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Franklin High School

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School:

Phone:

206-760-4600

Location:

USA, WA, Seattle, 98144
3013 S Mt Baker Bv Seattle, Washington 98144

Mailing:

3013 S Mt Baker Bv Seattle, WA 98144

ZIP:

98144

City:

Seattle

County:

King

Status:

Operational, Magnet

Level:

High School

Grades offered:

09-12

Total students:

1593

Students/Teachers:

21.80

Notable alumni:

[edit] Athletics

Jason Terry - point guard for the NBA's Dallas Mavericks. Terry also has his #31 retired at the school

Aaron Brooks - point guard for the NBA's Houston Rockets.

Jesse Chatman - current NFL running back who is a free agent.

Corey Dillon - former running back for the New England Patriots. An All-State pick and All-Metro player of the year in football.

Fred Hutchinson - MLB pitcher and manager who the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute was named after, a year after his death from cancer.

Trent Johnson - head coach of the LSU Tigers basketball team, formerly with Stanford and Nevada.

Terry Metcalf, former running back for the St. Louis Cardinals.

Ron Santo - former Chicago Cubs third baseman. He won five Gold Gloves and was named one of the all-time top ten athletes from Seattle by Sports Illustrated. He managed to achieve this while being diagnosed with diabetes at the age of 20.

Brice Taylor - first All-American football player at USC. Taylor was born without a left hand and was orphaned at age 5, making his All-American pick most remarkable.

Mario Bailey - football standout at University of Washington and drafted by the Houston Oilers.

Rick Noji - qualified for the 1984 US Olympic Trials while a 16-year old junior at Franklin in the high jump, jumping 7-4? (2.25m) at the Seattle Metro League Championships in May 1984, a mark which is still the Washington state all-time best. Was a member of the track and field team at the University of Washington from 1986-90. Noji, elected to the University of Washington Husky Hall of Fame in 1999, was a six-time All-American; he won the 1990 Pac-10 title and finished third in the 1990 NCAA championships; also competed in three IAAF World Championships (Tokyo 1991, Stuttgart 1993 & Goteborg 1995) and four U.S. Olympic Trials (Los Angeles 1984, Indianapolis 1988, New Orleans 1992, Atlanta 1996). Noji's career as a world class high jumper was even more remarkable, as he only stood 5-8 (1.73m). Noji's personal best was 7-7 (2.31m), set in 1992, giving him a height-over-head differential of 23 inches (58 cm), the second best all time, behind only Franklin Jacobs' and Stefan Holm's 23? inches (59 cm).

Ryan Phillips - current CFL defensive back of the BC Lions.

[edit] Performing arts

Kenny G - Jazz musician. As of 2003, Kenny G was named the 25th-highest selling artist in America by the RIAA, with 48 million albums sold in the USA. In 1994, Kenny G won the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition for Forever in Love. He also has a substantial worldwide following. He jokes that it was in Franklin that he had his first sax solo and his first kiss and it is hard to decide which was more important.

Amy Hill - actress

John Keister - comedian, writer, commentator and motivational speaker

Dave Lewis - key figure in the creation of the Northwest sound in the rock'n'roll years; popularized Louie Louie and played a key role in desegregating the Seattle music scene.

Mark Morris - Critically acclaimed modern American dancer and choreographer. He started the Mark Morris Dance Group in 1980 and helped to establish the White Oak Dance Project in 1990. He is now retired, but has choreographed productions for many companies, including the New York City Opera, English National Opera, and the Royal Opera House.

Total Experience Gospel Choir founded at Franklin in 1973, still active as of 2008, probably Seattle's best-known gospel group

[edit] Others Larry Gossett addressing a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day rally at the Franklin High School gymnasium (2006).

Royal Brougham - Journalist, news editor, and philanthropist. As an editor for the student paper in 1920, he suggested the school's teams be named "Quakers".

Ron Chew - Community organizer and historian.

Larry Gossett - Politician. He was arrested for unlawful assembly during a March 29 sit-in at Franklin High School.

George Herbert Hitchings - American chemist. He shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering important principles in drug treatment leading to new drugs to treat diseases which include leukemia, malaria, herpes virus infections, and gout.

Gary Locke - 1982 chairman of the Appropriations Committee in the Washington House of Representatives who, in 1993, became the first Chinese American to be elected King County's County Executive. In 1996, he won the race for governor of the state of Washington, making him the first Chinese American head of government in all of the United States. He was reelected in 2000 and in 2003, he was selected to give the response to George W. Bush's state of the Union address on behalf of the Democrats. Current U.S. Secretary of Commerce. President Obama intends to nominate Locke as his next Ambassador to China.

Scott Oki - Former senior vice-president of sales and marketing for Microsoft who conceived and built Microsoft's international operations. In five years as vice president, he increased company sales tenfold. He now owns a non-profit organization known as the Oki Foundation.

Franklin Raines - Associate director for economics and government in the Office of Management and Budget and assistant director of the White House Domestic Policy Staff from 1977 to 1979. He then worked eleven years and became a partner at Lazard Freres and Co. In 1991, he became Fannie Mae's Vice Chairman, a post he left in 1996 in order to join the Clinton Administration as the Director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. In 1999, he returned to Fannie Mae as CEO, one of just a few African American CEOs of Fortune 500 companies.

Victor Steinbrueck - An architect who did most of the design for the Space Needle. In 1960, he also successfully fought to save the more significant historical landmarks of Seattle, including the Pike Place Market. November 2 is Steinbrueck Day in Seattle.