OCTOBER 3, 2019 URBAN ALUMNI COUNCIL WELCOMES DAN MILLER Along with a delicious dinner, abundant camaraderie, and big plans for creating more connections among our ever-growing group of Urban grads, this year's Alumni Council kickoff meeting commenced with a special guest: new Head of School Dan Miller. After a brief introduction, he opened the floor to no-holds-barred questions, and the group wasted no time peppering him with queries. A few highlights: Dan is very passionate about ensuring Urban has a long-term strategy for continuing to foster an economically and racially diverse student body in a city that makes it a challenge. Currently he's more invested in watching and learning than making immediate changes -- he came to Urban because he loves what it already is. There's a plan--without a set date--for a new state-of-the-art theater and Breaking Bad is on his list of top five television shows. We're with him. Dan is looking forward to meeting all Urban alums and will be attending most alumni events this year, including: UrbanReads, Alumni Holiday Happy Hour, Recent Grad Reunion and the Southern California Reunion. So join us at an upcoming event and welcome Dan to Urban!
URBANREADS Sunday, October 13, 2019 / 3-5 pm Salkind Center , 1639 Oak Street
ANNUAL HOOPSGIVING TOURNEY!
ALUMNI / STUDENT CAREER VISIT DAYS Urban's Career Visit Days for Juniors will be held on April 16 and 17, 2020, with both morning and afternoon slots available for alums to host small groups of students for 1-1.5 hours at their places of work. This unique program gets students out of the classroom, broadening the experience of their high school journey. It is meaningful for them to hear your stories and learn from your experiences!
If you are available to host a small group of students, please email Leah or LeRoy or fill out this form.
Our deepest thanks to all our alumni volunteers for making this unique educational program possible!
ALUMNI HOLIDAY HAPPY HOUR - SAVE THE DATE! All Urban alums and their guests (age 21+) are invited to join us Wednesday, December 18, from 7 - 9 pm, at the Laureate Bar & Lounge for light snacks, drinks, and catching up with old and new Urban friends and teachers. Invitation coming soon!
UrbanReads with Terry Gamble Boyer & LeRoy Votto October 13, 2019 3-5 pm Salkind Center - Redwood RSVP Here
Hoopsgiving
Alumni Holiday Happy Hour
Alum vs. Varsity Soccer
Recent Grad Reunion
Basketball Double Header Urban vs. Lick
Winter UrbanReads
Southern California / Los Angeles Reunion Fall and Winter Sports!
Fall Production: Matilda
Peer Education Theater
Winter Music Concert Urban Sophomore health teacher Shafia Zaloom has publisher her first book, Sex, Teens, & Everything in Between: The New and Necessary Conversations Today's Teenagers Need to Have about Consent, Sexual Harassment, Healthy Relationships, Love and More. Shafia has a long history teaching health, sexuality and sex education at Urban and other schools. She has appeared frequently on television and in articles about consent, safety and how teens can make informed decisions that reflect their values. Thank you to all of you alums who shared your stories and helped Shafia with this important book! Order here. Congratulations Miranda Phaal ('14) for making a significant discovery about one of the most famous poems in English literature, Milton's Paradise Lost. Miranda has discovered an acrostic that had gone unnoticed for more than 350 years! Check out her research essay published in the Milton Quarterly, and an article on her momentous discovery at Smithsonianmag.com.
Urban siblings Andrew ('03), Sophie ('05) and Isabelle ('07) Chow, along with Sophie's husband Kevin, recently opened Golden Goat Coffee in SOMA. They have always dreamed of opening a family business together, and joined with Kevin's eight years of experience as a barista in Switzerland and Denmark, a cafe seemed like the perfect opportunity! Friends and family discount for Urban students and alums!
Check out Peter Jarrett-Schell's ('98) new book Seeing My Skin: A Story of Wrestling with Whiteness where he explores the dynamics of racism that surround and impact blended families. With humor and a sharp, easily readable style, he delves deeply into how being white shaped his life. By telling his story, he challenges readers to personally consider the role of race in their own lives.
Read New York Times' journalist Alex Hawgood's ('02) powerful interview with Jonathan Van Ness, star of Netflix's Queer Eye. The reality show star Van Ness speaks about being an addict and a sexual abuse survivor, his diagnosis with HIV, and about his upbringing as a bullied young, gay man. Read the article here.
The Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has announced that Stanford Earth's Gabrielle Wong-Parodi ('99) is among the 20 recipients of its 2019 Early-Career Research Fellowships. The program supports the development of emerging scientific leaders who are prepared to work at the intersections of environmental health, community health and resilience, and offshore energy system safety.
Joren Dawson ('09) is performing with the Australian circus Gravity and Other Myths at Stanford Live on October 11 and 12. InDaily News says the show, titled Backbone, is Circus, as you've never seen it before, pushed to its conceptual and cerebral limits. A genre-defying, thought-provoking, visual extravaganza … so intensely beautiful it makes you proud to be human. Get your tickets today! Joseph (Raven) Bagwell ('83) We are deeply saddened to share the news of the passing of alum Joseph (Raven) Bagwell ('83) on August 7, 2019. Raven was a brilliant poet, spoken word artist and documentary filmmaker living in Dublin, Ireland. He was a thoughtful, kind, wise, playful and deeply creative young man who greatly enriched our Urban community. In a beautiful and powerful tribute published in the Irish Times it is clear that Raven was the personification of "cool." He touched and stirred his audience through the power and vividness of his language -- and he was a master of the spoken word with his purposefully crafted, nuanced presentations and performances. Our Urban community (and, indeed, the world) has lost somebody who possessed a deep wellspring of wisdom, a joyous and effusive love of life, and greatness of spirit. - LeRoy Votto Have you recently moved? Do you have a new preferred email address?
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