Vol. V Issue I
Harvey Hits Home Story on pg 7
About the Tivy Tatler 2018 Tatler Staff Editors Kit Davis ‘18 Jessica Bolton ‘18 Copy Editor Cassandra Soe ‘18 Photo Editor Brenda Luna ‘18 Business Manager Faith Townsend ‘18 Social Media Manager Sadie Hernandez ‘18 Staff Writers Jason Cantu ‘18 Ashley Garces ‘20
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Editorial
Sources: https://www.texastribune.org/2017/07/26/senate-approves-textingwhile-driving-pre-emption/ https://www.texastribune.org/2017/04/11/davids-law-criminalizes-cyberbullying-mandates-public-schools-create-p/
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Over the past few months, Texas has passed two laws that will greatly impact students regarding texting and driving, and bullying. The law pertaining to texting and driving is beneficial, but unfortunately, very limited in its power. It is against the law to text and drive, it is still legal to be on social media, including Snapchat or any other forms of social media. Fortunately, in cities that already have strict restrictions on cell phones, they will remain in place as well as the federal law. You can just as easily have a wreck messing around with your phone as you could with drinking and driving. Although there was an attempt at banning more than just texting in all areas, it ended up failing due to votes not being cast in time. Snapchat is telling people to not snap and drive on their MPH filter, but it isn’t enough. In this day and age, one of the biggest fears people have on the roads are distracted drivers. Jack Dillon Young killed 13 elderly people on a bus, about 75 miles west of San Antonio, he admits he was checking his phone when the crashed happened. There should be no loop holes in this law. A picture telling people how fast you are going is not worth your life or anybody else’s. What, picture or text, could be important enough to raise your insurance rates, and potentially harm you, or somebody else? Hopefully Texas will make another attempt at fixing this dilemma, in the meantime, stay safe and stay off your phone. If absolutely necessary, pull off the road to a safe location before using your phone. Additionally, the State of Texas passed another law pertaining to all forms of bullying, both during and after school hours. David’s Law gives a school the authority to get involved with any form of bullying outside of school hours. Prior to the passing of this law, the school could only handle bullying that happened on campus during its school hours. There were many cases of people dealing with their peers bullying them outside of school, and their bullies not receiving consequences. Bullying offenses will be treated seriously, and are now treated as misdemeanors. This law especially involves cyber-bullying. The law came about because a student at Alamo Heights High School committed suicide due to constant harassment and bullying done by other students. His parents started David’s Legacy, a foundation that spreads awareness about the dangers of cyber-bullying. We should all do our part to keep Tivy a bully-free campus.
FEATURE: HARVEY HITS HOME pg 8
Humans of Tivy pg 11
COLLEGE NIGHT pg 12
Fall Sports pg 14
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October Events
19th Homecoming Parade Fr & JV Football vs Marble Falls Texas A&M @ Lunch Senior graduation presentation
20th Army @ Lunch Homecoming Game vs Marble Falls Tivy Volleyball vs Marble Falls 21st Bobcat Day Field Trip 23rd Texas Tech @ Lunch Tivy Cross Country Regional Meet 24th Coffee with Counselors Tivy Volleyball vs Alamo Heights Tivy Tennis Regional Qtrs Tivy Orchestra Concert
25th Unity Day - Wear Orange
26th Fr & JV Football vs Champion 27th Varsity Football vs Champion Tivy Tennis Regional Tourn. 28th Tivy Tennis Regional Tourn. 30th TSTC & W. Virginia Univ. 7th per Tivy Volleyball Bi-District 31st Halloween Baylor @ 9:30am Tivy Volleyball Bi-District
November Events
1st Tivy Tennis State Tourn. Cailloux Scholarship opens 2nd College Night 6-8pm Senior Cap & Gown order Tivy Tennis State Tourn. Tivy Volleyball Area Tourn. Fr & JV Football vs Seguin
DATES
3rd Senior Cap & Gown order Tivy Volleyball Area Tourn. Tivy Varsity Football vs Seguin 4th Tivy Cross Country State Meet Tivy Volleyball Area Tourn.
