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Kelly Woodyard — Staff Writer

Kelly Woodyard
Staff Writer

Bio

This will be Kelly Woodyard’s first year on ECHO staff, but she made several contributions while taking journalism class her senior year.

Awards

2021 Quill and Scroll

2021 Honorable Mention Scholastic Journalism Day

Works

Women’s soccer begins comeback season

COVID-19 vaccine becomes ‘wishlist’ item

Willie’s Comic by Kelly Woodyard

Women’s swim team advances further to final 

Hawken House offers interships

Senior defender Jack Ellis clears the ball amid the final District game against Clayton

Players express views about social distancing in sports

New percussion teacher joins music faculty

Cafe offers outside, socially-distanced entertainment

Slideshow: Men’s soccer exercises safety while preparing for season

Senior Jack Ellis warms up with his mask

Photo of the Week: Men’s soccer begins season with social distancing

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Webster Groves, MO 63119

Upcoming Events

May 18
WGHS Parents for Racial Equity 7-8 p.m.

May 20
WGHS A Capella Extravaganza 7-9 p.m.

May 24-27
Final Exams

June 6
Summer School Starts

Voices of Webster is an ECHO Newspaper production.

Photo of the Week

Junior August Grattan holds a sign reading “Keep your religion out of my uterus” at a protest against the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion indicating the court may repeal Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that assured a patient’s legal right to abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy. The protest was held Thursday, May 12 on the steps of Senior Entrance. Photo by Izzy Poole

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*Courtney Schaefer

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*Tara Scheer"

*Webster Groves Baptist Church

*WGHS Drama Department

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StatesmenSports.com

  • Summer Sports Camp Registrations for several sports are still open and available. statesmensportscamps.com 2 hours ago
  • What A Comeback! timesnewspapers.com/webster-kirkwo… via @WKTimes 16 hours ago
  • The @wgsoccergirls district championship game has been rescheduled for tomorrow at 4:30 at Ladue. 17 hours ago
  • District soccer championship is cancelled for tonight. Will be played tomorrow, Time TBD. twitter.com/statesmensport… 18 hours ago
  • The @wgsoccergirls district championship game has been pushed back to a 7:00 start or hopefully soon after if the s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 19 hours ago
  • It was great start to the school day this morning with a Champions Parade through the halls of @WebsterGrovesHS for… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 day ago

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  • Statesmen men’s golf team is celebrated for taking home the Class 4 State Title, first state tile since 1954.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 day ago
  • RT @statesmensports: STATE CHAMPS!!! Congratulations to @WGHSgolf on winning the Class 4 State Championship today at Meadow Lake Acres CC.… 2 days ago
  • Students walkout to support Roe v. Wade wgecho.org/2022/05/16/stu… via @wgecho 3 days ago
  • Special Olympics takes place on Moss Field wgecho.org/2022/05/16/spe… via @wgecho 3 days ago
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RSS Voices of Webster

  • Voices of Webster: Students talk about finals
  • Voices of Webster: FemCo collects menstrual products
  • Voices of Webster: Sophomore shares views about bringing back Victorian fashion
  • Voices of Webster: Student athletes balance sports, academics, social life
  • Voices of Webster: Senior reflects on high school, shares plans
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Support Our Sponsors!

*Community Music School of Webster University
*Courtney Schaefer
*MIPA-MJEA
*MJ Performing Arts Academy
*Tara Scheer"
*Webster Groves Baptist Church
*WGHS Drama Department

ECHO Family Supporters

Bill and Lindy Bennett
Melanie Bennett
Aerin Johnson
Keillyn Johnson
Trinity Madison
Frank and Molly Peterson
Terri Riutcel
Stisser Family
Gail and Owen Taylor
Wilke-Grimm Family
Christian Zarell

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Former Staffers

*Former entertainment editor Abby Botan interned with the St. Louis Post Dispatch during the summer of 2016. Here are a few of her published works.
--“'Queer' in pop culture"
--"Top 10 Instagram Accounts to follow"
--"Historic Front Pages"
--"Charles Lindbergh"
*Class of 2017 former sports editor/columnist Bennett Durando is a Auburn beat writer for the Montgomery Advertiser and USA Today Network
*Class of 2018 editor-in-chief Caroline Fellows is a corporate and consumer intern at BCW Brussels
*Former editor-in-chief Kate Grumke is a a freelance reporter who also served as political producer for PBS and an Edward R. Murrow Award winner.
*Former sports editor Roy Harris is the author of Pulitzer's Gold.
*Class of 2015 former ECHO editor Aerin Johnson is a producer at KFSM Channel 5.
*Class of 2017 former ECHO editor Andy Kimball covers prep sports for the The Jefferson City News Tribune.
*Class of 2019 print editor Ellie Marshall is a copy editor for the Maneater.
*Class of 2008 news editor Kate Midden is the communications director at the Global Health Advocacy Incubator.
*Class of 1978 ECHO staffer Russ Mitchell is an anchor for WKYC in Cleveland.
*Former technology columnist Sean Mullins is at Webster University and continuing his blog "Electric Retrospective."
*Former web editor Phoebe Mussman is a videographer/photographer at <a href="https://www.lindenwood.edu" Lindenwood University and won the Jury Award for Best Cinematography and Sound at the Stronger Than Fiction Film Fest for her documentary "Qualm & Quietus."
*Class of 2021 entertainment editor Addie Palmquist is working for the University of Arizona's The Daily Wildcat.
*Class of 2019 editor-in-chief Cole Schnell is a copy editor for the Maneater.
*Class of 2009 web and podcast editor Kathryn Wolterman is a senior consultant at CGI
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