Seventeen years of calling Wylie Bulldogs football games on the radio each week has given Trace Michaels and Bill Whitaker something they didn’t really expect – a best friend. “Our relationship is unbelievable,” Whitaker said. “I don’t have a better friend in the world because of all this.” Whitaker and Michaels are known in Wylie as […]
Former Wylie Classmates Now Business Partners
When Alex Beal and Hali Thompson became friends as the mothers of two young children in the same class at St. John’s, they quickly realized they had a lot in common. For one, Alex’s husband, Brady, went to school with both Hali and her husband, Adam, at Wylie. Brady is an ’02 Wylie graduate, and […]
Volunteers Make Dinner A Success
The Wylie Bulldog Education Foundation hosted another successful “We Are Wylie” Dinner, raising thousands of dollars that will all go straight to helping Wylie teachers and students. This year’s dinner featured the student production of Footloose in which Wylie students showed off their acting, singing and dancing abilities to the delight of the audience. “I […]
Footloose Hits The Stage
The Wylie Theater Department performed its fall musical Footloose in October. The students opened with an abbreviated performance in front of more than 200 Wylie supporters at the annual We Are Wylie dinner. Then a week later, students gave three performances of Footloose in its entirety at McMurry’s Radford Auditorium. Here are some pictures from […]
DI’s Runway of Terror Turns CarnEvil
Some of Wylie’s most creative students have used the more scary side of their imaginations to cook up a host of new horrors for this year’s Runway of Terror. The annual haunted house is a fundraiser for Wylie’s Destination Imagination program, and the fun starts Oct 9. This year’s theme is CarnEvil. “It’s a carnival/circus […]