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EspañolTAMALPAIS HIGH SCHOOL
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'Tamalpais High School' (nicknamed 'Tam') is a public secondary school located in Mill Valley, California. It is named after nearby Mount Tamalpais, which rises more than 2500 feet above Mill Valley.
Tamalpais High School was the original campus of the Tamalpais Union High School District and the second public high school in Marin County. As of 2007, Tam's attendance area includes the cities of Mill Valley and Sausalito, the nearby unincorporated areas of Marin City, Strawberry and Tamalpais-Homestead Valley, and the West Marin communities of Muir Beach, Bolinas and Stinson Beach. Mill Valley School District is the largest feeder for Tam, followed by the Sausalito Marin City School District and the Bolinas-Stinson Union School District.
Tamalpais High School was founded in 1908 by Mr. E. E. Wood. Initially consisting of only a couple of tents on a shore front campus that allowed students to take their boats to school, the Tamalpais campus has greatly expanded over the years, but has seen its share of wear and tear. Thanks to a recently-passed bond measure, the campus is undergoing renovations that will allow maintenance to be performed on some of its nearly century-old buildings. The oldest building, Wood Hall, reopened in late August 2005.
In the 1989 - 1990 school year, members of the student body petitioned to formally remove the school's original mascot "Indians" at the interdiction of Native American activist and Marin County resident Sacheen Littlefeather. The original mascot had been chosen to recognize the indigenous Native American inhabitants, the Miwoks, and was represented by illustrations (both dignified and caricature), costumed performers, and, beginning in the 1960s, a wooden sculpture affectionately named 'Charlie'. Sports teams were identified only as "Tam" for the fall and winter seasons of that school year. A school-wide contest was held and the ''Red Tailed Hawks'' was chosen as the winner, beating out other entries such as Mountaineers and Locomotives. The Red Tailed Hawk logo and mascot was adopted beginning in the 1990 - 1991 school year. Tam High was one of the first American institutions to remove the 'politically-incorrect' Native American moniker.[2]
★ In 1975, someone put a pipe bomb in the toilet of a boys' restroom at Keyser Hall. The bomb exploded and the toilet was destroyed, but no-one was hurt. The vandal was never caught.
★ In 1981, Antenna Theater premiered Chris Hardman's ''High School'' at Tam during the fourth Bay Area Playwrights Festival. The work introduced Hardman's performance art concept, "Walkmanology," with Sony Walkmans providing the narration to audience members as they walked the Tam campus observing the story.[3] In 1982, Antenna presented the ''Pink Prom,'' at Tam. In this play, unrehearsed student actors wore the Walkmans, which provided their stage direction, while the audience interacted with the actors and each other.[4] Antenna Theater later spun off its Walkmanology concept to Antenna Audio, which has become a leading international producer of audio tours for museums and other attractions.
★ In 1997, Tam sophomore Ari Hoffman won a Marin County science fair, showing that fruit flys exposed to different doses of radiation had increased mutation rates and reduced fertility in proportion to the dose. He was subsequently disqualified from the Bay Area Science Fair when officials ruled that his experiment, which resulted in the premature death of 35 of the 200 ''drosophilia,'' had violated rules on the use of live animals.[5] After widespread news coverage, Hoffman was contacted by Nobel laureate Edward B. Lewis, a geneticist who had begun his own work with fruit flys while in high school. Lewis congratulated Hoffman for his work and sent him a check. [6] The science fair prize was reinstated. (As of 2007, Hoffman graduated from Stanford University and is enrolled in the University of California San Francisco Medical School.)
★ Parents of four African-American students from Tam filed a class-action lawsuit against the Novato Unified School District and administrators at San Marin High School over racial slurs made by San Marin students at a basketball game in 1998, charging that a "climate of intolerance" was allowed at San Marin.[7][8]
★ In 2001, large numbers of grade 9, 10, and 11 students at Tam and Drake High School boycotted the Stanford-9 achievement tests required by the State's STAR Program after their parents signed waivers. The boycott had been endorsed by school board member Richard Raznikov. Since more than 10% of the students missed the test (22% at Tam and 35% at Drake), the two schools were not given Academic Performance Index (API) rankings, making the schools ineligible for the funds distributed by the State to high-scoring schools. (The three comprehensive high schools in the District, Tam, Drake, and Redwood, received approximately $750,000 in 2000, including individual $1000 scholarships awarded to 339 high-scoring students).[9] Raznikov resigned from the board of trustees in 2002, citing the testing controversy among the reasons.[10]
★ Tam was the subject of local controversy during the 2004-2005 school year when several anti-gay hate crimes were reported by a 17-year-old female wrestler, receiving heavy coverage in the Associated Press and the local newspapers[11]. The police determined that the "victim" of the crimes had staged the incidents; when they confronted her with their evidence, the student confessed. Subsequent coverage of the false reports received even greater attention in the media and blogosphere.[12][13]
★ On 2006-01-04, the former president of Tam's Associated Student Body, Nima Shaterian, took his own life.[14] A city-wide memorial was held in Mill Valley.[15] In January of 2007, junior Clive Barry also committed suicide.[16] Clinical psychologist Madeline Levine, who studied families in Marin County, hypothesized in her book, The Price of Privilege, that teens from affluent families are often plagued with more psychological distress.
A celebration of Tam's first 100 years, 1908–2008, is scheduled for 2007 and 2008. Early plans call for multiple events starting with kickoff events on Homecoming Weekend in September 2007, a Tam Oral History Project, a centennial documentary, and a celebration over Memorial Day weekend in 2008. The Tam Centennial Committee, which includes the principal, alumni, parents, retired faculty, and others, began meeting in 2006. A website, www.tam100.orghas been created to inform the community of plans for the Tam Centennial.
The 2005-2006 academic year was delayed by five days when unhealthy levels of mold were discovered in the walls of Keyser Hall. The building was closed, and portable classrooms were used instead of Keyser's 17 classrooms. The mold grew due to runoff from the hillside the building was situated on. Keyser Hall was demolished during the summer of 2006; the site will remain empty for about a year before construction of a replacement building begins.
