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and friends to play in the tournament. After the tournament, the golfers were joined by thirty-five addi-tional alumni and friends for the awards banquet where, keep-ing with tradition, Al

Prukop ‘57 and three of his four Servite alumni sons were awarded the golf tourna-ment trophy for the lowest score. I don’t know where they store all of their trophies, but

rumor has it that Al is planning on building an artificial reef off the San Clemente coast. This year, the honorary chairman and guest speaker of the tournament was Rob Smith, president of the Doheny Foun-dation. Rob recog-nized and com-mended the MCAF

The Fifth An-nual Crusader Golf Tournament was held on May 21st at the Western Hills Coun-try Club in Chino Hills. Once again, tournament chairman Tom Forgue ‘60 and his tire-less committee of Ray Wolfe, Jim Powers, Kay Felix, George Guzman, and others did a fan-tastic job. The golf tour-nament is currently MCAF’s primary source for raising funds to meet its fis-cal needs in support-ing Catholic educa-tion in inner-city Los

Angeles and in pro-viding financial assis-tance for the care needs of the aging and infirm members of the Carmelite reli-gious order. Seventy-seven golfers in colorful

togs were on hand to “tee it up,” renew ac-quaintances, and en-joy a full day of sport and old friends. Though the day was chilly, enough extra swings were taken by competitors to gener-ate some heat. Of the 77 par-ticipants, twelve were high school golfers sponsored by alumni

MCAF Finds the Green at Western Hills

Published by the Mount Carmel Alumni Foundation

Inside this issue:

Finding the Green 1

Letters In Care of Mount Carmel

2

Classmates Pass On

3

Endowment Campaign Begins

4

Class of ‘57 Readies for 50th

5

George Carillo Profiled

6

Golf and Banquet Pictures

7

July 2007 Volume 15, Issue 2

Mount Carmel

Alma Mater

On peaceful shores ‘neath western skies our hymn of praise we sing,

To thee our Alma Mater dear, now let our voices ring!

All hail to thee Mount Carmel High, Crusaders Sons are we!

We love your ways, your spirit bold! We pledge ourselves to thee!

Fifth annual event raises nearly $40,000.

The purpose of the Mount Carmel Alumni Foundation is to provide financial assistance to the Carmelite Community and to the Catholic elementary schools in South-Central Los Angeles that have provided our alumni with an excellent education. MCAF publishes the Crusader newsletter and assists in regular event planning for the information and fellowship of Mount Carmel Alumni.


for its work in support-ing both Catholic edu-cation in inner-Los An-geles and its support efforts on behalf of the Carmelite priests and brothers. Rob shared stories of the time he spent with Kermit Alexander ‘59 when they were roommates at UCLA. The two were acquainted prior to their arrival on the UCLA campus as rivals in the

old Catholic League. Rob bemoaned the fact that as a tailback in Loyola High’s single-wing formation, he got few chances to pass the football. The last time he and Kermit met as rivals on a prep foot-ball field was during their high school senior year. He wistfully re-called how he com-pleted the first three passes he threw; the

bad news was that all three pass receptions were made by Kermit! In addition to the funds raised through the tournament, other monies were raised during the eve-ning’s banquet by the pur-chase of raffle tickets and a silent auction. The Fifth Annual Crusader Golf Tournament raised $38,362, net of costs. Next year’s tourna-ment will return to Western Hills Country Club on May 19, 2008, so mark your cal-endars. The continued sup-port of MCAF by its alumni and friends is cru-cial to the ability of the or-ganization to meet and ser-vice its charitable tasks. Plan now to “tee it up” on May 19, 2008, at Western Hills — and be sure to be there for the tournament banquet.

If you don’t play or can’t attend the event, there are many ways you can support the MCAF effort: you could be a tee sponsor, sponsor a student golfer, or make a donation to defer the expenses of the tourna-ment. Your contribution is tax–deductible and greatly appreciated.

