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Sep, 2016

Uni offering 20 Advanced Placement courses in 2016-17

By: Rich-Perelman | Tags: Advanced Placement courses | Comments: 0

[Posted September 1, 2016] A comprehensive program of 20 Advanced Placement courses are being taught at Uni in the 2016-17 term, one more than last year: AP Biology AP Calculus AB AP Calculus BC AP Chemistry AP Computer Science 1 AP English Language and Composition AP English Literature and Composition AP Environmental Science AP Macroeconomics AP Physics 1 AP Psychology AP Spanish Language and Culture AP Spanish Literature and Culture AP Statistics AP Studio Art: 2-D Design AP Studio Art: 3-D Design AP Studio Art: Drawing AP United States Government […]

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Aug, 2016

Career Day Coming September 30: Share Your Story with Uni’s Students

By: Rich-Perelman | Tags: Career Day, Cynthia Headrick | Comments: 0

[Posted August 27, 2016] The second annual Uni Career Day has been scheduled for Friday, September 30 and alumni are invited to come back to campus and share their experience and advice. The invitation letter to alumni reads: “As part of our efforts to increase career-readiness, University Senior High will host our Second Annual Career Day on September 30, 2016 from 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. It is with great enthusiasm that we ask you to support our students and school by volunteering your time to present to students that day. […]

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Aug, 2016

A WAC Card for alumni!

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

[Posted August 20, 2016] Remember the old Uni “WAC Card”? For many years the “Warrior Activity Card” and later the “Wildcat Activity Card,” it provided student purchasers with free admission to Uni athletic and performing arts events. So why not have one for alumni? Now we do! The new UHEF “Warriors & Wildcats Activity Card” will be available in late August for donations of $99 and above. All donors of that amount or more will receive a WWAC card of your very own, which will allow free admission to all […]

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Aug, 2016

Uni Olympian Barb Nwaba competes at Rio

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

[Posted August 13, 2016] Uni’s first Olympian in 68 years overcame a slow start to finish 12th in the Olympic heptathlon in Rio de Janeiro. Barbara Nwaba ‘07 entered the event as the U.S. champion after winning the Olympic Trials in July and had high hopes of competing for a medal. At the Games, she started slowly in the 100-meter hurdles, running 13.81 for 1,005 points. She then high jumped 6-0 (1,016 points) and threw the shot put 48-7 1/4 (848 points) before finishing the day with a mark of […]

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Aug, 2016

Daughter of Uni grad headed to Rio 2016!

By: Rich-Perelman | Tags: Andi Murea, Melanie Goodman | Comments: 0

[Posted Aug. 1, 2016] The Uni connection to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio has deepened with the daughter of a Uni grad named to the Israeli swim team. Pictured above: Andi Murez (Photo courtesy Wikipedia, by BAswim: Own work, CC BY 4.0) Andi Murez, 24, is a decorated swimmer who won All-American honors at Stanford and represented the U.S. in several international competitions before changing her affiliation to Israel. Her mother, Melanie (Goodman) Murez, graduated from Uni in 1974 and was a member of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee […]

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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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