Lori Brault spent more than 30 years in health care administration and education.  Her experience includes serving as President and CEO of a large California home health company and Chairman of the Board of the California Association for Health Services at Home.  Other positions include Vice President of Educational Resources for the Hospital Council of So California, Vice President of Nursing, Director of Corporate Nursing, Director of College Health Services as well as Director of Graduate Nursing Program.

Ms. Brault has directed over $2 million in public and private grants in healthcare during her career.  In 2004 she was elected State President for Health Service Administration of California Community Colleges (HSACCC).  In 2007, Ms. Brault was elected to the Board of Governors’ for the Long Beach City College Foundation.  Ms. Brault was appointed to the National Health and Human Services Commission on the Nursing Shortage and she currently serves on the Board of Directors for the City of Long Beach Public Health Department, chairing that Board for two years.

Greg Fuller moved to Downey Jan.1,1968 in the middle of the sixth grade school year from Alabama and has lived and worked in Downey ever since. He met his future wife Vickie Loper on the first day of sixth grade and married her in 1978.  They have three children ages 16 to 24.  In 1976, his mother-in-law got him the job at All American Home Center where he started as a part time box boy and since then, he worked in all most every department in the company.  He rose through the ranks to become the CEO for last 12 years. All American Home Center is widely considered to be the premiere single store in the home center business and is the largest by sales volume.  Greg is active in the Downey community and has participated in the Downey Chamber of Commerce, the Memorial Trust Foundation, Rotary and the Downey YMCA board of directors.

Randy Meadows put Downey High School on the map for football and athletics.  He was a player who could run over, run around, and through the best high school football teams in California.  Downey alumnus remember what it was like to suffer through some lean, losing years, but that changed in 1956 when the Downey Vikings played the Anaheim Colonials in front of a record crowd of 41,383 at the Los Angeles Coliseum.  Randy also played in front of another record crowd of 85,931 for the High School All American game that same year.  That awe-inspiring Downey Vikings played some of the best teams in the area – Compton, Long Beach Poly and Long Beach Wilson and in all of those games, Randy Meadows stood out, averaging 16 yards per carry and scoring touchdowns almost every time he had the ball.  He was the top scorer in southern California in 1956 and went on to be the co-winner, along with Anaheim’s Mickey Flynn, of the 1956 CIF Southern Section Player of the Year.  Randy was also a High School All American and was recruited by Notre Dame, Air Force, Oregon, and USC.  High school heroes come and go, but only a rare few are vividly remembered, as Meadows and Flynn and those teams representing Downey and Anaheim still are, 50 years after their historic meeting on the Coliseum turf.  Randy was injured at USC and did not go on to play much more, but will always be remembered as one of the most outstanding high school football players of his time.  On and off the field, he carried himself with dignity and class, and a modesty that was rare in star athletes, even in 1956.  He and his teammates brought back the pride in the Downey High School football program that had been missing for years.  And Randy, in particular, epitomized that spirit.  After his football career, Randy went on to serve in the Armed Forces in Germany and earned a decent living until his untimely death from lung cancer in 2000.

George and Estrella Pajon emigrated from Cuba and settled in the Southeast area of Los Angeles to raise their two children, George and Elizabeth.  Elizabeth is an elementary school teacher and George is a self-taught guitar player who learned to play by listening to guitar greats such as Carlos Santana, Stevie Ray-Vaughn and Jimi Hendrix.  After graduating from Downey High in 1987, he dedicated much of his life to fine tuning the various styles of music that he plays and writes.  He received several Grammy nominations in 2004 and 2005 and a Latin Grammy nomination in 2006 while busy touring and recording with the platinum-selling, award-winning Black Eyed Peas.  His talent has given him the opportunity to share the stage with many of music's great performers like Macy Gray, Carlos Santana, Sting, James Brown, John Legend, Ricky Martin, Justin Timberlake and many others.  His creative fretwork and strong stage presence have helped cement the Peas’ reputation as one of the genre’s most exciting live acts.  George is currently on tour with Fergie and planning on going back to the studio to record a new album.

Chris Pritsos was born in Vancouver, BC, Canada in 1953.  In 1954 he moved to Downey, CA.  He attended Rio San Gabriel Elementary, East Junior High and graduated Downey High School in 1971.  He played baseball for three years and enjoyed science and history classes.  He received a fellowship to USC Medical School in the summer after graduation and trained with a biochemist at USC where he developed a love for research in the field of biochemistry.  After high school, he studied at Occidental College and earned a Bachelors degree in Biology.  He then went on to the University of Nevada where he earned his Ph.D. in Biochemistry in 1982 and married Karen Sertic, a graduate student.  In 1983 Chris received a postdoctoral fellowship to work at the Yale University Comprehensive Cancer Center in New Haven, CT where he worked for three years.  He returned to Nevada in December of 1985 and was hired as a faculty member at the University of Nevada.  Karen and Chris have two children, Jenna (20 years old, completing her junior year at UC Berkeley) and Evan (16 years old completing his sophomore year at Reed HS in Sparks, NV).  Chris Pritsos has written several grants that have been funded for over seven million dollars.  To his credit, he has written over sixty peer reviewed scientific publications and has made over 100 presentations at regional, national and international meetings.

Rick Trejo is a lifetime resident of Downey.  He attended St. Raymond’s School and graduated Downey High School in 1979.  Rick played on the 1979 CIF Basketball Champion Team at DHS, the last team to do so.  Rick attended Cal State Fullerton and received his BS in Chemistry in 1986.  He received his Doctorate of Pharmacy from USC in 1991. 

Rick married his high school sweetheart Karen McCaughan, also a lifetime resident of Downey in 1989 at the First Presbyterian Church of Downey.  They have four children:  James, Gary, Karen and Katherine.  Rick was an in-house pharmacist at Downey Regional Medical Center from 1986 to 2003 and now has his practice with Pacific Pharmacy, Downey.  Rick has been actively involved in the Downey community his entire life.  He has volunteered with Northwest Downey Little League, YMCA Junior Laker Basketball, DJAA and AYSO.  Rick served on the City of Downey Planning Commission from 1997-2000.  Rick was elected to the Downey City Council on November 7, 2000 and re-elected on November 2, 2004.  He has twice served as the Mayor of Downey (2002-2003 and 2006-2007).