San Francisco University High School

Last week was Spirit Week here at San Francisco University High School. Check out our English 1 class, who had some Spirit Week fun with Zoom filters!

Shout out to these UHS student volunteer poll workers, Claiborne, Kai and Elizabeth! These civic-minded UHS students have a shared mission to protect voter rights, serve voters with respect, and assist all voters with casting their vote. #vote

Hello UHS Community - Today is the day (if you haven't voted already) to get out and vote. Share your "I Voted" images with us here! #Vote #iVoted

UHS Alumnae Diana Jansson, ‘99 (pictured) and Melissa Holman-Kursky, ’99 started an election volunteer support group in early September to support each other and encourage others to get involved in Get Out The Vote (GOTV) efforts. The group quickly grew and today has 200 members, drawing many of their fellow UHS alumni from the classes of 1998, 1999 and 2000. They note that it has been very gratifying to reconnect and work together with other civic-minded alumni, such as Anne Braveman Gips, Rebecca Kimport, Maura McGinnis-Gibney, and Kate Reder Sheikh, Danny Erdberg, Mariana Maguire, Candace Yu and many others.

Over the weekend the @sunrise_sfuhs club participated in a socially-distanced, must-wear-a-mask Lowell-organized and hosted climate activist event where they did a "banner drop" to raise awareness about climate change and the need for effective climate policy. Check out their Instagram (@sunrise_sfuhs) to join in their efforts.

Hello UHS Community!! Did you miss last nights opening of the San Francisco University High School fall play, Everybody? You can catch a second performance tonight on Zoom! Did we mention that the lead actor changes each night? So, if you watched the play yesterday AND want to check it out again tonight, you will have a totally different experience! AND: this play is FUNNY! And and: these students are hysterical! So, we think, what everybody needs this Halloween week, right before the election, is a good laugh while watching a play about Life & Death, complete with Dancing Skeletons! (Did we mention it’s FREE?) Check your email for the Zoom info shared earlier this week! "See" you there!!

Do you, a family member, friend, or loved one, need help to drop off your mail-in ballot? Sign up to have a member of the UHS community deliver your mail-in ballot to a local drop off location on your behalf: https://tinyurl.com/yygjzkdh

This time last year the San Francisco University High School Girls Tennis pulled off a close win against cross town rival Lick-Wilmerding. Captain Malia reflects on the match, I remember everyone looking through the holes of the fence trying to watch the deciding matches. We were all so excited and felt the win coming! When we won, I remember all of the us running out to the middle of the tennis courts celebrating! #RedDevilPride #TheRealU

Now that this fun Spirit Week (Potato Day) pic from UHS librarian Nicole has gotten your attention, she has some Halloween reads to suggest. Halloween looks to be very different this year, so what better way to spend it than with a scary boo-k? Here are a few of the many that you can find in the UHS library either in print or as an e-book. What to read: Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson... Before Stephen King and Neil Gaiman, San Francisco native Shirley Jackson wrote this classic horror story. Four people enter Hill House to investigate spooky happenings, but the house grows in power and eventually takes one of them as its own. Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties, calls it, the scariest book I’ve ever read. Available as an e-book. Fledgling by Octavia Butler Revered science fiction writer Octavia Butler often combined elements of horror into her stories. In Fledging vampires are born, not made. As with all of Butler’s books, this vampire story is more than meets the eye. Available in print for check out. Cabinet of Curiosities by Guillermo Del Toro Filmmaker/author Guillermo Del Toro shares his drawings, writings and sources of inspiration for the fantastical and horrific worlds he has created from Hellboy to Pan’s Labyrinth to The Strain. Recommended for aspiring artists, filmmakers, and writers. Available in print for check out.

Tomorrow! Join us for the fourth annual UHS Runway Lecture on Friday, Oct. 30 at noon on Zoom. Our topic is advancing public health equity during Covid-19, featuring four distinguished alumnx who work in public health. Our panel includes Dr. Jeffrey Hom ’00, policy advisor with the City of Philadelphia Department of Public Health, and a recipient of 2020 UHS Alumni Honors. Other panelists include Louise Aronson MD, MFA ’81; Cynthia Brown MSN '91, SB '87; Tomás Magaña, MD, MA, FAAP '82. Moderated by Jen Rogers '91. Please go to sfuhs.org/runwaylecture to learn more about our speakers and this event. Free and open to the public. Register for Zoom link at www.sfuhs.org/runwaylecture

Tech rehearsals look much different during COVID-19 as our students and theatre team prepare to virtually present our Fall Play: Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. Mark your calendars for this Thursday-Friday, October 29-30, 7:00 PM. Learn more on our homepage sfuhs.org - scroll down to School News!

This time last year the San Francisco University High School Varsity Field Hockey competed in a thrilling overtime win against Marin Catholic. Captain Clarissa reflects on the win, Having split honors once, and winning the next, we entered the game knowing that it would be tough but that we could win. We attacked as well as they defended, resulting in a stalemate at the end of regular time. With suspense building further, after yet another scoreless period in the first half of overtime, our team left it late but finally scored off a penalty corner; this last minute goal made the win feel that much more special, exciting, and rewarding. #RedDevilPride #TheRealU

With the #election quickly approaching, our librarian Hayley, offers some nonpartisan books you might want to read before then. What You Should Know About Politics by Jessamyn Conrad and Martin Garbus (print): Though not specifically election-focused, this book goes through all the issues including the economy, health care, immigration, education and climate change and discusses who stands where on each one and why. Votes of Confidence by Jeff Fleischer (ebook): A guide t...o the nuts and bolts of elections with data from the crazy 2016 election and from the 2018 cycle. There is also a chapter on how you can get involved. #GoVote #YourVoteMatters #CivilRight