Festival (Vancouver, Washington), three sweepstakes wins (including two by Jazz Band II) at the Bellevue High School jazz festival (Bellevue, Washington), six sweepstakes awards at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival (Moscow, Idaho), and others wins at the Reno and Mount Hood jazz festivals. Notable alumni Andrew Callaghan, Journalist, YouTube personality Ernestine Anderson, jazz and blues singer Debbie Armstrong, alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist Fred Bassetti, architect Jack Benaroya, real-estate mogul and philanthropist Ishmael Butler, Former College Basketball Player UMASS. Grammy award-winning musician with Digable Planets and Shabazz Palaces Linda Lee Cadwell, author and widow of martial arts master and actor Bruce Lee Irwin Caplan, creator of the cartoon Famous Last Words Deandre Coleman, NFL player for the Buffalo Bills Will Conroy, NBA and NBADL player Peter DePoe, drummer, Redbone Michael B. Druxman, screenwriter, playwright, biographer, film director Emma Dumont, actress Gisele Fox, high fashion model Frank E. Garretson, Brigadier general, U.S. Marine Corps Bruce Harrell, mayor of Seattle Jeff Heath, former MLB player (Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators, St. Louis Browns, Boston Braves) Richard Hedreen, hotelier Jimi Hendrix, rock musician Steven Hill, actor (attended as Solomon "Sol" Krakovsky) B. J. Johnson, swimmer Quincy Jones, music producer Shirley Kaufman, poet Aaron Kovar, professional footballer for the Los Angeles FC Aki Kurose, activist; completed high school in Minidoka Internment Camp Leah LaBelle, singer Dave Lewis, rock musician Peter Scott Lewis, composer Miko Lim, fashion photographer Macklemore (Ben Haggerty), Seattle hip hop artist Mary McCarthy, novelist and critic Ari Melber, journalist, chief legal correspondent for MSNBC William K. Nakamura, World War II Medal of Honor recipient Billy North, former MLB player (Chicago Cubs, Oakland Athletics, Los Angeles Dodgers, San Francisco Giants) Jaylen Nowell, NBA Player Frank Okada, painter Robert Prince, planner of successful Raid at Cabanatuan that freed 500+ WWII prisoners Henry Prusoff (1912–1943), tennis player Irvine Robbins, co-founder of the Baskin-Robbins ice cream parlor chain Brandon Roy, former NBA Rookie of the Year and All-Star for the Portland Trail Blazers and Minnesota Timberwolves Omari Salisbury, journalist, videographer, and founder of Converge Media Yasser Seirawan, chess grandmaster Lynn Shelton, film director and writer Roger Shimomura, sansei artist Chester Simmons, professional basketball player Doug Smart, college basketball player Isaiah Stanback, NFL player Joyce Walker, the third woman to join the Harlem Globetrotters Lindy West, feminist and journalist Eric Wilkins, former MLB player (Cleveland Indians) Tony Wroten, NBA player Minoru Yamasaki, architect of the