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'Woodrow Wilson Senior High School' is a secondary school located in Washington, DC, United States. Wilson opened its doors to students in the fall of 1935 joining the existing and long time members of the Interhigh: Western-Central-Eastern-Business/Roosevelt-McKinley Tech. Wilson, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the District of Columbia Public Schools.
The school's student body represents 85 countries and the students come from 40 different schools in the city. The school mascot is the Wilson Tiger, its colors are green and white, and its motto is "Haec olim meninissee juvabit", a Latin phrase meaning "In days to come, it will please us to remember this". It is ironic that, in context in Virgil's Aeneid, the line was spoken after the characters survived a shipwreck. Woodrow Wilson Senior High is located in DC's Tenleytown neighborhood, between Wisconsin Avenue and Nebraska Avenue NW. Dr. Stephen P. Tarason has been the school's principal since 1999, when he succeeded Dr. Wilma Bonner. Tarason recently announced his plans to step down. In 2007, Mrs. Jacqueline Williams became his successor.
In mid-2006, Woodrow Wilson Senior High School was proposed to be a charter school, but the superintendent asked the school to hold off in exchange for being granted control over certain areas of autonomy especially facilities. It has a major objective of neighborhood and in-bounds interests. Woodrow Wilson High School is the top performer in the non-magnet High School system in DCPS and one of the top performers in DCPS overall.
The school serves several neighborhoods, including Georgetown, Glover Park, Chevy Chase, and Tenleytown.
The school's demographics are as follows:
★ Approximately 1,420 students
★ School boundaries encompass everything west of 16th Street, NW, all of southwest Washington north of the Anacostia River, and parts of Capitol Hill southeast
★ Nearly 30 percent of the student body live outside the school’s boundaries
★ Εthnic mix: 53% African American, 22% Caucasian, 16% Latin American, 8% Asian American
★ Nearly 40 percent of the students receive free and reduced lunch benefits
About 89 percent of Wilson students continue their education beyond high school, with 77 percent
attending four-year or two year colleges or universities. Woodrow Wilson SHS was the first school in the metropolitan area to adopt and implement a four course a day, alternating even day and odd day, modular schedule. Many Wilson students, including all out-of-bounds students, are members of "academies" that seek to tailor a student's curriculum to his or her academic and/or professional interests. These include HAM (humanities, arts, and media), WISP (Wilson international studies program), and Scimatech (science, math, and technology).
Wilson began its Athletic competition in the 1936-'37 school year and played its first football game on October 17, 1936- a 12-0 victory vs St. Alban's. The 1st team was coached by Carl Heintel and the stars of this inaugural squad were HB Dave Tate and E Johnny Stevens. For his play on the gridiron the next year, Stevens would be chosen Wilson's first ever All High selection. Also, that following year, G Don Findley was named their first ever All High in Basketball and 1B Bill Hawksworth batted .500 and was honored for baseball. The "Presidents" (as they were frequently called by the newspaper sports writers in the early years) played the first home football game in their new Wilson Stadium on October 6, 1939 (vs Landon), although the official flag raising Stadium dedication took place on October 27 in front of a capacity crowd of 2,000 prior to the kickoff of their '39 Interhigh home opener vs Western.
Wilson's first Interhigh Championship team was its 1942 Basketball squad. Led by All-High players Donald Hillock and Fred Vinson, the Tony Kupka coached "Green Tigers" defeated the Red Auerbach coached Roosevelt team in the semifinals and then beat Central 46-23 for the title. Undefeated Wilson, coached by Joe Carlo, won its only City Championship in football in December 1952 beating St. John's 24-6 in Griffith Stadium. Stars that day were All Mets Lon Herzbrun, Mike Sommer, Chico Stone and Max Carpenter. Wilson won back to back Interhigh basketball titles in 1953 and 1954 led on the court by scoring stars Lon Herzbrun in '53 and Lew Luce in '54. Lefty Sam Swindells pitched the Sherman Rees coached "Tigers" to their first Interhigh baseball championship in 1959 as the team finished the season with a record of 18-0.
Not only does the current Tigers athletic program maintain the only crew team among DC public high schools, but the baseball team through the recently completed 2007 season (coached by Wilson AD Eddie Saah '65) won it's 15th consecutive DCIAA championship. Wilson baseball has won 197 of its past 198 games against DCIAA opponents; its current winning streak is 110 games. Wilson's last loss came in a 1999 game against Dunbar High School. The most noteworthy player to come out of Wilson during this span of dominance is SS Emmanuel Burriss, who received a baseball scholarship to Kent State, was drafted by the San Francisco Giants as the 33rd overall pick in the 2006 MLB draft, and currently plays for the Augusta Green Jackets, a AA Giants affiliate.
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?n=Emmanuel%2520Burriss&pos=SS&sid=milb&t=p_pbp&pid=502034
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Other teams, including soccer, cross country, tennis, softball, and track, are perennially among the best in the city.
Wilson has been selected for the installation of a brand new synthetic turf field with construction to begin the summer of "07 and should be ready for the start of the football season.
