University Southern California Trojans
Mike Garrett Named To Board Of Directors Of First American Bank
Oct. 4, 2000
LOS ANGELES - USC athletic director Mike Garrett has been elected to the Board of Directors of First American Bank (OTC - Bulletin Board: FTAB), a $140-million, four-office bank headquartered in Rosemead, Calif.
"We are delighted to strengthen our Board with someone of Mike's stature in the Greater Los Angeles community," said Larry Frampton, Chairman/C.E.O. of First American Bank. "Our bank has had a strong success pattern recently and Mike will further help us achieve our goals in business banking."
Garrett, 56, has been USC's athletic director since 1993. He has responsibility for management and administration of 19 intercollegiate sports, including 550 men and women athletes, 120 university employees and an annual operating budget of $30 million. USC is a university of more than 28,000 students.
Previously, Garrett was Director of Business Development for six years of California Sports, Inc., a company which owns the Los Angeles Lakers NBA professional basketball team.
In 1965, Garrett was the first Californian to receive the Heisman Trophy, emblematic of the outstanding collegiate football player in America. After college, he played professional football with the Kansas City Chiefs for four years, playing in two Super Bowls, and with the San Diego Chargers for four seasons.
He earned his bachelor's degree from USC and attended Western State Law School from 1983 to 1986.
During college, he co-founded the Cool-Head Program, which met with youth groups to reduce racial tensions in Los Angeles, and he volunteered at the MacLaren Children's Center, a home for abused children. Later he founded San Diego's Harambee House for juvenile delinquents. In 1989, he helped establish the East Los Angeles Youth Activities Foundation, which ran boxing educational clubs as a gang-intervention program. In 1996, he received the Boys and Girls Club of Pasadena's "Youth Partnership Award."