School administrators are consulting with architects about the construction of a handicapped elevator in front of the school's most recognizable building, Wood Hall. Architects unveiled a plan for a four-story elevator tower in front of the school's signature archway, complete with a bridge to take handicapped students into the building. Staff were shocked at the drastic proposal, which would be costly and would have an extensive impact on the many of the campus' most well-known architectural features. An elevator of some sort may be necessary to comply with handicapped accessibility laws. Administrators have formed a committee to look into alternative ways to provide that accessibility.
Tam has competed in the Marin County Athletic League (MCAL) since the League was established in 1959.[17] In prior years, Tam was a member of the old North Bay League. The MCAL is a member of the Marin-Sonoma-Mendocino Conference of the North Coast Section (NCS) of the California Interscholastic Federation. Four Tam coaches have been recognized as Honor Coaches at the North Coast Section: Bruce Grant (girls track, 1982); Janis Wood (girls track, 1985); Beth Juri (boys volleyball, 1997); and Don Smith (softball, 2003).[18]
The MCAL offers competition in 21 sports as of 2007, including baseball, cross country, football, softball, swimming and diving, track and field, and wrestling. Separate teams for boys and girls compete in basketball,golf, lacrosse, soccer, tennis, vollyball, and waterpolo. The only NCS sport that MCAL does not participate in is badminton.
'State and North Coast Section championships'
★ Boys Track - North Coast Section Champions, 2006
★ Anne Campbell - State Heavyweight Wrestling Champion, 2004; North Coast Section Champion, 2004 and 2005
★ Boys Basketball - State Champions in 2000
★ Boys Soccer - North Coast Section (NCS) Champions, 2000
★ Boys Water Polo - North Coast Section Champions, 1994
★ Girls Cross County - North Coast Section Champions, 1975[19]
Two Tam teams have won NCS Scholastic Championships for the highest team Grade Point Average--the Girls Cross Country Team in 1991, with a GPA of 3.58, and the Boys Swimming and Diving Team in 1998, with a 3.49 GPA.
Tamalpais High School's team won the 2005 National High School Mock Trial Championship, held in Charlotte, North Carolina.[20][21][22] Tam won the State championship in 2005 and took second place in 1998 and 2007.[23]. As of 2007, the mock trial team has won the Marin County championship twelve years in a row. In 2007, they received second place in the California state competition against Sacramento County. This was the third time that the team had made it to the final round since the competition started. [24]
Tam High is the original home of the Ensemble Theater Company (ETC), formed by former student (Tam/Drake Class of 1952) and teacher Dan Caldwell, notable alumni of which include Tupac Shakur and Courtney Thorne-Smith. ETC expanded its presence to include Redwood High School and Drake High School in the mid 1980’s. The Daniel Caldwell Performing Arts Center a new facility features a new 10,000 square foot multi-use theatre building as well as significant upgrades and renovations to Ruby Scott Auditorium. The Center was completed in 2006. (ETC was renamed the Conservatory Theatre Ensemble (CTE).
The school's newspaper, the Tamalpais News (called THAT Magazine from 2003-2005), has won awards from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association and the National Scholastic Press Association. In 2006, for the first time since the award was established in 1984, CSPA awarded the News one of 37 Silver Crown Awards.[25] Tam News staff won eight individual Gold Circle Awards from the CSPA in 2001, with 11 total since 1984. Two News staff won individual awards for ''Story of the Year'' from the National Scholastic Press Association in 1998.[26] The paper introduced a new website in 2006,Tamnews.org. Beginning with the 2006-2007 school year, their staff adviser of 11 years, Austin Bah, returned to teaching English. He was succeeded by Jonah Steinhart, former partner in two Silicon Valley startups and editor of the ''Campanile,'' when he was at Palo Alto High School.[27][28]
Tamalpais was a recipient of the California Distinguished School Award in 1999 and 2005.
The people listed here graduated from or attended Tam. The year shown is the year of graduation for the class that they entered with, unless they are known to have graduated with or identify with a different class.
★ William L. Patterson Tam 1911 - Attorney; civil rights pioneer
★ Eve Arden (Eunice Quedens) Tam 1926
★ - Actress (''Our Miss Brooks, Grease'')
★ Sam Chapman Tam 1934‡ - Athlete (high school & college all star, California Golden Bears; MLB, Philadelphia Athletics & Cleveland Indians)
★ George C. Cory, Jr. Tam 1937† - Composer (''I Left My Heart in San Francisco'')
★ Robert Miller, Tam 1937‡ - a runner at Tam, Miller was the first to cross the Golden Gate Bridge on its opening day, May 27, 1937[29]
★ Richard H. Dillon, Tam 1941‡ - Historian & Sutro Librarian Emeritus, California State Library[30]
★ Art Schallock Tam 1943 - MLB pitcher: Yankees (1953 World Series), Orioles[31][32]
★ Pat Paulsen Tam 1945† - Statesman; comic (''Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour'')
★ Joe DeMaestri Tam 1946‡ - MLB shortstop: A's, St. Louis Browns, Chicago White Sox, Yankees, 1957 All Star, 1960 World Series