YOU to know NEED
By Jason Cantu and Brenda Luna. Photo by Jason Cantu. Photo Illustration by Brenda Luna.
Tivy’s had numerous new teachers over the past few years and a majority of students don’t get the opportunity to get to know them personally. We’ve decided to spotlight those teachers. Coach Roach came to Tivy last year. He is one of our U.S. History teachers, and a student favorite Q1: Which High School did you graduate from, and what sport did you participate in? CR: “I went to Lindale High School in Lindale, Texas and I was pitching for the school’s baseball team. I had a good amount of pitches there.” Q2: What is a special talent of yours? CR: “I played the piano for a little bit. I even know how to play ‘Jump’ and ‘Smoke On the Water’ on it.” Q3: What university did you attend, and what did you major in? CR: “I graduated from UT Texas at Tyler, about forty-five minutes from Lindale… I majored in Political Science, and recently, I’ve gotten my master’s in Education. I could even be a principal!” Q4: What is your biggest fear about teaching? CR: “That my students will not enjoy learning history, and I try to teach them to enjoy the subject and for them to not be bored of it.” Q5: What was a job you had before teaching? CR: “I was an assistant golf pro at the Hideaway Lake [Club] Golf Course near my home town. I had a four-year stint there, and I was about to go to golf school to become a real golf pro, but decided not to.” Q6: What was your worst job? CR: “At the golf course, since it was boring and I stood on my feet for hours on end not allowed to leave or do anything besides giving people what they needed.” Q7: What was your worst high school memory? CR: “There was this big district baseball game in my senior year. It was at the bottom of the 7th inning, and I was pitching with the score tied. I was put into the game with the bases loaded. I gave up a grand slam over the fence, and we lost the game.” Q8: Would you change your last name, and if so, what would you change it to? CR: “I wouldn’t change my name, and I have a huge family. I also happen to like my family.” Q9: Has there been a time where you’ve been made fun of because of your last name? CR: “One time, the exterminators came to my house, and they began laughing and thought I was joking when I told them my name was Jake Roach. Also, my junior high students mainly are the ones who joke with my name, and the best one is Cockroach. I do correct them afterwards, and I know the joke is all fun and games,”
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Tivy’s
g n i p l e h Hands By Cassandra Soe
Above: Senior NHS member Madeleine Pelton unloads Hurricane Harvey food donations from her car.. Photo by Cassandra Soe.
Hurricane Harvey first stepped into the public’s eye on August 17, 2017. The strom traveled across the Atlantic, before beginning its assualt on eastern Texas. The storm’s first victim was the city of Rockport, and its last casualty was the Texas coast in Matagorda. The destruction caused by Harvey was unprecedented and many cities suffered substantial damage to their infrastructure. Many residents lost their homes due to floods - their livelihoods ripped away from them by the infamous storm. Their future looked bleak, until aid manifested itself in the form of volunteers and donations, which poured in by the thousands to help the desolated cities.
didn’t think we could raise that much, but I said okay, and we made that our goal,” admits Ms. McComack. A handful of the students in the organization were much more optimistic, believing that they would be able to complete their assisgned task with ease. PALS member Lillian Sanchez adds, “We [PALS] try to have a posistive outlook on the things we do.” Tivy PALS managed to collect well over their set amount, their efforts totaling at a sum of one thousand three hundred dollars. The money PALS collected will go to the San Antonio Food Bank, which will provide meals for the victims of Harvey, “One dollar can buy 7 meals,” Ms. McComack adds.
