f i I T' - The indianapolib Star B Department of Advertising and Marketing B Thursday, Decemwi a. 1999 fl T23 State Bank of Lizton 90 Years Of Excellence 1910-2000 "Together Everyone Achieves More Through Work Am irrarm I Amber Frost Lizton, Indiana: somewhere in the middle of a cornfield, a bell rings and children rush into a building that looks like it was built in the seventies. Actually, it's somewhere around 630 students from 7,h to 1 2lh grade, which is about 126 students per class (and the school was built in 1975). Watching students arrive at Tri-West JuniorSenior High School, you can see nose-rings, tie-dye, camouflage, butterfly clips, blue hair, pink hair, cowboy boots, and even Abercrombie & Fitch. So many people are shocked by our diversity when they think of the size and location of our school. They expect a small group of backward, countrified farm kids with no future. ("Put away the shotgun Maw, it's just Bubba being sent home from school early again.") Actually Tri-West has a very good academic reputation. Our 1997-1998 graduation rate was 99, with many students having college aspirations. This can be largely credited to our Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) program. GATE encourages kids to go to college by sponsoring a field trip to a college once a year and other higher education-related activities. The student attendance rate is 96, and sports teams hold their own against larger schools. Not only did Tri-West's Marching Blue Alliance make it to the state competition, Triton Central High School UP COMING TRITON CENTRAL EVENTS Triton Central Singers Pancake Breakfast: December 1 1 th Triton Centrals Christmas Concert: December 15 Christmas Vacation: Dec.l8th-Jan.2!!!!! Staff ( I r f rl 1 a From Left: Jennifer Stewart, Mitch Smith, and Sara Smith they placed third. Tri-West was named a four-star school by the Indiana Department of Education for the past three years. Less than two percent of Indiana schools have earned this title. Our college attendance and academic honors diploma rate is comparable to any other district in Indiana. Coming from a large school, I didn't know what to expect when I first moved here. When I arrived on the first day, I saw farm kids, punks, preps, hippies, grungers, nerds, band geeks, jocks, and other stereotypes. But upon meeting them, I discovered a folk music fan who had an eyebrow ring and a guy who wears cowboy boots and a hat to school everyday, though had enough mechanical intelligence to restore a entire truck, circa 1950's (cherry red). I met girls who wore Abercrombie & Fitch yet still stopped to talk to me in the hallway and tuba players who dyed their hair green. Nobody I know at Tri-West fits streotypes. ' As for our size, it sometimes be a benefit. Our student to teacher ratio was 18 to one in 1998. We have one of the highest student to computer ratios in Indiana. The teachers seem to like it to. The overall response from TIGER SPIRIT IS ON by Sara Smith editor Come to any Triton Central football game and the one thing that stands out is the section of loud students in the stands. This group is known as the tailgaters. Tailgaters are just one group of students that show extreme Tiger Pride. They attend all the home football games and even some of the away games. During the basketball season students attend games and show their spirit. There is not a certain name for this group, but a lot of them are the same that have joined tailgating. The spirit has even spread to the middle school. They now have a spirit club that packs their gym at every home game. TC ;'" Evan Hodge freshman "If you quit you don't get anywhere." -JX ; ' Ml PHOTO POLL LJB teachers that I interveiwed was that a small school enabled them to work with the students in a much more personal way. Our school counseler (Mrs. Teitz) says that, although there are over 600 students at Tri-West, she knows almost all of us. Mr. Frederick (the music department teacher) used to work at a high school in Los Angeles at a school with thousands of kids, and he says he prefers Tri-West over his former teaching job because it allows him to teach the students more effectivley by giving them more of a one-on-one teaching style. He and Mr. Walker (a Speech teacher) both stated that they had many more discipline problems at their other jobs teaching at larger schools. So perhaps we don't have the courses that a larger school does, and we are in the middle of a corn feild. We have a good school and there's at least one social group for everybody. f If.y A' ' J Tailgaters cheer on there Triton Central Tigers at a football Cassie Russell sophomore "Cheering for the teams as they play and representing them in a good , More than just a small country school Tri-West students are good athletes, musicians, and scholars. Game Of the Week Boy's and Girl's Varsity Basketball vs. North Montgomery at Tri-West 6:00 pm Fairland, Indiana THE PROWE Mrs. Karen Gallagher teacher "Attending extra-curricular activities and wearing green and white." Member FDIC Checking & Savings Loans 317-994-5115' Phone Banking Fax- 3 1 7-994-5 1 04 And More! Administrative Office 206 N. State Street Lizton, IN 46149 Tri-West Hendricks JrSr High School EditorWriter for Attitude! Weekly- Amber Frost Principle- Ron Ward Asst. Principle- Gus Martin Newspaper- . Chris Walker Advisor Comments-questions? Call: 994-4000 Place your Ad here!!! 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