★ Anton Szandor LaVey (Howard Stanton Levey) Tam ~1947 - Founder, Church of Satan
★ Karl Olson - Tam 1948
★ - MLB outfielder: Red Sox, Senators, Tigers
★ Glen Robinson Tam 1950‡ - 1st black U.S. Marshall to head California office [33]
★ Matt Hazeltine Tam 1951† - Athlete (linebacker, NFL San Francisco 49ers, 1963 & 1965 Pro Bowls)[34]
★ Dan Caldwell Tam/Drake 1952‡ - Actor; drama teacher (Daniel Caldwell Performing Arts Center opened in 2006 at Tam High)
★ Willie Hector Tam 1957‡ - Athlete (University of the Pacific Hall of Fame, NFL Los Angeles Rams)
★ Rob Nilsson Tam 1957‡ - Actor; filmwriter & director, 9 @ Night Films (''On the Edge;'' first American director to win both the ''Prix de la Caméra d'Or'' (Best First Film) at Cannes (for ''Northern Lights'' in 1979) and the Grand Jury Prize-Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival (in 1988 for ''Heat and Sunlight''))[35][36][37][38]
★ Elmer Collett Tam 1962‡ - Athlete (lineman, NFL San Francisco 49ers, Baltimore Colts)[39]
★ Vicki & Judy Denterlein (The Denton Twins) Tam 1963‡ - models and ice skaters (Ice Follies)[40]
★ George Duke Tam 1963 - Legendary jazz pianist
★ Charlie Kelly Tam 1963‡ - Roadie (Sons of Champlin); Mountain Bike Hall of Fame
★ Rob Moitoza Tam 1963‡ - Musician (The Opposite Six)
★ Goldie Rush (Carole McLaughlin) Tam 1963‡ - Rock impressario (Grateful Dead)
★ John Cipollina Tam 1964
★ - Musician (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
★ Bill Champlin Tam 1965
★ - Musician (The Opposite Six, Sons of Champlin, Chicago)
★ Honor Jackson Tam 1966‡ - Athlete (University of the Pacific Hall of Fame, NFL Dallas Cowboys)
★ Charlie Cunningham Tam 1967
★ - Mountain bike pioneer (Mountain Bike Hall of Fame first year inductee, 1988)
★ Jeffrey Stott Tam 1967
★ - Asst/exec producer (''Seinfeld, Alex and Emma, The American President'')
★ Bill Gibson Tam 1968
★ - Musician (drummer for Huey Lewis and the News)
★ Peter Laufer, Tam 1968 - Journalist, broadcaster, documentary filmmaker[41]
★ John Anthony Lennon Tam 1968
★ - Composer
★ Larry Lee Holman Tam 1970‡ - Musician (Old Gray Zipper)
★ Toby Byron Tam 1971
★ - Documentary producer/director/writer[42][43]
★ Michael Goldberg Tam 1971‡ - Music journalist, ''Rolling Stone,'' founded ''Addicted to Noise'' online magazine and ''Neumu.net''[44][45][46]
★ Sean Hopper Tam 1971‡ - Musician - (Clover, Huey Lewis and the News)
★ Tom Killion Tam 1971‡ - Artist, woodcut and lino prints, handprinted books[47][48]
★ Ben "King" Perkoff Tam 1971
★ - Musician (Mike Bloomfield, the Novato Frank Band)
★ Joe Breeze Tam 1972‡ - Mountain bike inventor (Mountain Bike Hall of Fame 1988, founder of Breezer Bikes)[49]
★ Mario Cipollina Tam 1972
★ - Musician (Copperhead, Soundhole, Huey Lewis and the News, Terry and the Pirates, The Novato Frank Band)
★ Kathleen Quinlan Tam 1972‡ - Actress (''American Graffiti, Apollo 13, Oliver Stone's The Doors, Breach)''
★ Karlene Crockett Tam 1976‡ - Actress (''Dallas'')
★ Peter Kaufman Tam 1976 - Producer/screenwriter/cinematographer/director (''Rising Sun'')
★ Cassandra Webb (Cassandra Politzer) Tam 1976‡ - Actress (''Starship, Sons and Daughters'')
★ Birgit Wiegandt O'Connor, Tam 1976‡ - Watercolor Artist[50]
★ Merritt Butrick Tam 1977
★ - Actor (''Square Pegs;'' Kirk's son, David Marcus (''Star Trek''))
★ Peter Shor Tam 1977‡ - Mathematician, MIT; MacArthur Fellow
★ Patti Weiss Tam 1977‡ - Bluegrass musician, neuropsychologist
★ Signy Coleman Tam 1978‡ - Model, actress (''The Young and the Restless, Guiding Light'')
★ Alex Horvath Tam 1979
★ - Journalist[51]
★ Ann Killion Tam 1979‡ - Sports columnist, ''San Jose Mercury News''
★ Bryan Price Tam 1980‡ - Pitcher drafted by (California Angels), MLB Pitching Coach (Arizona Diamondbacks)[52]
★ Martha Mendoza, Tam 1983 - AP reporter; shared the Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism in 2000 for her team's work on the No Gun Ri story[53][54]
★ Brian Murphy Tam 1985
★ - Radio personality, KNBR, (San Francisco)[55]
★ Courtney Thorne-Smith Tam 1985
★ - Actress (''Melrose Place, Ally McBeal, According to Jim'')
★ Chris Chaney Tam 1988
★ - Musician (Jane's Addiction, The Panic Channel)
★ Romeo Bandison Tam 1989
★ - NFL (Cleveland Browns; Washington Redskins); NCAA football coach (Colorado Buffaloes)[56]
★ Tupac Shakur Tam 1989 - Rapper, actor
★ Snatam Kaur Tam c. 1990 - musician[57]
★ Roy "Wrongway" Riegels coached the Tamalpais High School football team in 1934 and recruited Sam Chapman to play for the University of California at Berkeley.[58]
★ Don Michaelian, Fine Arts dept head 1971; Actor (Magnum Force, Escape from Alcatraz)
★ Dan Caldwell, Drama; Founder, Ensemble Theatre Company [59]
★ Robert Greenwood, Music; jazz musician; California Music Education Association Hall of Fame Award, 2004[60] (students include George Duke, Sita Dimitroff, Bill Champlin, Ben "King" Perkoff) [61][62]
★ Several students and faculty had credited and cameo parts in the 1968 Steve McQueen film ''Bullitt''.
★ The Tamalpais Marching Band appeared in the 1969 Woody Allen film ''Take The Money and Run'', while Tam teachers Dan Caldwell and Don Michaelian had small roles as a prison guard and a prisoner.[63]
★ Since the late 60's, the school hosted many live concerts during lunch breaks, after school and on Saturday nights, with performances by local bands such as The Stanley Jackson Trio, Clover, Soundhole, Michael Bloomfield, Cold Blood, Pablo Cruise, and Jefferson Starship.
