Woodrow Wilson High School is a
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located at 100 South Glasgow Drive in the Lakewood neighborhood of
eastEast Dallas comprises many communities and neighborhoods in Dallas, Texas, .- Neighborhoods :*Belmont*Bryan Place*Buckner Terrace*Casa Linda Estates*Casa View*Claremont*Deep Ellum*Eastwood*Forest Hills*Gaston Park*Greenland Hills...
DallasDallas , with a population of 1,279,910, is the third-largest city in Texas and the 8th-largest in the United States. The city is the main economic center of the 12-county Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area that according to the March 2009 U.S. Census Bureau release, had a population of...
,
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(
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) in the
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75214. It was named in honor of former U.S. president
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, who died three years before it was built. The school enrolls students in grades
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and is a part of the
Dallas Independent School DistrictThe Dallas Independent School District is a school district based in Dallas, Texas . Dallas ISD, which operates schools in much of Dallas County, is the second largest school district in Texas and the twelfth largest in the United States.- Location and area :Dallas ISD covers of land and most of...
. Woodrow recently announced plans to become authorized as an IB World School offering the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme.
History
Designed by noted Dallas architect Mark Lemmon, the school opened in 1928 and was constructed in the
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style. At the
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-laying ceremony in April 1927, a piece of the
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of Woodrow Wilson's second daughter, Jessie, was included in the cornerstone "in memory of Mr. Wilson." At US$700,000, the school's cost exceeded that of the district's previous four high schools by at least $100,000. Special features of the building included a gymnasium boasting "one entire wall of glass windows" and an auditorium that was to be the "best equipped and best lighted" in the district, with footlights and a separately ventilated
orchestra pitAn orchestra pit is the area in a theater in which musicians perform. Orchestral pits are utilized in forms of theatre that require music or in cases when incidental music is required...
. A theater organ was later placed in the pit and pipes put in special lofts on the third level. Also on the third floor was 'the largest eating place in Dallas', the school cafeteria; in previous Dallas high schools the cafeteria was at grade level, so at the new high school a special elevator was installed to service the eating facility. The September, 1928,
Dallas Herald said the school "presents a rare spectacle from afar." Photos and the original blueprints of the school building were featured in an exhibition celebrating the works of Mark Lemmon at The Meadows Museum.
The school has been colloquially called "Woodrow" by students and community members from its beginning, fostered by first principal G.L. "Pop" Ashburn, who led the school until 1956. The mascot of the school is the Wildcat. A Parent Teacher Association chapter was formed for the school even before its 1928 opening.
Until 1957 (when
Bryan Adams High SchoolFor schools with similar names, see Adams High School.Bryan Adams High School is a public secondary school located at 2101 Millmar Drive in the Casa View neighborhood of east Dallas, Texas ....
opened), Woodrow was the only "
East DallasEast Dallas comprises many communities and neighborhoods in Dallas, Texas, .- Neighborhoods :*Belmont*Bryan Place*Buckner Terrace*Casa Linda Estates*Casa View*Claremont*Deep Ellum*Eastwood*Forest Hills*Gaston Park*Greenland Hills...
" high school. Woodrow still serves most of the upper east side of East Dallas, including Swiss Avenue, Mount Auburn, Junius Heights, Lakewood, Munger Place, Peaks Addition and
Hollywood HeightsHollywood Heights is a neighborhood in east Dallas, Texas . The neighborhood lies to the northwest of SH 78 and the Tennison Park Golf Course...
.
In 1981, interiors for
Crisis at Central HighCrisis at Central High was a 1981 made-for-television movie about the Little Rock Integration Crisis of 1957, based on a draft of the memoir by the same name by former assistant principal Elizabeth Huckaby....
starring
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, were filmed at the school. Many students, including the late Lance Bircher '83 (cited for his scene by imdb.com), were used in the filming. The students had trouble understanding the concept of separate schools for blacks and whites and the resulting struggles as the school was cited by the Supreme Court as a model for natural integration during the Dallas desegregation case. They were thrilled to receive a visit from Miss Woodward's husband,
Paul NewmanPaul Leonard Newman was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, and auto racing enthusiast...
