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A freelance writer for Working Woman Magazine in the
1970s, P. Marino was President of The Clorox Company
Foundation and, currently, is a consultant to several Bay
Area foundations and nonprofits including the Dreyer's
Grand Ice Cream Foundation where P. Marino has worked
for the past thirteen years. With 25-years experience in
philanthropy and public affairs, P. Marino has researched
and written numerous executive summaries, topical works,
a case study for a $3 million endowment campaign,
speeches and numerous business correspondence. In her
role as Foundation President and consultant, P. Marino has
prepared numerous summations on education topics over
the past 25 years. She has brought her writing and editing
skills, her desire to help other collegiate athletic hopefuls
like her daughter and her love of a good story to Keep
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A. Musante has been in commercial real estate in the
Greater Oakland area for 27 years. He joined the Oakland
office of Colliers Parrish International, Inc. after working
with CB Richard Ellis, and has been involved in the leasing
and sales of property in Oakland, Berkeley, Emeryville,
Alameda, and other East Bay cities. He holds a Bachelor's
degree in economics and a law degree. In his real estate
capacity, he has written presentations and proposals for
both the Company and the clients he serves. A. Musante
was the assistant coach for the girls CYO team at his
daughter's middle school and has been the assistant coach
for several years for the Piedmont Basketball Foundation
and his son's MVP basketball team. A. Musante grew up
learning basketball playing with the "Newell brothers" (sons
of Pete Newell, Sr., the former University of California,
Berkeley head men's basketball coach and U.S. Olympic
basketball coach) and continued this passion as a
freshman and sophomore basketball player at Bishop
O'Dowd High School. His love of the fundamentals of
basketball came from watching two gifted coaches, Pete
Newell, Sr., and Frank LaPorte, former head coach, men's
basketball, Bishop O'Dowd High School and St. Joseph of
Notre Dame High School, Alameda, California. He brings
that love of "fundamentals" to his coaching of young boys
and girls. He has contributed a great deal of both
basketball as well as general sports knowledge to this
book.