★ David Crosby's song, "Tamalpais High (At About 3)," refers to when Tam classes end for the day, and was conceived while the musician passed the school on the way to recording sessions in neighboring Sausalito, reportedly at The Plant Studios. It was recorded in February 1971 (though The Plant Studios is said to have opened in 1972). David Crosby — guitar, vocals; Jerry Garcia — guitar; Jorma Kaukonen — guitar; Phil Lesh — bass; Bill Kreutzmann — drums.[64]
★ 'Sock hop' dance in the 1973 movie ''American Graffiti'' was filmed in the Boys (now Gustafson) Gymnasium. Tam graduate Kathleen Quinlan appears in dance and bathroom scenes, as was current Tam High French teacher Brian Zailian (then a 15 year old Redwood High student), who is dancing in the crowd.
★ Don Michealian, fine art teacher and department chair, appears in the 1973 Clint Eastwood film ''Magnum Force'' in the pool shootout scene with Suzanne Somers.
★ Stan Ritchie, biology teacher at Tam High in the 1960s and 1970s, had a part in the 1978 remake of ''Invasion of the Body Snatchers'', as a spa patron taking a mud bath.[65]
★ Tam makes a cameo appearance as the wall in the background on the cover of the 1986 album ''Fore!'' by Huey Lewis and the News.[66]
★ ''A Time For Dancing,'' (Davida Wills Hurwin, 1995, Little Brown & Co, ISBN 0316383511) is set partly in Mill Valley and at Tam, which Julianna and Samantha, the main characters, attend; the movie based on the book was shot in 2000, with limited distribution in Europe, and was released in the United States in 2004[67][68]
★
† Alumni listed as "reported deceased" in the 2002 Alumni Directory
‡ Alumni listed in the Biographical Section of the 2002 Alumni Directory
1. School Accountability Report Card (SARC), accessed 2007-01-06
2. Although the hawk selected as mascot is most commonly referred to as the ''Red-tailed Hawk'' or ''red-tailed hawk,'' with a hyphen, the mascot is styled as ''Red Tailed Hawk,'' using three capitalized words with no hyphen, by both the student newspaper and the alumni association.
3. Sylvie Drake, ''Los Angeles Times,'' A Playwright's Festival Gains in the Process," August 1981 accessed March 12 2007 at the Antenna Theater site
4. Bernard Weiner, ''San Francisco Chronicle,'' "A Time-Warp ‘Pink Prom’ in Mill Valley," August 3 1982, accessed March 12 2007 at the Antenna Theater site
5. ''Lore of the Flies'', Dave's Page of Bogus Science web site, ''Detroit News, pp 8A'' 1997-03-21, accessed 2007-03-07
6. Howard D. Lipshitz, ''Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society,'' VOL. 150, NO. 2, JUNE 2006, "Edward B. Lewis Biographical Memoir, pp393-394, accessed 2007-03-07
7. Fiona Morgan, ''salon.com,'' "Pride and prejudice: Is Novato, Calif., a breeding ground for hatred -- or just like every other American suburb?," 1999-04-29, accessed 2007-03-07
8. ''The Economist,'' "Hate Crimes Continue to Increase Nationally - Even in Wealthy Suburbs," 1999-02-27, accessed 2007-03-07
9. Kelly St. John, ''San Francisco Chronicle,'' "Marin students boycott state test: Schools left ineligible for state reward funds," 2001-05-04, accessed 2007-03-06
10. Coastal Post, June 2002
11. ''Marin Independent Journal,'' "Mill Valley Students Rally Against Hate After Gay-Bashing Incidents at School," December 11, 2004, accessed 2007-01-31 at whatkidscando.org
12. Michelle Malkin, "Another Hate Crime Hoax," May 9, 2005, accessed 2007-01-31
13. ''San Francisco Chronicle,'' "Alleged gay-bashing at Marin high school a hoax, police said," May 8, 2005, AP Breaking News, based on information from the ''Marin Independent Journal'' accessed 2007-01-31
14. ''San Francisco Chronicle,'' "The darkness behind his perfect smile" 2006-01-15
15. Letter dated 2006-01-05, from Principal Chris Holleran to the Tam Community regarding "Death of Nima Shaterian, Class of 2005", accessed 2007-01-01
16. ''San Francisco Chronicle,'' "Parents reflect, schools mobilize to curb suicide" 2007-01-22
17. Bruce Macgowan, ''Marin Independent Journal,'' "Back in the early 1960s, Ed Chavez's Tam High boys teams reigned supreme," 2007-01-06, accessed 2007-02-27