“Our expectations were exceeded, our staff and students really stepped up to the plate.”-Ms. Pintsch
Among the throngs of people who assisted in debilitating Harvey’s ruin upon Texas, was Tivy High School’s very own clubs and organizations. One such organization was PALS, which is managed by English teacher Ms. McComack, whose members set a goal of raising a thousand dollars, “I
Tivy PALS was not alone in helping victims of Hurricane Harvey - Interact club stepped forward to lend a hand to those distraught or misplaced by the storm’s devastation. Interact club members collected donations from both students and staff duing all three lunches. “Altogther we raised over three hundred dollars,
which will be sent in the form of a cashier’s check,” informs Mr. Thornton; the science teacher who manages Interact club. Junior Kisara Dang, first proposed the idea to donate the proceeds to the food bank. Mr. Thornton is confident that, “the money is going to go where it needs to go.” In addition to PALS and Interact Club, Tivy’s National Honor Society (NHS), which is run by physics teacher Mrs. Dunigan, took a different approach to helping those in need. Junior Hailey Martin-Cook has family in Victoria, Texas. “Once everything had cleared and the storm had passed on, her relatives had nothing left. NHS wanted to help, so Martin-Cook relayed to Mrs. Dunigan her relatives clothing sizes, which was sent to the members of NHS through Remind. “We just wanted to Above: Ms. McComack’s 6th period PALS pose for a picture. Below from left to right below: Mr. do something really specific,” Mrs. Dunigan Thorton’s Interact club members Walter ‘Tres’ Schreiner, Zhengjun Li, Aillemara Keman, Kirkland explains. NHS however, did not stop there-they Connelly, and Kirk Watson pose with the cashier’s check earned from their efforts. Photos by Cassandra Soe. aided Mr. Martinez, the auto-tech instructor in his plight to rebuild homes devastated by Harvey - by bringing tarps, building supplies, and food. “It’s a part of our tenants - it’s what we do. It’s easy to help people - every box of cereal that an NHS member brings, those totaled altogether is [equivalent] to over eight hundred servings of cereal. It’s amazing.” Lastly, Health Occupation Students of America (HOSA), headed by Health Science teacher Mrs. Pintsch, collected food donations after the topic of helping the hurricane survivors was brought up in class. “There was enough food to fill up the trunk of my car - if I had to [numerically] estimate how much food we collected, I’d have to say seventy-five [pounds]. Our expectations were exceeded, our staff and students really stepped up to the plate,” exclaims Mrs. Pintsch. Additionally, Theater teacher Mrs. Butler took food donations outside of her room, and English teacher Mrs. Decker had her Student Council members design and sell Homecoming shirts during all three lunches to finance Port Aransas High School, which was all but wiped out as a result of the hurricane.
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Harvey Hits Home
“All I could do was cry the whole time I [was] in [Port Aransas].” -Mrs. Putnam
By Kit Davis and Jessica Bolton, editors
Photos by Mrs. Putnam
Hurricane Harvey hit the Texas coast on August 25th, 2017 and lasted until August 30th, 2017. During the five-day catastrophe, 63 people were reported deceased, and hundreds of thousands people lost their homes, cars, and have no source of income. Although the Hurricane hit the areas around the coast, many people at Tivy were impacted through the hardships of relatives, friends, and damage to towns they love. Mrs. Putnam saw the damage first hand and was at a loss for words, “All I could do was cry the whole time I [was] in [Port Aransas].” While she drove down the roads, all she could see were the ruins and, “people working to put their lives back together.” Mrs. Putnam’s niece and nephew live in Port Aransas, but fortunately their home only had minor damage. They did, however, have rental homes in the area that were destroyed. “They went from land lords to demolition, and they have just been working nonstop.” Her niece’s father in law had part ownership over the only grocery store in town, which was also destroyed. The store lost over $15,000 worth of chips alone. Although the store lost a substantial amount of money, they still offered their workers their jobs back so they could have an income. This isn’t the only incident where people from all over came to help the people struggling. There was an entire block where people were passing out food and barbequing to help people who were caught up in the catastrophe.
Mr. Martinez didn’t have family that was affected directly by the storm, but was there with his friends to offer a helping hand to the towns he had once visited. “We left in the middle of the night and got there at about two o ‘clock in the morning. When we got there, the town was dead. There was no power, because all the power lines were down, everything was being run on a generator. We went to sleep, and when we woke up the next morning the town was flooded with people like us that were there to help.” Mr. Martinez has seen many natural disasters in his lifetime, but for him, this one hit close to home, “I’ve seen a lot happen, but I didn’t think it was feasible. I thought I had better things to do, or at least I thought I did, but I drive to those areas every summer to go to the coast.”
