Hall of Honor

The Garces Memorial Alumni Board inducted four exceptional individuals and one outstanding family into the 15th annual Garces Memorial Hall of Honor on November 16, 2023. The awards banquet was held at Luigi’s Restaurant. Proceeds from the Hall of Honor go to the Garces Alumni Scholarship Fund to help with the cost of tuition for students who are children, or grandchildren, of Garces alumni. The master of ceremonies was Alumni Board Chairman Gregg Gunner ’66. The 2022 inductees were:

• Mr. Damon Culbertson
• Mr. Steve Lewis ‘64
• Mr. Rich Romo ‘70
• Mr. Jeremy Tobias ‘84

The Garces Alumni Legacy Award will be presented to Laura & Mike Etcheverry.

In addition to the awards ceremony, the Alumni Board held a “Dessert Dash” and raised an additional $25,000 for the Garces Alumni Scholarship Fund. 

The Garces Memorial Alumni Board inducted four exceptional individuals and one outstanding family into the Garces Memorial Hall of Honor on September 8, 2022. The awards banquet was held at Luigi’s Restaurant. The 2022 inductees were:

• Dr. Tom Berry
• Mrs. Joan (Haller) Finch ‘87
• Mr. Ed Hearn
• Mrs. Jenny (Maitia) Poncetta ‘70

The Garces Alumni Award recipient was the Kari & Steve Anderson Family.

The Garces Memorial Alumni Board inducted five outstanding individuals into the Garces Memorial Hall of Honor on September 9, 2021. The awards banquet was held at Luigi’s Restaurant. The 2021 inductees were:

• Vince Fanucchi ‘67
• Donna James
• Mark Brown
• Kevin Pascoe ‘71
• Gordon Westhoff

The Garces Alumni Award was The Jan & Tim Sullivan Family.

Due to Covid-19 restrictions, the Garces Memorial Alumni Board had to cancel the 2020 Hall of Honor. All 2020 nominations were carried forward and considered for induction for the 2021 Hall of Honor.

The Garces Alumni Board inducted the following individuals into the Garces Memorial Hall of Honor:

• Mr. Gene Bonas ‘57
• The late Gregory Boylan ‘70
• Mr. Tom Franconi ‘52
• Mr. Bernie LeBeau
• Mr. Ken Peters ‘50

The 2019 Garces Alumni Award was presented to the Mary & David Fanucchi Family.

Hall of Honor

On Thursday, September 6th, the Garces Alumni Board held its annual Hall of Honor Awards Banquet and inducted:

• Mr. John Fanucchi ’68
• Mr. Joe Munoz ’54
• Mr. John Roberts ’72
• Mr. Leroy Sacchini

The 2018 Garces Alumni Award was presented to two legacy families:  The Larry & Shirley Gargan and Joe & Barbara Harrison Families.

If you would like to nominate someone for the 2019 Hall of Honor, please complete the nomination form and turn it in by March 15, 2019.  The 2019 Hall of Honor Awards Ceremony will once again be part of Holy Bowl Week at Garces and will be held on Thursday, September 5, 2019.

On Saturday, April 29th, 2017, Garces Memorial honored four very distinguished and deserving alumni by inducting them into the Garces Hall of Honor.  They were:

• The late Mrs. Yolanda (Papasergia) Griffiths '51
• Mr. Frank Maitia Jr. '60
• Mr. Arnold Cattani '64
• Mr. Tom Anchordoquy '65

The legacy family honored with the Garces Alumni Award was The Mac and Stella McMurtrey Family.