HOWE NOW the Alumni Association Of

The Alumni Association of HOWE NOW Thomas Carr Howe August 2011 The spirit of Howe lives on through your Alumni Association. Indianapolis, Indiana Under the Tower 2011 Association Program Honors Twelve More Clock… Graduates, Raises Total Awards To Over $100,000 In “Under the Tower Clock…” we give you a The Thomas Carr Howe Alumni she plans to major in Nursing; sample of student life, what’s going on at Howe, Association at its Scholarship Night, Kyle Culley, Lawrence Central what’s new and what’s different, and what is a lot June 9, presented awards to twelve High School, admitted to Indiana Uni- like the days when we were there. graduating seniors. versity, to study Biology/Physician Seven seniors from Thomas Carr Assistant, daughter of Kevin Culley, The Class of 2011 had its com- Howe Community High School were ’75, and Cathy (McAtee) Culley, ’76; mencement exercises Friday, May 27, in awarded $1,000 scholarships. Laura Kuhn, Lawrence North Stirling Auditorium. Exactly 100 candi- Three seniors from Marion County High School, granddaughter of Mae dates were listed in the commencement high schools who have a “Howe con- Ellen (Church) Gale, ’46; admitted to program, which had the added footnote nection” (parents or grandparents who Purdue University, to study Profession- “This listing of graduates is based upon are graduates of Howe) were awarded al Flight; information available at the time of $1,000 “legacy scholarships.” Victoria Ray, Beech Grove High printing and is subject to change de- Two Howe seniors were awarded School, granddaughter of Morgan Ray, pending on final grades.” $500 Howe 400 Club scholarships. ’55, admitted to College of Environ- (In the “old days” teachers had a Jean (Morgan) Koelliker, ’55, mental Science and Forestry, State Uni- deadline, some two weeks before gradu- Alumni Association Scholarship Chair- versity of New York, Syracuse, NY, to ation, to determine which students were person, and Scholarship Committee study Conservation Biology. not “going to make it.”) member Errol Spears, ’60, announced The Howe 400 Club Scholarships, Twenty-nine graduates have won the winners and presented the awards each $500, were presented to-- Twenty-first Century Scholarships, to the following 2011 graduates-- Wendy Martinez, Thomas Carr which cover tuition at any of the state- Zachary Deskins, Thomas Carr Howe Community High School, admit- supported universities. Howe Community High School, admitted to Indiana University, plans to pur- Fifty-six seniors completed the Core ted to Indiana University, where he sue Pre-Med; 40 diplomas (think of the old Academic intends to pursue Pre-Law; Migail Fields, Thomas Carr Howe Diploma plan) and twelve students re- Kyle Finley, Thomas Carr Howe Community High School, admitted to ceived an Academic Honors Diploma. Community High School, admitted to Indiana University, plans undecided. Teresa Ezell, TCHCHS’s new prin- Indiana University, where he will study A reception for the honorees and cipal, will be Howe’s fifth principal Game Design/Computer Science; their families followed the ceremony since the school reopened. She assumes Samantha Quinn, Thomas Carr and provided a chance for winners and duties July 1 and replaces Stephanie Howe Community High School, admit- family members to celebrate their off- Nixon, who will become principal of the ted to Indiana University-Purdue Uni- spring’s scholastic achievement. Crispus Attuck Medical Magnet High versity Indianapolis, to study Computer Since the first scholarships the As- School. Science/Business; sociation program, now in its sixteenth Sixty percent of last year’s staff have Jasmine Rice, Thomas Carr Howe year, has made awards totaling been reassigned to other schools; their Community High School, admitted to $101,000 to 150 students. replacements, coming from other IPS Indiana University, where she will ma- In 1996 the Association gave two assignments, will comprise the staff for jor in Public Health; $500 Howe 400 Club scholarships. The Howe’s 2011-2012 school year. Miles Stacey, Thomas Carr Howe next year saw the first scholarship Community High School, has received funded by alumni donations. an appointment to the U.S. Air Force The generous grant of the Tom Archives? All On Line Academy, Colorado Springs, CO, plans Russell Charitable Foundation over the to study Chemical Engineering; years enabled the Association to in- Just in case you missed one of the Jacob Vinson, Thomas Carr Howe crease scholarships in 2006 to awards Thomas Carr Howe Alumni Association Community High School, son of Howe of $750; in 2007 the amount was in- newsletters, you can access all of the graduates Mike Vinson, ’77, and Sara creased again to the present $1,000. newsletters at www.thehowenow.com (Hasseld) Vinson, ’77, admitted to In- The number and the amount of the website. diana University, plans to study Com- awards are determined each year by the Keith Blazek, ’88, has created the puter Engineering; funds