.
In 2004, thousands attended Woodrow's 75th Anniversary celebration, which included a parade (from Lakewood to the school, with Congressman
Sam JohnsonSamuel Robert "Sam" Johnson is an American politician and a retired career U.S. Air Force officer and fighter pilot. He currently is a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the 3rd District of Texas...
as Grand Marshal, chauffered in a new Ford Mustang by fellow alumnus
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, the legendary auto designer and builder), followed by an auditorium-packed program. Scores of "mini-reunions" also were held during that day in assigned rooms throughout the school.
In 2005, Woodrow had more
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than
Frisco High SchoolFrisco High School is a public high school located in Frisco, Texas and is a part of the Frisco Independent School District.- Alma Mater :Dear Frisco High
We're all for you
Dear Frisco High
To you we'll be true
...
and the same number as nearby
Lake Highlands High SchoolLake Highlands High School is a secondary school serving grades 10-12 located in Dallas, Texas, United States. The school serves the Lake Highlands community including the RISD section of Highland Meadows. The school is part of the Richardson Independent School District and is located centrally...
(
RISDRichardson Independent School District is a school district based in Richardson, Texas .The district covers portions of Richardson, Dallas, and Garland.-High Schools:*Lloyd V. Berkner High School...
), all of which are much larger, suburban public schools. In 2006 Woodrow had two National Merit Scholars while Lake Highlands had none.
In 2006,
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named Woodrow one of the top high schools in the nation based on the numbers of AP and IB tests taken - this result placed the school in the top 3% of all high schools in the United States. Local publication
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ranked it the top comprehensive high school in Dallas.
In 2008 the school once again made the Newsweek list - in the top half.
Extracurricular activities
From the school's beginning a Junior ROTC program has been part of its offerings. In the 1930s, '40s and early '50s the school had the largest JROTC program in the nation, with 16 different companies and an ROTC band; a May 1941 article declared the program "largest of its kind in the world." During
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, students at the school raised enough money to buy the Navy a Wildcat fighter plane.
In the 1950s, it became the first school to stage a full-scale Broadway-style musical,
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; The shows are annual productions, with the 50th show,
Fiddler on the RoofFiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters and other tales by Sholem Aleichem...
, being presented in April 2007. From 1980 to 1992, the choreographer for the musicals flew in annually from
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for the production, eventually moving to Dallas to teach at the school with longtime choir director and musicals producer Marca Lee Bircher, who began teaching at the school in 1975. Musicals at the school tend to be on a larger scale than is typical for a high-school production, as when 1994's
Singin' in the RainSingin' in the Rain is a 1952 comedy musical film starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and Debbie Reynolds and directed by Kelly and Stanley Donen, with Kelly also providing the choreography...
featured an actual water-shower falling on the 127-member cast and stage, a stunt inspired by a national touring production that included a Woodrow alumna. The 2007
Fiddler swept the North Texas Cappie Awards, the high school equivalent of the Tony Awards, winning Best Musical, Best Actor, and a Creativity award for the fiddler herself, as well as six other Cappies won for the school that year. Woodrow's 2006 musical production,
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, represented the school's first year participating in the Cappies and garnered a Best Lead Actor in a Musical award for student Evan Faram.
The school's 1978 50th Anniversary produced an award-winning show choir, Variations, which continues to win accolades and perform in various venues, directed by Bircher from its inception. In 1998 they were selected to perform with
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. In November 2006, they were asked to perform for the Texas State Board of Education. The annual one-act play produced for the
University Interscholastic LeagueThe University Interscholastic League is an organization which creates rules for and administers almost all athletic, music, and academic contests for public primary and secondary schools in the American state of Texas....
(UIL) competition also usually makes it to the statewide finals in Austin.
The Mock Trial Team, formed in 1979, regularly advances to state competition. The 2007 team at state competition and advocate Thomas Simpson received "Best Advocate" at the state competition in 2006. The 2008 team finished first in Dallas area competition and second in state competition.
