MEDIA ADVISORY
Point Loma High Students, Staff, to Celebrate Completion of Campus Transformation, Return to On-Campus Graduation
June 3, 2022
WHAT:
San Diego Unified representatives will join Point Loma High School Principal Kelly Lowry, staff, students, and alumni in celebrating the school’s newly completed site modernization, which transformed the campus with a new classroom building and library/media center along Chatsworth Boulevard.
The celebration comes one week before the school will hold the first graduation ceremony on campus since the pandemic began.
WHEN:
Monday, June 6, 2022
9 -10 a.m.
WHERE:
Point Loma High School
2335 Chatsworth Blvd.
San Diego, CA 92106*
*See parking and event location map below.
VISUALS:
9:00 – 9:05 a.m. – Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (NJROTC) Display of Colors, Choir Sings National Anthem
9:05 – 9:20 a.m. – Speakers
9:20 – 9:22 a.m. – Ribbon-Cutting
9:22 – 9:52 a.m. – Media Tours of New Classroom #880 and Library/Media Center*
9:52 – 10:00 a.m.– Media One-on-Ones
*Tours will include interviews with English teacher Brian Compagnone & Library Technician & District Classified Employee of the Year, Lisa Cooper.
Photos of the new classroom building and a project fact sheet can be found here.
SPEAKERS:
San Diego Unified Representatives
Dr. Sharon Whitehurst-Payne, Board of Education President, San Diego Unified
Kelly Lowry, Principal, Point Loma High
Kim Jessop, 1973 Alumni and Director of Alumni Association, Point Loma High
Ella Sykes, Associated Student Body (ASB) President, Point Loma High
ADDITIONAL INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITIES:
Lee Dulgeroff, Chief Facilities Planning and Construction Officer, San Diego Unified
Hans Becker, Former Principal, Point Loma High
Barbara “Bobby” Samilson, Former Principal, Point Loma High
BACKGROUND:
The Point Loma High School Whole Site Modernization project includes design and construction of a new three-story, 38,000 square-foot building, renovation of the 200 and 300 buildings and upgrades to the athletic facilities.
The new building features a library/media center on the first floor, ten classrooms each on the second and third floors, and a student quad.
Parking capacity is increased with the reconfiguration of the Clove Street parking lot, which features a secure visitors’ entrance to the campus.
Other improvements include landscape and hardscape improvements, secure perimeter fencing and creation of a single campus entryway, practice fields, and technology upgrades.
San Diego Unified’s capital projects are funded by San Diego Unified School District’s Propositions S and Z, and Measure YY, which are local bond measures approved by San Diego voters to repair, renovate and revitalize neighborhood schools.
PARKING:
RELATED LINKS:
Golden Beam Hoisted into Place on Point Loma High School’s New Three-Story Classroom Hall
This event is for professional journalists. Please confirm attendance in advance: communications@sandi.net.
MEDIA CONTACT:
Jamie Ries, Information Services Specialist, San Diego Unified, (619) 855-9283, jries@sandi.net
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