FAIRFAX HIGH SCHOOL (LOS ANGELES)

'Fairfax High School' is a Los Angeles Unified School District high school located in Los Angeles, California, USA, near the border of West Hollywood in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles.
Several sections of Los Angeles, including the Fairfax District, Park La Brea, portions of Hancock Park, and Larchmont, and the city of West Hollywood are served by Fairfax. Some areas (including parts of West Hollywood) are jointly zoned to Fairfax High School and Hollywood High School.
The school colors are red and gold and the mascot is the Lion. Using these colors, a special edition of the Zoom Lebron IV was produced for members of the basketball team to play in. As of February 2006, the principal is Mr. Edward Zubiate.
Fairfax is also home to the Fairfax Magnet Center for Visual Arts, which attracts students from across the 700 square miles of the district. It opened in 1981.
It was known from the 1930s until the 1980s as a breeding ground for future major figures in the entertainment industry. It also made headlines on January 21, 1993 when a student went to school with a gun and it accidentally fired, killing one student (Demetrius Rice) [1] and wounding another.
Fairfax High School is well known for hosting the ''Melrose Trading Post'' a chic flea market which is held in the school parking lot at the corner of Melrose and Fairfax Avenues. The flea market was started in March 1998 by the GREENWAY Arts Alliance and from the $2 entry fee, the Melrose Trading Post is the most successful ongoing fund-raiser in the history of the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Former NFL official Jim Tunney served as the school's principal from 1964 to 1970.
Bancroft Middle School and John Burroughs Middle School feed into Fairfax.

Contents

History

Notable alumni

External links

History

Fairfax opened in 1924 [2].
In fall 2007, some neighborhoods zoned to Hamilton were rezoned to Fairfax High School [3].

Notable alumni

Notable graduates of Fairfax High School include:

★ Steven Adler, musician (Guns N' Roses, Adler's Appetite)

★ Byron Allen, talk show host

★ Herb Alpert, musician, music industry executive

★ David Arquette, actor

★ Michael "Flea" Balzary, musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

★ Stephen M.H. Braitman, writer, editor, music appraiser (www.NeedleScreech.com)

★ Kevin Bell, Basketball Player Fresno State

★ Michael "Fat Mike" Burkett, musician (NOFX)

★ Gower Champion, director and choreographer

★ Mike Epstein, major league baseball player

★ Chuck Essegian, outfielder, 1959 World Champion Dodgers

★ Steven Gee, Fairfax High School English Teacher, reality star, Winner of Solitary Season One(Solitary (TV series))

★ Larry Gelbart, television writer/producer

★ Az-Zahir Hakim, American football player in the NFL

★ Charles Herbert, child actor of the 1950s/1960s.

★ Saul "Slash" Hudson, musician (Guns N' Roses, Velvet Revolver)

★ Timothy Hutton, actor

★ Jack Irons, musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam)

★ David Janssen, motion picture and television actor (the Fugitive)

★ Alain Johannes, musician (Queens of the Stone Age)

★ Jack Kemp, politician and professional football player

★ Jonathan King, editor (Sunset, Sierra, Mother Jones, The Berkeleyan)

★ Anthony Kiedis, musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

★ Lenny Kravitz, musician

★ Mila Kunis, actress

★ Dave Kushner, musician (Velvet Revolver)

★ Carole Lombard, actress

★ Bria Myles, model, actress

★ Chris Mills, professional basketball player

★ Ricardo Montalban, actor [4]

★ Demi Moore, actress (dropped out at age 16)

★ Dave Navarro, musician (Jane's Addiction, Red Hot Chili Peppers)

★ Jaclyn Ngan, actress (Freedom Writers)

★ Alex Thomas, comedian

★ Stephen Perkins, musician (Jane's Addiction, Porno for Pyros)

★ Judith A. Reisman, author, critic of Kinsey

★ Mickey Rooney, actor

★ Serge Alexander, Designer

★ Allan Sherman, musician, parodist, satirist, and television producer

★ Larry Sherry, major league baseball pitcher & MVP of the 1959 World Series

★ Norm Sherry, major league baseball catcher

★ Hillel Slovak, musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

★ Craig Smith, basketball player

★ Joe Shipp, Basketball player Cal Bears

★ Josh Shipp, Basketball player UCLA Bruins

★ Liza Snyder, actress

★ Phil Spector, record producer

★ Arnold Steinhardt, first violinist of the Guarneri Quartet

★ Martha Tilton, vocalist with Benny Goodman's band

★ Jermaine Jackson and Marlon Jackson, musicians, Jackson Five

★ Chanel Iman, supermodel

External links

★ Fairfax High School website

★ Fairfax High School alumni website

★ Views from Fairfax High