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Westdale Secondary School is a high school founded in 1931 in Hamilton, Ontario. It is the second oldest high school in the city of Hamilton (after Delta Secondary[1]) and is located in Westdale Village, a middle class suburb in the west-end of the city. It is administered by the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board. Westdale offers the most university-bound courses in the city, including: Drama, Music, Visual Arts, Media Arts, Economics, GIS, Philosophy, Latin, German, and more. It also has many special programs for students including French Immersion, Hockey Focus, Court Sports, Strings (music), Video Production, and Writer's Craft. Westdale celebrated its 75th Anniversary in 2006 and a reunion, along with many other festivities ran from May 17 to May 20.
HistoryWestdale was founded as a collegiate school—housing three collegiates under one roof—and was, at the time, the largest school in the British Commonwealth. The original building was referred to as "Westdale Composite School", or "Westdale Tripartite School", due to the fact that it housed three separate schools. The collegiate, technical and commercial schools were housed on the left, middle, and right side of the school, with the cafeteria on the fourth floor (this was changed later, the cafeteria now being on the first floor). The architects Prack and Prack designed the building with arched doorways and pseudo-buttresses of the "school gothic" architectural style. The building was constructed by J.M. Piggott Construction Company at an initial cost of $1,306,521.00 (including 4.7 hectares of land). The school has undergone three major renovations, which occurred in 1959, 1974/75 respectively, and just recently had new doors, lockers and windows installed. Image:WestdalePanorama.gif Westdale Secondary School, front view Charity Activities
Haiti RunWestdale annually hosts the Haiti Run, a charity event that is held on a Saturday in the fall as a funraiser aimed at raising money to build schools and nurseries and raising awareness about the desperate situation in Haiti. During the event, participants walk, run or jog through Westdale Village having secured pledges in the weeks leading up to the run. This event is widely publicized and while hosted by Westdale, is considered an annual Hamilton event. War ChildWestdale regularly raises money for War Child Canada through an event called "Keep the Beat". In the period of 2003-2006, Westdale raised $34,000 for War Child Canada. As a show of their appreciation, War Child asked Sum 41 members Cone and Dave to visit Westdale to kick off the '05-06 Keep the Beat, at the Coffee House event. As a direct result of Westdale's effort, a school in the village of Makobola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, is being rebuilt after being destroyed in war.[2] During the 2006-2007 Keep The Beat on Dec. 7th to 8th, Westdale's Coffee House and Keep the Beat event brought in an additional $24,000 for War Child Canada. Terry Fox RunWestdale Secondary also raises money for cancer research every year in the Terry Fox Run. Westdale students collect pledges in the weeks before the run, then they may choose to walk, jog, or run through Westdale Village. Over 2 million people around the world participate in the Terry Fox Run every year in an astounding 6,600 sites including Westdale Secondary School. Extracurricular activitiesMusic
Sports"The Destiny of a Warrior Is To Fight" and the Warriors with their plethora of sports teams fight hard. Westdale has won at least one OFSAA championship in every sport. As of the 2006-2007 season, Westdale has strong Track & Field, Cross-country, Girls Basketball, Badminton, Waterpolo and Soccer teams. The Westdale Rowing Team is a consistent powerhouse within the city and one of the top teams in the region. In 2005, the Warriors varsity baseball team captured the City Championship versus Barton Secondary School. During the 2005-2006 season, the Warriors hockey team finished second in the city, losing a hard fought final to the Westmount Wildcats. Recent grad Shona Thorburn is now the all-time assist leader at the University of Utah for women's basketball and was drafted 7th overall by the Minnesota Lynx in the 2006 WNBA draft. During the 2006-2007 season, the Westdale Warriors Sr. Girls basketball team finnished second in the SOSI Super 12 Senior Girls' Basketball Tournament, losing to St. Mary's Crusaders. The Westdale Warriors Sr. Football team won 2006 Division I Football championship, Westdale's first championship since 1969. Drama & TheatreTheatre Westdale has had numerous strong showings at the Sears Drama Festival in the past few years. In addition to the drama festival plays, Westdale's drama department has made a habit of performing a yearly musical, such as West Side Story (2004-2005) and Grease (2005-2006). Drama students performed the Greek tragedy Antigone at the Sears Festival in 2006 and won much critical acclaim, as well as several awards. Theatre Westdale also runs an annual Improvathon, 24 hours of straight improv. MathematicsWestdale has always been one of the foremost schools in the city for mathematics contests. Westdale, for the past few years, was consistently ranked first in the region for the mathematics contests held by the University of Waterloo. In 2006, Westdale ranked 25th nationally [3] and 13th provincially in the Fermat Math Contest. In the Hypatia written contest, Westdale had two students scoring a Gold standing, as well as two Silver finishes and three Bronze finishes. Notable alumniPartial listing of notable alumni: [4]
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