University High School, West Los Angeles

University High School, West Los Angeles While under construction it was known as Sawtelle High School, but it opened as Warren G. Harding High School when built in 1924, after U.S. President. Harding.

Harding High School when built in 1924, after US President Warren G. The school was renamed in 1929 after UCLA moved its campus from East Hollywood to Westwood, and the reputation of former President Harding had declined after the Teapot Dome scandal.[citation needed] The name University is supposed to have originated because it became a site where teachers-in-training from nearby UCLA worked as a

ssistant teachers. The original Administration building was designed by the firm Russell & Alpaugh and the construction process began in 1923. The style which was chosen recalls the Romanesque of Northern Italy. The Administration building once displayed an octagonal tower and a portico, but these features were toppled in the 1933 Long Beach Earthquake. An original cafeteria building was located where the current cafeteria and theater stand today. Although the gymnasium and a beautiful and widely admired auditorium were condemned following the 1971 Sylmar earthquake, the school's original main building from 1924 remains in use. The music building and gym (rebuilt in the early 1980s) have been scheduled to be taken down because they sit on a fault line and therefore against district policy. As of July 2010, the music building is gone.[2][3] Music classes have been moved to another unused room near the top of the school. The gym was still in use while, on the south end of the campus, in what was formerly a student parking lot, a new gym facility was under construction in 2010. Uni one of very few pre-World War II high schools in Los Angeles which have been partially spared by three major earthquakes since its inception. Because the main building presents a very traditional and dignified appearance, with weathered brick and arched doorways, the campus is popular with film crews. See on campus

One-third of its class of 1942 did not graduate because of the internment of Japanese-Americans. In fall 2007, some neighborhoods zoned to Hamilton High School were rezoned to University High School.[4]

The following is a list of notable alumni of University Senior High School. The list includes all notable former pupils ...
01/14/2014

The following is a list of notable alumni of University Senior High School. The list includes all notable former pupils who attended the school anytime since opening its doors in 1924, including for the four years it was named Warren G. Harding High School.

