John Munn ’84 is well known in the Charles Wright community as an alum, entrepreneur and member of Challengers of the Improv-ssible, an improvisational theater group led by drama teacher John Forier.  He has directed more than 35 productions and acted in more than 100 plays, including playing a improv role in CWA’s 50th birthday celebration last fall.

Munn is also the owner of Comic Book Inc, a full service comic book store located in the brand new Johnsborough Station at the east end of Tacoma.  His store has been nominated as one of the best in the region by Evening Magazine’s “Best of Western Washington” program on KING-5 TV.  You can show your Tarrier pride by voting Munn’s shop the best comic book store on KING-5’s website.  Just click here! Read the rest of this entry »

Jorden LaFontaine-Kussmann, a 2007 graduate of Charles Wright Academy, is back on the soccer fields at the University of California. During her freshman season, the keeper was diagnosed with lymphoma. She showed her true Tarrier spirit as she battled to simultaneously fight cancer, excel in college and return to the sport she loves. Read the rest of this entry »

Charles Wright’s 2008 Distinguished Alum was announced at graduation and the award recipient is Dr. David Hirschberg, a 1980 graduate.  As a student, Hirschberg was a three-sport athlete, journalist, actor and leader among his peers.  Today he is a leading medical research scientist who has dedicated nearly 25 years to helping doctors and patients better understand how the human body works, building diagnostic instruments, and finding new treatments and cures for the world’s most dreaded diseases. 

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Bruce Haertl, a Charles Wright graduate in 1976, recently won the prestigious 2007 Hod Humiston Award for Sports Broadcasting.  Haertl is the sports director at KWCH TV in Wichita, Kansas.  For more than 20 years, he has guided the Eyewitness Sports team to be a market leader in Wichita.  He has covered stories ranging from college bowls, World Series games, and Final Fours, to Kansas Eight-Man Football championships.  He is the TV voice of the Wichita State Shocker men’s basketball and baseball teams and he is a pre-game radio correspondent for the coverage of Kansas State University football. 

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Jieun Oh, a 2004 graduate Charles Wright Academy, has received Stanford University’s top academic honor.  She was presented with the prestigious J.E. Wallace Sterling Award for Academic Achievement, given to 23 outstanding students in Stanford University’s School of Humanities and Sciences each year. 

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Emily Rome, a Charles Wright senior and editor of the Upper School new magazine The Academy Times, was recently named Washington’s Outstanding Journalist of the Year by the Washington Journalism Education Association.  This is one of just two honors bestowed on the state’s top high school journalists and Rome is Charles Wright’s fourth winner.

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If you’re planning to climb Mount Everest this summer (and hey, who isn’t) you may have read the News Tribune’s front-page story: Closed? Local guides predict losses after China reserves Everest for Olympic torch climb. 

Eric Simonson, co-owner of Ashford’s International Mountain Guides company, was pictured and quoted in the article.  What the TNT didn’t report is that Simonson is a proud member of the Charles Wright family (hard to imagine how they missed an important fact like that!)

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We’ve posted some new info on our website, charleswright.org, that may be of particular interest to current families and alums.  Click on the headlines to open each pdf directly.

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Eric Anton, a 2004 graduate of Charles Wright, led the Colgate University to a league soccer championship this year, the first Patriot League championship for the Raiders in 10 years.  Anton, who was a member of Charles Wright’s state champion soccer team, was the Raiders’ co-captain.  He earned 15 starting assignments this season and played in all but one game.

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Charles Wright alums often find great success in life, but they don’t often become teen heartthrobs.  Penn Badgley, who attended Charles Wright in Lower and Middle School with the class of 2004, is certainly the exception.  He has a leading role in this season’s hottest new TV drama about the lives of teenagers, Gossip Girl. 

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