Archbishop Wood’s Newspapers, Digitized
As a high schooler at Archbishop Wood in Warminster, Pa I was involved with the school newspaper, The Viking Voice. I wrote stories, edited copy, learned to digitally paginate using QuarkXPress and eventually served as editor-in-chief during my senior year (2004-5). It was an immensely worthwhile pursuit and the experience I gained in high school was a key to my landing an internship at The Philadelphia Bulletin in 2006.
Archbishop Wood, though, has and will hold a unique place in my heart not only because of my time spent there as a student but also because five members of my family — aunts, uncles and my mother — all attended the school during the 1970s and 1980s.
During my senior year, Mr. Kleinschmidt, the school’s tech guru, discovered archived copies of the newspaper dating back to the 1960s that had been tucked away in a storage closet, and offered the papers for us to keep in the newspaper office.
Thanks in large part to the urging of my grandmother and a few others, I made it a goal of mine to eventually digitize those newspapers to preserve them for both past and future generations at Archbishop Wood. I’ve closely worked with the Snyder family — Eric, Chris and their father, Robert — to digitize the archives and thereby protect them for posterity.
The Snyders have been fantastic in their willingness to donate their time and energies to physically scanning in each of these newspapers, and it’s due to their efforts that I can now finally make available these archives in digital form.
The newspaper archives date back as far as 1965 (the school opened the previous year) and include both divisions of the school prior to the merging of the boys and girls into Archbishop Wood High School at the tail end of the 1980s.
Crossroads (Archbishop Wood High School for Boys)
- 1966-1967: November, February, April
- 1967-1968: November, January, April
- 1968-1969: November, December, June
- 1969-1970: September, November, December, February, June
- 1970-1971: November, December, April, June
- 1971-1972: November, December, February, June
- 1972-1973: November, January, March
- 1973-1974: December, February, June
- 1974-1975: May
- 1975-1976: November, June
- 1976-1977: November, March
- 1977-1978: n/a
- 1978-1979: March
- 1979-1980: October, November, December, January, February, April, May, June
- 1980-1981: November, April
- 1981-1982: October, November, December, March, May
- 1982-1983: September, November, December, February, March, April, May, June
- 1983-1984: October, November, March, May, June
- 1984-1985: October, November, February, March, May, June
- 1985-1986: October, November, December, March, May, June
- 1986-1987: October, November, April, May, June
- 1987-1988: October, November, December, March, June
- 1988-1989: November, December, April, May, June
- 1989-1990: October
Wood Winds (Archbishop Wood High School for Girls)
- 1965-1966: March, June
- 1966-1967: December, March, April
- 1967-1968: October, December, April, June
- 1968-1969: December, February, April
- 1969-1970: October, February, April, June
- 1970-1971: October, April
- 1971-1972: November, January, March, June
- 1972-1973: December, March, June
- 1973-1974: October, March
- 1974-1975: November
- 1975-1976: October, April, June
- 1976-1977: December, March, June
- 1977-1978: November, December, March, May
- 1978-1979: September, December, June
- 1979-1980: May, June
- 1980-1981: May
- 1981-1982: November, December, March, June
- 1982-1983: November, December, February
- 1983-1984: November, December, April, May (SCS)
- 1984-1985: October, November, December, February, May
- 1985-1986: October, December, April
- 1986-1987: October, December, April
- 1987-1988: December, February, April, May
- 1988-1989: October, December, February, April
- 1989-1990: September, November
Special Issues (Pre-Merger Period)
- February 1982: Crosswinds
- May 1983: Crosswinds
- February 1984: Crosswinds
- February 1986: The Viking Spirit
- February 1987: The Helm
The Viking Voice (Archbishop Wood Catholic High School)
- 1990-1991: June
- 1991-1992: March
- 1992-1993: November, April
- 1993-1994: November, December, April, June
- 1994-1995: November, December, February, May
- 1995-1996: December, March
- 1996-1997: November, December, May
- 1997-1998: December
- 1998-1999: n/a
- 1999-2000: n/a
- 2000-2001: n/a
- 2001-2002: n/a
- 2002-2003: n/a
- 2003-2004: June
- 2004-2005: October, November, January, February, May
- 2005-2006: February
- 2006-2007: n/a
- 2007-2008: n/a
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This is so cool. Great job!
Tom,
I was co-editor of Crossroads in 1986 / 1987 and a contributor for a few years prior to that. A friend sent me the link to your blog today, and I just have to thank you and the Snyder family for preserving the past. It’s been a nice trip down memory lane (if sometimes, embarrassing… how naive I was at 17!). Thanks again. You can be sure I’ll notify my co-editor, Dennis Callaghan, and anyone else that was part of the editorial staff with whom I keep in touch. I never thought I’d see some of these issues again!