SAN MARINO ALUMNI HALL OF FAME
SAN MARINO ALUMNI HALL OF FAME
Honors our community's distinguished alumni to inspire support for our current students.
2024 SAN MARINO ALUMNI HALL OF FAME HONOREES, HONOREES REPRESENTATIVES, AND LEGACY REPRESENTATIVES
ABOUT SAN MARINO ALUMNI HALL OF FAME
Our Mission
Our Leadership
Our Mission
San Marino Alumni Hall of Fame recognizes alumni of character and integrity, whose accomplishments have distinguished their schools and community by achieving professional or community-recognized excellence across diverse fields of endeavor and experience. By honoring these alumni life stories, the goal is to inspire students; to share honorees’ life wisdom with our academic community; to elevate a broader recognition of the school district’s reputation for launching productive, successful lives; and thereby to further encourage students, parents, and community to appreciatively support our schools.
Applications for the Hall of Fame are available to the community and fellow alumni. Those who graduated from either SMHS or South Pasadena-San Marino High School qualify. Please see the application link below for further eligibility requirements and to nominate.
Our History
Our Leadership
Our Mission
SMHS Alumni Hall of Fame was inspired by Burt Kanner, an SMHS math teacher and water polo/swimming coach from 1969 to 1992. Following his recent induction into the Los Angeles Unified School District’s Hall of Fame, he became curious if San Marino recognized their own distinguished graduates. Finding that San Marino had no such honor, and personally knowing of many accomplished alumni, he planted the seed with some of his former students and athletes, and the Hall of Fame was born.
Named in honor of our founder, "The Burt Kanner Founders Award" is given annually to someone whose dedication and excellence in either academics, athletics, arts or activities, while a student, foreshadowed accomplishments and/or professional peer recognitions later in life. It considers excellence both as a student and in professional life and is selected by Mr. Kanner.
Our Leadership
Our Leadership
Our Leadership
Dedicated alumni make up our leadership team. Coming from diverse backgrounds and with long community experiences, they are passionate about honoring our exceptional San Marino and South Pasadena-San Marino High School Alumni.
The Hall of Fame team includes:
Nick Curry ‘61, Bill Ukropina ’74,
Bill Youngblood ’74, Lou Caron '76,
Karla Miner Domier '76, Avery Bayle Barth ’78, Laurie Dryden Modean ’78, Fred Sohl ’78, Melissa Anderson Alcorn '78, Jeff Stroud ’79, Jon Crowley ’80, Melanie Nagahiro ’80, Andrew Crowell ’83, Debi Mann Cribbs ’88,
Sri Abboy ’90, Yvonne Tsai Chen '90,
Alex Kim ’92.
Burt Kanner serves as Founder Emeritus and advisor to the committee.