— John Martin ’65

Finding the Green (continued from page 1)

on. What I would like to determine if there is suffi-cient interest for the ’47 group to have a viable class reunion in October if our classmates’ response is acceptable. My telephone numbers are: (office) 714-832-7222; (cell) 714-244-0869; (fax) 714-832-7211. I would appreciate a re-sponse so we can get the work out as early as possible. Thank you in ad-vance for all your help. Mark Butier, Sr., ‘47 Hi Tom P – I thank you personally for all you have done in this pursuit of "The Crusader" over the years. You have done an outstanding job! I wish you the very best in the years to come. I so much wanted to step forward to

Dear Tom P., I am a ‘47 graduate of MCHS and a former editor of the school paper. I have received my editions of “The Crusader" which are greatly appreciated and incidentally you did an excellent job in preparing, editing, and disseminating to all of our graduates. I understand that you have retired from the position. I have been requested to act as a committee chairman to plan a 60th class reunion, if there is sufficient interest from our ‘47 classmates to have a reunion, recogniz-ing the fact that in our age bracket many have afflic-tions that would prevent attendance and a signifi-cant number have passed

either assist you or take over but since I'm still working I thought I could not measure up to what you have been able to ac-complish. Hi Tom T. Good luck and best wishes to you in this endeavor. I know that you will do a great job. In any case I just read the latest Crusader and the letter, message, or what-ever from a fellow named Jack Eyre, '51, who refer-enced my brother Patrick and me. I know Jack and he has been hanging out in the jungles of Central America since the 1960s and I’m sure has grandchil-dren there now and I’d love to hear from him. My e-mail is [email protected]. Thanks again and good luck. OLMC is with you. John Delaney ‘57

In Care of...Mount Carmel

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Rumor has it

that Al Prukop

is planning on

building an

artificial reef

off the San

Clemente Coast.


PATRICK E. BROWNE, '45 My brother-in-law passed away on April 7, 2007, after a brief illness. Pat gradu-ated from Mt. Carmel, where he lettered in bas-ketball. In the summer of 1945, he was drafted into the U.S. Army and went through basic train-ing. World War II ended

in the fall of that year, and Pat was then honora-bly discharged from ac-tive duty. He lived in Torrance for nearly 53 years, and worked for Northrop for 35 years. Pat was married to Mary K. Hayes, a graduate of Bishop Conaty in Los Angeles, for 57 years; they had four children and eight

grand-children. He was very devoted to his family, and interested in many sports, especially at the Hollywood Turf club. Pat always dis-played the attributes of a Crusader: hard work, family, and a sense of humor. He will be missed. — Jack Hayes '55

Classmates Pass On

He moved to northern San Diego County to retire. However, retirement did not agree with him so he de-cided to continue building for another 36 years. He was a member of the St. Vincent de Paul Society at St. John’s, the Rotary Club of Hawthorne, and school boards at Mount Carmel High School and St. Mary’s Academy in Los Angeles; sup-ported the Boys Club of Vista, was a founding member of Vista Pop Warner, and one of the original builders of the

Moonlight Amphitheatre in 1976. He gave generously to the Smile Train and Parkinson’s Re-search, and helped build an or-phanage in Mexico in honor of his son Ernest, who was killed in 1969 while serving in Vietnam. Carl also recently donated a piece of property in Vista to the city for use as a memorial to his son and other Vietnam casual-ties. He is survived by his wife Peggy Ann, eleven children and step-children, and 30 grand-children.

CARL PINAMONTI, ‘46 Philanthropist and Builder/Developer Carl Pina-monti, 78, died at home on April 13, 2007. Born Oct. 18, 1928, in Inglewood, he at-tended St. John’s School in Inglewood and, of course, Mount Carmel High School in Los Angeles, graduating with the class of 1946. He was a partner in Pa-cific Plastering & Atlantic Lathing and later founded Pina-monti Construction Co. He lived in Vista, CA, since 1970.

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JOHN MICHAEL

McCRIMMON ‘56

passed away on

June 15 in St.

George, UT. He

is survived by

his wife Donna,

2 stepchildren,

and 2

grandkids.