18. North Coast Section, accessed 2007-02-27
19. NCS FALL TEAM CHAMPIONS – CROSS COUNTRY, accessed 2007-02-28
20. Participant History & Past National Winners, National High School Mock Trial Championship. Accessed July 1, 2007.
21. Constitutional Rights Foundation, CRF e-News, Vol 4 No 2, June 2005, accessed 10/27/06
22. National High School Mock Trial Championship accessed 2006-10-27
23. Constitutional Rights Foundation, California Mock Trial History, accessed 2007-02-15
24. Richard Halstead, ''Marin Independent Journal,'' "Tam High mock trial team wins 12th consecutive Marin title," 2007-02-03, accessed 2007-02-10
25. Columbia Scholastic Press Association, Contests and Critiques
26. National Scholastic Press Association, NSPA Winners, 1998
27. Tam News, 2006-09-27
28. Michael, Selz, The Wall Street Journal, accessed 2006-11-20
29. Marin County Free Library, ''Golden Gate Bridge Photo Album'', accessed May 3, 2007
30. California State Library Foundation ''Bulletin,'' No. 83, 2006, pp. 13–20, "Honoring a Lifetime of Achievement: The Notable Career of Librarian and Historian Richard H. Dillon", accessed 2007-01-21
31. Dwight Chapin, San Francisco Chronicle, April 20, 2004, ''Former Tam major-leaguers to be honored in reunion''
32. Baseball-Reference, "Art Schallock" accessed 2006-12-07
33. ''San Francisco Chronicle obituary,'' "Glen Robinson - U.S Marshall," January 31, 2005 accessed 2007-01-19
34. New York Times, "Matt Hazeltine, 53, Is Dead; Former Linebacker for 49ers,"1987-01-17 accessed 2006-12-07
35. Rob Nilsson Filmography at IMDB
36. Rob Nilsson official site accessed 2006-12-07
37. Festival de Cannes, Awards accessed 2006-12-07
38. Sundance Festival Award Winners accessed 2006-12-08
39. Bruce Macgowan, ''Marin Independent Journal,'' "Career in the NFL just a part of still-active career for Collett," 09/03/2006-09-03, accessed 2007-01-11
40. Tam Class of 1963 Alumni site, accessed July 26, 2007
41. ''Mother Jones,'' "Radio: Bio of Peter Laufer," 2006-04-09, accessed 2007-03-08
42. Toby Byron, IMDb (Internet Movie Database) reference
43. ''New York Times'' Filmography Guide
44. Neumu online music magazine
45. "How I discovered the Blues", Michael Goldberg, ''insiderone.net December 2000''
46. "Grooving To The Stanley Jackson Trio", Michael Goldberg, ''neumu.net August 2003''
47. Tom Killion Woodcut Prints, accessed 2007-02-16
48. ''Marin Independent Journal,'' "Artist Tom Killion has come home," December 30, 2002
49. Breezer Bikes company web site
50. Alex Horvath, ''San Francisco Chronicle,'' "Artist's watercolor career blossoming: O'Connor's work favored by pop star," 2002-08-30, page NB-3, accessed 2007-02-24
51. Alex Horvath, Bay Area Writer, accessed 2007-03-01
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53. Tad Whitaker, ''Marin Independent Journal,'' August 10, 2007, "Local crowd hears Marin reporter discuss book on AP coverage", accessed August 19, 2007
54. Jim Burns, ''UC Santa Cruz Sentinel Online,"" April 10, 2000, "UCSC graduate wins Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism", accessed August 19, 2007
55. Dave Albee, ''Marin Independent Journal,'' "The motormouth of Mill Valley: Brian Murphy new co-host at KNBR," 2004-11-26, accessed 2007-02-27
56. Colorado Buffaloes, Romeo Bandison Biography, accessed 2007-02-27
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58. ''Los Angeles Times,'' December 29, 2006, "Sam Chapman, 90; halfback on last Cal team to win Rose Bowl" accessed 2006-01-01
59. http://www.ctetam.org/pages/guest_DCaldwell.html
60. http://www.calmusiced.com/awards.htm
61. http://www.mustcreate.org/kid_home/kids1_4_1perkoff.shtml
62. http://www.well.com/user/dreyer/TH_text/DimitroffSpam.htm
63. http://www.tamhigh.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=47
64. Grateful Dead discography
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67. IMDB ''A Time for Dancing (2000''
68. Peter Coyote Fall 2003 Newsletter, accessed June 9,2007
★ ''Tamalpais High School Alumni Directory 2002,'' Bernard C. Harris Publishing Company, Purchase, New York, 2002.
★ Tamalpais High School - official site
★ Tamalpais High School Centennial celebrating Our First One Hundred Years: 1908 - 2008
★ ''The Tam News'' - student newspaper
★ Tam High Foundation - non-profit fund raiser
★ Tam Art Restoration Project, working on restoration of three WPA Federal Art Project pieces at Tam
★ Conservatory Theatre Ensemble (formerly Ensemble Theatre Company)
★ TamGrads - Tamalpais High School Alumni Association - alumni database
★ Tam Alumni and Reunion Websites
★ Celebrities who attended Tamalpais High School
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'Tamalpais High School' (nicknamed 'Tam') is a public secondary school located in Mill Valley, California. It is named after nearby Mount Tamalpais, which rises more than 2500 feet above Mill Valley.
Tamalpais High School was the original campus of the Tamalpais Union High School District and the second public high school in Marin County. As of 2007, Tam's attendance area includes the cities of Mill Valley and Sausalito, the nearby unincorporated areas of Marin City, Strawberry and Tamalpais-Homestead Valley, and the West Marin communities of Muir Beach, Bolinas and Stinson Beach. Mill Valley School District is the largest feeder for Tam, followed by the Sausalito Marin City School District and the Bolinas-Stinson Union School District.
History
Tamalpais High School was founded in 1908 by Mr. E. E. Wood. Initially consisting of only a couple of tents on a shore front campus that allowed students to take their boats to school, the Tamalpais campus has greatly expanded over the years, but has seen its share of wear and tear. Thanks to a recently-passed bond measure, the campus is undergoing renovations that will allow maintenance to be performed on some of its nearly century-old buildings. The oldest building, Wood Hall, reopened in late August 2005.
In the 1989 - 1990 school year, members of the student body petitioned to formally remove the school's original mascot "Indians" at the interdiction of Native American activist and Marin County resident Sacheen Littlefeather. The original mascot had been chosen to recognize the indigenous Native American inhabitants, the Miwoks, and was represented by illustrations (both dignified and caricature), costumed performers, and, beginning in the 1960s, a wooden sculpture affectionately named 'Charlie'. Sports teams were identified only as "Tam" for the fall and winter seasons of that school year. A school-wide contest was held and the ''Red Tailed Hawks'' was chosen as the winner, beating out other entries such as Mountaineers and Locomotives. The Red Tailed Hawk logo and mascot was adopted beginning in the 1990 - 1991 school year. Tam High was one of the first American institutions to remove the 'politically-incorrect' Native American moniker.[2]
Tam in the news
★ In 1975, someone put a pipe bomb in the toilet of a boys' restroom at Keyser Hall. The bomb exploded and the toilet was destroyed, but no-one was hurt. The vandal was never caught.
★ In 1981, Antenna Theater premiered Chris Hardman's ''High School'' at Tam during the fourth Bay Area Playwrights Festival. The work introduced Hardman's performance art concept, "Walkmanology," with Sony Walkmans providing the narration to audience members as they walked the Tam campus observing the story.[3] In 1982, Antenna presented the ''Pink Prom,'' at Tam. In this play, unrehearsed student actors wore the Walkmans, which provided their stage direction, while the audience interacted with the actors and each other.[4] Antenna Theater later spun off its Walkmanology concept to Antenna Audio, which has become a leading international producer of audio tours for museums and other attractions.