Athletics
Until 2004, Woodrow Wilson H.S. was the only U.S. high school to be the alma mater of
two Heisman TrophyThe Heisman Memorial Trophy Award , named after the former college football coach John Heisman, is awarded annually by the Heisman Trophy Trust to the most outstanding player in collegiate football...
winners:
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and Tim Brown. In 2004, private
Mater Dei High SchoolMater Dei High School is a private, Catholic, co-educational secondary school in Santa Ana, California. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange. With an enrollment of 2,300 students Mater Dei High School is one of the largest Catholic high schools in the United States...
of
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gained its second Heisman Trophy winner in
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, leaving Woodrow Wilson H.S. still the only public high school in the U.S. with two Heisman winners.
Notwithstanding Tim Brown's efforts, from about the 1980s until fairly recently, Woodrow's football program struggled. However, the Wildcats made the state playoffs in 1991, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005, advancing to the second round in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006. Its previous teams made state semi-finals in 1951 and 1969. Earlier teams of the 1930s and 40s were successful and produced such stars as O'Brien and
I. B. HaleInsall Bailey "I. B." Hale was an American football offensive tackle at Texas Christian University who was voted an All-American. He was drafted in the first round of the 1939 NFL Draft by the Washington Redskins, but never played football professionally.Hale later became a FBI agent in Fort...
'35,
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'38, Rooster Andrews '41, Herschel Forester '48 and Bill Forester '49.
The basketball team won state back in 1938, and later produced
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'76, a pro player on five different teams. Recent graduate
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was one of the nation's top recruits, according to
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. He was a small forward for the
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during his freshman year in college. Currently, he is a professional basketball player for the
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. He was selected as the 14th overall draft pick in the
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.
In 2007, Woodrow Wilson's athletics program was ranked No. 6 out of all 4-A high schools in the Dallas Morning News All-Sports competition. The Wildcats' score of 81 was better than 95 other 4-A and 5-A local high schools.
Bill and Herschel Forester were Wildcats who played ball at
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and in the pros - Dallas' Forester Field was named for their father, Herschel, who taught at Woodrow from the opening of the school until the late 1950s.
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s
Students are required to wear
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s. The
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specifies that the parents and/or guardians of students zoned to a school with uniforms may apply for a waiver to opt out of the uniform policy so their children do not have to wear the uniform; parents must specify "
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" reasons, such as religious reasons or philosophical objections.
Feeder patterns
As of 2008, J. L. Long Middle School (
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-
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) feeds into Woodrow Wilson.
Oran M. Roberts (
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-
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) north of I-30,
LakewoodLakewood Elementary School is an elementary school located in Dallas, Texas, United States, that was established in 1951. Managed by the Dallas Independent School District, the school educates around 600 students in grades Kindergarten through Grade 5. The student/teacher ratio is 18:1...
(
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-
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), Robert E. Lee (
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-
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), and Stonewall Jackson (
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-
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) Elementary Schools feed into Woodrow Wilson High School. William Lipscomb (PK-4) and Mount Auburn Elementary School (
PKPre-kindergarten refers to the first formal academic classroom-based learning environment that a child customarily attends in the United States. It begins around the age of four or five in order to prepare for the more didactic and academically intensive kindergarten, the traditional "first" class...
-
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) feed into Eduardo Mata Elementary School (
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-
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), which in turn feeds into Woodrow Wilson High School. Lipscomb is adding fourth and fifth grade and will feed directly into J.L. Long and then to Woodrow in the next two years.
Notable alumni
- Tim Brown 1984, professional football
American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, and often as Gridiron or Tackle football outside North America, is a competitive team sport known for combining strategy with physical play. The objective of the game is to score points by advancing the ball into the...
player and 1987 Heisman TrophyThe Heisman Memorial Trophy Award , named after the former college football coach John Heisman, is awarded annually by the Heisman Trophy Trust to the most outstanding player in collegiate football...
winner
- Trammell Crow
F. Trammell Crow was an American property developer who created several famous projects, including Dallas Market Center, Peachtree Center , and San Francisco's Embarcadero Center.-Biography:...
