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Jul, 2016

Barbara Nwaba interview: Going to the Olympic Games!

By: Rich-Perelman | Tags: Barbara Nwaba, Jeff Slade | Comments: 0

[Posted July 21, 2016] After a drought of 68 years, Uni will again be represented in the Olympic Games by 2007 graduate Barbara Nwaba, competing in the two-day, seven-event heptathlon in track & field. Pictured above: Barbara Nwaba in competition Uni grad Jeff Slade ‘63 caught up with Nwaba by telephone last week and provides this interview with the 2015 and 2016 U.S. Heptathlon champion: Slade: So, you’re going to Rio! Tell me about that. Nwaba: Yes, going to Rio. I’ll be competing August 12 and 13, so it’s a […]

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Jul, 2016

Remembering civic pioneer Marian Bergeson ‘43

By: Rich-Perelman | Tags: Marian Crittenden Bergeson | Comments: 0

[Posted July 15, 2016] One of Uni’s most accomplished alumni, Marian Bergeson ‘43, passed away on July 6 in Newport Beach at age 90. The first woman in California history to serve in both the State Assembly and State Senate, first winning election to the Assembly (for the Newport Beach area) in 1978 and to the Senate in 1984. After winning re-election to the Senate twice more, she was elected to the Orange County Board of Supervisors and served from 1994 to 1996, leaving the post to become California’s Secretary […]

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Jul, 2016

Barbara Nwaba ‘07 on the way to the Olympic Games!

By: Rich-Perelman | Tags: Olympic Games, Barbara Nwaba | Comments: 0

[Posted July 10, 2016] A powerful first-day performance set up 2007 Uni grad Barbara Nwaba to win her second consecutive U.S. championship in the heptathlon and qualify her for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Pictured above: Barbara Nwaba ‘07 (Photo courtesy Santa Barbara Track Club) Competing at Oregon’s Hayward Field in cloudy and rainy conditions, Nwaba finished in the top three in three of the four first-day events in the heptathlon: the high jump (first, 6-2 3/4), shot put (third, 46-5 1/2) and 200 m (third, […]

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Jul, 2016

Uni lands 27 in first list of LAUSD Alumni Hall of Fame

By: Rich-Perelman | Tags: LAUSD Hall of Fame, Bob Collins | Comments: 0

[Posted July 8, 2016] Athletes, authors, entertainers and a couple of alums who were elected to the United States Congress are among the 27 selection of former University High School students listed in the initial compilation of 1,226 members of the Los Angeles Unified School District’s “Hall of Fame.” Pictured above: Bob Collins ‘63, a leader of the LAUSD Alumni Hall of Fame project (Photo courtesy Ivan Finkle/UHEF) The project was developed by 1963 Uni grad (and former LAUSD principal) Bob Collins and his wife Sandy, and former Venice High […]

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Jul, 2016

Thanks to our April, May and June contributors!

By: Rich-Perelman | Tags: Donors | Comments: 0

[Posted July 3, 2016] The mission of the Uni Hi Education Foundation is to raise funds for the continued support of Uni’s academic, athletic and performing arts programs. Created in 1985 to counter the effects on Uni of budget cuts across the L.A. Unified School District, more than $1 million has been raised to assist faculty and students. Anyone can contribute: 103-year-old Hal Cunningham, who attended the school when it was known as Warren G. Harding High, joined the ranks of donors in 2014 and helped out again in 2015! […]

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Jul, 2016

Warriors & Wildcats Report no. 44 now posted

By: Rich-Perelman | Tags: Warriors & Wildcats Report no. 44 | Comments: 0

[Posted July 1, 2016] Summertime! Although Uni’s Class of 2016 has departed, there is still a lot going on, as noted in issue 44 of the Warriors & Wildcats Report: Check out ten new Chieftains ~ now a total of 27 years online! Video highlights of the Kampmann-Patton Honors Luncheon also online! Reunions coming up for the classes of 1976, 1986 and 1954! Highlights of the fall football and basketball schedules! Sad news of Warriors who have passed: Morley Moran, Sylvia Rhodes Sherwood and Len Hill. Click here to get […]

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Jun, 2016

Ten more Chieftains now online, now 27 in all!

By: Rich-Perelman | Tags: Chieftain, Yearbooks | Comments: 0

[Posted June 29, 2016] Ten more editions of the University High School “Chieftains” between 1937 and 1951 are now posted on the UHEF.org Web site, and available for viewing here. You can take a look at Uni as it was in 1937, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1949 and 1951. Pictured above: Cover of the 1941 Chieftain (Photo courtesy UHEF) Because of the nationwide paper drive during World War II, there were no yearbooks for 1943 and 1944, sadly creating a gap in the documentation of the graduating classes […]

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Jun, 2016

Kampmann-Patton Honors Luncheon highlights video now available!

By: Rich-Perelman | Tags: Kampmann-Patton Honors Luncheon | Comments: 0

[Posted June 25, 2016] If you weren’t one of the nearly 150 attendees at the Kampmann-Patton Honors Luncheon at Uni’s South Gym on May 15, you can get a glimpse of the program from a new video from the Uni Hi Education Foundation. Produced by ImagePeople for the UHEF, the 2:45 video includes snippets of the formal program, including comments by Harvey Stein ‘61, Heidi Howell ‘80, Steve Baum ‘69, Mel Patton biographer Larry Booth and Coach Dick Kampmann. In addition are tributes to Coach K from former students and […]

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Jun, 2016

Check out the All-Classes Picnic and Car Show photo album!

By: Rich-Perelman | Tags: All-Classes Picnic & Car Show, Elliott Alper | Comments: 0

[Posted June 19, 2016] We’ve had plenty of requests for more pictures of last month’s All-Classes Picnic and Car Show at Uni. Happily, we have more to show you! Elliott Alper was busy snapping photos at the event and we’ve compiled and we’ve compiled some of his best shots into a PDF photo album here. He writes: “I’m Elliott Alper and graduated Emerson Junior High School on June 20,1971 and went on to Fairfax High School (graduated in 1974). “I knew about University High School, but was living in the […]

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Jun, 2016

Nine new Chieftains now online!

By: Rich-Perelman | Tags: | Comments: 0

[Posted June 18, 2016] Nine additional editions of the University High School “Chieftains” between 1929 and 1965 are now posted on the UHEF.org Web site, and available for viewing here. You can take a look at Uni as it was in 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1935, 1936, 1950 and 1965. Pictured above: Cover of the 1965 Chieftain (Photo courtesy UHEF) Also available on the site is a unique scrapbook of Uni student and faculty involvement in World War II. This notebook carefully logged the participation, theater and press clippings […]

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