The existing aquatic facility at Wilson High School has been condemned and will be demolished. Planning and design for a new Ward 3 Aquatic Center are underway. The estimated date of completion for the new pool is 2009.
The following elementary schools feed into Wilson:
★ Adams
★ Bancroft
★ Eaton
★ Hearst
★ Hyde
★ Janney
★ Key
★ Lafayette
★ Mann
★ Murch
★ Oyster
★ Ross
★ Shepherd
★ Stevens
★ Stoddert
★ Thomson
The following middle/junior high schools feed into Wilson:
★ Deal
★ Francis
★ Hardy
★ Jefferson
★ H.R., musician
★ Clarence Greenwood, a.k.a. Citizen Cope, musician
★ Darryl Jennifer, musician
★ Ian MacKaye, musician
★ Henry Rollins, musician, poet, media personality
★ Roger Mudd, Emmy Award-winning journalist and broadcaster
★ David Mays, Publisher (The Source)
★ Tommy Duren, Politician, Puppeteer, Child Entertainer
★ Frank Rich, Editorialist, Drama Critic, New York Times
★ Soma Golden Behr, Managing Editor, New York Times
★ Adrian Fenty, Mayor of Washington, DC
★ Aquil Abdullah, Olympic Rower
★ Warren Buffett, Investor and Philanthropist, World's 3rd Richest Man
★ DJ Spooky, musician
★ Ryan Moore, 5 time Jeopardy Winner
★ Lew Luce, NFL Football
★ Mike Sommer, NFL Football
★ Ron Watts, NBA Basketball
★ Derek McGinty, Local talk show host
★ Andre "Whiteboy" Johnson, musician, leader of Rare Essence
★ Gilbert Gude, 5 term US House of Representatives, Maryland.
★ Jorma Kaukonen, musician, Jefferson Airplane/ Hot Tuna
★ Jack Casady, musician, Jefferson Airplane/ Hot Tuna
★ John Warner, Secretary of the Navy; 5 term US Senator, Virginia
★ Ann Beattie, Story writer and novelist
★ Alfred Liggins' Radio One, President and CEO
★ John Hechinger, Sr., Philanthropist; Chairman of Hechinger Co.
★ John Derrick, PEPCO Chairman of the Board
★ George Grizzard, Stage, screen and television Actor
★ The school's website
★ A 20/20 video about American schools, featuring a teacher at Wilson
★ A Washington Post article featuring Wilson
★ Website for the new pool.
'Woodrow Wilson Senior High School' is a secondary school located in Washington, DC, United States. Wilson opened its doors to students in the fall of 1935 joining the existing and long time members of the Interhigh: Western-Central-Eastern-Business/Roosevelt-McKinley Tech. Wilson, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the District of Columbia Public Schools.
| Contents |
| History |
| Demographics |
| Academics |
| Athletics |
| Feeder patterns |
| Famous alumni |
| External links |
History
The school's student body represents 85 countries and the students come from 40 different schools in the city. The school mascot is the Wilson Tiger, its colors are green and white, and its motto is "Haec olim meninissee juvabit", a Latin phrase meaning "In days to come, it will please us to remember this". It is ironic that, in context in Virgil's Aeneid, the line was spoken after the characters survived a shipwreck. Woodrow Wilson Senior High is located in DC's Tenleytown neighborhood, between Wisconsin Avenue and Nebraska Avenue NW. Dr. Stephen P. Tarason has been the school's principal since 1999, when he succeeded Dr. Wilma Bonner. Tarason recently announced his plans to step down. In 2007, Mrs. Jacqueline Williams became his successor.
In mid-2006, Woodrow Wilson Senior High School was proposed to be a charter school, but the superintendent asked the school to hold off in exchange for being granted control over certain areas of autonomy especially facilities. It has a major objective of neighborhood and in-bounds interests. Woodrow Wilson High School is the top performer in the non-magnet High School system in DCPS and one of the top performers in DCPS overall.
Demographics
The school serves several neighborhoods, including Georgetown, Glover Park, Chevy Chase, and Tenleytown.
The school's demographics are as follows:
★ Approximately 1,420 students
★ School boundaries encompass everything west of 16th Street, NW, all of southwest Washington north of the Anacostia River, and parts of Capitol Hill southeast
★ Nearly 30 percent of the student body live outside the school’s boundaries
★ Εthnic mix: 53% African American, 22% Caucasian, 16% Latin American, 8% Asian American
★ Nearly 40 percent of the students receive free and reduced lunch benefits
Academics
About 89 percent of Wilson students continue their education beyond high school, with 77 percent
attending four-year or two year colleges or universities. Woodrow Wilson SHS was the first school in the metropolitan area to adopt and implement a four course a day, alternating even day and odd day, modular schedule. Many Wilson students, including all out-of-bounds students, are members of "academies" that seek to tailor a student's curriculum to his or her academic and/or professional interests. These include HAM (humanities, arts, and media), WISP (Wilson international studies program), and Scimatech (science, math, and technology).
