Enthusiasm, joy and possibility create the pulse of Louisville’s campus life. The overall academic experience is enriched and supported by a vibrant program of extracurricular and co-curricular activities. A wide variety of clubs, social events, field trips, assemblies and parent activities enliven campus life and compliment academic programs.
Congratulations Mock Trial Team: LA County Senior Division champions!
KIVA - Louisville students loan to third world entrepreneurs
The Louisville High School Social Justice classes of 2007 began a Kiva fund which has loaned and reloaned over $6000 to persons/aspiring entrepreneurs throughout the developing world.
Explorers Club Sponsors Earth Day Assembly, Bringing Wildlife Expert Jeff Lee to Campus
In April the Explorers Club sponsored our Earth Month assembly. Our featured guest was Jeff Lee, an animal trainer from Steve Martin’s Working Wildlife, who brought with him a number of endangered animals from around the world: a binturong (bearcat), a porcupine from South America, a ferret, a capuchin monkey, and a brown tailed lemur. While learning about the future of these animals we were also encouraged to look at our own habitats and see how we can improve the lives for whom we share it.
Ensemble Royale is featured in Showcase of choirs at Walt Disney concert hall's annual high school choir festival
Louisville High School’s Ensemble Royale, conducted by Ms. Maura Piazza, was featured as a solo choir at the Walt Disney Concert Hall during the 20th Annual High School Choir Festival, sponsored by the Los Angeles Master Chorale. Of the 25 choirs participating in the event, four were selected to perform a selection of music on center stage and receive feedback from professionals. They then performed six prepared choral pieces together with all thirty participating choirs, providing our all-girl choir a unique opportunity to sing in combined male/female vocal arrangements. Bravo, Ensemble Royale!
Breast cancer awareness week raises over $2,700 dollars!
This year faculty and students participated in a "jeans day" and other activities in support of breast cancer research. Thank you for supporting our efforts to find a cure for a disease that attacks women of all ages and even men in limited numbers.
Dr. Susan Love Inspires Louisville
Renowned Researcher and Physician spoke at Louisville High School about her latest findings in her efforts to understand the causes of breast cancer and to develop a cure for this disease. The Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation is recruiting ONE MILLION WOMEN to partner with scientists who are conducting the research that will move us beyond a cure and teach us how to end breast cancer once and for all. Learn more or sign up at: www.armyofwomen.org.
A Special Day at the Mother-Daughter Picnic and Boutique
The campus was dotted with colorful picnic blankets and pink balloons as Louisville celebrated its Mother/Daughter Picnic and Boutique in October. Moms arrived early to stake a spot on their daughter’s lawn. One senior group honored the past tradition of setting a table with china and beautiful flowers. Most of all, moms enjoyed meeting their daughter’s friends, connecting with other moms, picnicking, and shopping the boutique.
Leila Conners Petersen The Co-Director, Writer and Producer of The 11th Hour, Speaks at Louisville
Leila Conners Petersen founded Tree Media Group in August of 1996. With a background in international politics, Leila set out to build a production company that creates media to support and sustain civil society.
Most recently Leila directed, wrote and produced a feature-length documentary, The 11th Hour, with Leonardo DiCaprio and 54 leading thinkers and scientists about the state of the world and the state of the human condition. She has written 2 short films with Leonardo DiCaprio on the environment called Global Warning and Water Planet and a feature film script for Ridley Scotts Scott Free Productions on the state of the oceans. Leila has also been published in newspapers and magazines around the world including the International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Yomiuri Shimbun and Wired Magazine among others.
Leila spoke with Louisville students on issues of sustainability and the environment, and answered many questions thoughtfully and thoroughly. The film, The 11th Hour, to date has won the Diversity Award and the Earthwatch award in the United States and the Clarion Award in the UK.
From Louisville to Malawi: Dr. Monica Eneriz Wiemer '96 Speaks at Louisville
Women’s Health Week brought a passionate young alumna back to Louisville, Dr. Mónica Eneriz Wiemer ’96. She made the year-long call to action come alive for Louisville students as she spoke of her work in the children’s ward of St. Gabriel’s Hospital in rural Malawi. As an undergraduate, and then as a medical student at Stanford University, she focused on addressing the health needs of minority and under-served children and families. Her interest in the health needs of new immigrants led her to participate in international electives in Guatemala and Malawi to better understand the factors that impact children's health globally. She will return to Malawi to assist at St. Gabriel’s Hospital once again by delivering supplies and completing a needs-assessment for an ongoing partnership with Stanford University Medical School.