THOMAS WILBUR WARD ‘46 Born November 25, 1928, at Torrance Memorial Hospital to Roland and Josephine L. Ward, Tom grew up in El Segundo and Hawthorne, graduating from Mount Carmel High School in 1946. He married in 1951 and worked for the Beverly Hills Fire Department where he retired in 1988 after 35 years of service. He lived in Torrance for the past 50 years and was a devoted mem-ber of St. James Catholic Church.

On April 19, 2007, after a brief illness, Tom left this earth peacefully to join our Lord. He was surrounded by his loving wife and all of his children, some of their spouses, and two grandchildren at Little Company of Mary Hospital. Tom leaves behind his wife of 55 years, Dorene, his children Tom (Jill), Karen Hen-derson (Steve), Barbara Vata-laro (Ralph), Stacie Voss (Jim), Robert (Shannon), Kristina

Marckstadt (Ken), Sharon, Mary, Michael (Amy) and Heidi (Victor), 21 grandchildren, and 4 great grandchildren. Tom also left behind his brothers Robert and Donald, his sister Marjorie, and numerous nieces and neph-ews. Husband, Father, Grandfa-ther, Brother, Uncle, and a friend to many, he will be missed very much, but will remain in our hearts forever. May the Lord and the Angels be waiting for him with arms wide open.

— Sharon Ward


The Spirit of Mount Carmel

What is it about Mount Carmel High School that inspires its graduates and friends to sup-port a school that has been gone for over thirty years? Is it remem-brances of the campus at 7011 South Hoover when life was less complex, or at least seemed so from today’s perspective? Is it the continued strength and com-fort that Our Lady of Mount Car-mel might offer? Surely it could be our memories of the Carmelite priests and brothers that provided a quality secondary education to so many of us as young men. Is it the storied traditions of Crusader athletics with the likes of Jerry Hennessy, the McKeever twins, and Kermit Alexander? The an-swer is all of the above … and more. In short, the lasting genius is something that can only be de-scribed as the Spirit of Mount Carmel – a combination of faith, a strong educational background, and a history of service to God, country and community; that spirit nurtured by the all-encompassing experience, which has endured within each of us as we entered the greater world be-yond Mount Carmel High School and became proud members of its Alumni Community. Bolstered by the past gen-erosity and devotion of the Mount Carmel family and the support from other caring benefactors, on July 1, 2007, the Board of Direc-tors of the Mount Carmel Alumni Foundation introduced the Spirit

of Mount Carmel Endow-ment. Its purpose is to per-petuate the educational com-mitment and strong moral compass that Mount Carmel High School, the Carmelite priests and brothers, and Our Lady of Mount Carmel provided the Los Angeles community from 1934 through 1976. The Spirit of Mount Carmel is more than another legacy component of a Catholic high school education and experience. It has become a sustainable way of life; and, we invite your support of the Spirit of Mount Carmel Endowment, which will help continue the best and most hallowed tra-ditions of our shared pasts. The primary goal is to enhance the support for those Carmelite clergymen who gave of themselves for the betterment of the col-lege-prep, Catholic secon-dary education experience that served the surrounding MCHS community; to pro-vide financial assistance to Los Angeles inner-city paro-chial schools that are woe-fully under funded; and, to expand and enrich the Mount Carmel Alumni Foundation’s support of the inner-city Catholic grammar schools’ participation in the Los Angeles Archdiocese-sponsored Academic Junior High Decathlon (AJHD). The spirit of our Alma Ma-ter now calls on you to sup-port the Spirit of Mount Carmel Endowment because

every gift is appreciated and, above all, it matters. The Mount Carmel Alumni Foundation is currently looking at other areas of need and opportunity where (and how) the Mount Carmel family can help. Areas of need we are considering include efforts that are about us; from delivering assistance to our more elderly and infirm brother Crusaders to identifying those among us who could provide an-cillary services, which would be utilized when a need is identified. Your financial support of the Mount Carmel Alumni Foun-dation is tax deductible and sup-ports needy causes close to home. Please don’t make charitable giv-ing too cerebral a process; stop thinking about it and take a mo-ment to just feel what the Spirit of Mount Carmel means to you. Your Mount Carmel Alumni Foundation Board of Directors Lance Williams Chairman

