Richard "Butch" Brear, a 1961 Redwood graduate, also was a football, basketball and baseball player. He was a two -time MCAL all league selection in basketball and won all-league honors in baseball. Brear was named Redwood's Outstanding Senior Athlete in 1961 and he went on to play at Stanford Univeristy where he earned his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1965. Brear was elected to the Marin County Athletic Hall of Fame in 1993.