PGHS 1988 chart and obits
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Year Name Married Name Age YOB DOD Place of Death
1988 Mark K. Bingham 31
1988 Antonette Selby aka Toni M. Kast 30
1988 (t) Mark K. Bingham (31)
Knockout II Nov 2001
Mark Bingham, 31, struggled for years to integrate two aspects of his
life, his friends said. He was a physically robust man who delighted in
the rough-and-tumble sport of rugby, and he was gay. In the last few
months of his life, he had finally put those halves together, joining a
gay San Francisco rugby club. "I finally felt accepted as a gay man
and a ruby player. My two irreconcilable worlds came together."
Bingham owned a public relations company with offices in San Francisco
and New York and traveled frequently. He called his mother before his
plane crashed in western Pennsylvania to tell her he loved her. It is
believed Mark was involved in the early crash of this plane Sept. 11,
2001. Mark attended Pacific Grove Grammar School.
Los Gatos Weekly Times, CA Sept. 19, 2001
Local graduate feted as hero
By Gloria I. Wang / Photographs by Paul Myers
In the days following the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington,
D.C., family and friends of Los Gatos High School graduate Mark Bingham
struggled to mourn his death amid a barrage of media requests. Bingham
was 31 years old when he went down aboard United Airlines flight 93 in
one of the most horrifying days in American history. Those who knew
him, however, are convinced that he led a full life that ended in an
act of heroism. "I would like the world to remember Mark," said his
mother, Alice Hoglan. "I'm so overjoyed to have been his mother." Born
in 1970 to parents who would soon be divorced, Bingham and his mother
lived all over the South before they settled in Redwood Estates when he
was around 13 years old. "We called him Bruiser when he was a little
kid," said Bingham's uncle, Los Gatos optometrist Lee Hogland. Even as
a child, Bingham was big for his age--he grew to a height of 6 feet, 5
inches as an adult--and was always ready to roughhouse. "He was more
like a little brother to us than a nephew," Lee Hoglan said. Bingham
was the "new kid" in the eighth-grade class at Fisher Middle School
when Damon Billian approached him and asked him to play football. "Of
course, he runs into a pole, trying to catch a pass that first day,"
Billian said. The two quickly formed a bond--"Mark had a habit of
mouthing off to bullies," Billian said, but Billian was the one who
would end up in fights. At Los Gatos High School, Bingham discovered
rugby. He played for the school and was captain of the team in college.
Along with his involvement in sports, Bingham joined the school's
yearbook staff and was socially active. "His high school experience was
very good overall," Alice Hoglan said. "He was very unique," said
classmate Tammy Byrnes. Byrnes says that Bingham didn't fit into any of
the stereotypical categories at school--he wasn't the "typical jock,"
nor was he the artsy type. Classmate Myla Herbert remembers Bingham as
"just a really great guy in general." Herbert wasn't extremely close to
Bingham--they were in Spanish class together through most of high
school--and hadn't seen him for three years, but said, "He's one of
those people that once you meet him, you always consider him a friend.
I just always figured I'd see him again." Mali Taylor met Bingham on
the school bus when she was 15 years old. "He said to me, 'Your hair is
pretty and soft,'" Taylor said. Then Bingham said, "My friends told me
I should say that to a girl." The two dated for a few months and
remained close friends after he graduated in 1988 and when they
attended UC-Berkeley together. In college, Bingham went public with his
homosexuality when he had his first serious relationship. "We went out
for coffee," Taylor said. "He said, 'You know that girl, Christina,
that I've been dating? Well, it's actually Chris.' And I was like, 'Oh
... now everything makes sense!'" Billian says that Bingham was
president of Chi Psi fraternity and that the position developed the
leadership skills in him that would later help him professionally.
Billian, along with their two closest buddies, would often visit
Bingham at college. "I'm just totally glad that we had a chance to
solidify our friendship after high school," Billian said. After
receiving his degree in international relations, Bingham worked for
several different companies, including Sun Microsystems. Several years
ago, Bingham decided to start his own public relations firm in San
Francisco, which built up a list of clientele from the high-tech
industry. The company recently opened a second branch in New York. As a
result, Bingham commuted frequently and kept apartments in both cities.
Although Bingham worked hard, he evidently had a sense of adventure.
Both Alice and her sister Candyce Hoglan are flight attendants for
United Airlines, and Bingham went on overseas trips using their
frequent flyer miles. This summer, he went to Spain and Italy, where he
"got drunk on sangria" and went running with the bulls. Lee Hoglan
recalls the time when someone tried to break into Bingham's car.