★ In 1997, Tam sophomore Ari Hoffman won a Marin County science fair, showing that fruit flys exposed to different doses of radiation had increased mutation rates and reduced fertility in proportion to the dose. He was subsequently disqualified from the Bay Area Science Fair when officials ruled that his experiment, which resulted in the premature death of 35 of the 200 ''drosophilia,'' had violated rules on the use of live animals.[5] After widespread news coverage, Hoffman was contacted by Nobel laureate Edward B. Lewis, a geneticist who had begun his own work with fruit flys while in high school. Lewis congratulated Hoffman for his work and sent him a check. [6] The science fair prize was reinstated. (As of 2007, Hoffman graduated from Stanford University and is enrolled in the University of California San Francisco Medical School.)
★ Parents of four African-American students from Tam filed a class-action lawsuit against the Novato Unified School District and administrators at San Marin High School over racial slurs made by San Marin students at a basketball game in 1998, charging that a "climate of intolerance" was allowed at San Marin.[7][8]
★ In 2001, large numbers of grade 9, 10, and 11 students at Tam and Drake High School boycotted the Stanford-9 achievement tests required by the State's STAR Program after their parents signed waivers. The boycott had been endorsed by school board member Richard Raznikov. Since more than 10% of the students missed the test (22% at Tam and 35% at Drake), the two schools were not given Academic Performance Index (API) rankings, making the schools ineligible for the funds distributed by the State to high-scoring schools. (The three comprehensive high schools in the District, Tam, Drake, and Redwood, received approximately $750,000 in 2000, including individual $1000 scholarships awarded to 339 high-scoring students).[9] Raznikov resigned from the board of trustees in 2002, citing the testing controversy among the reasons.[10]
★ Tam was the subject of local controversy during the 2004-2005 school year when several anti-gay hate crimes were reported by a 17-year-old female wrestler, receiving heavy coverage in the Associated Press and the local newspapers[11]. The police determined that the "victim" of the crimes had staged the incidents; when they confronted her with their evidence, the student confessed. Subsequent coverage of the false reports received even greater attention in the media and blogosphere.[12][13]
★ On 2006-01-04, the former president of Tam's Associated Student Body, Nima Shaterian, took his own life.[14] A city-wide memorial was held in Mill Valley.[15] In January of 2007, junior Clive Barry also committed suicide.[16] Clinical psychologist Madeline Levine, who studied families in Marin County, hypothesized in her book, The Price of Privilege, that teens from affluent families are often plagued with more psychological distress.
Tamalpais High School Centennial
A celebration of Tam's first 100 years, 1908–2008, is scheduled for 2007 and 2008. Early plans call for multiple events starting with kickoff events on Homecoming Weekend in September 2007, a Tam Oral History Project, a centennial documentary, and a celebration over Memorial Day weekend in 2008. The Tam Centennial Committee, which includes the principal, alumni, parents, retired faculty, and others, began meeting in 2006. A website, www.tam100.orghas been created to inform the community of plans for the Tam Centennial.
Campus
The 2005-2006 academic year was delayed by five days when unhealthy levels of mold were discovered in the walls of Keyser Hall. The building was closed, and portable classrooms were used instead of Keyser's 17 classrooms. The mold grew due to runoff from the hillside the building was situated on. Keyser Hall was demolished during the summer of 2006; the site will remain empty for about a year before construction of a replacement building begins.
School administrators are consulting with architects about the construction of a handicapped elevator in front of the school's most recognizable building, Wood Hall. Architects unveiled a plan for a four-story elevator tower in front of the school's signature archway, complete with a bridge to take handicapped students into the building. Staff were shocked at the drastic proposal, which would be costly and would have an extensive impact on the many of the campus' most well-known architectural features. An elevator of some sort may be necessary to comply with handicapped accessibility laws. Administrators have formed a committee to look into alternative ways to provide that accessibility.
Extracurricular activities
Until 1990, the school's teams were called the Tamalpais Indians
Red-tailed hawk '' (Buteo jamaicensis)''—since 1991, the sports teams have been called the Red Tailed Hawks or, more simply, the Hawks
Sports
Tam has competed in the Marin County Athletic League (MCAL) since the League was established in 1959.[17] In prior years, Tam was a member of the old North Bay League. The MCAL is a member of the Marin-Sonoma-Mendocino Conference of the North Coast Section (NCS) of the California Interscholastic Federation. Four Tam coaches have been recognized as Honor Coaches at the North Coast Section: Bruce Grant (girls track, 1982); Janis Wood (girls track, 1985); Beth Juri (boys volleyball, 1997); and Don Smith (softball, 2003).[18]
The MCAL offers competition in 21 sports as of 2007, including baseball, cross country, football, softball, swimming and diving, track and field, and wrestling. Separate teams for boys and girls compete in basketball,golf, lacrosse, soccer, tennis, vollyball, and waterpolo. The only NCS sport that MCAL does not participate in is badminton.
'State and North Coast Section championships'
★ Boys Track - North Coast Section Champions, 2006
★ Anne Campbell - State Heavyweight Wrestling Champion, 2004; North Coast Section Champion, 2004 and 2005
★ Boys Basketball - State Champions in 2000
★ Boys Soccer - North Coast Section (NCS) Champions, 2000
★ Boys Water Polo - North Coast Section Champions, 1994
★ Girls Cross County - North Coast Section Champions, 1975[19]
Two Tam teams have won NCS Scholastic Championships for the highest team Grade Point Average--the Girls Cross Country Team in 1991, with a GPA of 3.58, and the Boys Swimming and Diving Team in 1998, with a 3.49 GPA.
Mock trial
Tamalpais High School's team won the 2005 National High School Mock Trial Championship, held in Charlotte, North Carolina.[20][21][22] Tam won the State championship in 2005 and took second place in 1998 and 2007.[23]. As of 2007, the mock trial team has won the Marin County championship twelve years in a row. In 2007, they received second place in the California state competition against Sacramento County. This was the third time that the team had made it to the final round since the competition started. [24]
Performing arts
Tam High is the original home of the Ensemble Theater Company (ETC), formed by former student (Tam/Drake Class of 1952) and teacher Dan Caldwell, notable alumni of which include Tupac Shakur and Courtney Thorne-Smith. ETC expanded its presence to include Redwood High School and Drake High School in the mid 1980’s. The Daniel Caldwell Performing Arts Center a new facility features a new 10,000 square foot multi-use theatre building as well as significant upgrades and renovations to Ruby Scott Auditorium. The Center was completed in 2006. (ETC was renamed the Conservatory Theatre Ensemble (CTE).
