Bio

Melvin Mason (Monterey Peninsula College) will be inducted into the CCCAA Hall of Fame for his outstanding basketball play at the community college level as well as his social activism following his time at Monterey Peninsula College. To this day Mason remains the Lobos all-time leading scorer and rebounder and was the Coast Conference Player of the Year in 1961 and again in 1967. In his sophomore season Mason led the state in scoring with 31.1 points per game and was named to the All-State and All-American teams. Between 1961 and 65 he left MPC to join the military (Air Force) where he made All-Air Force for three years. In 1996 Monterey Peninsula College inducted him into their Hall of Fame. Mason's resume has been endless. The beginning of his activism started in the late 1960's when he joined the Black Panther Party. In 1980 he was elected to the Seaside City Council and served until 1984. In 1982, he ran for Governor of California and in 1984 he ran as a Socialist Workers Party candidate for the United States President. In 2006, Mason was appointed to the California State University Chancellor's Access To Excellence Committee. Mason was recently serving his third term as President of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) branch in Monterey Peninsula and is currently the co-founder, with his wife Regina, and Executive Director/Clinical Director of an African American Family Resource Center in Seaside called The Village Project.