available. The Board of Directors electronic file of all the Association Jamiah Weaver, Thomas Carr determines eligibility requirements for publications back to 1994 (and with Howe Community High School, admit- applicants and publishes scholarship color photos, too, for recent years.) ted to Indiana State University, where information in February’s Howe Now. 2011 Association Scholarship Program Selects Twelve Graduates Left picture—Wendy Martinez, Howe 400 Club Scholarship winner; right picture—Jamiah Weav- er, Jasmine Rice, Samantha Quinn, Thomas Carr Howe Alumni Association Scholarship winners Left picture--Zachary Deskins, Jacob Vinson, Miles Stacey, Kyle Finley, Thomas Carr Howe Association Scholarship winners; right picture-- Kyle Culley, daughter of Kevin Culley, ’75, and Cathy (McAtee) Culey, ’76, Thomas Carr Howe Alumni Association Scholarship winner Left picture--Victoria Ray, granddaughter of Morgan Ray, ’55, Thomas Carr Howe Alumni Association Scholarship winner; right picture, Laura Kuhn, granddaughter of Mae Ellen (Church) Gale, ’46, Thomas Carr Howe Alumni Association Scholarship winner Graduates Presented Alumni Cards Members of the senior class of 2011 were given their Thomas Carr Howe Alumni Association membership cards just before their Commencement ceremony on May 27. On behalf of the more than 20,000 Howe alumni, Jim Purvis, ’45, Bea Cottom, ’41, and Dan Kaga, ’57, Association President, made the presentations to about-to-be- graduates class officers Miles Stacey, Tiffany Watts, and Jacob Vinson. A reprint of an article from the August 2008 Howe Now… State DOE May Set Howe’s Future (Howe) Things change…a lot Dr. Tony Bennett, Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruc- tion, presented some grim realities to the 200+ persons who Things change, as the old saying goes. attended the public meeting at the Thomas Stirling Auditorium At Howe things change a lot. at Howe on Monday, June 13. (Dr. Bennett’s schedule included At the end of the 1994-95 school year Thomas Carr Howe speaking at each of the five other IPS high schools on proba- High School graduated its last class, the school closed, and tion.) underclassmen were assigned to other high schools. Nearly two hours of the meeting were used by various In the fall of 2000 the building was reopened as Thomas speakers, who, limited to three minutes, generally spoke of Carr Howe Middle School with 790 students in Grade 6, 7, and their support of the school, its program, and its staff and their 8. displeasure with the Code’s unrealistic standards. In the fall of 2002 the school added Grade 9 with the plan Howe, which is in the fifth year of academic probation of adding a grade each year until the first seniors would be (largely because of student test scores,) faces the possibilities graduated in 2006. The name of the school became Thomas outlined in the provisions of the Indiana Code: Carr Howe Academy. Sec. 3. If the state board determines, after conducting the Grade 6 students were no longer included at the beginning public hearing described in section 2 of this rule, that interven- of the 2006 school year. tion will improve the education received by the affected stu- TCHA’s third senior class was graduated in May of 2008. dents, the state board may implement one (1) or more of the Howe will have its third name change by becoming Thom- following options; as Carr Howe Community High School at the beginning of the (1) Merge the school with a nearby school that is in a high- 2008-2009 school year. er category of school improvement under IC 20-31-9 and 511 (The “community” designations is given those schools-- IAC 6.l2-6. Arlington, Howe, Marshall, and Washington--which will each (2) Assign an individual or organization to operate all or have about 160 “under/over” students, students who are behind part of the school. where they should be in their academic placements.) (3) Implement the department’s recommendations for im- Grade 7 and 8 will continue to be part of TCHCHS. proving the school. An Indianapolis Star article, February 7, 2008, stated, IPS (4) Implement other options for school improvement ex- hopes to eliminate the shame of, for example, 13-year-old fifth pressed at the public hearing, including closing the school. -graders by moving them into a school with students their own (5) Revise the school’s plan in any of the following areas: age. (A) School procedures or operations. The article also said: But there is a downside: Those (B) Professional development. schools where the struggling students are clustered will likely (C)Intervention for individual teachers or administrators. be unable to make adequate yearly progress under the federal Dr. Eugene White, IPS Superintendent of Schools, present- No Child Left Behind Act. Because “No Child Left Behind” ed the Howe Community High School’s Turn-Around Plan to requires an increasing percentage of students to pass state tests, Dr.

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