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UHEF & Uni News

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Jul, 2016

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

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[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!

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[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

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[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!

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[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!

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[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!

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[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!

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[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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Jun, 2016

Warriors & Wildcats Report no. 43 now posted

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[Posted June 15, 2016] Uni graduated the Class of 2016, but memories have also come alive for nine classes whose Chieftains are now online! Get all the details in the new issue 43 of the Warriors & Wildcats Report: Check out nine new Chieftains posted from 1929-30-31-32-33-35-36-50 and ’65! Commencement salute to the Class of 2016 from Principal Eric Davidson! The magic of Coach K from a trackman recruited from basketball class! Reunions coming up for the classes of 1961, 1976, 1986 and 1954! Who were Uni’s first female cheerleaders? […]

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Jun, 2016

Graduation Ceremonies held for the Class of 2016

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[Posted June 10, 2016] A festive commencement ceremony was held for 378 members of the Class of 2016 on June 10, on the field at Kampmann Stadium. Uni Principal Eric Davidson saluted the graduates with the following address: “Families, friends, and members of the Class of 2016: “We can change the world. It won’t be one or some of you that will make the change. It will take all of us to heal the disease of complacency that infects us all. No matter the color of our skin, the language […]

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Jun, 2016

Did you know Gidget – on-screen and off – went to Uni?

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[Posted June 3, 2016] For more than four decades, the female side of the Southern California surf culture was epitomized in the story of “Gidget.” In fact, the story of Gidget – in print and on the silver screen – is all about Uni! Gidget, a teenage girl who loves to surf, was written about Kathy Kohner ‘58, first in the 1957 novel, Gidget, The Little Girl With Big Ideas. The author was none other than her father, well-known screenwriter Frederick Kohner, who went on to write eight “Gidget” novels […]

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