Edited sentence: Ann Veneman 27th Secretary of the U.Baltazar Ricardo Pinedo, two-time Jeopardy.Beyer High School.Boaz Myhill, Hull City goalkeeper.Carol Channing three-time Tony Award winning actress and singer.Chandra Levy, intern at Federal Bureau of Prisons in Washington DC, whose 2001 disappearance was a major news story.Chuck Hayes Kentucky Wildcat and Houston Rocket basketball player.Davis High School.Department of Agriculture (USDA).Elam once attended Modesto Junior College and had a brother who taught there for many years.Ernest Gallo & Julio Gallo, winemakers, philanthropists.Frank Mancini, the award-winning band director at Modesto High School, founder of the Modesto Symphony Orchestra and the Stanislaus County Boys Band.George Lucas film director, producer, and screenwriter, graduate of Thomas Downey High School, and former student at Modesto Junior College.Giovanni Sodi Spanish recording artist who graduated Modesto High School in 2006.Graduate of Modesto High School.Graduate of Thomas Downey High.Harve Presnell, actor.He was born in Modesto in 1933 and is a graduate of Modesto High School.Heath Pearce professional international soccer player in Europe.Jack Elam, 1919 to 2003, actor, epitome of the bad guy in films.James Marsters actor and graduate of Grace M.Jeremy Renner, actor.Joe Dillon, MLB player for the Florida Marlins, Milwaukee Brewers, and the Tampa Bay Rays.Kirby Hensley founder of the Universal Life Church.Lester Hayes former American football player.Louis Cardinals outfielder and graduate of Grace M.Mancini Bowl in Graceada Park is named after him.Mark Spitz 9-time Olympic swimming gold medalist.Ray Lankford St.Scott Peterson, sentenced to death for the murder of his wife, Laci Peterson, and unborn child.Shane Minor, country music artist.Suzy Powell-Roos 3 time track and field Olympian and American Record holder in the Women's Discus.The case attracted national attention.Timothy Olyphant, actor and 1986 graduate of Fred C.Tisha Venturini member of the gold medal winning U.Tony Graziani Philadelphia Soul quarterback and graduate of Thomas Downey High School.champion, June, 2009.women's national soccer team at the 1996 Olympic Games; from Grace M