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UniversityCity 
High School Mural
    
KETC, LIVING ST. LOUIS 

Producer Patrick Murphy 
follows a group of University City 
High School students as they 
celebrate their city's 
100th anniversary with a mural. 
The St. Louis Craft Alliance and the 
school joined forces to create this 
one-of-a-kind masterpiece.
    
UCHS Marching 
Band Meets the 
UCHS Class of 1957 
for Breakfast
      

Project Appleseed
Speaking
truth to power
Since 1992

Fmr. Supt. James Victory - R.I.P.
In 2006 & 07, we busted 
this man doing long-term 
damage to our schools - at 
taxpayer expense. His 
contract was not renewed 
and his supporters in the 
UCHS Alumni Association 
'leadership' have 
been replaced.

Walker Joins Duncan's Calls for Aggressive Efforts To Lift Worst Schools


U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Project Appleseed President Kevin Walker

Private
Fund Raising
In Public
High School
Facilities

University City
High School
$0

St. Louis
Public Schools
$2 million
8 Athletic Fields
Public High League Donation



Ladue High
School
$1.7 million
Field House, Track
Friends of Ladue High School Athletics

Afton High
$1 million
Student Commons
Single Alumni Donation

Clayton High
School
$800,000
Gay Field
Friends of Clayton High School

Maplewood
Richmond
Heights
$500,000
Sunnen Athletic Field
Sunnen Corp. Donation

By Dale Singer
Special to the Post-Dispatch

By the time I reached University City High School as a sophomore in the fall of 1964, Alan Spector and his classmates had departed. But the spirit they left behind – the enthusiasm and the dedication described in this remembrance of teenage life in a simpler time – remained for every student to drink in and help perpetuate.

“Hail Hail to U City High” serves many purposes. It is Spector’s memoir of three years of his life that shaped who he became and who he remains today. It is a snapshot of an era that he and many of his classmates look back on with gratitude, when the nation and the suburb where they lived were headed for fundamental, irreversible changes. And it catches up with where many members of the class of ’64 are today, with all of their hopes and disappointments, triumphs and tragedies.

 As memoir, the book may appeal to a limited number of people – members of Spector’s class and others of that era. Many of his contemporaries were the older siblings of my classmates, the class of ’67, and my older brother and several former colleagues were a year behind Spector, so to me, a lot of the names here are familiar, particularly those of teachers.  More.....

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