Sunset High School (Texas) - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

• Hank Foldberg, (1944), All America football player at West Point, 1946; Member, Sunset 1944 State Championship Basketball Team
• Dan Foldberg, (1946), Army officer; All-America football player at West Point, 1950
• Louise Latham, (1940), film, television and Broadway actress; "Bonanza"; "Gunsmoke"; Hawaii Five-O"; "Murder, She Wrote"; "Designing Women"; Alfred Hitchcok's "Marnie"; Sanger Trophy Honoree
• Linda Darnell, film actress; co-star with Tyrone Power; "Forever Amber; "Unfaithfully Yours"; "Letter to Three Wives"; Star on "Hollywood Walk of Fame"; Sanger Trophy Honoree
• Henry Calvin, (1935), (born Wimberly Goodman), TV actor; played Sargeant Garcia on Disney's TV Series "Zorro"
• Earl Stewart, Jr., (1938), was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1950s and 1960s; and was head golf coach at SMU in the 1970s and 1980s; only Golf Pro to ever win a major Tournament on his home course
• Joe Boring, (1951), Member, 1950 State Championship Football Team; 1951 THSCA All Star Game; three sport Letterman, Texas A&M; All SWC in football, 1952; Texas High School Football Hall of Fame
• Don January, (1947), Professional Golfer; four-time NCAA Champion at North Texas State University; winner of 10 PGA Tour Titles; winner 1967 PGA Championship; Sanger Trophy Honoree
• Jerry Rhome, (1960), Runner-up, 1964 Heisman Trophy at Tulsa; College Football Hall of Fame; Coach, Super Bowl XXII Champion Washington Redskins; Sanger Trophy Honoree
• Billy Lee Brammer, (1947), journalist and novelist
• Rudy Jaramillo, (1970), played baseball for The University of Texas; former Hitting Coach for Texas Rangers and current Hitting Coach for the Chicago Cubs.
• John Cerminaro, (1965), principal horn player of the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Seattle Symphony Orchestra.
• Terry Southern, (1941), author of Candy, The Magic Christian, and other novels; was screenwriter on Easy Rider, Dr. Strangelove and other notable movies; contributed to scripts on Saturday Night Live in the early 1980s; and taught writing at NYU and Columbia University in the 80s and 90s, was a member of the class of 1942. He died in 1995.
• Bill Meeks, (1940), music industry and radio station jingles entrepreneur
• Dick Penner, (1955), retired English professor and co-composer of "Ooby Dooby", Roy Orbison's rockabilly classic
• John M. Stemmons, (1927), “Father” of Stemmons Corridor, donated right-of-way for Stemmons Freeway; Dallas Citizens Council; Linz Award; Sanger Trophy Honoree
• Betty Jameson, (1939), Professional Golfer, - one of Founders of Ladies Professional Golf Tour (LPGA); Won 13 LPGA Titles, including three majors; Sanger Trophy Honoree
• Betty Mims Danoff, (1940), one of Founders of Ladies Professional Golf Tour (LPGA): won 1947 Texas Women's Open Title that stopped Babe Didrickson Zaharias' 13 Tournament Winning streak
• Robert S. Folsom, (1944), Mayor of Dallas; President, Dallas School Board; Developer; President, Methodist Hospital Board; Hugh Prather Award; Sanger Trophy Honoree
• Davey Williams, (1945), Major League Baseball; Entire career with New York Giants; 1953 MLB All Star Game; Winner of 1954 World Series; Coached for Giants, 1956 and 1957; Texas Baseball Hall of Fame; Sanger Trophy Honoree
• Carl Warwick, (1954), played Major League Baseball for Dodgers, Colt 45's, Orioles, Cubs; Won 1964 World Series with St. Louis Cardinals; tied World Series History with three pinch hits; Texas Baseball Hall of Fame
• Clay Armstrong, PhD, (1952), Physiologist; Much present knowledge on ion channel structure and function traced to him; Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize; Sanger Trophy Honoree
• Lee H. Smith, PhD, (1953), President, Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State University), 1974 to 1982; Founder and Chairman Emeritus, Sunset Foundation, Inc.; Sanger Trophy Honoree
