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...
Angela Benjamin leads the SciMaTech academy, teaches one of the most difficult courses at Wilson, and has won numerous local and national education awards. And now, after 24 years as a physics teacher...
No matter the day of the week or the time of year, English teacher Natalie Zuravleff’s door was wide open, inviting students into her colorful classroom. Her ability to reach across cultures and backgrounds...
I moved to DC from Maryland last May with the hopes of meeting people at a new school, creating memories, and living the city life. The pandemic changed all of that.
My freshman year of high school...
Sally Schwartz can still picture the fury on her principal’s face as she and a band of classmates marched into his office, victoriously bearing a stack of papers scrawled with the signatures of every...
Quarantine has posed insurmountable challenges for some. But for Wilson PE teacher and coach Desmond Dunham, it has provided the chance to finally write the book he had been thinking about for years.
Writing...
At age 15 August Wilson dropped out of high school. Now over 60 years later, he is going to be the namesake of one.
Wilson was born in Pittsburgh in 1945. During his time in high school, he had shown...
Hello readers! In this inaugural edition of Rummaging through Relics we take a look at a hidden treasure found in Wilson’s archives: the meticulous scrapbook of a senior during the 1936-1937 school year.
Susan...
We set out on a very important mission with only one goal: to be transported back in time. To a time when typewriter ink and teach-ins about the Vietnam war were more prevalent than cell phones. To accomplish...
