Falcons Fondly Remember Support of No. 1 Booster

Long before adopting a school became popular, Don Frost endeared himself to Crescenta Valley High. And the school to him.

Frost, who died last week of cancer at 72, attended more than 250 Crescenta Valley boys’ basketball games, jumping on the Falcon bandwagon in 1968 and remaining one of the program’s most involved boosters until attending his final game Dec. 23.

Frost, a retired insurance agent, and his wife, Doris, were courtside fixtures, as well as guests at 11 consecutive postseason banquets.

While overzealous parents and off-the-field politics sometimes infiltrate interscholastic athletics, the Frosts were a breath of fresh air.

Their daughter, Doreen, attended Crescenta Valley in the late 1960s, but they never had a child on the basketball team. Nor an agenda.

They simply wanted to support high school athletics.

“He supported us like crazy,” said Jim Smiley, the boys’ coach and a player for the Falcons during the mid-1980s. “Not just basketball, but the entire [athletic] program. He just came in a number of years ago and said, ‘What can I do? How can I help?’ ”

On Monday, Smiley and players past and present attended Frost’s funeral in Glendale.

“The guys really wanted to go,” Smiley said.