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  • Fine Arts' Dreams Take Shape

    Tuesday, May 31, 2005 By: Steven Ellis

    The walls are the same off-white color they’ve always been. The trophy banners still hang from the ceilings. But something isn’t quite the same. Looking around the gym throughout the past couple

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  • Longtime Staff Gorman and Parker Retire from WJ

    Tuesday, May 31, 2005 By: Arielle Schwartz

    The seniors aren’t the only ones leaving Walter Johnson in June. Guidance counselor James Gorman and Social Studies teacher Elaine Parker are retiring after spending more than twenty years each at WJ

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  • Moving On And Remembering The Past

    Tuesday, May 31, 2005 By: Gerri Diamond

    It was a Tuesday evening when my family was sitting at the dinner table, my dad questioning me (as always) as to where every member of the WJ Class of 2005 was going to college. I mindlessly answered

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  • WJ Loses Two Favorite Teachers

    Tuesday, May 31, 2005 By: Arielle Schwartz

    Who? Mike LaukaitisWhere? PolandHow long? 2 years and may be returning to teach in the countyWho? Kelly DunstonWhere? HawaiiHow long? 2 years to teachHopes that the game website he created will contin

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  • Going Back to our Roots

    Tuesday, May 31, 2005 By: Mark Byrnes

    It was fitting. Dozens of us who remember each other from when we were learning how to write and how to multiply, among other things, gathered together two weeks ago. Whether they were from the much f

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  • Wildcats, You've Shown Your Might

    Tuesday, May 31, 2005 By: Lizzy Youle and Annie Slacter

    The sun has set on the reign of ’05, and the sheer bulk of what we’ve learned these past four years could fill all the textbooks we’ve lost along the way. One fact, indeed a mathematical constant, is

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  • Star Wars Legacy Redeemed with Latest Addition to the Saga

    Tuesday, May 31, 2005 By: Daniel Orkin

    It was worth waiting the three long years. The apparent final chapter in George Lucas’ Star Wars saga is finally here. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith is the only part of the second trilogy

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  • Same Sport, Different Game: There's More than a Jockstrap Separating Boys' and Girls' Lacrosse

    Tuesday, May 31, 2005 By: Carl Woock

    The warfare that takes place on the lacrosse field is marked by barbaric pushing, reckless slashing, brutal checking, and an ubiquitous intent on destroying the opponent. Unless you’re playing in a

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  • The "Row" Down on Crew

    Tuesday, May 31, 2005 By: Bethany Swanson

    Ask anyone in the Walter Johnson Crew Club and they will tell you that this sport is far more than just rowing a boat. In a Pitch article published last year, then junior Lizzie Carver encouraged

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  • Freshman Twirls Above Competition

    Tuesday, May 31, 2005 By: Jenny Schulz

    For seven years, freshman Susan Garabedian has dedicated her free time to baton twirling and has been awarded with countless titles and medals that many high-school athletes can only dream about. In h

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At-a-glance

WJ Film Society Throws First Ever Film Festival
“You can’t kill me. You’re already dead.“ So goes the quote from the movie Check, shown at the first annual Walter Johnson student film festival thrown on May 27 by the WJ Film Society.     The film
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Though “His Airness” Michael Jordan has not put on a jersey in three years, the popularity of collecting Air Jordan shoes continues among teens. Strolling through the hallways, students can be seen s
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Though “His Airness” Michael Jordan has not put on a jersey in three years, the popularity of collecting Air Jordan shoes continues among teens. Strolling through the hallways, students can be seen s
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Over the years I tried to imagine just how my high school days would end. Walking across the stage at graduation, would I feel some sort of relief, that some line had finally been crossed? Although
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Although Walter Johnson has not traditionally been known as a softball powerhouse, this year they worked towards changing that reputation. WJ started the season off strong, had some rough patches i
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As head coach Kelly Dunston’s reign at Walter Johnson came to an end, the Boys’ Volleyball team continued a disapointing trend: losing in the first round of the playoffs. Since 2000, WJ has consist
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For seven years, freshman Susan Garabedian has dedicated her free time to baton twirling and has been awarded with countless titles and medals that many high-school athletes can only dream about. In h
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Ask anyone in the Walter Johnson Crew Club and they will tell you that this sport is far more than just rowing a boat. In a Pitch article published last year, then junior Lizzie Carver encouraged
full story 
The warfare that takes place on the lacrosse field is marked by barbaric pushing, reckless slashing, brutal checking, and an ubiquitous intent on destroying the opponent. Unless you’re playing in a
full story 
It was worth waiting the three long years. The apparent final chapter in George Lucas’ Star Wars saga is finally here. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith is the only part of the second trilogy
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