Distinguished Alumnus, Ed Arnold (Class of 57) for 2008-2009. 

He will be honored at a dinner to be held in the foyer of the new high school the evening of October 23. On Friday morning, he will be recognized at the Homecoming Pep Rally and shortly before noon there will be a brunch and reception for Ed at the School District's Administration Building. Friday evening he will be honored at the Homecoming Football Game (AHS vs. Watson Chapel)

Ed Arnold is the co-host and managing editor of KOCE-TV's nightly news magazine  show, "Real Orange" , and the announcer for Dr. Robert H. Schuller's internationally  syndicated "Hour of Power". He joined KOCE-TV in January 2000 after over thirty years as a  sportscaster/anchor in Los Angeles. He has been with the "Hour of Power' since it began in  1970. Ed who was recently honored with the 2007 "Lifetime Achievement Award" presented by the  Radio and Television News Association of Southern California is an Emmy and Golden Mike  award winner. He began his broadcasting career at the age of 14 in his hometown of  Texarkana, Arkansas. 

The Marine Corps veteran, a former Garden Grove resident, is a graduate of Santa Ana College  and Long Beach State.

Ed is extremely involved in his community and serves on a number of board's. He just retired  from the March of Dimes after thirty-five years on the board of directors. Ed is a forty year  volunteer of his local Boys and Girls Clubs and is chairman of the Huntington Beach-Fountain  Valley clubs largest annual fundraiser. In 1968 Arnold was a founding board member of the  California Special Olympics and still plays an active role in the organization's events. In 1975,  he was selected as one of California's Five Outstanding Young Men (FOYC). Ed was the 46th  President of the California Jaycees, served seven terms as president of the Orange County  Multiple Sclerosis Society, five terms as president of the Southern California Cystic Fibrosis  Foundation, two terms as president of the Southern California Sportscasters Association and  was the charter president of the Fountain Valley Rotary Club. 

Among the many honors Arnold has received are the "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the  March of Dimes, the "Breath of Life" from Cystic Fibrosis and the "2001 Visionary of the Year"  award from Coastline Community College. Other tribunes include West Coast Father of the 
Year, the Foundation Valley "Distinguished Service Award" and the "Distinguished Citizen  Award" from the Orange County Sports Hall of Fame. Second Harvest Food Bank has named  their Humanitarian of the Year Award in Ed's name and Santa Ana College has honored Ed by 
adding his name to the annual SAC golf tournament. 

Five times the Southern California Sports Broadcasters Association named the KTLA sports  team of Ed and Stu Nahan as the "Best Television Sports Anchor staff". Ed and his wife, Dixie,  were honored with the "Americana Award" as Orange County's "Man and Woman of the year" in 
2003. 

Ed and his wife, Dr. Dixie Arnold, Chair of the Liberal Studies Department at Vanguard  University, make their home in Fountain Valley. Their son, Dean, daughter-in-law, Rachel, and  grandsons, Jacob and Luke, also reside in Fountain Valley.