Talk:Mt. Carmel High School (San Diego)

The School's Name
Would somebody mind changing the name to the correct spelling? It is spelled Mt. Carmel NOT Mount Carmel. You can check at the school's website if you think I'm not being serious. http://www.powayusd.com/PUSDMCHS/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by BetweenBuriedAndMe (talk • contribs) 02:30, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Further note on this, if anyone is interested, the original reason for the controversy was a long kerfluffle in the 70s and 80s that referring to Mt. Carmel as "the mount" was perceived as vulgar by the community. By the time I was there (95-99), it was starting to flip back and forth, and references to the school as "the mount" had started up memetically in the student body, but nothing official ever referred to the school as "the mount". This seems to have changed in more recent years, if the note about the sign and the basketball jerseys are accurate. Gryphoness (talk) 02:33, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

I attended '75 - '79 and never heard it referred to as "the mount" 173.71.63.16 (talk) 08:37, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

I attended '74 - '77, and agree with above. Never called "the mount", at least in early days.

Image:Sundevil1.jpg
Image:Sundevil1.jpg use in this article is subject to being deleted due to the fact that no source information has been provided for it. If someone could provide the necessary source information, it would be greatly appreciated. Dbiel (Talk) 04:50, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

The sundevil image used by Mt. Carmel was the same as Arizona State University's sundevil (except perhaps for "MCHS" on some images. The mascot was chosen because some administrator in the Poway USD was an alumnus of ASU. 173.71.63.16 (talk) 08:40, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

Setting record for largest enrollment? Not likely.
"Also, that same year (1999), Mt. Carmel set a record with the largest high school enrollment in California at the time, with over 3,500 students."

Belmont Senior High School in Los Angeles Unified has consistently had 5,000+ enrollment since the mid-90s. I also distinctly remember from when I was in middle school (around 1996) that James Logan High School in Union City had around 4,000 students. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.99.33.10 (talk) 00:29, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
 * This is why all statements in Wikipedia need to be verifiable. — Ocat ecir T 06:24, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Former Changes
I have not visited this article in a while, but I do remember that there was a whole section on the athletics and the instrumental music department on this page. Can ahyone tell me why it was deleted? Rancho Bernardo, and Poway High Schools, which are also in the same district as Mt. Carmel have similar pages, however this one seems lacking a whole lot in comparision.KingMattIV (talk) 05:08, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Instrumental Music Program
The statement "Undefeated parade band seasons have been 1976, 1977, 1980, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, and 2005." simply makes no sense. I was in the band 1975- fall 1978, the only sweepstakes prize we won was the music sweepstakes at Long Beach All-Western band review in 1977-1978 school year, and it was the Music Sweepstakes prize, not overall sweepstakes. Also, Tom Cole was the original director of the band, and he became the director at Rancho Bernardo High when it opened. Our first band trip was to Canada (Victoria and Vancouver, British Columbia) in spring 1978. 173.71.63.16 (talk) 08:33, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

Notable Alumni

 * Matt Miller- All-American quarterback at Kansas State setting numerous Conference records including Most Touchdown Passes in a single season. Was a two-sport all-conference athlete at Kansas State in Football and Baseball and was a 10 year collegiate coach at Kansas State in football, including the 2003 Big 12 Champions

Drew Shirley--Class of 1992, guitarist for the band Switchfoot — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.174.113.179 (talk) 00:28, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

I believe that the Billy Bean who is a notable alumni is "Billy Bean" not "Billy Beane" (the GM). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.251.180.190 (talk) 23:15, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

It was Billy Beane, the GM of the Oakland Athletics, and the subject of Michael D. Lewis' book Moneyball. 173.71.63.16 (talk) 08:36, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

Any non-athletic, non-showbiz notable alumni? Surely there's some captains of industry, science prize-winners, or other notables.