Student publications
The school's newspaper, the Tamalpais News (called THAT Magazine from 2003-2005), has won awards from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association and the National Scholastic Press Association. In 2006, for the first time since the award was established in 1984, CSPA awarded the News one of 37 Silver Crown Awards.[25] Tam News staff won eight individual Gold Circle Awards from the CSPA in 2001, with 11 total since 1984. Two News staff won individual awards for ''Story of the Year'' from the National Scholastic Press Association in 1998.[26] The paper introduced a new website in 2006,Tamnews.org. Beginning with the 2006-2007 school year, their staff adviser of 11 years, Austin Bah, returned to teaching English. He was succeeded by Jonah Steinhart, former partner in two Silicon Valley startups and editor of the ''Campanile,'' when he was at Palo Alto High School.[27][28]
Awards and recognition
Tamalpais was a recipient of the California Distinguished School Award in 1999 and 2005.
Notable alumni
The people listed here graduated from or attended Tam. The year shown is the year of graduation for the class that they entered with, unless they are known to have graduated with or identify with a different class.
★ William L. Patterson Tam 1911 - Attorney; civil rights pioneer
★ Eve Arden (Eunice Quedens) Tam 1926
★ - Actress (''Our Miss Brooks, Grease'')
★ Sam Chapman Tam 1934‡ - Athlete (high school & college all star, California Golden Bears; MLB, Philadelphia Athletics & Cleveland Indians)
★ George C. Cory, Jr. Tam 1937† - Composer (''I Left My Heart in San Francisco'')
★ Robert Miller, Tam 1937‡ - a runner at Tam, Miller was the first to cross the Golden Gate Bridge on its opening day, May 27, 1937[29]
★ Richard H. Dillon, Tam 1941‡ - Historian & Sutro Librarian Emeritus, California State Library[30]
★ Art Schallock Tam 1943 - MLB pitcher: Yankees (1953 World Series), Orioles[31][32]
★ Pat Paulsen Tam 1945† - Statesman; comic (''Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour'')
★ Joe DeMaestri Tam 1946‡ - MLB shortstop: A's, St. Louis Browns, Chicago White Sox, Yankees, 1957 All Star, 1960 World Series
★ Anton Szandor LaVey (Howard Stanton Levey) Tam ~1947 - Founder, Church of Satan
★ Karl Olson - Tam 1948
★ - MLB outfielder: Red Sox, Senators, Tigers
★ Glen Robinson Tam 1950‡ - 1st black U.S. Marshall to head California office [33]
★ Matt Hazeltine Tam 1951† - Athlete (linebacker, NFL San Francisco 49ers, 1963 & 1965 Pro Bowls)[34]
★ Dan Caldwell Tam/Drake 1952‡ - Actor; drama teacher (Daniel Caldwell Performing Arts Center opened in 2006 at Tam High)
★ Willie Hector Tam 1957‡ - Athlete (University of the Pacific Hall of Fame, NFL Los Angeles Rams)
★ Rob Nilsson Tam 1957‡ - Actor; filmwriter & director, 9 @ Night Films (''On the Edge;'' first American director to win both the ''Prix de la Caméra d'Or'' (Best First Film) at Cannes (for ''Northern Lights'' in 1979) and the Grand Jury Prize-Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival (in 1988 for ''Heat and Sunlight''))[35][36][37][38]
★ Elmer Collett Tam 1962‡ - Athlete (lineman, NFL San Francisco 49ers, Baltimore Colts)[39]
★ Vicki & Judy Denterlein (The Denton Twins) Tam 1963‡ - models and ice skaters (Ice Follies)[40]
★ George Duke Tam 1963 - Legendary jazz pianist
★ Charlie Kelly Tam 1963‡ - Roadie (Sons of Champlin); Mountain Bike Hall of Fame
★ Rob Moitoza Tam 1963‡ - Musician (The Opposite Six)
★ Goldie Rush (Carole McLaughlin) Tam 1963‡ - Rock impressario (Grateful Dead)
★ John Cipollina Tam 1964
★ - Musician (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
★ Bill Champlin Tam 1965
★ - Musician (The Opposite Six, Sons of Champlin, Chicago)
★ Honor Jackson Tam 1966‡ - Athlete (University of the Pacific Hall of Fame, NFL Dallas Cowboys)
★ Charlie Cunningham Tam 1967
★ - Mountain bike pioneer (Mountain Bike Hall of Fame first year inductee, 1988)
★ Jeffrey Stott Tam 1967
★ - Asst/exec producer (''Seinfeld, Alex and Emma, The American President'')
★ Bill Gibson Tam 1968
★ - Musician (drummer for Huey Lewis and the News)
★ Peter Laufer, Tam 1968 - Journalist, broadcaster, documentary filmmaker[41]
★ John Anthony Lennon Tam 1968
★ - Composer
★ Larry Lee Holman Tam 1970‡ - Musician (Old Gray Zipper)
★ Toby Byron Tam 1971
★ - Documentary producer/director/writer[42][43]
★ Michael Goldberg Tam 1971‡ - Music journalist, ''Rolling Stone,'' founded ''Addicted to Noise'' online magazine and ''Neumu.net''[44][45][46]
★ Sean Hopper Tam 1971‡ - Musician - (Clover, Huey Lewis and the News)
★ Tom Killion Tam 1971‡ - Artist, woodcut and lino prints, handprinted books[47][48]
★ Ben "King" Perkoff Tam 1971
★ - Musician (Mike Bloomfield, the Novato Frank Band)
★ Joe Breeze Tam 1972‡ - Mountain bike inventor (Mountain Bike Hall of Fame 1988, founder of Breezer Bikes)[49]
★ Mario Cipollina Tam 1972
★ - Musician (Copperhead, Soundhole, Huey Lewis and the News, Terry and the Pirates, The Novato Frank Band)
★ Kathleen Quinlan Tam 1972‡ - Actress (''American Graffiti, Apollo 13, Oliver Stone's The Doors, Breach)''
★ Karlene Crockett Tam 1976‡ - Actress (''Dallas'')
★ Peter Kaufman Tam 1976 - Producer/screenwriter/cinematographer/director (''Rising Sun'')