• Eddie Southern, (1955), 1956 Olympic Silver Medalist, 400 Meter Hurdles; 1959 NCAA 440 Yard Champion; Member, University of Texas World Record 440 and 880 Yard Relay Teams; Sanger Trophy Honoree
• Jerry Mays, (1957), All Southwest Conference at SMU; Member, 1962 American Football League Champion Dallas Texans; Captain, Kansas City Chiefs, Super Bowl I; Member, Super Bowl IV Championship Team; Sanger Trophy Honoree
• Bill Melton, (1958), Dallas County Treasurer, 25 years; Announcer - 1996 Olympic Games, Super Bowls VI, VIII, and IX, Cotton Bowl Classic, 32 years; Texas Relays, 40 years; 2001 and 2005 Presidential Inaugurations; Sanger Trophy Honoree
• Michael A. Jenkins, (1960), President and Chief Operation Officer, Dallas Summer Musicals; Founder and Owner, LARC Entertainment Systems; one of four Founders of Six Flags Amusement Parks; winner of four Tony Awards
• John D. Dodd, (1958), Mayor, Farmers Branch, Texas; Vice Chair, Dallas School Board; Chair, Dallas Mental Health and Retardation Board; President, Honor's Academy Charter Schools; former Chair of the Board, "Miss Texas Pageant"
• Ross L. Bush, (1933), set National High School Record in 880 yard Run, 1:55.4, 1933
• Pete Stonestreet, (1958), Captain and All District, All City and All County in football, basketball and baseball; Third Team, All State, basketball; University of Houston football and baseball letterman; Hanta Award for Outstanding Baseball Player and NCAA District Six All Stars, 1962; CPA.
• Bill Hamman, (1942), set National High School Record in 200 yard low hurdles, 22.1, 1941
• Lewis Stuckey, Jr., (1955), served as President of Key Clubs International
• Jerry Cobb, (1957), named All State and All America High School Basketball player; played Collegiately for TCU
• Jack N. James, (1937), Assistant Director, Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology
• Glen Waggoner, (1958), Founder of ESPN The Magazine; author of several books about sports figures; one of Founders of Rotisserie Baseball league, forerunner of all fantasy sports games now played by millions; Member, National Baseball Hall of Fame - Writer's Division, Cooperstown.
• Dr. Robert M. Haley, (1963), Chief of Epidemology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School; holds U.S. Armed Forces Veteran's Distinguished Chair for Medical Research, Honoring America's Gulf War Veteran's (perhaps Nation's leading authority on Gulf War Syndrome); Past President, Dallas County Medical Society
• Edward Edwards, (1968), Actor with minor roles in over 50 different television shows since acting debut in 1974, in shows such as House, Desperate Housewives, 24, Commander in Chief, Boston Legal, Without a Trace, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, NYPD Blue, Monk, Criminal Minds, Frasier, Family Ties, JAG and The Dukes Of Hazzard.
• Mickey Jones, (1959), Musician and movie and television actor. Drummer for Bob Dylan's World Tour; Trini Lopez and Johnny Rivers; numerous film and television credits as a "bad guy"
• Dr. Tomothy G. Nance, (1980), President of Evangel Christian University of America.
• Stockton Briggle, (1953), Movie and television producer: Her Hidden Truth, Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story, Bridge to Silence, The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory, Capitol.
• Dr. Jo Gayle Dillon Howard, (1969), Smithsonian Research Scientist; discovered the key to reproduction success and longevity for pandas and clouded leopards.
• Danny Hall, (1970), Deputy Chief of Mission, Helsinki, Finland; Arnie Raphel Award; Ancestor Lyman Hall, U.S. Representative from Georgia, signed Declaration of Independence.
• Lauren Blackburn (2010), State Champion in the Girl's 100 meter hurdles in both 2009 and 2010 and State Champion in the Girl's 300 meter hurdles, 2010; Named "Girl's Athlete of the Year" by the Texas Track and Field Coaches Association.