Stadium High School is probably best known outside of Tacoma for being the filming location of 10 Things I Hate About You (which you already know from the article “Tour the landmarks of historic Tacoma”). Over the school’s 100 years of existence, though, it has seen some impressive future celebrities pass through its halls. Here are a few you might recognize.

• Cathryn Lee Damon: Damon graduated from Stadium in 1947 and promptly moved to New York to pursue ballet. She appeared in Broadway productions like Shinbone Alley, The Red Menace, and The Boys from Syracuse. However, she is probably best known for her role as Mary Campbell on the primetime parody Soap, and later as Cassie Parker on the sitcom Webster.
• Vicci Martinez: Martinez is an acoustic singer/songwriter who won the regional tryouts for American Idol‘s first season. However, she chose not to attend the second round, and instead appeared on CBS’s Star Search in 2003. Martinze has opened for artists like Sting, Bill Frisell, Christopher Cross, and Avril Lavigne. Her latest CD, I Love You in the Morning, was released in 2010.
• Irvine Robbins: Robbins, co-founder of the Baskin-Robbins ice cream chain, graduated from Stadium sometime in the mid-1930s. His father Aaron Robbins owned a Tacoma dairy and ice cream business called the Olympic Store. He met future partner Burt Baskin when the latter married Robbins’ sister in 1942.
• James Sargent Russell: Four-star Admiral Russel graduated from Stadium High School in 1918. He joined the Merchant Marine, and later the US Naval Academy. His final post was as Commander-in-Chief of NATO’s Allied Forces Southern Europe command, which he retired from in 1965.
• Robert Neil DeArmond: DeArmond graduated in 1930 and became a reporter for Juneau, Alaska’s Stroller’s Weekly. He would go on to write numerous columns and several books about Alaska. He also helped to found the city of Pelican in the state in 1938, serving as storekeeper and postmaster of the fledgling town.
• Sugar Ray Seales: ’71-graduate Seales was a member of the Tacoma Boys Club amateur boxing program. In 1972, he boxed for America at the Summer Olympics and was the only American boxer to win a gold medal. After leaving boxing, Seales worked with autistic students at Tacoma’s Lincoln High School until 2004. In 2005, he was inducted into the Tacoma-Pierce County Sports Hall of Fame.