Instead of calling for help, Bingham's "daredevil" attitude led to him
jump the perpetrator and beat him up. For the past few months, Alice
Hoglan has been living at her brother Vaughn's house in Saratoga. In
March, she acted as a surrogate mother for Vaughn and his wife, Kathy,
for the second time; she gave birth to triplet boys. After the birth,
she stayed on to help with the boys and with their two 2-year-old
girls, one of whom she had also carried. Early in the morning on Sept.
11, Bingham called the Saratoga house from the airplane. First he spoke
with his aunt Kathy, and then he asked for his mother. He told them
that his plane had been hijacked by three men who said that they had a
bomb. He also said that he loved them. Then the phone went dead. The
women called the FBI before they turned on the television and realized
the extent of the situation. "Mark was just a piece of the mosaic,"
Alice Hoglan said. "By that time, flight 93 was a big crater in
Somerset County, Pennsylvania." Family members said that they believe
that, with his "take-charge" personality, Bingham was instrumental in
bringing the plane down by somehow struggling with the hijackers. As
news of Bingham's involvement leaked out, the house was inundated by
calls from friends and members of the press. On Sept. 12, the Hoglan's
gave interviews from about 2 a.m. into the evening hours. Alice Hoglan,
Billian said, is still in a state of shock. After all the media left on
Sept. 12, Billian talked with her, and "that's when it started to hit
her."
Los Angeles Times, CA Sept. 13, 2001 Profiles of Victims
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-091301victims,0,5371918.story
Mark K. Bingham, 31, was a 6-foot-5 rugby player, founder of a
successful public relations firm and world traveler who ran with the
bulls in Pamplona, Spain, this summer. He had recently moved to New
York from San Francisco and was returning to the Bay Area on Flight 93
to visit family. He called his aunt and mother, United Airlines flight
attendant Alice Hoglan, from the hijacked plane, saying things didn't
look good and that he loved them all. His relatives believe Bingham
played a role in thwarting the hijackers. "We think he helped cause it
to crash in the woods instead of the White House or somewhere else,"
his uncle Linden Hoagland said. A UC Berkeley graduate who grew up in
Los Gatos south of San Jose, Bingham started his own technology public
relations firm, the Bingham Group, which had offices in San Francisco
and New York. Last year, he helped recruit and train members of San
Francisco's first gay rugby team. "He was upbeat, inspiring, a great
guy," teammate Bryce Eberhart said. He is survived by his mother, aunt,
three uncles, his maternal grandparents and cousins.
c1988 Antoinette Selby aka Toni Mellino Kast (30)
Monterey Peninsula Herald, CA September 5, 2002, Page B9
Antoinette Selby, 30, who also was known as Toni Mellino Kast, died
Sunday in Monterey. She was born Nov. 18, 1971, in San Francisco and
moved to Pacific Grove as a young girl. She was a graduate of Pacific
Grove High School and attended Monterey Peninsula College as an art
major. She was self-employed as a graphic artist beginning at the age
of 14, and enjoyed sharing her artistic skills as a volunteer at local
schools, including York School. Mrs. Selby is survived by her husband
of 10 years, Richard Selby of Monterey; her mother, Verna Gertz of
Yosemite Lakes Park; her father, Steve MeIlino of Seattle; her
stepfather, Stephen Kast of Monterey; two brothers, Steven Mellino Kast
of Fresno and Paul Kast of Prunedale; three sisters, Christine Wilson
of Seattle, Judy Baxley and Michelle Holland, both of Scotts Valley,
her half-sister, Sara Reed of Colorado; her grandmothers, Hazel Blue of
Fresno and Suzie Kast of Hayward; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Visitation will be from 1 to 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Paul Mortuary
Chapel, with funeral services to follow in the moruary chapel. The
family suggests that any memorial contributions be made to the YWCA
Domestic Violence Program, 1976 Fremont Blvd., Seaside 93955.
Knockout II Nov 2002
Antoinette Selby, 30, who was also known as Toni Mellino Kast, died in
Monterey. After graduating from PG she attended MPC as an art major.
She was a self-employed graphic artist beginning at the age of 14,
sharing her skills as a volunteer at local schools. She is survived by
her husband of 10 years, Richard Selby of Monterey; her mother Verna
Gertz of Yosemite Lakes Park; her father Steve Mellino of Seattle, two
brothers and three sisters.