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Mission Valley ROP gets new leader

FREMONT -- Former Irvington High School Principal Pete Murchison has taken over as the new head of the Mission Valley Regional Occupational Program, replacing longtime Superintendent Charles Brown, who retired at the end of last month.

Established in 1969, Mission Valley ROP prepares Tri-City area students for business, medical and technical careers. Through a partnership with Fremont, New Haven and Newark school districts, it provides career technical education to nearly 5,000 high school and adult students each year.

Brown announced in March his plans to retire after 40 years in education. The program's governing council solicited community input about the desired qualities for a new superintendent and launched a search. But it didn't have to look far.

"The board is confident that Pete Murchison will continue the rich tradition of superb career technical education offerings for our high school students in Fremont, New Haven and Newark," council President Larry Sweeney said in a statement.

Murchison has worked as a high school educator for nearly four decades, including 14 years as Irvington principal. During his tenure there, the school received three California Distinguished High School awards, a National Blue Ribbon Award and was recognized as a "New American High School."

In the past two years, Irvington was selected as "America's Greenest School" and as one of "America's Best High Schools" in Newsweek magazine.

Most recently, Murchison led Irvington's development of three California Partnership Academies: the Science, Health, Athletics and Physical Education academy; the Information Technology Academy; and the New Media Arts Academy.

All three focus on supporting students in career technical education programs in partnership with the program. He started his new job last week.

"Pete will be taking over a complex and highly developed series of evolving programs that continue to set the standard for ROPs in California and the nation," Sweeney said.

Famous People Who Have Lived In Fremont, CA - vhreg.com

After San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose, Fremont is the Bay Area’s fourth most inhabited city. Fremont is located in the east bay area and is accessible by highways 680 and 880. Fremont was formed by merging small communities – Mission San Jose, Centerville, Warm Springs, Niles and Irvington in the year 1956. Because Fremont is also suitably connected to the Peninsula, Fremont real estate is thriving and it has become a suitable location for many famous people to live in.

The Fremont real estate market has recently broken all home sale records. Some reasons that make Fremont an excellent place to live include presence of some big attractions such as Mission San Jose and Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge. As a matter of fact, Fremont is also called a multicultural melting pot. This is because of the extensive ethnic diversity the city has. Fremont contains a mix of languages and cuisines from different countries.

As per 2000 census, the population of Fremont was around 200,000 along with median household income $76,579. Fremont also has some great schools for families such as Chadbourne Elementary and Irvington High school. Availability of all amenities makes Fremont real estate market so flourishing. And I could go on and on about why people love Fremont so much, but let me tell you about some of the celebrities and famous people who have lived here. Some of the famous residents in Fremont have included a Afghan writer Abdul Rashid Benish and Olympic skater Kristi Yamaguchi and many others. Below is a list of some more famous people from Fremont that I would like to highlight for you.

Born in Fremont, California, model Medan Tandy became famous in 2007 for winning the title of Miss California. She also represented California in Miss USA pageant in the year 2007. This pageant was held in Hollywood on the 23rd March 2007. She continues her modeling contracts and can be seen on red carpets in Los Angeles.

Wife of Director/Actor Clint Eastwood, Dina Eastwood graduated from Mission San Jose High School in Fremont, CA. She was also an achor for Newsline at Ohlone College Television, and then went to San Francisco State University to major in Radio/TV. She works for KSBW-TV in the Monterey peninsula area and co-anchors the 5 p.m. newscast show along with Dan Green.

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