Category: Education

By Kate Williams / The Point PLNU /  Feb 5, 2025

California’s State Assembly Bill 413, a measure that prohibits cars from stopping, standing or parking within 20 feet of both red and unmarked intersections, went into effect Jan 1.

The Daylighting Parking Law’s goal is to give drivers and pedestrians more visibility around crosswalks.

Alex Irving, a second-year communications major at PLNU, commutes to Marine Physical Training in Mission Bay twice a week. She experienced difficulty turning when cars were parked right along the intersection, blocking the view.

The Point Loma High School PA Baseball Booster is collecting Christmas trees to fundraise for the high school’s baseball program. Each $30 donation goes straight to the program to benefit the players.

If you are interested in having the players pick up your tree, please Venmo $30 to @PLHS-BaseballBooster or leave a check for $30 written to the PLHS-PA Baseball with your tree.

Now is your best chance to find my book, The May 1970 Rebellion, available for a promotional price at @Smashwords as part of their 2024 End of Year Sale!

Find my book and many more at here through January 1!

On this past Saturday, Frank Gormlie, editor of the OB Rag, gave a talk about his recently published book, The May 1970 Rebellion, before a small crowd in the backyard of good friends in a home in northeast Ocean Beach.

Videographer Charlie Landon took a video of the talk and edited it some what — there were many “OB Pauses” — when the airliners passed overhead — and it’s presented here.

By Noah Perkins /Pt Loma-OB Monthly San Diego Union-Tribune / December 11, 2024

It was a very good year for the Point Loma High School girls cross country team.

The Pointers’ second-place standing at the CIF Division III State Championships in Fresno on Nov. 30 was good for the best finish in school history.

“The team went into it very confident, but not overly confident,” head coach Keith DeLong said. “I was ecstatic with the finish. They were thrilled. Getting there and placing was a huge thing for us.”

Frank Gormlie Book-Signing
and Talk on The May 1970 Rebellion
Saturday, Dec. 14, 1–3 pm

Frank Gormlie will be available for book-signing
and will give a short presentation on his book,
what led him to write it and
what it means for us today in the Trump Era.

Times of San Diego

A racist term for a Native American woman will be removed from nearly three dozen geographic features and place names on California lands, the state Natural Resources Agency announced Friday.

Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2022 signed a bill into law that bans use of the word “squaw” in future place names and ordered the agency to rename all places that used the slur, including on streets, bridges, public buildings and cemeteries, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday.

By Sydney Brammer / The Point PLNU / Nov 20, 2024

Point Loma Nazarene University claims to be a sustainable campus, yet the inaccurate and outdated information found on their website is misleading to the reality of their efforts. The composting program has just begun making its way back since being shut down during COVID-19, according to Gustavo Bernal, assistant director of campus facilities. Staff workers in the university’s food establishments weren’t aware of the composting process and only a select few actually know where food waste ends up.

by Dave Schwab / Peninsula Beacon / October 18, 2024

Warren-Walker Middle School is back in Ocean Beach and wants to get word out about it.

“Happiness is within reach in Ocean Beach,” joked Paul Saunders, head of Warren-Walker’s Middle School, who has been with the school for over 18 years.

The homegrown Ocean Beach school is one big extended family. “I began my academic journey as a kindergartner on this campus in the ‘80s,” noted Saunders.

The lower- and middle-school campuses of Ocean Beach’s homegrown independent Warren-Walker School are once again reunited for the 2024-25 academic year and beyond. Previously in Mission Valley, Warren-Walker Middle School for sixth through eighth grades has returned to the Peninsula. The school’s staff is excited to have all of its PK-eighth-grade students this school year at its main campus at 4605 Point Loma Ave.

By Lynne Miller

In 21st Century USA, it is unlikely to find a rite of passage into adulthood. Hawaiian boys living in the 1700s plunged from high cliffs into clear water as a passage ritual.  Point Loma high school seniors sign up for Larry Zeiger’s English class where they write, direct, sing and dance their way to graduation. At least they did for 33 years, until Zeiger retired.

For 7 nights, right in the middle of studying for finals, the Zeiger seniors performed to sellout crowds. Every parent in the audience watched in amazement as their child dove off the cliff through the Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance portal. Jocks, poets, artists and nerds write the musical, make the sets, discover hidden talents and rehearse for months. 

Here are the Pointers recently inducted into Point Loma High School Hall of Fame’s Class of 2024.

Margaret Avery

PLHS 1961: Academy Award-nominated film, stage, and TV actress. She was nominated in the Best Actress in a Supporting Role category for her role as Shug in the 1985 period drama film “The Color Purple.” …

Ned Chambers

PLHS 1969: A native Point Loman, Chambers stood out as a star athlete (football and track), was a top student, ASB president, and was voted “Most Likely to Succeed.”