King Torres evacuated Rockport once his best friend told him to leave due to the storm moving up to a category four. He was split from his parents and evacuated with his friend’s family with the intent to go to Tyler, but after a long car ride, they ended up in Rockdale, “We didn’t even get to Tyler, and we were on the road for six hours.” Eventually he was re-united with his parents in Kerrville, where many of his family members reside. After waiting out the storm at his grandparent’s house, his family went back to Rockport to salvage their belongings and to scope out the damage. “We actually lost our house. It wasn’t destroyed, there was a lot of [water damage]. A lot of our stuff got ruined and the roof collapsed.”
Mrs. Hayes’s grandmother has lived in Houston her whole life. When the Hurricane hit, it completely destroyed all of her things, but luckily, she was able to evacuate to her neighbor’s two story house. “It was flooded, so all the carpet had to be ripped up, all the sheet rock had to be cut out, all of her furniture is gone. When I went to go see it, it was all just big piles of all her stuff. It was terrible.” Her grandmother also happens to suffer from Alzheimer’s disease, a mental condition that affects the memory and other mental functions, so she was confused about what was going on around her. Luckily, her next door neighbors woke her up in the middle of the night, and took her over to their house to wait out the storm. “She keeps wanting to go back home, but she can’t. She will be living with my aunt from now on.”
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Shortage Rush Article and photo by Brenda Luna.
Hurricane Harvey was expected to land in the Gulf of Mexico, sending an immense amount of flooding. Residents that lived near the impacted area decided to pack up as much as possible and abandon their homes. Residents who weren’t able to evacuate because of personal or monetary reasons, gathered supplies to prepare for the hurricane. Families watched the news intently, waiting for the arrival of Harvey. Winds started to pick up and with it came a tremendous amount of flooding. Thousands of homes were ruined, the damage was catastrophic. Nearby towns in Central Texas offered places to stay while the hurricane passed. Grocery stores tried rationing products to send to the affected areas by placing signs saying to only grab a pack of water or two packs of bread per family. Not only did the supply of water go down but the gas stations around town had insufficient amounts of gasoline. Gas prices slowly started to rise and the need for gas did too. Long lines
of people trying to stock up on gas crowded the area. A sense of panic hit Kerrville.
“The morning of September ninth, my truck was close to empty and I couldn’t find diesel anywhere. I did get many responses from fellow teachers and friends trying to help out. At the end of the day that Saturday, I finally found diesel at one Stripes store. My plan B was to drive to a nearby town or San Antonio in my wife’s truck, and bring diesel in a container if I didn’t find it here.”- Mr. Lopez Not only for the average person, but also for the employees that may not
have been able to arrive to their jobs, not to mention the commercial consumers who weren’t able to locate a gas station with diesel. Mr. Lopez, a teacher here, at Tivy was having trouble finding diesel, “The morning of September ninth, my truck was close to empty and I couldn’t find diesel anywhere. I did get many responses from fellow teachers and friends trying to help out. At the end of the day that Saturday, I finally found diesel at one stripes store. My plan B was to drive to a nearby town or San Antonio in my wife’s truck, and bring diesel in a container if I didn’t find it here.” Although, finding gas was difficult, there was a website giving you updates to where you could find gas. Gasbuddy was a good way to find out whether a gas station had gasoline instead of waiting in a long line to then find out there was none. Even though, the shortage was a struggle for the residents of Kerrville and other local areas, it was nowhere near the devastation of what people were going through in the Houston areas.
flashlight food water
Cynthia Longoria Senior
Stacey Lanier
Emily Graver
Senior
Sophomore
cell phone phone charger Nintendo DS
paper towels toilet paper towels
Humans of Tivy By Santos ‘Jason’ Cantu
Here at the Tatler, we wanted to highlight the positivity of Tivy’s student body with a more lighthearted question after the effects of Hurricane Harvey. The question posed was:
“What are three things you would take in preparation for a Hurricane?” However, there’s a twist. In addition to only taking three items, no one can take the same three things.
