UHEF & Uni News

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May, 2023

Where the Warriors Are

By: Tascha Folsoi | Tags: Tascha Folsoi, Tongva history, Great Wall of Los Angeles, Judy Baca | Comments: 0

As we move towards the 2024-25 school year, which will mark the hundredth anniversary of Uni High, I am going to write a bit about the history this land is on and the people who crossed over it. I begin with my own memories of the eighties and a bit of history about the first people to love our springs and the land it’s on. Through the years, the amount of history different generations learned about our campus ebbed and flowed as society has wended its way around celebrating […]

When the Grove Was a Grove

By: Tascha Folsoi | Tags: | Comments: 0

by Tascha Folsoi Steven Barnhill wrote to inform Uni High that his father, Kenneth Barnhill, from the Spring Class of 1946, had recently passed. In 1953, Kenneth earned his J.D. from Colorado University at Boulder and then joined the Air Force. He went on to be lawyer and ultimately a district court judge. Here is some video of that photo along with some questions for today’s students to contemplate. We received this photo when we returned to school at the end of April. Needless to say, it has been a […]

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May, 2020

To be seen or not to be seen? That is the question.

By: Tascha Folsoi | Tags: | Comments: 0

What can I say dear Warriors and Wildcats? These are strange times. If you’re like me, you knew something was coming. You just didn’t know what it was. Would the effects of climate change finally accelerate like a swimming pool in need of cleaning, slightly cloudy one day and completely opaque the next? Would the rise in homelessness lead to an uprising of people with nothing left to lose against people who have more than they can ever use? An earthquake? A war on our turf? A robot takeover? Who […]

Ivan Finkle, Class of 1950, was born in the Bronx the year these images of Uni were taken

By: Tascha Folsoi | Tags: | Comments: 0

For the first time in my life, I really wish I’d worked harder in physics. If I had, I would surely have been able to ask Ivan Finkle, class of 1950, more intelligent questions about the work he did in physics. But I did the best I could to find out about the life of an important member of the Uni High Education Foundation. Ivan was born in the Bronx in 1933. This year was a fateful year for the future of humanity, and the events of that year would […]

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May, 2019

Where Have All The Spark Plugs Gone?

By: Tascha Folsoi | Tags: | Comments: 5

When you learn about or encounter something too young, you’re likely to get it all mixed up. I read Catcher in the Rye when I was eleven, and I thought it was about a boy who swears too much. And when I was around the same age, my mother used to enjoy making me say ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny just to hear me struggle with all those syllables (I do the same thing to my kids). When I asked her what that meant, I did not quite glean that it was […]

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Apr, 2019

Boys Volleyball Makes Open Division

By: Tascha Folsoi | Tags: Nate Davis, Miriam Khorgamfar, Emilio Memo Vasquez, Donovan Robinson, Paige Wright, Isabella Burnett, Estrella Garcia-Lewis, University Charter High School | Comments: 0

Volleyball. Need I say more? Both our girls and boys players have made Uni beyond proud, thank in no small part to Coach Randick and Coach Emilio “Memo” Vasquez. Miriam Khorgamfar , who started as an opposite hitter this year, states, “Our coaches are so good. They put so much effort into coaching and caring for every individual. Coach Memo is also really fair and ensures play time for those who really put forth a lot of effort. He is always ready to provide extra practice and encouragement to anyone who […]

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Apr, 2019

Patrice Noteware and the Class of 1972: Past, Present, Future

By: Tascha Folsoi | Tags: Class of 1972, Patrice (Taenaka) Noteware, Japanese Internment | Comments: 1

Patrice (Taenaka) Noteware, Class of ’72, made her way to Uni for a visit as she prepares for her 50threunion. She stopped into the library, and I had a chance to interview her about her time at Uni. She is not short on happy memories from her days here “It was a glorious time of life,” she recalls. Patrice was active in campus clubs, serving her Warrior community and taking advantage of the many offerings at Uni. She was elected chairman of the Friendship Board and was Girls’ League Vice […]

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Jan, 2019

Don’t You Forget About Us…or The Value of Public Education: Class of ‘86

By: Tascha Folsoi | Tags: | Comments: 0

A couple of things happened over the Winter break. One, it was announced that the teachers in LAUSD would probably be going on strike, and, two, my friend Kimberly Steinman, Class of ’86, posted some pictures of our days at Uni on Facebook. My eye was drawn to the pictures where I saw myself or my friends, people I had known since Emerson –and some I even remember from Westwood Elementary. I imagined Uni as a giant aquarium, with all of us fish swimming around it. If the aquarist were […]

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Dec, 2018

Uni Girls Build LA

By: Tascha Folsoi | Tags: Girls Build LA, Nancy Pheaer, Litzy Bautista, University High School Charter | Comments: 0

Last year, Litzy Bautista was talking to a friend who attends Culver City high school and is part of this great program, Girls Build LA. Girls Build LA is the local chapter of the organization co-chaired by Michelle Obama that challenges public middle and high school girls to make a difference in their communities and to make sure their voices are heard by their elected leaders. The organization sponsored an event held at the Galen Center this year to help girls pre-register to vote, and Uni was able to send […]

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Dec, 2018

David Cheatom Leads

By: Tascha Folsoi | Tags: | Comments: 0

As the librarian, I must confess I am not as avid a sports fan as the previous (and more skilled) writer of this report. At some point this year, I began to realize that junior David Cheatom, as one of the three captains of the varsity basketball team, is big man on campus who plays guard and forward for our beloved Coach Ackerman. From my perch on the third floor of the Administration Building in the library, David was not on my radar as our campus superstar speaks, and this speaks to […]