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Freedom Writer Maria Reyes Speaks at Louisville
Freedom Writer Maria Reyes gave a gripping account of her journey from the gangs of East Los Angeles to newfound hope at Wilson High School with her classmates in Ms. Gruwell’s English class for at-risk students. Since she graduated from California State University, Long Beach, she calls students to find a way to reach out to troubled youth and show them that “there is another way to live your life.” Afterwards, many students waited patiently to speak with her and have their Freedom Writers book signed by Ms. Reyes, who greeted each with her lovely smile and a genuine hug.
From Hardship to Hope: Ghana's Thomas Awiapo
Thomas Awiapo has a truly inspiring story of survival and success. Orphaned before the age of ten, Thomas survived bleak poverty and hunger
in his small Africa village. His search for food led him to school at 12, and he eventually won scholarships to attend college and later earn a Master’s degree in the United States. Today he works for Catholic Relief Services training community leaders throughout Ghana. His story
of initiative and his joyful presence has brought inspiration to thousands of people in the US. Thomas’ village received help from Catholic Relief Services (CRS) through Operation Rice Bowl, the program that connects prayer, fasting, and almsgiving with education about poverty and hunger around the world.
Thomas’ visit is sponsored by CRS as a way to thank Catholic communities for their support and to raise awareness about hunger, relief, and development. CRS is the overseas relief and development agency of the US Catholic Community. Its mission is based on Catholic social teaching that calls us to respond to the needs of the poor and promote justice in the world. CRS works in over 99 countries around the world on the basis of need not creed, race, or nationality.
Jim Newton, Editor of Editorial & Opinion Pages, Los Angeles Times, Speaks at Louisville High School
A native of California, Jim Newton has spent much of his life writing about the state, especially its politics, government and legal affairs. He joined The Times in 1989 and covered federal law enforcement and the Los Angeles Police Department from 1992 through 1997, a period that included the 1992 riots, the federal trial of the LAPD officers who beat Rodney King, and the murder trial of O.J. Simpson. Newton was recently named editorial page editor of the Los Angeles Times, with responsibility for the newspaper's editorial, Op-Ed, letters and Sunday Opinion sections.
He has written hundreds of newspaper and magazine stories and is the recipient of numerous awards. Among others, he shared in The Times' Pulitzer Prizes for coverage of the 1992 riots and the 1994 Northridge Earthquake. He was named Times Mirror Journalist of the Year in 1995. He wrote a biography of Earl Warren, three-term governor of California and Chief Justice of the United States from 1953 to 1969, called Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made.
Sources: http://politics.berkeley.edu/newton.htm http://opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2007/04/chat_with_jim_n.html http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/bullpen/jim_newton/lecture/ Photo: Laurel Angrist. © 2007 Laurel Angrist.
Sudan survivor and author Benjamin Ajak Speaks at Louisville High School on Nov. 14th in St. Louis Hall
Louisville students welcomed Benjamin Ajak to our campus. After listening to his story, they asked him some very thought-provoking questions. He joined the seniors for lunch on the lawn, signed books and shared his wonderful personality and charisma with our community.
Benjamin Ajak was five years old when his village in Southern Sudan was attacked by troops from his own government. To escape slavery, death or induction into the northern army, he fled naked and alone into the night. Walking by day and sleeping in trees at night, it was several days before he found his cousins, Benson, seven years old, and Lino, five. Together the 
three young boys joined the exodus of thousands of others and fled a thousand miles across Africa’s largest country. Facing lions, crocodiles and starvation, only half survived and made it into Ethiopia. They became known to the world as The Lost Boys.
On September 11, 2001 Benjamin came to America. His first view of his new home outside his plane window was the World Trade Towers on fire. Together with his cousins, Benson and Alephonsion Deng, he wrote his memoir, They Poured 
Fire On Us From the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys of Sudan which was published in 2005. Benjamin now lives in San Diego and travels the country speaking out about the genocide still going on in his country and to students about his extraordinary life which is an inspiration to all.
