Mr. Alf J. Mapp
Assistant Principal 
1941 - 1950
Dr. Robert W. Allen
Principal 
1958 - 1966
Mr. Walter T.H.Galliford
Assistant Principal 
1958 - 1966
Mr. Robert L. Sweeney
Principal  1950 - 1958
Mr. Woodrow W. Piland
Principal 
1966 - 1970
Mr. Walter D. Graham
Assistant Principal 1966 - 1969
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Mr. Jack Ryder
Principal 
1971 - 1973
Mr. A. C.Hinton
Assistant Principal 1969 - 1970
Mr. Vernon L. Randall
Assistant Principal 1969 - 1971

Mr. Edgar Morgan
Assistant Principal 1971 - 1973
Mr. Robert W. Allen
Assistant Principal 1950 - 1958
Mr. Robert L. Sweeney
Principal  
1941 - 1950
Mr. Robert L. Sweeney
Assistant Principal 
 1920 - 1941
Mr. J. Leon Codd
 Principal 
 1919 - 1941
Mr. T. Woodrow Gray
Assistant Principal 
Dr. William Preston Burton
Principal
 1975½ - 1986
Mr. A.C. Hinton
Assistant Principal
1979  - 1982
Mr. LaDaniel Gatling
Assistant Principal 1978 - 1982
Mr. Michael Laguta
Assistant Principal 1976 - 1986
Mr. Horace S. Savage
Assistant Principal 1972 - 1977
Mr. Pete Mills
Assistant Principal 1983 - 1985
Mr. Kenneth Hopkins
Assistant Principal 1985 - 1987
Mr. David W. Joyner
Assistant Principal 1974 - 1980
Dr. Vito J. Morlino
Principal 
1973 - 1975½
Mr. James Sherrill
Assistant Principal 1985 -1986
Dr. William Preston Burton
Principal 
1975½ - 1986
Ms. Kirman
Principal 
1986 - 1987
Mrs. Patricia Fisher
Assistant Principal 1986 -1992
Mr. Ross
Assistant Principal 1986 -1987
Dr. Theodore Owens
Assistant Principal 1986 -1991
Mr. LaDaniel Gatling
Principal 
1987 - 1992
Mr. John Sykes
Assistant Principal 1991 -1992
Mr. Leon Potter
Assistant Principal 1987 -1993
Mr. William Saunders
Assistant Principal 1973 - 1974
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Mr. Lindell Wallace
Principal 
1993 - 1997
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Mr. William Gibson
Principal 
1997 - 1998
Mrs. Rosa Wells-Garris
Principal
 1998 - 2005
Mrs. Rosa Wells-Garris
Assistant Principal 
1993 -1995
Mrs. Nancy Coner
Assistant Principal 1993 -1996
Dr. Joseph Pociask
Assistant Principal 1993 -1997
Mr. Kenneth Porter
Assistant Principal 
1996 - Present
Mrs. Susan Bechtol
Assistant Principal 
1997 - 1999
Dr. Eric Fischer
Assistant Principal 
1998 - 1999
Ms. Karen Giacometti
Assistant Principal 
1999 - 2010
Mr. Mike Hillinch
Assistant Principal 
1999 - Present
Mr. Robert L. Sweeney
Assistant Principal  1920 - 1941
Mr. J. Leon Codd
Principal  1908 - 1919
of Portsmouth High School
 Principal  1919 - 1941
of Woodrow Wilson High
Jake Codd
Graduated from Portsmouth High School 1890
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Woodrow Wilson
 High School
Portsmouth, VA
Mr. Kenneth Hopkins
Principal 
1992 - 1993
Mrs. Marie Shepard
Assistant Principal 1992 -1993
Mrs. Ella Ward
Assistant Principal 1992 -1993
Mr. Robert Urquhart
Assistant Principal 1992 -1993
Mr. Timothy E, Johnson
Principal 
2005 - Present
Ms. Pharr
Assistant Principal 
2005 - Present
Mr. Bynum
Assistant Principal 
2005 - 2010
Class of 1920
Class of 1921
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John "Eddie" Lee class of '68
The Class Roster and pictures are as represented in the Woodrow Wilson High School, Portsmouth, Virginia yearbook or annual of the year indicated on the page.  The Roster may not be complete and pictures and names may have been removed by request of the person involved. Also, it does not offically indicate the year of graduation and/or that the party in question graduated.  If you are not represented in your class, you will be added to the last page of the year and you may submit a photo to be added.  John “Eddie” Lee ’68.



Mr. Timothy E, Johnson
Principal 
2005 - Present
Mr. Timothy E, Johnson
Principal 
2005 -  
Dr. Damon E. Cary
Assistant Principal 
2010 - 2015
Mr. Mike Hillinch
Assistant Principal 
1999 - Present
Ms. Pharr
Assistant Principal 
2005 - Present
Ms. Pharr
Assistant Principal 
2005 - Present
Mr. Mike Hillinch
Assistant Principal 
1999 - Present
Mrs. Sonji C. Hairston
Assistant Principal 
2011 - Present
Mrs. Sonji C. Hairston
Assistant Principal 
2011 - Present
Mr. Timothy E, Johnson
Principal 
2005 -  
Mr. Timothy E, Johnson
Principal 
2005 -