Harry S Truman High School (often referred to as HST or simply Truman), formerly Woodrow Wilson High School, is a public high school located in Levittown, Pennsylvania. The school is a part of the Bristol Township School District in Bristol Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and is its only high school. It was named after US President Harry S Truman. It hosts grades 9-12. The current principal is Lyndell Davis.
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Academics
AP level courses
Harry S Truman High School has historically offered the various Advanced Placement (AP) level classes, including U.S. History, U.S. Government and Politics, Chemistry, English Literature, Statistics, and Calculus AB (though BC has been offered to particularly advanced students). The school also offers Project Lead the Way courses that result as college credits. Those include Intro to Digital Electronics, Intro to Engineering Design, Principles of Engineering & Civil & Architectural Engineering. HST won an AP Honor Roll award for their distinguished scholars for the years 2011-2012, besting other school districts in the area.
Language instruction
Truman offers five years of instruction in Italian and Spanish. It also has an extensive English as a Second Language (ESL) program and often hosts international students who are studying abroad in the United States.
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NJROTC
Harry S Truman HS was a pilot school for the United States Navy's Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps program. The Harry S Truman NJROTC unit was active from 1968 until 1996. It was the first JROTC unit to admit female cadets.
Debate & forensics
Truman has a nationally recognized speech and debate team. The team competes in the National Speech and Debate Association (Valley Forge district), the Philadelphia Catholic Forensic League, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Debate League, the Pennsylvania High School Speech League (district 12), and at numerous national and regional invitationals.
The program has qualified hundreds of students to National Speech and Debate Association, National Catholic Forensic League, and Pennsylvania High School Speech League championships. The program has produced local, state, and national invitational champions, in addition to earning many team sweepstakes awards during its more than 50 year history.
Drama
Known regionally and nationally, Truman's drama program was led by Louis Volpe for about 45 years until his retirement in June 2013. In October 2012, the Bristol Township School Board approved a resolution that would name Truman's auditorium after Volpe. After the departure of Volpe, Tracey Gatte assumed the position of director after being assistant director for several years.
The program was honored for its excellence by being chosen to pioneer Les Misérables for high school use in 2001. It received that honor again twice, performing the pilot of the student editions of Rent and Spring Awakening. Other Truman productions have included Beauty and the Beast, Aida, Epic Proportions, Godspell, Jesus Christ Superstar, Equus, Found a Peanut, and Grease.
Author Michael Sokolove wrote the book Drama High (novel), which focuses on the life of Lou Volpe and history of the Truman theater program. Drama High will be adapted into a television show called Rise (TV series), set to premiere in the fall of 2017.
Sports
All Truman teams compete in the Suburban One League of Levittown, Pennsylvania.
Truman's basketball program have won Suburban I championships in 2001, 2004, and 2005. They have also reached the State Playoff Tournament for AAAA schools in 2005 and 2006. The team coach is Allan Flowerford. Tyrone Lewis graduated from Truman, where he was senior class president and record-setting basketball player.
Field hockey
Truman's varsity field hockey team is coached by Kayla Kowalick; the junior varsity team is coached by Jess Shultz. The field hockey team has a growing program. Opponent teams include: Pennsbury, Neshaminy, Abington, and both Council Rock teams.
Football
Truman football teams are not especially triumphant over the past few decades, but they have hope. They have "strong" rivalries with Conwell-Egan, Pennsbury, and Bensalem. Their win-loss record was 2-10 in 2008 and showed improvement in 2009, 3-8, under old head football coach John M. Iannuccini. Coach Iannuccini resigned days before the first game of the 2010 season. Truman now has a new Head Coach - Jon Craig, and has had its best season in over 30 years in 2014. Coach Craig resigned after the 2016 season and the reins were handed over to the former Pennsbury Coach Michael Lapalambara. Duringing the 2017 season, The Tigers had made it to the playoffs for the first time since 1993.
Lacrosse
Truman's lacrosse team was founded during the 2000-01 academic year. It has both a varsity and junior varsity squad.
Student life
Student traditions
During the 2005-06 school year there was a student-inspired revival of a week long celebration which includes the students participating in different activities, usually with each day having a different theme, such as wearing school colors or dressing as twins. The students have a Spirit Night which has events, a dance, and competitions. The same year, the Tigers brought back an annual bonfire the day before homecoming.
Notable alumni
- Susan Barnett, newsreader
- Crystal torres, musician
- Rick DeJesus, musician
- Kevin Ingram, arena football player
- Shawn Slivinski, mummer
- Earl "The Twirl" Williams, American-Israeli basketball player
References
- FOOTBALL: Truman looking to regroup after coach John Ianucci's resignation, By Rick Fortenbaugh, Journal Register News Network Sep 2, 2010
External links
- Official website
- Official website of Bristol Township, Pennsylvania
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