Bill Wilson Tag Archive

Global reunion at Wallace

Some Wallace former pupils take reunions seriously and few have matched the commitment of recent visitors Fiona Gordon (now Crummey) Head Girl 1979, Alison Finlay and Rose-Marie...

Wallace Scoop Hat Trick at Ulster Star Awards

Last Friday night the Ulster Star held its first People of the Year Awards in the Island Civic Centre with The Wallace High School’s representatives winning three...

Wallace’s “Mountain Man” remembered

A brief but moving ceremony was held in the Mournes on Saturday 6th September to celebrate the contribution of the late Bill Wilson to the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme...

£13,500 Raised for Pancreatic Cancer

Wallace High School recently hosted Pancreaticcancer.org.uk nurses Dianne and Jeni who were making a brief visit to Northern Ireland. The charity Pancreaticcancer.org.uk recently...

Wet day….warm memories

The Bill Wilson Memorial Walk took place on the May Day Bank holiday in true Duke of Edinburgh conditions. Almost three hundred walkers gathered in Donard Park to venture into the...

A walk to remember

Friends, former colleagues and former pupils of the late Bill Wilson, Wallace High School’s much loved “Mr Duke of Edinburgh”, are invited to join together to...

A Life Well Lived : Mr W Wilson

My friends, I knew a wonderful man, these words approximate him, as chips of stone approximate a tower, as wind approximates a song. (from When a Friend by Stephen Dobyns) Mr W...