Dave Adams Warner Brothers Vice President
Rachel Ames (actress; General Hospital)
Mackenzie Astin 1991 (actor)
Eric Avery (rock bassist - Jane's Addiction)
Jan Berry 1959, (singer and songwriter of Jan & Dean fame)
Karla Bonoff (singer/songwriter; 'Someone To Lay Down Beside Me, 'Lose Again', 'Tell Me Why' )
Jeff Bridges 1967 (actor)
James Brolin (actor)
David Cassidy (actor; The Partridge Family)
David Charvet 1991, (Actor: Baywatch)
Alex Cline 1974, (drummer: Homogenized Goo)
Nels Cline 1974, (guitarist: Wilco and The Nels Cline Singers)
Darby Crash born Jan Paul Beahm (punk rock pioneer, The Germs)
Richard Dean born Richard Cowen, (athlete, model, photographer)
Sandra Dee 1958, born Alexandra Zuck (actress best known for her role as Gidget)
John Densmore (rock drummer - The Doors)
Elonka Dunin 1976, (cryptographer and game developer)
Danny Elfman (Oingo Boingo, film composer)
Harley Feinstein, Drummer Sparks, Big Time Attorney, and Major Big Wave Surfer
Raymond C. Fisher (jurist)
Vince Flaherty (film producer, actor, songwriter, musician and recording artist)[8]
Megan Follows 1986, (actress)
Kim Fowley (rock musician/music producer)[9]
Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme (Manson Family member/attempted assassin of Gerald R. Ford)
Judy Garland (Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz)
Peggy Ann Garner (actress, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)
Jill Gibson 1960, (singer and artist)
Kim Gordon (rock bassist - Sonic Youth)[2]
Omar Gooding (actor)[citation needed]
Jane Harman 1962, (Congresswoman for California's 36th Congressional District 1993–present)
Jason Hervey 1990, (actor, best known for the character Wayne Arnold on The Wonder Years)
Daryl Hobbs, 1987 (professional football player for Oakland Raiders, New Orleans Saints and Seattle Seahawks)
Jack Jones 1957, (singer)[citation needed]
Jack Jorgensen, 1970 The Associated Press, United News Service photographer.
Brian Kingman, 1971 (professional baseball player for the Oakland Athletics and San Francisco Giants)
Kathy Kohner-Zuckerman 1958, (the actual Gidget, whom the novel Gidget, The Little Girl With the Big Ideas and subsequent film and television adaptations was based on)
Bob Kerstein, CPA - Founder Bob.com, & Scripophily.com - MCCAW Cellular CFO - Big Wave Surfer, Internet Pioneer
Robby Krieger (rock guitarist and songwriter - The Doors)
David Lang 1974, (Pulitzer prize-winning composer)
Betty Lynn (actress best known as Thelma Lou in The Andy Griffith Show)
Sue Lyon (actress) Lo**ta, Night of the Iguana
Bryan MacLean 1964, (singer/composer - rock musician - Love (band))
Samantha Mathis 1988, (actress)
Roddy McDowall born Roderick McDowall, 1946, (actor best known for Planet of the Apes)
Maria McKee 1982, (rock musician - Lone Justice)
Kevin Millar (professional baseball player - Baltimore Orioles)
Penelope Ann Miller (actress)
Andrew Mishkin 1976, (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer, author)
Marilyn Monroe (actress)
Jim Moret (television anchor), 1974
Shelley Taylor Morgan (actress)
Dave Navarro (rock musician - Jane's Addiction)
Randy Newman (singer/composer; 'I Love L.A.')
Ryan O'Neal (actor)
Mel Patton (1948 Olympic Gold Medal sprinter; former world record holder, 100 yd & 220 yd dash)
Davina Nex - Columbia Record Club
Paul Petersen (actor)
Stephen Reinhardt 1949, (judge - United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit)
Tommy Rettig 1958, (Jeff Miller in Lassie)
Richard Rhodes (Rothstein) Emmy Award Winner
Herb Ritts (photographer)
Mary Lee Robb 1944, born Mary Lee Robb Cline, (radio actress best known for her role as Marjorie, The Great Gildersleeve)
Kira Roessler (Black Flag bassist)
Michael Ryder 1973 : former Robosaurus pilot Live show, entertainment robot, Stunts TV movie Steel Justice.
Jeff Schultz—sportswriter (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Bruce Schwartz 1973, (puppeteer)
Jay Segal - Big Wave Surfer
Dylan Sellers Graduated 1975 (film producer)
Frank Sinatra, Jr. (singer, conductor)
Nancy Sinatra 1958, (singer)
Pat Smear born George Ruthenberg (punk rock pioneer, The Germs, Nirvana and Foo Fighters musician)
Steve Smith (Carolina Panthers wide receiver)
Felicia Stewart (doctor, author, advocate for morning-after pill)
Peter Stone (writer for theater, television and film)
Glenn Sundby (gymnastics)
Elizabeth Taylor (actress)
Marshall Thompson (actor - To Hell and Back)
Tone Lōc born Anthony Terrell Smith (hip-hop artist known for Wild Thing and Funky Cold Medina)
Dean Torrence 1958, (singer from Jan & Dean)
Chet Upham (1925–2008) ca. 1942, (oil and natural gas businessman from Mineral Wells, Texas, owner of Loveland Ski Area in Colorado, and chairman of the Texas Republican Party from 1979–1983)
Jay Walker NFL Quarterback (1994–1998), Maryland House of Delegates District 26 (2006–Present)
Howard Wolpe 1956, (Congressman for Michigan's 3rd Congressional District from 1979 to 1993.)
Steve Wynn (musician/songwriter - The Dream Syndicate)
Titus Young NFL Receiver for the Detroit Lions (present)
Jordan Zevon 1988, (musician/music producer, son of late singer/songwriter Warren Zevon)
Marc Wanamaker (writer, researcher, historian)
Kenneth Ziegler, 1997 (Chief Resident, Department of Surgery, [Yale-New Haven Hospital|Yale-New Haven Hospital])
Bill Lancaster (son of Burt Lancaster) (writer of "Bad News Bears")
Timmie Lee Sperl (actress, General Hospital) (daughter of actor Timothy Farrell—Ed Wood movies)

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05/02/2012

The school's mascot was formerly the Warrior, but was changed after the Southern California Indian Center petitioned the LAUSD to eliminate the mascots and names of all schools that had American Indian mascot and names. In 1997 the LAUSD decided to eliminate all American Indian mascots. The LAUSD decision was upheld in federal court, but the California Racial Mascots Act, a bill which would eliminate American Indian mascots and names statewide, was vetoed by Governor Schwarzenegger twice.

Towards the end of the 1997–1998 school year, students were allowed to vote on a new school mascot. Students chose the Wildcats over the Gators and Jaguars. The Class of 1985 had, as a senior project and gift to the school, painted a large Warrior mascot on the south entrance to the gym building. Shortly after the mascot change, this was painted over with its feline replacement.

01/18/2012

Go Warriors!

09/11/2011
09/11/2011

University High School is located on a historic 24-acre site in West Los Angeles. Our campus is built atop a freshwater spring that was used for centuries by the Gabrieleno Tongva people, and a portion of our campus is a dedicated California State Historical Site.

09/11/2011

University Senior High School, commonly known as Uni, is a secondary school located in West Los Angeles, a district in Los Angeles, California, United States near the border of Santa Monica. University High is a part of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). The campus also holds Indian Sp...

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