________ Page 3 2018 Distinguished Alumnus Dr. Barry C. Barrish continued from page 1... 1. When did you first start becoming interested in Physics? When did you know that it would be your life’s work? The first memory I have of ‘thinking’ like a physicist was when I was about 10 years old. Like most kids, I was curious about the world around me, how things worked and why. But my memory highlights one event when I was curious about a physics or physical phenomena. My life as a scientist began with the following question: Since ice is made of water, why, when you cool it until it freezes, should it float on water? I understood why a cork floats on water (it is lighter), or why a coin sinks in water (it is heavier), but why should ice, made from water, float? I asked my father. He couldn’t answer me! That was the first time I can recall when my father couldn’t answer my question.