Berkeley High School

Motto
Established
Type	Public secondary
Affiliations
President
Principal	Jim Slemp
Headmaster
Dean
Founder
Chaplain
Faculty
Students	3,200
Grades	9–12
Location	Berkeley, California USA
Oversight	Berkeley Unified School District
Accreditation
Campus
Colours
Mascot	Yellowjackets
Yearbook
Newspaper	The Jacket
Website	www.bhs.berkeley.k12.ca.us

Berkeley High School is the only public high school in Berkeley, California. It is located one block west of Shattuck Avenue in Downtown Berkeley, and is recognized as a Berkeley landmark. Berkeley High School has a current student enrollment of approximately 3,200, drawn from a city of about 100,000 residents. The school mascot is the yellowjacket. Image File history File linksMetadata Berkeley_Jacket. ... Educational institutions are often categorised along several dimensions. ... In an educational setting, a dean is a person with significant authority . ... Berkeley as seen from the Claremont Canyon Regional Preserve. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... Berkeley Unified School District is a school district in Alameda County, California. ... School colors are the colors chosen by a school to represent it on uniforms and other items of identification. ... Mascots at the Mascot Olympics in Orlando, Florida. ... Wasp eating an apple Yellowjackets are black-and-yellow wasps of the genus Vespula or Dolichovespula (though some can be black-and-white, the most notable of these being the bald-faced hornet, Dolichovespula maculata). ... A yearbook, also known as an annual, is a book to record and commemorate the past year of a school or a book published annually as a report or summary of statistics or facts. ... The Jacket is the student newpaper serving the roughly three thousand students of Berkeley High School, California. ... Berkeley as seen from the Claremont Canyon Regional Preserve. ... Downtown Berkeley in the foreground, with San Francisco seen across the Bay. ... 1. ... Wasp eating an apple Yellowjackets are black-and-yellow wasps of the genus Vespula or Dolichovespula (though some can be black-and-white, the most notable of these being the bald-faced hornet, Dolichovespula maculata). ...

Administration and organization

Principal

The current principal is Jim Slemp, who is in his third year at the head. In the years preceding Slemp, Berkeley High was plagued by the lack of a consistent principal, and arson fires, which have forced the remodeling of several buildings (C,A), the demolition of one (B), and the building of a new administrative center and food court.

Small Schools

In order to better serve the large student body, Berkeley High School comprises a number of smaller schools, as well as a program within the large school Academic Choice (AC):

• The Arts and Humanities Academy (AHA)
• Communication Arts and Sciences (CAS)
• Community Partnerships Academy (CPA)
• The School of Social Justice and Ecology (SSJE).

Departments

• African American Studies Department (The Daily Californian article)

The Daily Californian (or Daily Cal) is an independent, student-run newspaper that serves the University of California, Berkeley campus and its surrounding community. ...

Campus and architecture

The Berkeley High School campus covers four city blocks between Milvia Street and Martin Luther King Jr Way. It contains several buildings, built between 1901 and 2004, which display a variety of architectural styles.

In the late 1930s, Berkeley High was remodeled and old buildings were replaced with newer ones. The Florence Schwimley Little Theater, The Berkeley Community Theatre, and the science buildings are prime examples of the Streamline Moderne style designed by architects Henry H. Gutterson and William G. Corlett. The rebuilding was financed largely in part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal program the WPA. A noted venue located in Berkeley, California on the campus of Berkeley High School. ... Bathers building, now a Maritime Museum at San Franciscos Aquatic Park, 1937 Marine Air Terminal, LaGuardia Airport, 1939 Streamline Moderne, sometimes referred to by either name alone, was a late branch of the Art Deco style. ... WPA Graphic The Works Progress Administration (later Works Projects Administration, abbreviated WPA), was created in May 1935 by Presidential order (Congress funded it annually but did not set it up). ...

Notable faculty

• Marcia Singman - dance teacher (d. 2000) [1] & [2]
• Rick Ayers - CAS English Teacher, founder of the CAS Small School Program

Notable alumni

By Last Name

• Glenn Burke - baseball player
• Phil Chenier - basketball player for the Washington Bullets in the 1970s
• Philip K Dick - author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, on which the movie Blade Runner was based, and many other books
• Shelley Jackson - author of Patchwork Girl.
• Ursula K. Le Guin - science fiction author of the Earthsea series, The Left Hand of Darkness, and many other books
• Phil Lesh - Grateful Dead bass player
• Lenny Pickett - Saturday Night Live Saxophone player
• Michael Ritchie - film director
• Janet Ritz - musician, author and environmental activist.
• Bobby Seale - co-founder of the Black Panther Party
• Norman Tien - an electrical and computer engineering professor currently at Case Western Reserve University, and son of Chang-Lin Tien, 7th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley.
• Claudell Washington - baseball outfielder in the 1970s and 80s
• Charlotte Wilder - poet and eldest sister of Thornton Wilder

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• Eli Marienthal, 2004 - movie actor, in "American Pie", "Iron Giant", "Country Bears", "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen"
• Andy Samberg, 1996 - Cast member of Saturday Night Live
• Rebecca Romijn, 1990 - model, actor.
• Joshua Redman, 1986 - jazz musician
• Christine Tien, 1984 - Stockton, California's deputy city manager and daughter of Chang-Lin Tien, 7th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley.
• Yule Caise, 1982 - actor and writer [3].
• Phyllis Tien, 1982 - a physician with UCSF and daughter of Chang-Lin Tien, 7th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley.
• Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa, 1982 - author of books on raising multilingual children
• Robert Culp, 1947 - actor
• Billy Martin, 1946 - second baseman for five Yankee World Series champs in the 1950s, and manager of four playoff teams, (Twins,Yankees, Detroit, A's) including one championship
• Jack LaLanne, 1935 - fitness educator
• Richard Bolt, 1928 - a physics professor at MIT with an interest in acoustics; Created BBN ("Modem" and "e-mail")
• Thornton Wilder, 1915 - author

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Fictional alumni

• In Caucasia (a novel by Danzy Senna), the character Cole Lee reveals in the final section ( Wonders of the Invisible World ) that she attended Berkeley High in the early 1980s.

Danzy Senna, writer, daughter of a mexican/African American father and a white mother, both writers and activists in the Civil Rights Movement. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...

External links

• Berkeley High School
• BHS Athletic Fund
• BHS PTSA

Alumni

• Berkeley Alumni Association
• Class of 1977
• Class of 1998

Extracurriculars

• Basketball
• Crew
• Cross Country
• Football
• Jazz Ensemble
• Men's Lacrosse
• Women's Lacrosse
• JSA