favorite book favorite pillow cell phone
grandmom’s jewelry wedding album daughter’s paintings
Zoe Contryman
Mrs. Papesca
Senior
Emily Mcpherson
Teacher
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Hunter Davis
Sophomore
Freshman
tent radio giant rubber ducky
box of clothes hatchet matches
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COLLEGE NIGHT
NOV. 2nd 6-8:00 PM MAIN HALL
Over 60 college reps will be here. Open to all students and parents.
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Antler Sports By Ashley Garces and Sadie Hernandez
Max Walther returns the ball in practice. Photo by Kit Davis
Girl’s varsity cross country races at Bandera meet. Photo by Christina Ortega.
Tennis
Cross Country
Tivys’ Tennis team is coached by Coach Johnson and Coach Kniffen. Coach Johnson offered valuable insight into this year’s season. For Johnson the most stressful part of his job is wanting them to be the best they can be. Johnson said, “ I think we will go far this season. I have a lot of independent and strong players.” Johnson believes the best quality his team displays is their great at being a team. Coach Johnson’s love of tennis was passed down from his mother, who was a tennis coach herself. His involvement with tennis from a young age sparked his love for the sport. Johnson believes all of his teams carry the same amount of weight. “ They’re a great team and there’s a moment to shine for all of them.”
Cross Country is a sport most people could not imagine themselves doing because it seems unattainable. It’s the love of running and self-motivation that enables runners to keep on course. Cross Country’s Coach Pope gave his thoughts about this year’s season. The team will face some challenges regarding competion but, “The goal is to continue; to keep the season going.” Pope has been coaching Cross Country for eleven years, “ The kids are good and they are motivated in this sport.” Regarding the competition this year, Pope said, “I am confident in my team and know they will be competitive when the time comes.” Varsity girls Cross Country will advance to regionals, while boys Cross Country and the junior varsity teams season has come to an end. The regional meet will take place on October twenty-third at Texas A&M Corpus Christi.
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Football
Volleyball
Every year the football team makes Tivy proud with their hardwork and dedication. Every coach has a reason why they love coaching a certain sport for Coach Galifaro it is because, “It’s a tough team sport where people of different sizes have a role and can be successful.” For Galifaro the best part of being a coach is, “It’s a great place with great kids.” Galifaro is hopeful the team will make play-offs for the twenty-four season. Every team has its traditions and rituals, for football it is, “we eat, then we have a reflective meeting with the whole team and talk about parts.” For some students, away games are fun, but for the athletes involved in the game it can be a very tiring and stressful experience. Galifaro said, “Coming back late after an away game is the worst.” Overall what makes a good team is the students that make up that team Galifaro said, “It’s a good group of players that keeps getting better.”
Tivys’ Kenyanna Hendrix, a varsity volleyball player, loves to play the sport. Hendrix has been playing volleyball for her whole life, “I love the feeling when you make a great dig or ace the other team on a serve.” Volleyball has been doing a great job this season, “I think we will make it to playoffs.” Every team faces it’s hardships and keeping up with stresses from keeping up with school to perfecting plays, “I would say serve receive because you have all the time to sit and think about making a bad pass.” Looking past the stress of sports, there is also the fun times with the team like pre-game rituals, “We warm up by doing ladders in the small gym and listening to music.” All sports teams have a certain teammate that they feel are an exceptionally good leader, for Hendrix that girl is Kathryn Stieler, “She works very hard at everything she does and is an amazing athlete. She is also very encouraging, when it’s time for other people to go in; she will be the loudest cheerleader on the bench.”
Tivy’s JV takes on the Floresville Tigers. Photo by Alyssa Garza
Julia Becker sets up while Lexie Neutze looks on. Photo by Kit Davis
10.25.17 Show your support and wear orange!