Terryville High School

This article is about Terryville High School located in historic Terryville, Connecticut. Terryville is part of the larger Plymouth, Connecticut. The village is named after Eli Terry, the world famous clockmaker. Among historically significant topics for mention, Terryville once was the home of Eagle Lock Company. Also, in the town is the only Lock Museum in the world, and a memoriam of Ted Knight, an award winning actor who was born and raised in Terryville. The town once held a large eastern European and Canadian French population due to the industry that drew immigrants to the town to work and live.

Terryville High School's Mission

The mission of Terryville High School is to educate its students to reach their maximum potential in learning, social growth, and awareness of themselves in an ever-changing society. The school, in partnership with family and the community, promotes career planning, continuous education, vocational preparation, and leadership.

Terryville encourages students to cultivate these basic values: the qualities of self-discipline, self-respect, self-direction, and integrity; the belief in the individuality of each person, the importance of a critical and analytical approach to problem solving; the recognition that learning requires involvement based on mutual respect, obligations and goals; the stimulation of students intellectual curiosity; the encouragement from the past in order to prepare for highly complex and changing world community; and the nurturing of learning as a valuable lifelong process.

Terryville's Sports

Terryville High School has a wide variety of sports the students can sign up for , if they have an up to date physical examination. There is baseball, softball, boys basketball, girls basketball, boys soccer, girls soccer, cross country, tennis, volleyball, track and field, golf, and wrestling. The historic sports moments for Terryville include the 1984 Basketball State Championship, as Art Hamm coached his team to victory. In 1991, Phil Lyga coached his soccer team to a co-champion berkshire league title. Jerry Daniels and his wrestling teams won several Berkshire league title and coached many state champions like Kevin Higgins, Paul Higgins, Tony Piazza, Tom Yale, Diego Quintero and many more. The gymnasium of Terryville High School is adorned with banners representing many years of athletic excellence.

Terryville High School Drama Club

The Terryville High School Drama Club has a long history of presenting plays, including Beauty and the Beast: French Fairy Tale Version (2006), Bye Bye Birdie (2004), The Sound of Music (2003), Hello Dolly, Anything Goes, South Pacific, and Mame. The current President and Director of The Drama Club is Connor McKenna and the play for 2007 is Bram Stoker's Dracula.

The New Terryville High School

Work on the new High School in Terryville started on January 25, 2006. The new High School is on task and should be completed near the end of 2007. The School Building Committee Members are:

Chairman William O. Allread,

Warren Brayton,

Barbara Deschaine,

Scott Ewen,

William Hubbard Scott Magnano,

Joseph Sekorski,

Donna Wunsch,

John Wunsch,

Town Council Liaison: Councilman Zagurski.

External links

• http://www.plymouth.k12.ct.us/ths/ for more information on Terryville High School.
• http://www.plymouthct.us/newHS.htm for updates on the new school, and future changes.