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Noted Menlo-Athertonians

Isaac "WestmenloAA" Baron, young American professional poker player from Menlo Park. He was the winner of the first Card Player Magazine Online Poker Player of the Year Award in 2007. Graduated circa 2005

George Hanks "Hank" Brown, a Representative and a Senator from Colorado; born in Denver, Colo., February 12, 1940; attended the public schools; graduated, Menlo-Atherton High School 1957; B.S., University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo. 1961; J.D., University of Colorado 1969; M.L. (tax), George Washington University 1986; served in the United States Navy, lieutenant 1962-1966; admitted to the Colorado bar in 1969; vice president, Monfort of Colorado, 1969-1980; served in the Colorado senate, 1972-1976; became Certified Public Accountant, 1988; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-seventh and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1981-January 3, 1991); elected to the United States Senate in 1990 and served from January 3, 1991 to January 3, 1997; not a candidate for reelection in 1996; co-director, Center for Public Policy and Contemporary Issues, University of Denver 1997-1998; president, University of Northern Colorado 1998-2002; president, Daniels Fund 2002-2005; president, University of Colorado 2005-2008; Now retired, he has gone back to work for the University, helping coach up-and-coming student leaders.

Lindsay Buckingham: Growing up in Atherton, Buckingham and his brothers were encouraged to join the M-A Water Polo team. Though Buckingham dropped out of water polo to pursue music, his brother Greg Buckingham went on to win a silver medal at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. Lindsay played guitar and bass with Fleetwood Mac. (see Stevie Nicks below)

Cheryl Burke: Professional Dancer, winner of Dancing with the Stars season 2 with partner Drew Lachey and season 3 with Emmitt Smith; Currently a Dancing With The Stars instructor; 2002 grad of M-A

Greg Camarillo, Professional Football Player (Miami Dolphins), attended Menlo-Atherton High School and was a letterman in football and basketball. In football, he was a four-year letterman and as a senior, he was a first team All-Peninsula Athletic League honoree and an All-San Mateo County selection. In basketball, he was a second team All-Peninsula Athletic League selection.

Chris Dorst, Olympic Waterpolo Player
a member of the 1980 and 1984 US Olympic water polo teams, Dorst won a silver medal at the Los Angeles Games. He holds a B.A. in History and an MBA from Stanford University, where he was an NCAA All-America, team captain and national champion in water polo. Currently chairman of the San Jose Sports Hall of Fame Board of Directors.

Sahara Lotti, 1995 grad, screenwriter and actress. Wrote scenes for acting classes at USC and after graduation decided to do screenwriting full time. Currently greenlit is her film A Family Affair starring Sarah Jessica Parker. 1995-ish graduate of M-A

Greil Marcus, noted critic on rock music (First records editor of The Rolling Stone) and American culture and author of many books, including Mystery Train and Lipstick Traces.

Bob Melvin: circa 1979 grad, (born October 28, 1961, in Palo Alto) is a former Major League Baseball catcher and the current manager of the Arizona Diamondbacks. His cousin Tom Melvin is tight ends coach for the Philadelphia Eagles.

Stevie Nicks: singer, songwriter, and keyboardist; member of rock band Fleetwood Mac. In 1966 her family moved to Atherton where she attended Menlo-Atherton High School for her junior and senior years, that included Lindsey Buckingham, who was a sophomore. They had a garage band and played current top 40 cover tunes at dances at M-A. 1974 is when they got the fateful telephone call that would propel them into "Fleetwood Mac"

Courtney Thorne-Smith: actress who grew up in Menlo Park attended Menlo-Atherton High, but graduated from Tamalpais High School, Mill Valley. Her father a computer scientist, and her husband is Roger Fishman.

Bob Weir: guitarist and founding member of the Grateful Dead, raised by adoptive parents in Atherton, played guitar at 13, evidently holds a record for being expelled from nearly every school he attended - probably due to his then-undiagnosed dyslexia. First Grateful Dead appearance in album Ace (1972). You DO remember vinyl, don't you?

Steve Westly, Managing Partner, The Westly Group which holds $2.9-billion in North American investments former Controller and Chief Fiscal Officer, State of California. Stanford graduate.

M-A's Foundation for the Future:

Please show your alumni pride by joining the Foundation for the Future’s Million Dollar + Annual Campaign & the Richard Weaver Fund for Social Studies. With your support, M-A will continue to flourish as a leading public high school, now and in the future.

Recent Successes

M-A was named a California Distinguished School by the State Board of Education in 2007, an award given to select public schools for quality educational programs. It has been recognized as one of the best secondary schools in the nation by the U.S. Department of Education’s National School Recognition Program. And Newsweek has consistently ranked M-A as one of the top public high schools in the U.S.

New Look on Campus

In recent years, M-A has modernized its 60 original classrooms and office spaces. A new gym, library complex, turf field, staff center, pool, 24 new classrooms on campus and extensive landscaping have brought the school into the 21st century. M-A’s new State-of-the-art Performing Arts Center featuring world-class acoustics will open in September 2009.

Yeah, yeah, your uncle had one just like this! But we all had what you'll find at this link - probably one of the most talked about sites in Menlo Park back in our days. And below, our favorite cruise along El Camino took us right by the Park Theatre.

And then there was Palo Alto: