It’s that time of the year again! Teachers of the THS history department will be joining students in the second annual trip to the nation’s capital via the Close Up program. The Close Up program provides students from around the country with the experience to visit Washington, D.C. where they can gain new insights into politics in our country. With a fresh group of students attending, the Terryville High School Newspaper Club interviewed one of…
On a clear May morning, as the warm sun shone down, approximately 120 students and 8 teacher chaperones squeezed onto three school buses and departed for their senior trip to Holiday Hill in Prospect, CT. Planned by Senior Class advisors Shannon Erickson, Jeff Gerent, and Gail Duffy, the Holiday Hill trip celebrates the soon-to-be-graduates in a greatly anticipated adventure. Joined by Jim DiStasio, Kate Avcollie, Michelle Luba, Michael McGowan, Robert Nave, Chris Perkins and…
This past November, students in the Terryville High School Sophomore and Senior History classes, along with history teacher Peter Veleas, participated in a trip to Washington D.C. via the national CloseUp program. With this trip, students were given the opportunity to visit some of the nation’s most known attractions in D.C. and Virginia, such as the Lincoln and Vietnam Memorials, as well as given the opportunity to engage in a hands-on experience of learning how…
