Here they are: The answers to the Woodrow Trivia Contest, which was published in my column two months ago. The winners of the contest are Nancy Cook and Rick Franco.
1. Principal Emeritus Wayne C. Pierce’s middle name: Charles.
2. Name Woodrow’s first girls drill team: Crusaders.
3. Name of second girls drill team’s first name: Dolls.
4. Who sponsored the J.L. Long Treasurettes and then moved to Woodrow to sponsor the Sweethearts: Gayla Collinsworth, ’62.
5. Name of Woodrow’s early ‘70s Pep Squad: Tri-W’s.
6. Name the two sponsors of the Pan American Student Forum since 1928: Mabel Turman and Betty Parrett.
7. Who was a member of the 1940s PASF and went on to host a children’s television show? Jerry Haynes, ’44.
8. Woodrow band’s first female drum major: Martha Watts, ’74.
9. The Woodrow Band’s 1970s award-winning twirlers: Alice Freeman ’77, Jana Rains ’78 and Kirby Shaw ’78.
10. Woodrow’s first non-Anglo drum major: John Sookman, ’79.
11. Year and location when lightning struck the building and caused minor damage: 1960, struck the smokestack causing a few bricks to fall through the third floor skylight.
12. Weather at Woodrow’s first open house (1928): cool and stormy.
13. The year Glasgow Drive was paved: 1932.
14. Weather at Woodrow’s 50th anniversary: Sunny, after a week of rain.
15. Tee-Pee Hill at White Rock Lake is also known as Woodrow Hill.
16. The East Dallas YMCA is the former home of Woodrow parent Dr. Largent Parks.
17. 1960s drive-in hangout (now defunct): Charco’s which was located in the current parking lot of the Tom Thumb at Mockingbird and Abrams.
18. 1930 hangout next to the old Sears: Sammy’s.
19. Long-gone 1940s and 1950s dance hall near LaBare on Greenville: Louann’s.
20. Who painted “WW ‘70” at the top of the waterworks smokestack at White Rock Lake? Answers include the last names of Gallini and England. Who wants to take credit?
21. Who sponsored the area’s first Broadway musical at Woodrow? Helen Eckleman.
22. Traditional pre-prom restaurant (now defunct) on top of the Southland Life Building: Port’s O’ Call.
23. First female student council president: Ginger Ehrhardt, ’75.
24. First black senior favorite John Freeman, ’69, son of ROTC Sgt. Alphine Freeman.
25. First Hispanic cheerleader: Eddie Rico, ’74.
26. First black cheerleader: Jackie Green, ’76.
27. First Hispanic class president: Carmen Abeyta, ’72, and Ramon Rodriguez, ’75.
28. Stanley Marcus, Lakewood resident for 50 years, is too old to have graduated from Woodrow. However, he gave the graduation speech in 1951 and his brother, Lawrence, graduated in 1934.
29. Variations show choir debuted in 1978-79.
30. 1970s acronym for rival Skyline High: Skyline High Institute of Technology.
31. Name of hamburger joint directly behind the Lakewood Theater: Snappy’s.
32. Names of any Lakewood Rats you personally know. I received some interesting responses naming well-known people who have enough money to sue me if I identify them.
33. Who are “D.H. + J.H.” in 1970s graffiti on the railroad bridge at Abrams and Trammel? David Henderson ’76 and Joany Harris ’76. “WW #1” under the bridge was done by Mark McCord, ’80.
34. Wicked witch from 1968’s “Wizard of Oz”: Nancy Battle Ewert, ’68.
35. Which street in Lakewood has the highest percentage of alums – Lakewood Blvd., Avalon or Westlake? Avalon, with just about every other house occupied by an alum.
