The school became co-educational in 1972, with the first female graduates in the Class of 1974. Chaminade's two campuses served as the primary locations for the 1976 film The Pom Pom Girls. In 2010, The Boys Golf team won CIF.
Merle Robbins, who invented the popular card game Uno with several family members, died at the Good Samaritan Hospital Saturday. He was 72 years old. Mr. Robbins, a former barber in Milford, invented the game 15 years ago with the help of his wife, Marie, and his son and daughter-in-law, Ray and Kathy Robbins.
When a player has one card left, he or she must yell Uno! If the player forgets, he or she has to pick two cards from the draw pile. So much for imminent victory. Once a player has no cards left, the hand is over. Points are scored, and the dealer doles out new hands to everyone [source: The House of Cards]. Scoring UNO is rather simple.