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Kudos Crusader Dr. Dennis J. Murray ‘64 President Murray provided Presidential Scholarships to Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, for the following 2007 Los Angeles graduates: Loyola High School

David Thomas St. Mary’s Academy

Martha Sanchez Verbum Dei High School

Jarron Paxton Miguel Requena


The Class of 1957 50-year reunion will be held at the Radis-son Hotel in Culver City on September 29th. In-vitations are in the mail and early returns indicate that attendance will ex-ceed 100 partici-pants. The 1957 reunion committee is still trying to locate 25 missing members of the class (see attached list). If

anyone has any information as to the location of our missing classmates please contact Paul Martin at (310) 553-3608 or by e-mail at [email protected].

Class of ‘57 Missing Crusaders ANTON, HENRY BADGET, CARL BROWN, DAVID BUCHANAN, ROBERT BURGARD, ROBERT GARCIA, ALBERT HARRINGTON, HUBERT HEMERLEIN, THOMAS KANAE, HOWARD KIMBALL, JOHN LAIR, JAMES

LIMON, ROBERT LOOMER, MICHAEL LOPEZ, RUBIN METZLER, JOE NEILLY, PATRICK NURSE, DAVID OSBORNE, JAMES OSUNA, LAWRENCE OWEN, DOUG REYNOSO, ALFRED RICHARD, THOMAS ROHRBACHR, WAYNE SANCHEZ, ROBERT

Starks… and…6’7’’ 270 lb. Leroy “Little Daddy” Chase. My father said that night the Friars gained enough confidence to jump-start Ser-vite’s football tradition. It seems I cannot es-cape the Mt. Carmel Connec-tion. I am an English teacher and softball coach at Rosary High School in Fullerton. A close softball friend and a great coach that I truly admire is Alan Dugard from Wood-bridge High School in Irvine. Turns out the very successful Coach Dugard is a 1950 Mt. Carmel graduate with several CIF titles to his credit. If you can’t beat ‘em…join ‘em! I am finishing my sec-ond Master’s degree this sum-mer at the University of Notre Dame in Non-Profit Admini-stration. My interest and ad-

I would like to intro-duce myself. I am not a Mount Carmel alumnus, but I am almost a “Crusader Son” – I am a Crusader son-in-law. I have been listening to Carmel stories from my father-in law, John Martin ’65, for over 20 years (it only seems like 40!) and love the tradition. I am a legacy student from Servite High School in Anaheim, class of 1987. John Martin, Jr. was one of my best friends and had a really cute sister. The rest, as they say, is history. (She’s still cute!) My father Tom, Sr. graduated from Servite in 1964 and was a member of the 1961 all-junior/sophomore team that suf-fered a season opening 4-0 defeat to Mt. Carmel at the hands of 6’1’’ 265 lb. Jerome “Big Daddy”

miration of the MCAF and its mission is genuine. Besides being a contributing editor for Theme Park magazine and Storyboard: The Art of Laughter animation art journal from 1990-1994, and National Fastpitch magazine from 1994 -1996, I am the faculty advisor for Ro-sary High School’s student newspaper, The Royal Reporter. I look forward to carry-ing on the jour-nalistic tradition that Tom Pinard ’57 resurrected in the early years of Padre Golf.

Class of ‘57 Plans 50-Year Reunion for September

Tom Tice...Editor: A Crusader Son


The Crusader Editor Thomas H. Tice, Jr.

1319 Montevideo Avenue Placentia, California 92870

John Martin ‘65 Cell 760-559-7069 Editor’s E–mail

[email protected]

Published by Mount Carmel Alumni Foundation (MCAF)

Please do not hesitate to email news items and articles for future issues.


