LAHS GRADUATION: 2009 Grad ceremony to be broadcast live on internet and replayed on LATV.

  
   For the very first time, the entire Los Al HS Graduation ceremony will be broadcast -- LIVE (on www.GoLosAl.com) and then to be replayed at numerous times throughout the week on LATV, the Los Alamitos-Rossmoor public access cable station. 
   The broadcast can be seen live beginning at 4:30pm tomorrow.  This should be perfect for those grads whose relatives or friends can't get to Vets Stadium or live too far away.
       Announcers for the broadcast will be Fritz Pollard (LAHS Class of '81) Keith Jones ('82) and Farren Benjamin ('08).  The coverage will feature a "pre-game" sampling of interviews with grads, parents and VIPs, intterspersed with a couple of video reports.
     This is the 40th graduation ceremony -- the first one was in 1970 at Handel Stadium at Western High School. 
     The event will be a LosAl TV Production, in association with OUR Los Al. 

A couple interesting stats on this year's class:

• 173 grads are attending Cal State universities (*led by Long Beach State with 103 and next is Cal Poly SLO with 16. In an indication of how times have changed, only 2 will attend San Diego State.)
• 100 students are attending UC schools ( Irvine 20, UCSB 19, Davis 12, UC Berkeley 1, UCLA 11, Riverside 10, UC San Diego 9, Santa Cruz 7, Merced 1);
• 40 are attending private schools in California;
• 73 are attending out of state colleges (Arizona State leads the list with 4)

Also, this year we figure that there are at least 19 Los Al alums who have children who are graduating this year (does that make them alums squared?). Among the proud alum parents are Monte Cole ('73, son Parker), Lee Opkins ('73, son Larry), Pam Nixon Foremski ('74, son Eric), Esther Taintor Randolph ('73, son Dillon), Julie Fried Kadletz ('78, son Zach), Bill Deneff ('78, daughter Christina), Mark Broersma ('78) and Erin James Broersma ('80, daughter Meguire), Eddie Kesky ('79) and Donna Blackburn Kesky ('82, son Shane), Warren Marriott ('81, son Carter), Granger Riach ('81) and Sherry Dufek Riach ('82, son Tanner), Ralph Iknadosian ('81) and Kim Wiley Iknadosian ('84, son Jake), Bonnie Mauler ('83, daughter Katherine), Dave Ritchie (’81, son Christian), Catherine Bell Minery ('87, daughter Amanda Bornon), and Mike Godoy ('88, son Tyler). As always, I'm sure I forgot someone, so if you know someone who should be on this list, let us know.

    In addition Los Al Cheer & Song will be selling their own DVD of the ceremony which will include additional footage of all the graduation events like Baccalaureate, Awards Night, etc.