★ Cassandra Webb (Cassandra Politzer) Tam 1976‡ - Actress (''Starship, Sons and Daughters'')
★ Birgit Wiegandt O'Connor, Tam 1976‡ - Watercolor Artist[50]
★ Merritt Butrick Tam 1977
★ - Actor (''Square Pegs;'' Kirk's son, David Marcus (''Star Trek''))
★ Peter Shor Tam 1977‡ - Mathematician, MIT; MacArthur Fellow
★ Patti Weiss Tam 1977‡ - Bluegrass musician, neuropsychologist
★ Signy Coleman Tam 1978‡ - Model, actress (''The Young and the Restless, Guiding Light'')
★ Alex Horvath Tam 1979
★ - Journalist[51]
★ Ann Killion Tam 1979‡ - Sports columnist, ''San Jose Mercury News''
★ Bryan Price Tam 1980‡ - Pitcher drafted by (California Angels), MLB Pitching Coach (Arizona Diamondbacks)[52]
★ Martha Mendoza, Tam 1983 - AP reporter; shared the Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism in 2000 for her team's work on the No Gun Ri story[53][54]
★ Brian Murphy Tam 1985
★ - Radio personality, KNBR, (San Francisco)[55]
★ Courtney Thorne-Smith Tam 1985
★ - Actress (''Melrose Place, Ally McBeal, According to Jim'')
★ Chris Chaney Tam 1988
★ - Musician (Jane's Addiction, The Panic Channel)
★ Romeo Bandison Tam 1989
★ - NFL (Cleveland Browns; Washington Redskins); NCAA football coach (Colorado Buffaloes)[56]
★ Tupac Shakur Tam 1989 - Rapper, actor
★ Snatam Kaur Tam c. 1990 - musician[57]
Notable faculty
★ Roy "Wrongway" Riegels coached the Tamalpais High School football team in 1934 and recruited Sam Chapman to play for the University of California at Berkeley.[58]
★ Don Michaelian, Fine Arts dept head 1971; Actor (Magnum Force, Escape from Alcatraz)
★ Dan Caldwell, Drama; Founder, Ensemble Theatre Company [59]
★ Robert Greenwood, Music; jazz musician; California Music Education Association Hall of Fame Award, 2004[60] (students include George Duke, Sita Dimitroff, Bill Champlin, Ben "King" Perkoff) [61][62]
Tam High in popular culture
★ Several students and faculty had credited and cameo parts in the 1968 Steve McQueen film ''Bullitt''.
★ The Tamalpais Marching Band appeared in the 1969 Woody Allen film ''Take The Money and Run'', while Tam teachers Dan Caldwell and Don Michaelian had small roles as a prison guard and a prisoner.[63]
★ Since the late 60's, the school hosted many live concerts during lunch breaks, after school and on Saturday nights, with performances by local bands such as The Stanley Jackson Trio, Clover, Soundhole, Michael Bloomfield, Cold Blood, Pablo Cruise, and Jefferson Starship.
★ David Crosby's song, "Tamalpais High (At About 3)," refers to when Tam classes end for the day, and was conceived while the musician passed the school on the way to recording sessions in neighboring Sausalito, reportedly at The Plant Studios. It was recorded in February 1971 (though The Plant Studios is said to have opened in 1972). David Crosby — guitar, vocals; Jerry Garcia — guitar; Jorma Kaukonen — guitar; Phil Lesh — bass; Bill Kreutzmann — drums.[64]
★ 'Sock hop' dance in the 1973 movie ''American Graffiti'' was filmed in the Boys (now Gustafson) Gymnasium. Tam graduate Kathleen Quinlan appears in dance and bathroom scenes, as was current Tam High French teacher Brian Zailian (then a 15 year old Redwood High student), who is dancing in the crowd.
★ Don Michealian, fine art teacher and department chair, appears in the 1973 Clint Eastwood film ''Magnum Force'' in the pool shootout scene with Suzanne Somers.
★ Stan Ritchie, biology teacher at Tam High in the 1960s and 1970s, had a part in the 1978 remake of ''Invasion of the Body Snatchers'', as a spa patron taking a mud bath.[65]
★ Tam makes a cameo appearance as the wall in the background on the cover of the 1986 album ''Fore!'' by Huey Lewis and the News.[66]
★ ''A Time For Dancing,'' (Davida Wills Hurwin, 1995, Little Brown & Co, ISBN 0316383511) is set partly in Mill Valley and at Tam, which Julianna and Samantha, the main characters, attend; the movie based on the book was shot in 2000, with limited distribution in Europe, and was released in the United States in 2004[67][68]
Notes
★
† Alumni listed as "reported deceased" in the 2002 Alumni Directory
‡ Alumni listed in the Biographical Section of the 2002 Alumni Directory
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2. Although the hawk selected as mascot is most commonly referred to as the ''Red-tailed Hawk'' or ''red-tailed hawk,'' with a hyphen, the mascot is styled as ''Red Tailed Hawk,'' using three capitalized words with no hyphen, by both the student newspaper and the alumni association.
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References
★ ''Tamalpais High School Alumni Directory 2002,'' Bernard C. Harris Publishing Company, Purchase, New York, 2002.
External links
★ Tamalpais High School - official site
★ Tamalpais High School Centennial celebrating Our First One Hundred Years: 1908 - 2008
★ ''The Tam News'' - student newspaper
★ Tam High Foundation - non-profit fund raiser
★ Tam Art Restoration Project, working on restoration of three WPA Federal Art Project pieces at Tam
★ Conservatory Theatre Ensemble (formerly Ensemble Theatre Company)
★ TamGrads - Tamalpais High School Alumni Association - alumni database
★ Tam Alumni and Reunion Websites
★ Celebrities who attended Tamalpais High School
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