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Harvard School for Boys students gather for lunch at the Chalmers Hall sandwich bar in the 1970s.

The Times They Are A-Changin’

Harvard School for Boys alumni discuss the school’s departure from tradition and its adoption of a forward-looking perspective in the 1970s.
Tali Gurule, Features Reporter
November 12, 2025

As the 1968-1969 school year comes to a close, the students of Harvard School for Boys descend on their campus off Coldwater Canyon. It is time for the school’s annual Harvard Day festivities, complete...

The Class of 1974 stands during their commencement ceremony.

Back to the Future

Alumni discuss a new documentary about Harvard School’s Class of 1974.
Alex Dinh and Zoe Goor
May 29, 2024

It is June 2020. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Peter Jones ’74 and a group of his former classmates join together on a Zoom call. Almost 50 years after graduating, the men begin to reminisce...

Harvard School cadets pose with rifles during the 1923-1924 school year.

War Games: New Marching Orders

Alumni reflect on Harvard School’s military past and the administration’s Vietnam War era decision to remove the Junior ROTC curriculum and affiliation.
Zoe Goor
September 21, 2023

On a sun-drenched morning at the end of the 1960s, as war raged across the Pacific and Beatlemania spread stateside, the Studio City fire department received an unusual call. There had been a brush fire...

Garcetti ’88 wins L.A. mayoral race

David Lim
May 22, 2013

City Councilman Eric Garcetti '88 will serve as the next mayor of Los Angeles, after defeating City Controller Wendy Greuel Tuesday by a wide margin in an election with only a 19 percent turnout. Garcetti...

2013 likely Hudnut’s last graduation

April 9, 2012

By Judd Liebman President Thomas C. Hudnut, who oversaw the merger of Harvard School for Boys and Westlake School for Girls, announced to the Board of Trustees Monday that he will retire after the 2012-2013...

Alum enters packed 2013 race

October 18, 2011

By David Lim Los Angeles City Council President Eric Garcetti ’88 announced his candidacy for mayor on Sept. 8 to replace term-limited incumbent Antonio Villaraigosa in the March 2013 election....

ABC News appoints alum president

December 6, 2010

By Daniel Rothberg ABC named Ben Sherwood ’81, a former executive producer of “Good Morning America,” to lead ABC News in an announcement on Dec. 3. Sherwood will succeed...

Greco receives faculty award for dedication

September 14, 2010

By Chanah Haddad Marty Greco was presented with the Carolyn and Marion Hays award by Head of School Jeanne Huybrechts at the annual back to school faculty meeting last Wednesday. Greco is the director...

Alumni reunite in London

December 16, 2009

  By Michelle Nosratian A Thanksgiving dinner in London reunited Harvard School alumni with former English foreign exchange students at event organized by the English Speaking Union, the organization...

Spanish, photo teacher becomes first archivist

May 27, 2008

By David A. Alpert Allan Sasaki proudly showed off a paint-splotched, darkened bronze plaque that reads “In Memory of O. Rey Rule ’03.”That’s O. Rey Rule, class of 1903....

Coming back for more

October 3, 2007

By Annie Dreyer   When Ari Engelberg ’89 attended Harvard School for Boys, he visited teachers in their offices where Munger Science Center currently sits, performed labs in a building...

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