George Carillo, class of ’46, as seen at the 2007 Golf Tourney, was named as the Official Tour-nament Photographer by former MCAF Chairman Al Alessandra, and served in that capacity for Fr. Rich-ard Nagel and Padre Golf since the tournament was instituted in 1987. I am pleased to inter-view George for the Crusader. For those of you who don’t know this loyal Crusader, here is your opportunity to meet him: Marilee Alessandra: George, how did you get in-volved in the Mt. Carmel Golf Tournament? George Carillo: Oh, gosh, I have been involved so much longer than that. I first got the idea, no, I must say it was God’s idea, to start Mt. Car-mel Dances to raise money for the Padres. You know, the Carmelites who taught us had no way to make money in California at that time, no schools to teach in. The par-ishes supported their grammar schools, and the Carmelites in New York and Chicago had their own. Some of our Pa-dres lived at St. Raphael’s at the time. We just needed to do something, so some Mt. Carmel people started the dances to help. There were always so many guys who didn’t want to lose their con-nection with each other. And, from the very beginning, I must say, the wives, who may not have known anything about Carmel, got really in-volved and helped it work.

MA: George, I didn’t real-ize you had been so involved from the beginning of fund-raising for the Carmelite Fathers in California! What inspired you? Please tell me about your years as a student at Mt. Carmel. GC: Well, I was a cheer-leader in the first few years of the cheerleader program (a few years later the fathers thought we should have girl cheerleaders, so I was at Girl’s High, known as Bishop Conaty today, and St. Mary’s all the time – most Carmel guys were run off in those days! I played bas-ketball, was a sprinter, but mostly I just hung out with the guys in the neighbor-hood. We all lived so close to the school. Mt. Carmel was cliquish among our-selves then, I guess because we all lived around the cor-ner from each other, went to the same churches, worked at the same after-school jobs. . . After all, the tuition had just gone up from $5 to $10, a fortune! We hung out to-gether, we hung out with girls from St. Mary’s and Girl’s High, I guess that’s why we all were like broth-

ers

and sisters. That’s just the way it was. MA: George, I was asked to interview you about your fam-ily, career, etc., but, I think many of the committed Crusad-ers would have such an interest in your Mt. Carmel years that I would like to close with some-thing you told me about your most influential memory of Carmel. Is that OK? GC: Marilee, oh yeah. The Fathers, they were tough. You didn’t get away with anything with most of them. Fr. A. Daly was one in my day. I don’t know how those guys who were only a few years older than us could handle us young punks who thought we were King Kong. They took kids who had the opportunity to become gangsters or thieves and turned us into men. God bless ’em, how’d they do that? Has the need for Catholic education changed? — Marilee Alessandra, Board Member At Large

Carillo Marvels at Carmel Accomplishments

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“They took

kids who had

the

opportunity to

become

gangsters or

thieves and

turned us into

men. God

bless ‘em.”

CARILLO SHUTTERS CAMERA: After 20 years of being the official golf photographer for the MCAF, George Carillo ‘47 celebrated his last tournament.



Next year’s tournament will return to Western Hills Country Club on May 19, 2008, so mark your calendars.

Putting is half the game...or more!

L to R: Leonard Gomez, Kermit Alexander, Rob Smith (Honorary Chairman), and Fr. Tracy O’Sullivan, O.CARM. Listened to Tom Forgue ’60 share information on the tourna-ment’s success.

Western Hills Country Club was the tournament course in 2007.

R to L: Kermit Alexander ‘59, Greg Wil-liams ‘65, Dad Jay Williams, and Uncle Carl Williams reminisce after a day of fun and friends.

Practice makes perfect!


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L to R: Aaron Taylor, a Cathedral High School Scholar smiles at the camera with Richard Monteilh ‘76, John Mar-tin ‘65, and Fr. Tracy O’Sullivan, O.CARM pastor of St. Raphael’s Parish.

R to L: Greg Williams ‘65 , former student body president, walks to the first tee with Uncle Carl Wil-liams who flew in for the tournament from Dallas, Texas.

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