Restrooms set for renovation

Cece Giarman and Mary Perez

May 18, 2017

Backed-up toilets, cramped stalls and athletes changing for sports often render the Flood Mansion’s restrooms inaccessible are prompting renovations scheduled for this of the second and third floor this summer. Architects are solidifying designs for new spaces in the community, including updated...

Secret Santa stockings build anticipation for the holidays

Asha Khanna, Senior Reporter

December 1, 2015

Sophomore student council members lined the marble staircase with decorated stockings after school today in preparation for next week’s Secret Santa celebration. “This year, instead of using bags, we are using stockings,” Sophomore Activities Director Jilan Powers said. “This way students ...

Guardian of the front gates

Lisabelle Panossian, Web & Social Media Editor

November 11, 2015

As community members walk towards the Flood Mansion doors, they see a man clad in a Stuart Hall High School cap and a neon yellow security vest — complete with a smile that has greeted the school community for 15 years. “I just do my job,” security guard Ali Nasser said. “I try to be as kin...

All four schools begin makeovers

Claire Kosewic, Senior Reporter

October 1, 2015

Twenty-three school-wide renovations took place over eight weeks this summer, giving students more places to collaborate and teachers more options to configure their classrooms for activities. “Last year, we identified and made a list of every space in every building of the school,” President A...

Renovations completed over summer

Neely Metz, Copy Editor

August 20, 2015

Large group tables, wheeled Node chairs and whiteboard-walls are all part of the newly-renovated classroom spaces intended to provide students and faculty with more room for group study and class meetings. “A lot of the effort has been to help transform bedrooms and family living spaces into more usef...

Elevator to undergo renovation

May 27, 2014

Madison Riehle Editor-in-Chief Ninety-nine years after the completion of the Flood Mansion, the historical Flood elevator is being renovated due to inconsistencies with the elevator’s daily functions. “I’ve been dependent on the elevator for a few years,” junior Talayah Hudson, who has ...

Gingerbread workshop raises money for BASH

Kristina Cary, Managing Editor

December 11, 2012

Kristina Cary Reporter Elementary school students, prospective students and their parents gathered to decorate gingerbread houses with bowls of white frosting and a colorful array of candy in the Flood Mansion cafeteria, Little Theater and Shakespeare’s Landing on Sunday, Dec. 2. The Gingerbread Workshop is the biggest annual fundraiser ho...

Class of ’12 dresses in white

May 26, 2012

Rebecca Lee Editor-in-Chief Forty-five seniors dressed in different-styled, tea-length white dresses are scheduled to receive their high school diplomas next Friday during Commencement as friends and family watch from both the Main Hall and the Syufy Theatre. Each graduate usually receives s...

CES and SHB students march around in their costumes for the Halloween Parade

October 28, 2011

Isabelle Pinard Managing Editor The the annual CES and SHB Halloween parade entertained smiling parents on Friday Oct. 28 while grades kindergarteners through sixth graders marched around the Flood Mansion and down to the Syufy Court. ...

CSH gets a new look for the school year

August 31, 2011

Isabelle Pinard Reporter The Herbert Gym floor brandishes a new center logo with red and grey text of “Hall & Heart,” and is one of the recently refurbishments to the campus over the summer. The school’s makeover is handiwork of facilities manager Geoff Smith and his crew, working on the F...

Crossing guard protects and cheers SSH students

June 1, 2010

Meghan Helms & Colleen Scullion Google “2222 Broadway, San Francisco” on Street View and the screen shows a tall man in a black uniform keeping watch over the Flood Mansion. Joseph Leroy Tice stands in front of school almost every weekday of the year, which turns out to be often enough to...

Fathers and daughters celebrate annual dance

February 4, 2010

Sara Kloepfer A&E Editor The Flood Mansion revisited the Roaring ’20s for the annual Father Daughter Dinner Dance Friday night, hosted by the Junior Class. Feathers and fedoras crowned the heads of daughters and fathers dancing to the swing music of Stompy Jones. I decided to go with a �...