San Gabriel High School

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San Gabriel High School
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Motto: Carpe Bos Cornu
Established	1955
Type	Public secondary
Principal	Marsha Gilbert
Students	2,557
Grades	9–12
Location	San Gabriel, California USA
Mascot	Matadors
Newspaper	The Matador
Website	http://www.alhambra.k12.ca.us/schools/sghs.html

San Gabriel High School is a secondary school located at 801 S Ramona St San Gabriel, California, with a ZIP Code 91776. It is a secondary school in the Alhambra Unified School District.

1 Demographics
2 Academics
3 Notable alumni
4 Reunions
5 External links

[edit] Demographics

San Gabriel High School serves a multi-ethnic student population of approximately 2,700 students (55% Asian, 40% Latino, 4% Caucasian, 1% Other).

[edit] Academics

SGHS offers a variety of AP Classes including, but not limited to: World History, American Government and Politics, Biology, Calculus AB/BC, Psychology, Chemistry, English Language, English Literature, Physics, Spanish Language, Statistics, and newly added Chinese.

[edit] Notable alumni

Roger C. Ambrose -class of '73 - Hollywood Production Designer - Art Director - Set Designer [Television / Film & Theatre]
SGHS Los Renombrados/Student of the Year Communications Dept. Thespian Actor-Alumnus-Wazir. Emmy Award winner(2).

Craig 'Lumpy' Lemke -class of '74 - Hollywood studio musician,
actor, voiceover artist. (Carpenters, Peter, Paul and Mary, The Tonight Show, CHiPs, the Tidy Bowl Man.)

Mike Krukow -class of '70 - Major League baseball player (pitcher) with Cubs, Phillies and Giants - San Francisco Giants Announcer/Commentator

John "Johnny Vatos" Hernandez (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0379608/) - class of '69 - Founder/drummer with Oingo Boingo

John Jarvis (http://www.johnbarlowjarvis.com/) - class of '72 - Grammy Award-winning keyboard player (Rod Stewart, Ringo Starr, Vince Gill, others)

Rex Bogue (http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/mclaughlin/art/rex.html) - class of '70 - legendary guitar maker (1951-1996)

Mickey Lesperon (http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/el_chicano/bio.jhtml) (Class of '68) - Founder/guitarist with El Chicano

Roy Conli (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0174807/) - class of '72 - Film producer "Hunchback of Notre Dame" "Treasure Planet" for Disney

David Henry Huang (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0404847/) - class of '75 - Tony Award-winning author of "M. Butterfly" in 1988 (Best Play); and Tony nominee for Best PLay in 1998 for "Golden Child" and teh revival of "Flower Drum Song" in 2003

Michael "Gonzo" Gonzales (http://www.michaelscomputers.com/) - class of '86 - Designer of Michael's Computers ranked highest online.

[edit] Reunions

A multi class reunion (all classes invited/welcome) is typically held once per year at The Northwoods Inn restaurant in North San Gabriel/Pasadena. Reunion mailing lists/details are available at www.sghsreunion.com