‘Saint Bob’ was MCHS teacher, counselor, coach
Bob Brigham, in 2002, with yearbooks from his three decades of teaching at Mira Costa High School. Photo by Jerry Roberts Bob Brigham began teaching at Mira Costa High School in 1951, one year after the school opened. Over the next 36 years, he taught history, government, social studies, psychology, typing and driver’s ed. He was also a counselor, sports announcer, and football, tennis, swimming and wrestling coach. Brigham passed away March 13, in Paso Robles, where he moved in 2005, after having lived in Manhattan Beach since 1939, when he was 12 years old. He was two weeks short of his 92nd birthday. Of all of his teaching roles, Brigham said in a 2002 interview with Easy Reader reporter Jerry Roberts, “Driver’s training was among the most gratifying…. At most, there were four kids in the car and they were all highly motivated. They wanted to drive. From a purely pedagogic point of view, it was near perfect.” The insight was characteristic of Brigham’s humility and also his instinct for separating out the truth among false trappings. The story was headlined “Saint Bob.” In the early 1960s, during a history class about the 1950s Joseph McCarthy era, Brigham wrote on the…
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