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Woodrow Wilson Classical High School
Address
Map
4400 East Tenth Street

Long Beach
,
California

USA
Information
TypePublic High School
Established1926[2]
School districtLong Beach Unified School District
PrincipalLew Kerns, Dr. Sandy Blazer
Grades9-12
Enrollment4600
CampusUrban
Color(s)    Cardinal and Gold
MascotBruin[1]
NewspaperLoudspeaker
YearbookCampanile
Websitehttp://www.lbusd.k12.ca.us/wilson/
Wilson Science Building

Woodrow Wilson Classical High School is a secondary school in Long Beach, California, USA.

Wilson High School, in the Long Beach Unified School District, opened in 1925 as the second school in the city. In 2005 Wilson High School was recognized as a California Distinguished School for the second time. Wilson also is home to the Distinguished Scholars program which offers accelerated, honors, and many AP classes. Wilson High School is extremely diverse in race and economic backgrounds. Wilson high school also has a program called Park Avenue that helps to allow students the opportunity to raise their grades. The school is a "classical" high school, in that it exceeds LBUSD standards and requires additional credits in order to graduate. Former Wilson students and their teacher Erin Gruwell also inspired the movie Freedom Writers, that was made of the collected diaries of the students.

School uniforms

As in most schools, the Wilson High policy for uniforms is quite simple: top must be cardinal or white; only khaki bottoms are allowed. Also, there are exceptions for those who wear shirts related to the school. Sweatshirts or jackets can be worn, but always following the dress code, white, cardinal, and gold is also permitted.

Sports

The Wilson Bruins baseball team were the Baseball America National Champions and CIF Southern Section National Champions in 2007 and CIF runner-up in 2008. Their boy's aquatics have also been historically successful. The swim team has been undefeated Moore League Champions for 36 years (as of 2008). The girls swim teams have successfully defended their Moore League title consistently year after year.

Bruin Waterpolo held the Moore League for 18 years straight (1988-2005), winning the league 27 out of the last 30 years. The team has won the Div. 1 CIF title 11 times and Mythical State Title three times.

Wilson's Volleyball,Soccer, Tennis, Badminton, Boys Cross Country, Baseball and Golf teams are also consistently among the top teams in the Moore League and in CIF titles.

The Wrestling Team also does not rank high team wise but has its individual stars atop the team year after year.

Wilson/Whitney InvenTeam

In April of 2009, the Wilson Engineering Club received a $10,000 grant from the Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam program. They invented a wind power generation system for semi-tractor trailer trucks. The wind turbine, installed on the roof of the truck's cab, will generate electricity while the truck is in motion, and then store that electricity in a battery system for use when the truck is parked. The goal of the project is to provide truck drivers the ability to meet the parked power needs of their cabs without having to idle their engines and burn fossil fuels.

Notable staff

  • Klaus Barth, former Olympic medalist and Ironman competitor. He coached the boys' Soccer, Swimming and Waterpolo teams and taught Physical Education. He was still coaching at school until his death on October 2006 after six years of battling a brain tumor.[citation needed]
  • Erin Gruwell,a teacher known for changing students worked from 1994-1998 also known for the famous book The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them.

Notable alumni

  • Bob Bailey, Played 17 years in Major League Baseball as a third baseman. 1961 CIF Baseball Player of the Year.
  • Jody Campbell, All-American & Olympian water polo star.
  • Bob Lemon, 15 years a MLB Pitcher and 8 seasons an MLB Manager. World Series winner as a player with the Cleveland Indians in 1948 and as a manager in 1978 with the New York Yankees. Seven time 20 game winner. Spent entire playing career with the Indians. CIF & State Player of the Year in 1938.
  • Bobby Grich, former MLB player with the California Angels from 1977-1986.
  • Bradley Nowell, lead singer of Sublime.
  • Camryn Manheim is a television and film actress, best known as co-star of The Practice.
  • Cynthia Barboza, Stanford graduate; USA volleyball elite athlete
  • Don Coscarelli is a successful motion picture director, best known for the "Phantasm" series of horror films.
  • Jeff Burroughs, former MLB player and father of Sean Burroughs. 1974 American League Most Valuable Player. 1969 CIF 4-A Baseball Player of the Year.
  • Jeff Severson, former CSULB football star who had an eight-year NFL career with Washington, St. Louis, Houston and the Rams.
  • Gabriel Iglesias a comedian who has made three specials on Comedy Central.
  • Jessica Hardy, former world record holder in 100 meter breast stroke, member of 2005 National Team. Won gold medal at 2006 Pan Pacific Championships; Cal Berkeley swimmer who recently turned pro.
  • John Merrick, PGA Professional
  • Bruce McCandless II, NASA astronaut
  • Lauren Wenger, defender for USC women's water polo team, and 2006 winner of the top individual honor in collegiate water polo, the Peter J. Cutino Award.
  • Lisa Dean Ryan, actress. Most notably on Doogie Howser M.D. as Wanda, Doogie's girlfriend.
  • Maureen O’Toole, American water polo player and coach, won a silver medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
  • Pat McCormick, a two-time Olympic platform and springboard gold medal diver (1952& 1956).
  • Paul Goydos, PGA golf pro. In 2007 he scored three birdies in the last four holes at the Sony Open in Hawaii to claim victory. Captured the 1996 *Bay Hill Invitational. Second Masters appearance in 2007.
  • Sean Burroughs, MLB player and son of Jeff Burroughs. 1998 CIF Division 1 Baseball Player of the Year.
  • Tony Azevedo, driver for the Men's US Olympic Water Polo team and Stanford University.
  • Raymond D. Bowman, classical and jazz music critic and a survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack in Hawaii on December 7, 1941.
  • Dave Johnson, in 1959 received a full scholarship to play football at San Jose State University where he was a 3 year starter at wide receiver. Was drafted by the Baltimore Colts in the 4th round of the NFL draft.

References

  1. ^ ""About Wilson"".
  2. ^ ""About Wilson"".

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