Western High School Celebrates 177 Years With 1,000 Daffodils

BALTIMORE (WJZ) —  One 1000 daffodils to observe 177 years.

Each bulb placed successful the crushed volition yet bloom into a daffodil and astatine Western High School, they’re planting 1,000 of them.

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“It means hope, it means renewed strength, renewed purpose. They’re yellowish which is light. Our motto is: We person light, fto america springiness distant light,” said Principal Michelle White.

The thought came from a radical of alumni including Rowena Daly.

“It is astir arsenic if you ne'er near erstwhile you travel backmost here,” said Daly.

Daly led the Daffodil Project successful New York City and is present bringing it present to her hometown and her alma mater, arsenic a mode to commemorate a milestone successful Western High School’s history.

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“When it was formed successful 1844, that’s much 175 years ago, that’s 177 years ago, it was the lone accidental for a pistillate to get an acquisition beyond the eighth people successful the City of Baltimore,” said Daly.

And she’s sharing her passionateness for planting with existent students.

“This means the enslaved we person with our schoolhouse and everything that we stock with it, each of our acquisition and everything we person with the schoolhouse volition spell into the planting,” said Ashley Estrada.

Ashley Estrada is simply a senior. She hopes this tin beryllium a portion of her lasting legacy.

“By the extremity of the year, I’ll beryllium capable to postgraduate and by past they’ll beryllium blooming. So, that’s fundamentally similar saying this is simply a caller section successful our life, going connected to college,” said Estrada.

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