Earth Day concert raises awareness of poverty and climate change
Over 300,000 people gathered on the National Mall for the 45th annual Earth Day event April 18. The non-profit organization Global Citizen sponsored the free event in an effort to advocate the...
View ArticleFashion Society displays work in annual show
Strutting down the hallway is often the closest students will get to walking a runway, but, thanks to Fashion Society, some students got one step closer. In a culmination of their year’s work, Whitman...
View ArticleWhitman welcomes new special education teachers
After losing six special education teachers last June, the Whitman community welcomed five new teachers to its special education department this year. Each of these teachers comes from a different...
View ArticleIsraeli exchange visits Whitman
Unfamiliar with the American school system, sixteen Israeli exchange students roamed the Whitman hallways, overwhelmed by the amount of lockers and the constant movement of students to and from...
View ArticleGusto restaurant opens in Bethesda
Gusto opened Oct. 22 with a charitable gesture: the new Bethesda restaurant donated one hundred percent of proceeds from its opening night to Whitman, Walter Johnson and Bethesda-Chevy Chase. Gusto...
View Article“This isn’t your parents’‘Sweeney Todd'”
After more than two months of memorizing, rehearsing, directing, staging and creating, Whitman Drama is prepared to kill it at this year’s annual musical. Over 150 students, along with director...
View ArticleUmttr to hold Fillmore dance for suicide prevention awareness
Strobe lights will flash and teenagers of various ages will bounce in unison to the beat of the music. The dancers will have one common bond: they support teen suicide prevention. Umttr, a teen suicide...
View ArticleOne person’s trashcan is another person’s canvas
Throwing trash away is usually an uneventful process, but now students will have the opportunity to admire an assortment of unique trash cans in the media center, with designs ranging from clouds in...
View ArticleNoises Off primed to entertain viewers, draw laughs
After several years of performing dramas for the annual play, this year Whitman Drama will make you laugh.They’re performing the farcical comedy Noises Off, which runs Feb. 25-27 in the auditorium from...
View ArticleSenior Carolyn Hoover wins LLS volunteerism award
While the decision to participate in Every 15 Minutes will educate students on drunk driving, it also took funding away from and overlapped with the planning of LLS month, thus putting Whitman’s title...
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