In the Spring of 2013, the W-L Alumni Association completed its most important project to date: we scanned all of W-L’s yearbooks (1927-2013) and 25 years of Penman literary magazine (1948-1973).The scanning was contracted to Lyrasis, the largest consortium of library organizations in the U. S. The files are stored on the servers of archive.org, the largest archive of electronic material in the world. The index below will link you into the appropriate page on the archive.
The Alumni Association, and the entire General alumni community, own a great debt of gratitude to President Paul High (Class of 1953) for initiating, curating, and seeing this effort to its completion.
Such an undertaking, of course, has not been cheap. In fact, your Alumni Association has had to reach deep into its pockets to pay for it. Many thanks to those alums who have made major contributions to getting this project off the ground:
- Samuel Vanderslice III (Class of 1942, and also son of W-L’s first principal)
- Class of 1934
- James Cradlin (Class of 1943)
- Mary [Simmons] Ferguson (Class of 1944)
- Neal Nichols (Class of 1953)
- Henry H. Mauz (Class of 1954)
- Robert Freidlander (Class of 1956)
- Charles S. Pierce III (Class of 1957)
- Winston Pendleton (Class of 1958)
- Class of 1960
- Barbara [Price] Robinson (Class of 1960)
- Rodney Russell (Class of 1960)
- Class of 1961
- Robert Gibson (Class of 1961)
- Jane [Crunkleton] & James Matthews (Class of 1961)
- Jennifer (Hoard) Hodge (Class of 1962)
- Barbara (Veno) Scheil (Class of 1962)
- Bill Delaney (Class of 1963)
- Gregg Hansen (Class of 1964)
- Class of 1965
- William G. Murray (Class of 1966)
- James Thompson (Class of 1966)
- Joan [Roberts] Wyman (Class of 1968)
- E. W. Peetz (Class of 1970)
- Peter Thompson (Class of 1972)
If you find this resource to be a valuable (and, hopefully, fun) historical record of W-L, the Alumni Association would appreciate any donation you can afford to offset the costs of initially building and continuing this effort. Checks made out to the W-L Alumni Association may be sent to (please indicate “Digital Yearbook Fund” on the check or accompanying letter):
W-L Alumni Association
c/o W-L High School
1301 Stafford St.
Arlington, VA 22201