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.
UNO has become something of a tradition among many families and groups of friends, leading to many interesting variations, or house rules over the years. For example, in Doubles, if you have two of any one card, you can play them together -- for instance, a pair of green 2s can be played on a green card or a 2.