Subject: Woodrow Wilson High School

• News Hard on Preston Hollow. Finally.

  November 27, 2006

• Beirut Ain't Got Jack on Woodrow

  July 20, 2006

• Leaving Beirut

  July 19, 2006

• The Price is Wrong

  April 28, 2006

• Jock Strapped

  April 13, 2006

• The Coolest Kid In Town

  April 27, 2007

• Where There's a Will, There's a Way to Scare Your Old Man Half to Death

  July 13, 2007

• Apparently, Some People Still Need to Be Sold on Diversity

  March 3, 2008

• Why Rod Dreher Really Isn't Wild About the Woodrow Wildcats

  April 14, 2008

• Kids Demand a Prison Break from Woodrow Wilson

  April 22, 2008

• The Best Part Is, You Do Care

  April 25, 2008

• I Bought Mr. Peppermint's Yearbook

  August 25, 2008

• DISD's Shell Game

  October 9, 2008

• Turns Out, Buying a Scapegoat Is Much Cheaper Than You'd Think

  October 16, 2008

• Starring Carroll Shelby and Tim Brown, the Woodrow Wilson 80th Anniversary DVD

  A Friend of Unfair Park who attended Woodrow Wilson High School way back when sends word that the school's 80th anniversary celebration, which we chronicled at the end of April, is now a DVD two-fer selling here for the low, low price of $25. Far as my Hillcrest High School-graduating father's concerned, anything featuring an extended interview with Carroll Shelby's worth at least twice that, even if it does come from Woodrow. Here's a lengthy sneak peek.

  June 1, 2009

• Big men, big houses

  September 21, 1995

• Paint it Black

  November 23, 1995

• The Story of Shepherd Road

  View Larger MapI was at City Hall this afternoon, where I ran into City Plan Commission Neil Emmons, who reminded me, yet again, that there is no such thing as a slam dunk at City Hall. As it happens, that small street name-change I mentioned this morning -- turning Shepherd Road into Robert E. Price Drive -- turned into a pretty big deal during the Plan Commission's morning meeting. That's because the Shepherds, Wileene and son Carl, showed up to protest the name change.Wileene Shepherd is in h

  January 8, 2009

• At 94, Trammell Crow Has Died

  Anne Raymond at Crow Holdings tells Unfair Park this morning that Trammell Crow died last night in his sleep at the age of 94. She says the real estate developer -- a graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School who wound up owning and developing much of his native Dallas -- had not been ill and that he "just passed away peacefully." The family is meeting this morning to discuss funeral plans, which will be made public in coming days. Says Raymond, "He had a great life, one that a lot of people will c

  January 15, 2009

• Services for Trammell Crow Set for Monday

  After the jump, the official Trammell Crow obituary sent to local media today. But first, this information concerning services scheduled for Monday:A public service will be held on Monday, January 19, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. at Highland Park United Methodist Church, located at 3300 Mockingbird Lane, Dallas, Texas 75205. If interested in doing a memorial, persons may consider The Margaret and Trammell Crow Chair for Alzheimer's and Geriatric Research at Southwestern Medical Foundation, 2305 Cedar Spri

  January 15, 2009

• Setting sail once more

  August 15, 1996

• Policing the police

  October 23, 1997

• Getting the lead out

  December 4, 1997

• Dude Food: Burger House

  Burger House 6248 East Mockingbird Lane214-828-2732Dude Factor: 8, or Seth Green, on a scale of 1 (Dustin Diamond) to 10 (Seann William Scott) I recently realized that I'm rapidly approaching the occasion of my ten year high school reunion. So it seemed appropriate to venture into my deep, dark, dudely past this week and revisit one of my old high school haunts--Burger House. Enlisting a Burger House virgin from my posse of Observer homies, I hit up the Mockingbird location on my lunch hour

  March 10, 2009

• Rocky's Road Back to Woodrow

  As we mentioned yesterday, Dallas-born blues guitar great Rocky Hill will be buried today in Hopkins County, with a funeral beginning at 1 p.m. followed by a graveside service. Soon as we noted his death on Friday at the age of 62, Friend of Unfair Park LakeWWWooder sent us this photo of Hill at the Woodrow Wilson High School homecoming dance in 1964 -- guy could clearly get his groove on. The picture's from the 1965 Crusader yearbook.This morning, I spoke with a familiar voice -- KTCK-AM's Mike

  April 14, 2009

• Home Sweet Homes

  November 13, 2008

• DISD's Confederacy of Jerks

  Extremely pushy parents—Latino, black and Anglo—must rise up to save DISD from itself

  October 23, 2008

• DISD In the Hole

  Teachers get axed and parents fret as Dallas' school leaders scramble to cover a budget hole

  October 9, 2008

• Not Your Average Joe

  The new county treasurer isn't too sure how he got here, but he's happy to help

  March 22, 2007

• Cool Cotton

  If anything, now is the time to embrace the Cotton Bowl

  March 8, 2007

• The Best Little Icehouse in Texas

  August 30, 2007

• Hipster Jr.

