Accomplished Artist Makes Her Mark
June 21, 2018
Filed under Showcase, Student Life
Senior Gayathri Prakash is known for her style and bubbly personality. She is a talented artist and was featured in the Senior Art Show. Prakash also is interested in fashion, animals, and volunteering to help the community. Before she gets her diploma, the Western Hemisphere asked some questions to find ou...
Students Weigh In: Yanny or Laurel?
May 18, 2018
Filed under Showcase, Student Life
Yanny or Laurel? Blue and black or white and gold? While we may have left “the dress” debate back in 2015, a couple of days ago, another mystery hit our headphones. What is being said in the now famous recording? When listening, we wondered if there was any correlation between the way your brain perceives the color of the dress and the sound in the recording. We polled over 75 Western students, and here are the result...
Looking Through the Lens at Annalee Durland-Jones
Eva Massarelli, Features Editor
March 31, 2018
Filed under Student Life
Annalee Durland-Jones got her first camera at the age of seven, but became interested in photography years later when she became a sophomore at Western. When she got her first camera she thought it was “just pressing buttons, but photography is not just pressing buttons.” She now takes photography class...
The Shadow Warrior Hits the Shelves
Sophie Creager-Roberts, Assistant Student Life Editor
January 19, 2018
Filed under Showcase, Student Life
In addition to playing soccer, riding horses and taking ESA classes, sophomore Elizabeth Davis has also already become a published author. Despite her early hatred for writing, creating her fantasy fiction novel, The Shadow Warrior, drew her to the process. “I started it in seventh grade as an English project at T...
Yearbook Goes to Dallas
Franny Noll, Assistant Student Life Editor
January 19, 2018
Filed under Student Life
The Western Yearbook class just took a big trip to where everything's bigger: Dallas, Texas. Led by Mr. Hughes, the class attended JEA/NSPA fall national Journalism conference in the city. Not only did they learn about the innovate ways schools from across the country cover current events and what's...
An “I” Into Alternative Learning at WAHS
Brookelyn Shantler, Student Life Editor
December 15, 2017
Filed under Showcase, Student Life
Independent Study is an offered course at Western for students who wish to explore interests and develop independence throughout their learning. The mission is to design a course of study suited to the student and consult with a mentor experienced within the student’s interest. However, independen...
ESA Hits its Fourth Year
Rosie Dougherty-Herrmann, Interactives Editor
November 3, 2017
Filed under Features, Student Life
This fall, the first class of ESA students started their senior year. Now, for the first time students in all four grades are enrolled in ESA. These students have taken two sciences every year as part of the academy. There were originally 24 students in the first class, but with some students taking i...
SPCA Fetches Hurricane Harvey Survivors
November 3, 2017
Filed under Student Life
On September 4th, the Charlottesville-Albemarle SPCA sent four faculty members down to BARC, the city of Houston’s animal shelter and adoption agency, to retrieve pets left behind after hurricane Harvey. The staff took the Compassionate Care-A-Van down to Houston and came back with 70 new additio...
Spirit Week Kicks Off
Brookelyn Shantler, Student Life Editor
October 6, 2017
Filed under News, Showcase, Spirit Week
During lunch bundles of students dressed in various class colors filled the cafeteria with laughter, song, and spirit. Students of all grades huddled in their class's respective corners frantically coloring their murals. While the freshmen scrambled to complete their first mural, the seniors remained cal...
Senior Last Words
Rosie Dougherty-Herrmann and Brookelyn Shantler
June 1, 2017
Filed under Student Life, Uncategorized
When I was younger I wanted to be… An astronaut In charge A chef A doctor A teacher Rich A teacher A professor A lawyer My biggest fear about Western was... Lots of people and not knowing anyone I wasn’t that scared, I was more excited Making friends because I came from England How...
Suiting Up for Prom
Olivia Gallmeyer, Managing News Editor
May 11, 2017
Filed under Student Life
What's it like to be a girl wearing a suit at prom? Our News Editor Olivia Gallmeyer shares her experience
Wigs For Warriors Hits Its 4th Year
May 16, 2018
Western to Create New Fine Arts Hall of Fame
March 30, 2018
Sophomores Reflect on the College Search
March 30, 2018
Freshmen Take Gold at Stotesbury
May 26, 2018
Gallery: WAHS Basketball State Championship
March 12, 2018