[BHS etree] SPORTS: BHS Athletic Hall of Fame - More Inductee Bios

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The Berkeley Athletic Fund and the BHS Athletic Department are very
excited to share the biographies of the Inaugural Hall of Fame
Inductees.  The Hall of Fame Celebration is Saturday, June 2nd from 3
- 6:30 in Donahue Gym.  It includes an induction ceremony,
walk-around-tasting and silent auction.  More details at
www.BerkeleyAthleticFund.org <http://www.berkeleyathleticfund.org/> .

Here are 5 more of our inductees- Greg Brown, Art Evans, Lee Franklin,
Greg Hoblit,  Tamara Holmes

Greg Brown - Basketball
Greg Brown was a sensitive, caring, hard-working young man who had a
great future in basketball before his life was cut short in his senior
year.  On Valentine's Day 1974, Greg collapsed and went into cardiac
arrest while playing in a high school basketball game.  He later died.
Many people believe that he was bound to be one of the top athletes in
Berkeley High's history.  The Harmon Street Neighborhood Park was
renamed Greg Brown Park in his honor in 1974.

Art Evans - Football 
Art Evans has been in the entertainment business for over 40 years.
An accomplished actor, he has written and directed plays, and composed
and performed music.  After graduation from Berkeley High, Art
attended Prairie View A & M College in Texas.  He then turned to his
first love, acting, and prepared by studying movement, music, and
languages.  His most notable films have been "Die Hard II" and "A
Soldier's Story".  He has played roles in over 25 films and many, many
television shows.  Recently, he has directed productions for the Inner
City Cultural Center in Los Angeles.

Lee Franklin - Football, baseball
Anthony Lee Franklin (known as Lee Franklin) was an extraordinary
young man who graduated Berkeley High in 2002 and played three sports
(baseball, football, and basketball) during his four years at BHS.  He
excelled in baseball and was the BHS team captain his senior year in
2002.  At the young age of 13, Lee was diagnosed with leukemia and was
treated at Children's Hospital in Oakland.  By 2001, his doctors
declared his illness was in remission and were hopeful that he had
been cured. 
     While a patient at Children's, Franklin's story made headlines,
and S.F. Giants superstar Barry Bonds was touched by his story.  He
visited Franklin in the hospital, and the two worked together on a
national campaign to get more African Americans to register as bone
marrow donors.  Franklin was interviewed on ESPN, and Bonds took
Franklin and his grandfather (Willie Purvis) to the Major League
All-Star game that year in Cleveland.  After graduating from BHS,
Franklin went on to study at the University of Arizona where he played
second base for the Wildcats.  He then transferred to SF State
University, where he was majoring in Communications and was a member
of the SF State baseball team.  He had been doing an internship with
KGO-TV in the Sports Department. Sadly, Franklin collapsed on the ball
field in 2006.
     During Franklin's short life, he was able to accomplish more than
many young men his age.  He was a Dean's List student at the
University of Arizona, received an AAU Recognition Award in 2002
(Student Athlete Overcoming Adversity), was a member of the All East
Bay Team (Second Team) in 2002, was All-League Wide Receiver in 2001
and 2002, was Scholar Athlete of the Year (Baseball) in 2001 with a
4.0 GPA, and was an Honor Roll student at Berkeley High, all four
years from 1998-2002.

Greg Hoblit - Track and Field
Greg Hoblit has received numerous awards for his work including Emmys
for "LA Law", "Hooperman", and "Hill Street Blues".  Greg has also
received many Golden Globe, People's Choice, and Peabody awards.
After graduating from Berkeley High, Greg attended U.S. Berkeley, and
then transferred to ULCA to study film and television.  He eventually
joined Steven Bochco at 20th Century Fox where they collaborated on
"LA Law", "Hooperman", and "NYPD Blue".  He directly the critically
acclaimed film "Primal Fear" with Richard Gere in 1996, "Fallen" with
Denzel Washington in 1998, "Frequency" with James Caviezel in 2000,
and "Hart's War" with Bruce Willis in 2002.

Tamara Holmes - Volleyball, Basketball
Tammy Holmes lettered in volleyball and basketball in 1991 and 1992.
She played on the 1991 Girls Basketball State Championship team 1991.
An all-around great athlete, Tammy tried out for the Baseball team but
was cut in her senior year.  She accepted a scholarship to play
volleyball at Cal and was a four-time All-American in both Volleyball
and Basketball.  She went on to play for the Colorado Silver Bullets,
the all women professional baseball team who traveled the nation
playing against men's teams.  She hit the first homerun -- a grandslam
-- for the Silver Bullets. She went on to hit a team high three
homeruns for them that year. She played minor league ball in a men's
independent league for the Massachusetts MadDogs in 1999.  In 2006,
she helped the USA Women's Baseball team win a gold medal in Taiwan.
She is currently a City of Oakland Firefighter.