  Fred Holston is cooler than you, and he's only 15

  May 24, 2007

• C'mon Get Happy

  Even Buzz finds something to smile about in 2006

  January 4, 2007

• Forget Why

  Knowing where crime happens is enough to do something about it

  November 2, 2006

• Splitsville

  No border fences make for mad neighbors in Farmers Branch

  November 2, 2006

• Monsters

  Confessions of a white middle-class parent

  August 5, 2004

• Shhh!

  What Mike Moses doesn't want anyone to know

  June 3, 2004

• ICE, ICE Babies

  SMU kids learn about life outside The Bubble

  October 16, 2003

• The End of Youth

  Kids at a Dallas high school talk about their war

  September 27, 2001

• Not So Special

  DISD's special education program is anything but, say parents and state officials, and it too often abandons the children who need attention most

  December 28, 2000

• Mandarin Makes Its Debut

  Chomsky, Brutal Juice and others make the news

  September 28, 2000

• Public defenders

  A surprising number of parents are shunning the 'burbs, pulling their kids out of private schools, and embracing DISD

  August 3, 2000

• On its 80th Birthday, Woodrow Proves You Can't Keep a Vintage Shelby Out of the Lead

  Patrick MichelsWoodrow cheerleaders trail Burton Gilliam, class of '56, who rode a Smart car back to school Saturday.See our slideshow for more photos from Woodrow's 80th.Out in front of Woodrow Wilson High School Saturday morning, Tom Hopkins sat on the back of his '57 Corvette, watching the parade roll in. The 1968 graduate had the look of someone well trained in the art of leaning on his car, quietly judging anybody else's ride that rolls past.He started to get up when I asked to take his pic

  April 26, 2009

• Courting Disapproval? DISD Board to Meet With Attorney to Discuss Texas AG's Opinion.

  Woodrow Wilson High SchoolLast week, the Texas Attorney General's Office offered its opinion that the Dallas Independent School District's board of trustees "was not authorized to change the length of its members' terms of office" from three to four years last November. Which has prompted a called board meeting at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow, during which the board will discuss the opinion and consult with its attorney. But, more significantly, the board will consider a "motion to instruct school board c

  May 4, 2009

• DISD Lawyer Says There Are No Waivers For Magnets. But, You See, He's Wrong.

  Woodrow Wilson High SchoolAt about 5:50 pm today, I received a call from a Fort Worth attorney, Ben Barlow, representing the Dallas Independent School District on the magnet school and learning center issue. He informed me that my piece posted to Unfair Park on Friday night was dead wrong and that there are no waivers for magnets from federal Title I requirements. Barlow -- who is, I bet, a very good lawyer -- read me the law and made a very persuasive case.One hour later, I received a call fro

  May 11, 2009

• Part Coach, Part Cheerleader, Sunset High Principal Anthony Tovar Aims to Prove That Inner-City Schools Can Be Winners

  May 28, 2009

• Riding Somewhere South of Heaven, Heading Back to the Newly Opened Santa Fe Trail

  Alexa SchirtzingerWhere the Santa Fe Trail ends ... at Hill AvenueThis weekend marked a quiet little victory for East Dallas: the opening of a section of raised street crossings on the Santa Fe Trail, from South Carroll Avenue southwest to Hill Avenue, which means cyclists can now ride from Woodrow Wilson High School all the way -- well, almost all the way -- to Deep Ellum on a paved, car-free trail rather than braving the wilds of Elm or Live Oak Streets.Though the Santa Fe Trail has, in some c

  June 22, 2009

• Vote Early, Vote Often for "We Are Woodrow"

  ​A Friend of Unfair Park with deep DISD roots forwards along the link to the We are Teachers Web site, where Woodrow Wilson High School's Michael Moran is among dozens of teachers from around the country competing for a Digital Learning Microgrant. And micro it is: $200 and a Flip Video camera, the two prizes awarded to the 10 teachers who receive the most votes in this open competition. Which, right, is why our Friend sends the link -- to rock the vote.There may other locals on the list (it's

  July 31, 2009

• MartyB Can't Even Get a Second Grader to Throw Him the Ball, But Mayor Tom Will!

  Photos by Sam MertenEight-year-old Kendall Tubbs, a second grader who's had type 1 diabetes since she was 3 years old, managed to upstage appearances by Dallas Cowboys tight end Martellus "MartyB" Bennett and former Heisman Trophy winner and Woodrow Wilson High School grad Tim Brown at this morning's second annual Passport to Health Diabetes Awareness campaign. "Sometimes diabetes means making tough choices," a poised Tubbs told the crowd gathered at the press conference held in City Hall's Fla

  October 13, 2009

• A Very Brief History of the DISD, Ca. 1966

  ​Whilst doing some research for something that may not lead to anything, I've been reading Walter J. E. Schiebel's Education in Dallas: Ninety-two years of History 1874-1966, published by the Dallas Independent School District. So this isn't entirely an exercise in futility, I thought I'd share some of the tome: After the jump, you'll find Chapter 1 ("The Early Years 1874-1899") and Chapter 17 ("A Forward Look"), in addition to W.T. White's very brief foreword and the August 1965 district map.

  October 28, 2009