Athletics
Wilson began its Athletic competition in the 1936-'37 school year and played its first football game on October 17, 1936- a 12-0 victory vs St. Alban's. The 1st team was coached by Carl Heintel and the stars of this inaugural squad were HB Dave Tate and E Johnny Stevens. For his play on the gridiron the next year, Stevens would be chosen Wilson's first ever All High selection. Also, that following year, G Don Findley was named their first ever All High in Basketball and 1B Bill Hawksworth batted .500 and was honored for baseball. The "Presidents" (as they were frequently called by the newspaper sports writers in the early years) played the first home football game in their new Wilson Stadium on October 6, 1939 (vs Landon), although the official flag raising Stadium dedication took place on October 27 in front of a capacity crowd of 2,000 prior to the kickoff of their '39 Interhigh home opener vs Western.
Wilson's first Interhigh Championship team was its 1942 Basketball squad. Led by All-High players Donald Hillock and Fred Vinson, the Tony Kupka coached "Green Tigers" defeated the Red Auerbach coached Roosevelt team in the semifinals and then beat Central 46-23 for the title. Undefeated Wilson, coached by Joe Carlo, won its only City Championship in football in December 1952 beating St. John's 24-6 in Griffith Stadium. Stars that day were All Mets Lon Herzbrun, Mike Sommer, Chico Stone and Max Carpenter. Wilson won back to back Interhigh basketball titles in 1953 and 1954 led on the court by scoring stars Lon Herzbrun in '53 and Lew Luce in '54. Lefty Sam Swindells pitched the Sherman Rees coached "Tigers" to their first Interhigh baseball championship in 1959 as the team finished the season with a record of 18-0.
Not only does the current Tigers athletic program maintain the only crew team among DC public high schools, but the baseball team through the recently completed 2007 season (coached by Wilson AD Eddie Saah '65) won it's 15th consecutive DCIAA championship. Wilson baseball has won 197 of its past 198 games against DCIAA opponents; its current winning streak is 110 games. Wilson's last loss came in a 1999 game against Dunbar High School. The most noteworthy player to come out of Wilson during this span of dominance is SS Emmanuel Burriss, who received a baseball scholarship to Kent State, was drafted by the San Francisco Giants as the 33rd overall pick in the 2006 MLB draft, and currently plays for the Augusta Green Jackets, a AA Giants affiliate.
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?n=Emmanuel%2520Burriss&pos=SS&sid=milb&t=p_pbp&pid=502034
.
Other teams, including soccer, cross country, tennis, softball, and track, are perennially among the best in the city.
Wilson has been selected for the installation of a brand new synthetic turf field with construction to begin the summer of "07 and should be ready for the start of the football season.
The existing aquatic facility at Wilson High School has been condemned and will be demolished. Planning and design for a new Ward 3 Aquatic Center are underway. The estimated date of completion for the new pool is 2009.
Feeder patterns
The following elementary schools feed into Wilson:
★ Adams
★ Bancroft
★ Eaton
★ Hearst
★ Hyde
★ Janney
★ Key
★ Lafayette
★ Mann
★ Murch
★ Oyster
★ Ross
★ Shepherd
★ Stevens
★ Stoddert
★ Thomson
The following middle/junior high schools feed into Wilson:
★ Deal
★ Francis
★ Hardy
★ Jefferson
Famous alumni
★ H.R., musician
★ Clarence Greenwood, a.k.a. Citizen Cope, musician
★ Darryl Jennifer, musician
★ Ian MacKaye, musician
★ Henry Rollins, musician, poet, media personality
★ Roger Mudd, Emmy Award-winning journalist and broadcaster
★ David Mays, Publisher (The Source)
★ Tommy Duren, Politician, Puppeteer, Child Entertainer
★ Frank Rich, Editorialist, Drama Critic, New York Times
★ Soma Golden Behr, Managing Editor, New York Times
★ Adrian Fenty, Mayor of Washington, DC
★ Aquil Abdullah, Olympic Rower
★ Warren Buffett, Investor and Philanthropist, World's 3rd Richest Man
★ DJ Spooky, musician
★ Ryan Moore, 5 time Jeopardy Winner
★ Lew Luce, NFL Football
★ Mike Sommer, NFL Football
★ Ron Watts, NBA Basketball
★ Derek McGinty, Local talk show host
★ Andre "Whiteboy" Johnson, musician, leader of Rare Essence
★ Gilbert Gude, 5 term US House of Representatives, Maryland.
★ Jorma Kaukonen, musician, Jefferson Airplane/ Hot Tuna
★ Jack Casady, musician, Jefferson Airplane/ Hot Tuna
★ John Warner, Secretary of the Navy; 5 term US Senator, Virginia
★ Ann Beattie, Story writer and novelist
★ Alfred Liggins' Radio One, President and CEO
★ John Hechinger, Sr., Philanthropist; Chairman of Hechinger Co.
★ John Derrick, PEPCO Chairman of the Board
★ George Grizzard, Stage, screen and television Actor
External links
★ The school's website
★ A 20/20 video about American schools, featuring a teacher at Wilson
★ A Washington Post article featuring Wilson
★ Website for the new pool.
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