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Freeto Ralph
Ralph Reed Freeto had a string of small acting roles, frequently playing a bellboy as in North By Northwest. He had repeat roles in Wagon Train, Rawhide and The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp before going into real estate.
Fribourg Leonard
Leonard Fribourg was a Marine Corps officer who served in three wars. Fribourg was a member of "Raider Regiment" in World War II, and played in the "Mosquito Bowl" football game on Guadalcanal in 1944. He also served in Korea and Vietnam. As a brigadier general, he directed the Marine Corps Reserves, and was commander at Camp Pendleton. He became an executive at an Orange County food services firm, and he helped found Toys for Tots. He served as technical advisor on the film "Sands of Iwo Jima" in 1949.
Joyner Florence
Florence Griffith-Joyner was an Olympic gold medal sprinter, known for her flashy homemade outfits and long fingernails. She still holds world records in the 100m and 200m dash.
Jump Gordon
Actor Gordon Jump is most famous as the station manager on the TV series WKRP In Cincinnati, the chief of police on Soap, and the repairman in Maytag commercials.
Metkovich George
George Metkovich played baseball for a handfull of teams from 1943-54. He also shows up in a few movies: he played baseball player-clown Al Schact in "Three Little Words" in 1950, and also had bit parts in "The Winning Team" and "Love Is Better Than Ever" in 1952. Stats include .261 with 47 homers and 373 RBIs. He was 31 for 116 as a pinch hitter (.267).
Nelson Christian
Christian Nelson invented the chocolate-coated ice cream bar known as the Eskimo Pie. Russell Stover, the candy maker, became his partner, and came up with the name, and removed the stick from the bar.
Stapp Marjorie
Marjorie Stapp was an actress, known for Indestructible Man (1956), The Monster That Challenged the World (1957), and The Blazing Trail (1949). She appeared a few times on TV in later years, the last as "second woman" in a 1991 episode of Columbo. Prior to her acting career, she had been a receptionist for notorious mobster Bugsy Siegel. "But I didn't know it, until he was murdered and I recognized his picture in the paper!"
Spencer Richard
Richard Spencer was an architect who designed unusual cliff-side residences, some owned by celebrities. He graduated from Stanford about 1936 with an MA, then attended Cal Tech studying Industrial Design. In 1955, he and second wife Eloise moved to Malibu, where he built a striking Modernist house cantilevered over the hillside. He helped in the monorail design for the 1962 Seattle World's Fair. By 1965, he moved to Huntington Harbor of Huntington Beach, where he designed about 45 houses. One used a swimming pool as counterweight for a cantilevered section. Another co-design in LA features a 60-foot arch made of laminated fir supporting a section protruding from the hillside and was featured in the Los Angeles Times Home Magazine and in the December 1951 Issue of Popular Science. Though modified, it still stands.
Luce Richard
Robert Duncan Luce was an American mathematician and social scientist, and a leader in the field of mathematical psychology including formulating Luce's choice axiom formalizing the principle that additional options should not affect the probability of selecting one item over another, and coining the term "clique" for a complete subgraph in graph theory. He held the position of Distinguished Research Professor of Cognitive Science at UC Irvine. Luce received a BS in Aeronautical Engineering from MIT in 1945, and PhD in Mathematics from MIT in 1950 with a thesis On Semigroups. He began teaching mathematical statistics and sociology at Columbia in 1954, lectured at Harvard, and was a professor at Univ of Pennsylvania in 1959. He was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Professorship of Psychology in 1968. He alternated at UC Irvine and Harvard before resettling at UC Irvine faculty as the Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Sciences and later its director of the Inst for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences.
Hill Kimberly
Kim Hill was diagnosed with leukemia at age 3 and was not expected to survive into adulthood. Three years later in 1972, her father Fred, who was playing football for the Philadelphia Eagles, had a team fund-raising fashion show for the Leukemia Society of America in her honor and raised over $10,000. After this start, Fred, with neighbor Stan Lane, started Eagles Fly for Leukemia, backed by the Eagles’ owner, Leonard Tose. In 1974, this led to starting the Ronald MacDonald House which became model for an international network of temporary housing for families of sick children. Kim was a spokeswoman for them for years, appearing at openings and riding on a float celebrating the charity’s 10th anniversary in the 1984 Rose Parade. She managed a McDonald’s restaurant until age 24 when she was diagnosed with brain tumors thought to have been caused by her childhood radiation treatments. Ronald McDonald House Charities now operates over 350 houses in 40+ countries.
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