1932, major Dallas builder and real estate mogul
- Ralph Guldahl
Ralph J. Guldahl was an American professional golfer who was one of the top players in the sport for three years in the late 1930s....
1930, professional golfer
- Jerry Haynes
Jerome Martin "Jerry" Haynes is an American actor from Dallas, Texas. He is most well-known as Mr. Peppermint, a role he played for 30 years as the host of one of the longest-running local children's shows in television, the Dallas-based Mr. Peppermint , which was retitled Peppermint Place for...
1944, actor and former children's television host "Mr. Peppermint"
- Dusty Hill
Joe Michael "Dusty" Hill is the bassist and vocalist with the Rock group ZZ Top. Hill is noted for his solid, unadorned bass playing, "leather-lung" vocal stylings and his love of Elvis Presley.-History:...
, bassist for ZZ TopZZ Top is an American rock trio, formed in late 1969 in Houston, Texas, by Billy Gibbons , Dusty Hill , and Frank Beard...
- Sam Johnson
Samuel Robert "Sam" Johnson is an American politician and a retired career U.S. Air Force officer and fighter pilot. He currently is a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the 3rd District of Texas...
, congressman
- Alton Lister
Alton Lavelle Lister is a retired American professional basketball player, in the power forward-center position....
1976, professional basketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of 5 players try to score points against one another by placing a ball through a
10 foot high hoop under organized rules...
player
- Steve Miller
Steve Miller is an American guitarist and singer/songwriter.Beginning his career in blues and blues rock, Miller's music later changed to a more popular-oriented sound which earned him success with a series of singles and albums from the mid-1970s through the early 1980s.-Biography:Miller was born...
1961, musician
- Davey O'Brien
Robert David O'Brien was an American football quarterback in the National Football League for the Philadelphia Eagles. He played college football at Texas Christian University and was drafted in the first round of the 1939 NFL Draft. In 1938, O'Brien won the Heisman Trophy, Maxwell Award, and the...
1935, professional footballAmerican football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, and often as Gridiron or Tackle football outside North America, is a competitive team sport known for combining strategy with physical play. The objective of the game is to score points by advancing the ball into the...
player and 1938 Heisman TrophyThe Heisman Memorial Trophy Award , named after the former college football coach John Heisman, is awarded annually by the Heisman Trophy Trust to the most outstanding player in collegiate football...
winner
- Tom Phillips
Thomas Phillips was an English painter.Thomas Phillips or Tom Phillips may also refer to:-Culture:* Sir Thomas Phillipps , British antiquary and book collector...
1968 (ValedictorianValedictorian is an academic title typically conferred in North America upon the highest ranked student among those being graduated from an educational institution. The term is an anglicized derivation of the Latin vale dicere , historically rooted in the valedictorian's traditional role as the...
), Chief Justice Texas Supreme CourtThe Texas Supreme Court is the court of last resort for non-criminal matters in the state of Texas. A different court, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, is the court of last resort for criminal matters.The Court is composed of a Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices...
1988-2004
- Carroll Shelby
Carroll Hall Shelby, is an American racing and automotive designer and former racing driver.-Automotive Executive of the Year Award - 2008 Honoree:...
1940, race car driver, 1959 24 Heures du Mans Winner & Founder of Shelby-American Co.
- Anthony Randolph
Anthony Erwin Randolph, Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association . Born in Germany to two parents who served in the military there, Randolph's family eventually relocated to the United States, where he grew up in...
2005, NBA Player
- Ruth Collins Altshuler 1940, Philanthropist
A philanthropist is someone who engages in philanthropy; that is, someone who donates his or her time, money, and/or reputation to charitable causes...
, in September 2008 was awarded the Woodrow Wilson International Center For Scholars by the Smithsonian Institution for her contributions in social services, health care, education and the arts.
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