Tom Bruce (Class of '70)

Competetive Swimming Champion. Tom won 2 medals in the 1972 Summer Olympics swimming events: An individual Silver Medal for the Men's 100M breaststroke with a time of 1:05:43; and a Gold Medal in the 4x100M Men's relay with teammate Mark Spitz in a world record time of 3:48:16

Amy Tan (Class of '70)

Professional Author. Amy's first published novel was "The Joy Luck Club", which was a international bestseller and award winner. It was made into a motion picture in 1993. Her other works include "The Kitchen God's Wife"; "Saving Fish from Drowning"; and "The Opposite of Fate". Amy has earned many awards for her contributions to literary culture, including the National Humanities Medal, the Carl Sandburg Literary Award, and the Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service.

Anna Chavez (Class of '72)

News Anchorwoman. Anna got her start in broadcasting with ABC affiliate KGO in San Francisco in 1976, after graduating from Stanford University. She worked there for four years before getting a reporting job with KABC in LA. She returned to KGO as an anchor in 1980. Then moved to KPIX in 1992 before retiring in 1997. 

Eric Fanucchi (Class of '73)

Fashion Photographer. Eric's photos have been published in many leading Ad agencies and magazines, specializing in fashion portraits of models and celebrities. 

Bill Pecota (Class of '78)

MLB Professional Baseball Player. Bill was drafted by the Kansas City Royals in 1986. He played for the Royals from 1986-91. He spent one season with the New York Mets, before finishing his career with the Atlanta Braves in 1993-94. His best season was 1991 when he batted .286 for the Royals. He played in the 1993 NLCS while with the Braves and made the Greatest 100 Royals of all time list at #66. He is the namesake for the Baseball acronym P.E.C.O.T.A. which stands for Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PECOTA

Tony Anselmo (Class of '78)

Professional animator and voice actor. Tony had been a gifted artist as a child and received a scholarsship to the California Academy of the Arts in 1978. In 1980 he was hired as an animator by the Walt Disney Corp. When the original Donald Duck voice actor, Clarence Nash, passed away in 1985, Tony assumed that role. (He had apprenticed with Nash for three years prior). His first role as Donald Duck was a TV special in 1986 called DTV Valentine. His first film was in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?". He has been in hundreds of works since then. Tony was officially named a "Disney Legend" in 2009. He has a Disney memorabilia and poster collection that is unrivaled. His Disney poster collection was featured in a 2002 book he wrote entitled "The Disney Poster Book, featuring the collection of Tony Anselmo.". His collection currently resides in the Disney Family Museum in San Francisco.

Chuck Wright (Class of '79)

Professional Wrestler. Chuck began his wrestling career in 1987 using the psuedonym "The Soultaker". He was the USWA champion at the Unified World Heavyweight Championships in October 1989. In 1991 he joined the WWF and developed the character "Papa Shango", where he would "cast spells" on his opponents. In 1995, Wright developed a new character named KAMA (Kick Any Man's Ass). He evolved that into Kama Mustfa and joined the "Nation of Domination", which included The Rock. By 1998, the Nation of Domination split up and Wright developed his most famous character yet, "The Godfather". The Godfather was a pimp surrounded by his "hoes". The Godfather was very popular with the crowds and won the WWF Intercontinental Championships in April 1999. Chuck retired in 2002, although he made a number of appearances over the subsequent years. He was elected into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2016!

​Ben Bennett (Class of '80)

Professional football player. Ben had a successful college career at Duke University, setting many NCAA passing records. He was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in the 1984 NFL Draft. He bounced around the NFL with the Falcons, Houston Oilers, Dallas Cowboys, and Cincinnati Bengals and Chicago Bears before retiring from the league in 1988. He also played in the Arena Football League from 1988-96 and coached from 1998-2012. He was inducted into the Arena Football Hall of Fame as a player in 2000.

Brian Boitano (Class of '81)

Professional Ice Skater. Brian won the Gold Medal for Men's figure skating in the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada. He won Gold in the Men's Figure Skating World Championships in 1986 in Geneva, Switzerland and 1988 in Budapest, Hungary. He won Gold in the US Figure Skating National Championships from 1985-1988. He won silver medals in the US competition in 1983 and 84. And impressively came out of retirement and won a silver in the US National Championships in 1994

Bill Hare (Class of '82)

Professional Sound Mixing Engineer. Bill has mixed and recorded many gold and platinum albums from a broad range of artists. He has won five Grammy awards in his career: 2017 Best Country/Duo Performance (certificate) for "Jolene" by Dolly Parton w/Pentatonix; 2023 & 2024 Best Traditional Pop Album (certificate) - Pentatonix; 2023 Best Global Music Performance (certificate) - Bayethe - Wouter Kellerman, Zakes Bantwini, Nomcebo Zikode; 2025 Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album for "Triveni" - Wouter Kellerman, Eru Matsumoto, Chandrika Tandon. Bill has been a huge part of the rise of acapella music, handling most of the mixing/mastering for Pentatonix. http://www.billhareacappella.com

JuJu Chang (Class of '83)

Television Jounalist. JuJu began working for ABC after graduating from Stanford in 1987. By 1991 she was a producer for ABC World News Tonight. She returtned to the Bay Area as a reporter for ABC affiliate KGO in San Francisco in 1995. She returned to World News tonight after a year, with also regular appearances on the news programs 20/20, Nightline and Good Morning America. In 2014, Juju was named co-host of Nightline. She has won numerous awards for her broadcasting including 3 Emmys for her work with ABC.