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08/27/2026

Our Summer 2026 newsletter is here! 📣

Inside: our girls varsity soccer team made history with Lowell's first-ever CIF State Championship, over $650,000 combined went out in scholarships and grants to Lowell students this year, and we sat down with Roberta Bleiweiss '65 on how she helped build the Alumni Association from a box of index cards into what it is today.

You'll also find updates from President Quincy Yu and new Executive Director Cathy Jordan, class notes from decades of Cardinals.

Read the full issue here:https://lowellalumni.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/LAA-Newslettter-Summer-26_FINAL.pdf

08/25/2026

Long before he was saving hearts at Harvard, Lawrence H. Cohn was walking Lowell's halls as editor of the school paper and a track athlete.

Cohn graduated in 1955 and went on to a legendary career in cardiac surgery, becoming a leading figure in heart valve repair and helping develop techniques that are still used today. Over his career, he performed more than 11,000 operations and trained generations of surgeons at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

It's one of those stories that reminds us just how far a Lowell education can carry someone. Grateful for the mark Dr. Cohn left on the world of medicine.

08/22/2026

Heads up, Lowell alumni! You may have recently received an email from Member365 with a username and password for our new Alumni Association member portal. This email is official and comes directly from the LAA. It is not spam or phishing.

The portal lets you update your info, register for events, and stay connected with everything happening at Lowell. If you got this email,it's safe to log in and explore.

Questions or didn't receive your login info? Reach out to us directly at [email protected] and we'll get you sorted.

08/20/2026

📸 Before he was photographing The Beatles' final concert, Jimi Hendrix, and Janis Joplin, Jim Marshall '54 was just a kid on the Lowell High School track team, a camera around his neck, learning that a photograph could freeze time.

He'd go on to become one of the most influential music photographers in history. Now his work is home in the city that shaped him: the SFO Museum’s "Jim Marshall: Two Sides of the Same Coin" is on view at San Francisco International Airport, Terminal 2, Gallery 2E, through March 14, 2027. The exhibit pairs his legendary rock and roll access with his lesser known documentary photos of Bay Area peace and anti war protests.

Not flying anytime soon? Non-travelers can request a gate pass to see it in person.
https://www.sfomuseum.org/exhibitions/jim-marshall-two-sides-same-coin

More of his work: https://www.facebook.com/jim.marshall.photography

Fellow alum making history one frame at a time. Who's planning a visit? 👇

08/18/2026

Lowell High School Alumni Association’s second annual Homecoming, an All Class Reunion, returns Saturday, October 10, 2026, starting at 10:00 a.m. at Lowell High School, 1101 Eucalyptus Drive, San Francisco.

Whatever decade you graduated, this is a chance to walk the halls, catch up with classmates, and see what's new at our alma mater. The day includes a football game cheering on the Cardinals, campus tours, food, and activities for all ages.

https://lowellalumni.networkforgood.com/events/104055-2026-homecoming

08/17/2026

The newest class of Cardinals starts at Lowell on August 17th, and we couldn't be more excited to welcome them in!

To the incoming class: you're joining something bigger than four years of high school. You're joining a community of alumni who came before you, cheered on the same fields, studied in the same halls, and are rooting for you now.

Welcome to Lowell. We're glad you're here.

08/13/2026

We'd like you to meet Roberta Bleiweiss, Class of '65.
In the early 1980s, Roberta was handed the keys to a dormant alumni association and asked to bring it back to life. There was no mailing list. No budget. No active members. Just a box of index cards and a lot of work to do.
She recruited volunteer attorneys, including a fellow Lowell alum who would go on to serve on the United States Supreme Court, to write bylaws from scratch. She launched a newsletter. She organized reunions. She fought to protect Lowell's programs, its teachers, and its identity, year after year.
Along the way she also co-founded the entertainment group that became Beach Blanket Babylon, worked on Indiana Jones and Tucker, and spent 21 years teaching music in San Francisco public schools.
In her own words: "We went from zero to millions."
Roberta's full story is in our summer newsletter, coming soon. In the meantime, we just wanted to say: thank you, Roberta. Lowell is what it is today partly because of what you built.

08/11/2026

Meet Aden Zhang, Class of 2026 and recipient of the Peter Dahl Scholarship for exceptional science students.

Aden has spent his time at Lowell making science more accessible. As secretary of Operation STEM, he helped bring interactive workshops to 30+ underserved SF elementary schools, put science kits in the hands of 800+ students, and secured a $15,000 grant for the organization. He also served on the executive board of Up Next Scientists, supporting 200+ high schoolers with virtual research opportunities, and interned at UCSF studying clinical and medical assisting skills.

This fall he heads to UC Berkeley to study chemistry.

Congratulations, Aden.

08/06/2026

Meet Nick Andrus, Class of 2006

Nick's path took him from Lowell to the USC School of Cinematic Arts and into a career as a Unit Production Manager on independent films, commercials, and music videos, based in Los Angeles.

Now he's telling a story close to home. Three Brothers in Shanghai is a short documentary Nick directed, inspired by his own grandfather and great-uncles, who fled Austria for Shanghai as children and survived a perilous childhood there, only to face a heartbreaking choice at the end of the war.

Catch a screening at the Oakland Film Festival on September 17 or at Congregation Sherith Israel on November 10. More at threebrothersinshanghai.com

08/04/2026

Meet Emily Gorodetskiy, Class of 2026 and recipient of the Joan Catelli Scholarship for outstanding graduating senior.

Emily founded VR'ing Democracy, a virtual reality voter education program that has reached young civic leaders across 10+ countries, earned five-figure grants, and landed coverage on KQED and KALW. She also founded YEA Lowell and grew the Youth Entrepreneurship Association to 30+ chapters nationwide, launching 16 student businesses and raising $60,000+ along the way. She served as Secretary-General of San Francisco Model United Nations, Youth Council Chair for the League of Women Voters of SF, and was appointed to California's Voting Accessibility Advisory Committee as its youngest member.

This fall she heads to Vanderbilt University as an Ingram Scholar, one of the university's most selective merit honors.

Congratulations, Emily.

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