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Boy of the Year the challenge would be to secure enough from the San Francisco-based Henry Mayo
1969 – Frank Giardina / Allan Eaton money not only to build a recreational Newhall Foundation, payable at $8,000 per
1970 – Lorenzo Lopez facility, but to keep it running. The men year for three years. The annual pledge
1971 – Scott Coe
went to the most obvious source of charita- would have to be matched by the Boys
1972 – Joel Paulin
1973 – Scott Mullins ble dollars at that time, Tom Lowe, presi- Club board, and the directors would need
1974 – Tony Davis dent of the Newhall Land and Farming to find a way of turning the bricks into a
1975 – Larry Salinas / Gary Salinas
Company. Lowe gave the new board mem- building. The two tasks presented formida-
1976 – Eddie Luster
1977 – Ed Winslow bers two things: a large pallet of bricks to ble challenges, but they were enthusiasti-
1978 – Jim Jablonski help them with a new building, and their cally tackled under the leadership of char-
1979 – Ron Wedhoff / Jim Bellanger
first-ever grant — $24,000 that he secured ter president Bill Kohlmeier, and newly
1980 – Pat Rodgers
1981 – Jim McKee hired executive director, Al Vierra.
1982 – Jeff Glaser The pallet of bricks languished in a stor-
1983 – Benny Serrano / Frank Zanella age yard while fund-raising efforts took
1984 – Brian Edminston center stage. The board’s initial benefit was
1985 – Clarence Pullum, Jr.
1986 – Shane Hanna a community luau held at River’s End
1987 – Jorge Velasco recreational park in Soledad Canyon.
1988 – Larry Rinkenberger Chairman George Pederson helped dig a
1989 – Ernie Gudino
pit to roast the traditional luau pig, and
1990 – Danny LeBlanc
1991 – Chris Gant Reverend Sam Dixon of Val Verde cooked
1992 – Anthony McKinnies gourmet side dishes for the 100 guests who
1993 – Jose Molina / Eddie Lopez
attended the event. The colorful affair
1994 – Justin Roberts
1995 – Martin Escobar raised close to $1,000. However, the time
1996 – Gopal Patel and effort expended in the effort made the
1997 – Jeremy Bissonette board face facts – the all-male organization
1998 – Pete Villarreal
needed a woman’s touch.
With the help of Signal editors Ruth and
Scott Newhall, a 1970 luncheon was organ-
ized at the couple’s Piru Mansion. Twelve
Miss Newhall-Saugus Debbie Uhey crowns Boys Club
director Ed Bolden as “Citizen of the Year” for 1970 community matrons carpooled to the home
at a Newhall-Saugus-Valencia Chamber of Commerce to be regaled with food and inspiration
luncheon in his honor.

E-mail first introduced. 1973 1974 1975 Arthur Ashe becomes 1976
Terrorists attack at the Abortion legalized in US. Mikhail Baryshnikov defects. August 3: Henry Mayo first black man to win Nadia Comaneci given 7
Olympic Games in US pulls out of Vietnam. Patty Hearst kidnapped. Newhall Memorial Hospital Wimbledon. perfect tens in Olympic
Munich. opens. Microsoft founded. gymnastics.
Vice President Spiro President Richard M. Nixon
Watergate scandal Agnew resigns. resigns. December 12: Santa Clarita Tangshan earthquake kills
begins. Valley Historical Society over 240,000 in China.
founded.
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