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“When my sports highlights came on over the TV. He gamely pitched in, and afterward lingered in the lobby to watch the newscast. Now the station had a question for Abrego: Could he compile sports clips for the newscast? The interview went well, and the assignment editor suggested Abrego stick around to meet the sports anchor.

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I didn’t go to Europe for a summer.”įinally, he answered an ad for a part-time sports editor at a Palm Springs-area TV station, KMIR. “I didn’t go to a school on the East Coast. “It was hard to fit in because I didn’t have shared experiences with a majority of people in this business,” Abrego said. “I believe that’s where he really got used to relying on himself to power through adversity and strive for the very top,” said former business partner Mark Cronin.Īfter graduating from Cal State Fullerton, Abrego was ready to break into entertainment. He’s long been driven by a competitive streak that served him on the wrestling mat and in life. To maintain his 175-pound weight, Abrego would run along the San Gabriel River wearing a black plastic trash bag. In high school, Abrego became an All-American wrestler known for quickly toppling opponents. “It was the first time that I saw people of color on the screen,” Cris Abrego said. “Hill Street Blues,” the ‘80s police procedural, was a favorite, as were repeats of Norman Lear’s “Sanford and Son” and “Good Times.” “He wouldn’t miss any of those ‘Kung Fu’ episodes or old comedy shows.” “As a youngster, he used to sit with me all the time and watch TV,” Sy Abrego said. (Cris Abrego / Mountain View High School)įamily life had a certain rhythm: work, school, sports - and TV. “We would talk about things that were unjust,” Abrego said. He remembers his family’s boycott of grapes and its embrace of civil rights. “Cris grew up learning about the inequities that minorities face,” Tina Abrego said. (She returned to college, earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees, and became a school administrator in Pomona.) “Cris was always the one who had to listen to the speeches,” said Tina Abrego, noting that she would be busy with housework or her studies. Jerry Brown appointed him to the Cal State Board of Trustees and he helped oversee the 23-campus system until last year.įor decades, Sy Abrego gave speeches to students and community groups. He joined Cal State Fullerton, where he spent 27 years, retiring in 2012 as acting vice president for student affairs. Sy Abrego earned his master’s, then his doctorate in education. “My dad was the only guy in the neighborhood who wore a tie to work,” Cris Abrego said.Įducation was stressed in the home. They could afford it, just barely, because Sy Abrego had been hired as the first director of USC’s El Centro Chicano (Chicano Student Center). Their second son, Cristóbal, arrived in 1972, and the following year, they bought a modest home in El Monte, 12 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. They married in 1969 and had a son, Esteban. “Then we got into protesting the Vietnam War. “On weekends, we would get our signs and go to the Safeway markets and boycott the lettuce and grapes because of the farmworkers’ conditions,” Tina Abrego said.

He was politically active, serving as president of the campus United Mexican American Students. But a teacher who tutored him in math steered Sy Abrego toward college.Īt the time, there were so few Latinos at Cal State Long Beach that “I was often mistaken for being an Arab,” Sy Abrego said. “I was going to be a machinist,” he said. He completed his tour just weeks before his unit mobilized for Vietnam and attended a vocational school. The son of grape pickers, he was raised in Pomona and after high school was a paratrooper in the Army’s 173rd Airborne Brigade, stationed in Japan. Determined to go, she enrolled at Cal State Long Beach.

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