As president of Wilson’s Best Buddies chapter, senior Louisa-Sophia Filmer has a big job in transitioning the club back to an in-person setting. Best Buddies, an organization dedicated to helping students...
It was 20 years ago on September 11 that 2,977 Americans died in the terror attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Six members of the DCPS community died...
During the first week of school, I was extremely confused. While some of it was just freshman fog, it didn’t help that by the second week, we had a new lunch schedule that even my teachers were bewildered...
Sororities and fraternities: selective organizations unique to the college experience. Well, almost. As it turns out, in the middle of the last century, our very own Wilson High School had these societies...
I started off the Tenleytown Heritage Trail with fairly low energy, but would soon learn that was an unfortunate mistake. Seen by all, but forgotten by most, the “Top of the Town” trail contains 19...
In 2019, ELA teacher Marc Minsker worked with ten Wilson students to advocate for rehabilitating the Chesapeake House, an abandoned building on the corner of Fort Reno, as a community center. Now, all...
I was doing what I usually do to occupy my lonesome time in the empty building—gnawing on old Juul pods in the leaky shower—when I heard it: the cacophony of obnoxious laughter, beeping metal detectors,...
Assistant principal turned Interim Principal, back to assistant principal… and now Interim Principal again. This isn’t Gregory Bargeman’s first rodeo. At the end of last school year, former Principal...
Listening to the stories of two Wilson seniors made for a bittersweet experience. On their faces I saw wistful expressions, but also a refreshing sentiment: optimism.
Spending the last year of high...
Dear cicadas,
It’s been seventeen long years since you’ve last emerged from your boroughs in the ground. Would it shock you to hear it was just seventeen years ago that I, Charlotte Guy, emerged...
After what was surely one of the wonkiest years in Wilson’s history, we couldn’t help but wonder what had changed in our school community. So as any ordinary teenager would, we contacted our school’s...
Every Wilson Tiger has the glass entryway ingrained into their mind. The broken metal detectors and bustling lines are a quintessential Wilson experience. But if you were to talk to an alum from before...
