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Mar, 2016

Uni qualifies two to State Speech & Debate Championships

By: admin | Tags: Hannah Grace Smith, Uni Speech & Debate Club, Aaron Rovinsky | Comments: 0

[Posted March 1, 2016] In just its first year as a re-formed, on-campus club, Uni’s Speech & Debate Club qualified two individuals and one alternate to the California High School Speech Association all-state tournament in Santa Clara. Club sponsor Jocelyn Tabata reported on the results from the February 20 Western Bay Forensics League Qualifying Tournament at Torrence High School: “Four members of the Uni Speech and Debate Club competed in the tournament, and all progressed into semis and then three into finals! “The qualifying tournament began with three preliminary rounds. […]

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Feb, 2016

Tickets now available for Uni’s production of Disney’s “High School Musical”

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[Posted February 28, 2016] The hit story of rivals trying out for top roles in the school play is coming to Uni’s Stivelman Theater in April and tickets are now available. Uni’s spring 2016 production of Disney’s “High School Musical” will have four performances on April 26-27-28-29 and tickets are now available online at BrownPaperTickets.com. Uni’s Director of Theater Arts, Ronnie Sperling ‘76 notes that “Disney’s ‘High School Musical’ is our most ambitious production to date. Exciting choreography, a large cast, awesome sets, contemporary costumes, some modern lighting, and a […]

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Feb, 2016

Uni scores strongly in local Rotary International Pageant of the Arts

By: admin | Tags: Rotary International, Lynn Ishii | Comments: 0

[Posted February 23, 2016] Fourteen Uni students walked away with prizes in the Westwood Village Rotary Club “Pageant of the Arts” contests held in January. The ‘Pageant of the Arts’ contest – in art, dance, music and speech – is a Rotary International District 5280 program for high school students. The Westwood Village Rotary Club competition awarded prizes of $150 to the winners, $100 for second and $50 for third in each category. The first-place winners in each category will go to the Rotary District 5280 Art Contest at Loyola […]

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Feb, 2016

Uni Alum and Petticoat Junction star Mike Minor passes at 75

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[Posted February 21, 2016] Best remembered as the pilot Steve Elliott on the 1960s sitcom Petticoat Junction, Uni alumnus Mike Minor passed away on January 28, 2016 in New York City, from cancer. He was 75. Pictured above: Mike Minor in the 1960s. Believed to be a graduate in the Uni Class of 1959, Minor was a trained singer and had two albums released in 1966, but joined the cast of “Petticoat Junction” in the fall for the 1966 season, the fourth of seven in the series. Handsome and commanding […]

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Feb, 2016

Uni track & field records reconstructed, sort of . . .

By: admin | Tags: track & field, records | Comments: 0

[Posted February 5, 2016] Thanks to the new Rekortan S all-weather track installed last fall, Uni will once again host track & field meets for the first time in more than a decade this spring. Pictured above: From the 1974 Chieftain, David Duffy (at right) and Steve Rosen in the 220-yard dash vs. Pali! In conjunction with this, the Uni Hi Education Foundation has received multiple alumni requests for a current list of Uni school track & field records. For decades, the Uni records “list” was kept on a giant […]

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Feb, 2016

Uni football star Eugene Ford headed to Hawaii

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[Posted February 3, 2016] Congratulations to Uni senior and All-City football star Eugene Ford, who signed a National Letter of Intent to enroll (and play) at the University of Hawaii. Ford (6-2, 185 lbs.) played wide receiver and safety at Uni, but was recruited to be a defensive back for the Rainbow Warriors. Pictured above: Eugene Ford signing his National Letter of Intent (Photo courtesy University HS) Ford signed his National Letter of Intent in a ceremony in the Uni gym on February 3, the first day on which commitments […]

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Feb, 2016

Uni receives NFL “Golden Football” honoring Steve Smith, Sr.

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[Posted February 2, 2016] As a part of the National Football League’s salute to Super Bowl 50, Uni received a Wilson Golden Football as part of its Super Bowl High School Honor Roll. The Honor Roll initiative recognizes schools and communities that contributed to Super Bowl history and positively impacted the game of football. From the NFL: “High schools across the nation, and around the world, will receive a commemorative Wilson Golden Football for every player or head coach who graduated from their school and was on an active Super […]

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Jan, 2016

Massive YMCA building taking shape

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[Posted January 31, 2016] University High School principal Eric Davidson reports that the Collins & Katz Family YMCA now under construction at Westgate and Ohio Avenues is well on its way to completion: “The YMCA held its topping-out ceremony in November. The roof structure should be complete before El Nino arrives. They are on schedule to be open November of 2016. We are collaborating on a schedule for our instructional and athletics programs.” If you are in the Uni vicinity and have a chance to see this project, it’s quite […]

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Jan, 2016

Eight Uni Yearbooks now available to view online!

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[Posted January 25, 2016] The first eight of more than 90 Uni yearbooks are now online at the UHEF.org Web site and can be viewed by clicking here! When you get to the Yearbooks page, you can click on any of the covers and browse any of the books now online. If you click the “Take Me to” button below each cover, you’ll be taken to another page with options for: (1) Buying a download (PDF) of that yearbook, for $99, or (2) Buying a download (PDF) of that yearbook […]

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Jan, 2016

Warriors & Wildcats Report no. 31 now posted

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[Posted January 15, 2016] It’s a new year at Uni and there’s lots to report about in the new issue 31 of the Warriors & Wildcats Report: Auditions start for “Disney’s High School Musical” Uni Academic Performance Index up 25.5% from 2000 Uni yearbooks project in test phase; launch coming soon! Fish fry! Uni hoopsters down Palisades, 63-57! Classes of 1986 and 1996: are you holding reunions? Happy 91st birthday to Coach Dick Kampmann! Ann Karagozian ’74 named interim UCLA Vice Chancellor! All Greek to me: freestyle class names from […]

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