Marca Lee Bircher, choir director at Woodrow since 1975, has won the University Interscholastic League Excellence Award, which includes a $1,000 prize. Bircher is a previous winner of the Perot Award for teaching excellence, and she was chosen best director in a national Young Americans contest.
Her Variations show choir received the highest score in this year’s state UIL contest. The group previously won the Freedom Foundation Award.
Bircher continues the Woodrow tradition of producing the area’s best annual high school musicals. In 1994, she will have directed half of all musicals produced at Woodrow since 1958, when musicals first were produced.
Congratulations, Mrs. Bircher!
If you would like an opportunity to see this master teacher in action, check out the Annual Choir Dinner Theater Nov. 13. This popular event begins at 6:30 p.m. with dinner in the school cafeteria. Tickets are $5 in advance; $6 at the door. The show begins at 7:30 p.m. and features the Variations, Concert Choir and the J.L. Long show choir, Expectations.
Back the Cats
A Booster Breakfast is held at 7 a.m. each Friday in the school cafeteria. Breakfast costs $1.10, and the program usually features a guest speaker (former Cowboy Robert Newhouse was a recent guest).
Alumni, parents and fans are encouraged to attend. Bring your $10 dues to the breakfast or send a check to W.W. Athletic Boosters, 100 S. Glasgow, Dallas 75214
At the End of the Rainbow
Yes, that is Woodrow’s stately façade in the KDFW-Ch. 4 Weather-school rap commercial.
Homecoming 1991
Homecoming kicks off with a Halloween Pep Rally at First Interstate Bank Plaza at 8 p.m. Oct. 31. The following evening, the Wildcats will prey on the Hillcrest Panthers at 7:30 p.m. at Forester Field. Special halftime activities are planned, and don’t forget to wear red and gray.
Homecoming weekend concludes with a dance at the Colony Park Hotel from 8 p.m. until midnight.
Don’t forget the Homecoming tradition: Tie red ribbons to your trees!
A Sweetheart Forever
Ruth Ann Burton Prude ’76, a former drill team captain and second-generation Wildcat (mother Ruth Kolius Burton ’47) is still organizing her troops.
Prude is working on a charity auction, scheduled Nov. 7 at 6:30 p.m. at the Southland Center Hotel Downtown. The auction benefits Christian Services of the Southwest, a non-profit agency offering maternity, adoption and foster care.
Tickets are $35. Call 381-8265 for information.
