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Lowell High School
Lowell High School
Location
	2051 East Commercial Avenue ; Lowell, Indiana 46356 ; USA
Coordinates	41°17′29″N 87°23′35″W / 41.29139°N 87.39306°W
Information
Type	Public high school
Motto	Motivating Students Today for a Successful Tomorrow.
Established	1892
School district	Tri-Creek School Corporation
Principal	Lori Pavell
Grades	9-12
Number of students	1300
Color(s)	Red, black, white
Mascot	Red Devils
Snapshot	Snapshot
Website	Lowell H.S.

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Lowell Senior High School, or LHS is a four-year public high school located in Lowell, Indiana, United States. Lowell Senior High is located at the corner of Commercial Avenue (Route 2) and Holtz Road. The official mascot of Lowell Senior High School is the Red Devil. Lowell Senior High School is a part of the Tri-Creek School Corporation.

Athletics

Lowell Senior High School offers the following sports:

Men's Football
Men and Women's Soccer
Women's Volleyball
Women's Gymnastics
Men and Women's Basketball
Men's Wrestling
Men's and Women's Golf
Men's Baseball
Women's Softball
Men's and Women's Tennis
Men and Women's Cross Country
Men and Women's Track and Field
Men and Women's Swimming and Diving
Women's Cheerleading

Marching Band

The Lowell High School Marching Red Devils (LMRD) first began competing in ISSMA Marching Band Competitions in 1986 under director Gary Stout, receiving a Bronze at District level. Since then, the band has seen many other directors: Gary Stout (1986-unknown), Chris Harmon (1993-1996), Kevin Schussler (1996-1997), James Scheckler (1997-2000), Tim Kovarik (2000-2002), and Andrew Killion (2002-present). The LMRD performed at their first ISSMA Semi-State competition in 2008, returning in 2010 and 2011. The Lowell Wind Ensemble (Advanced Band) performed in their first ISSMA State Qualification Concert Band competition in 2010, receiving Gold. They returned in 2011 and 2012 to once again earn Gold, as well as the “With Distinction” honor for superior scores. The LHS Band Department has won the ISSMA All Music Award – an award given to music departments that receive Gold in Marching, Jazz Band, and Concert Band competitions, and for sending at least one ensemble to ISSMA State Solo and Ensemble competitions. They have won this award for the past seven years, starting with their 2006-2007 season.

Academic Teams

Academic Spell Bowl was started in 1999 and led by teachers Megan Iussig and Joeseph Gianotti. In 2002 to 2006, it was led by Sherry Peters and Margaret Hurt. From 2007 to 2012 it was led once more by English teacher Joeseph Gianotti. The team is recently led by English teacher Christine Hickman. Academic Spell Bowl is much like a spelling bee, except that there are multiple words in one round for a single person, many more words to memorize and it is written instead of spoken.

Academic Super Bowl was started in 1990 and led by unknown coaches until 1994, when it was shut down. The school restarted the team in 2000 under Joseph Gianotti. Academic Super Bowl consists of learning a single subject (or more than one of the subjects, by choice) after school, much like a secondary class, and competing against other teams on a multiple choice test over each subject. The subjects include Science, History, English, Fine Arts (music, art, dance), Math, and Interdisciplinary (a mix of all of the other subjects), each having their own coaches.

Science:

Sue McQuiston 2000-2004
May Lee 2005-2007
Ashlee Smith 2008-2010
Joseph Gianotti 2011-2012
Ann Fountain 2013-present

History:

Margaret Hurt & Fran Lionardi 2000-2006
Lindsay Hudak & Chris Werling 2007-2009
Chris Werling 2010-present

English:

Megan Iussig 2000-2004
Joseph Gianotti 2005-2012
Maureen Frame present

Fine Arts:

Joseph Gianotti 2000-2002, 2004-2007, 2012
Lori Ryser & Julie Mikulich 2003
Katie Cooper 2008-2011
Christine Hickman present

Math:

Joseph Gianotti 2000-2003
Jason McGee 2004-2005
Bridget Swinford 2006-2012
Ann Fountain present

Interdisciplinary:

Joseph Gianotti 2000-present

Academic Decathlon started in 1990 under director Kirk McQuiston. In 1994, the Decathlon team was under a second director, Joe Bliha, followed by another coach, Joeseph Gianotti, in 2000 who still coaches the team today. Academic Decathlon is much like Academic Super Bowl (see below) except that it is more rigorous and requires the student to learn every one of the categories; the same as Academic Super Bowl, including Speech, Interview, Economics and Essay.

Theater

Lowell High School has been performing plays and musicals from classroom-thought-up skits to famous Broadway productions since as early as 1927. Many of the plays are even re-performed after a certain amount of years, such as Godspell, The Wiz, and Grease. Some years, the theatre department was unable to have a production, but even in those times the Thespian Society, a club within the school, would put on their own productions for audiences.

Productions from 1927 to 2013:

1927 – All of a Sudden Peggy, Once in a Blue Moon
1929 – In Old Louisiana, The Patsy, Kempy
1936 - Campus Daze, the Eyes of Tlaloc, Second Fiddle
1937 – Romantic Young Lady, Polly with a Past
1939 – Mountain Mumps, Huckleberry Finn
1940 – The Late Christopher Bean, This is the Life
1944 – The Cat and the Canary
1946 – Seventeen
1947 - Brother Goose, A Date with Judy
1948 – Those Websters
1949 – Meet Me in St. Louis
1959 – Dr. Hudson’s Secret Journal, I Remember Mama
1960 – Gentleman Prefer Blondes, The Patchwork Quilt
1964 – The Thread that Runs So True
1965 – Oklahoma!, It Happens Every Summer
1966 – Our Town, South Pacific
1967- Hello Young Lovers, Getting to Know You
1968 – Lock, Stock, and Lipstick, Gone with the Wind
1970- Flowers for Algernon
1971- The Mousetrap, Once Upon a Mattress
1972- Carousel, The Mouse that Roared
1975 – The School of Darkness, The Good, the Bad, and the Broccoli, Annie Get Your Gun
1977 – How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
1978- A Hillbilly Christmas Carol
1979- Curious Savage, Mash
1980- The Music Man
1981- The Wiz, Gold in the Hills, Carnival
1982- Give My Regards to Broadway, You Can’t Take It With You, Godspell, George M.
1983- Grease
1984- Glimpses, Pippin
1985- Up the Down Staircase, The History of Homecoming Part I
1986- Ten Little Indians, The Wiz
1987- David and Lisa, Funny Girl
1988- Tintypes
1989- The Odd Couple, The Miracle Worker
1990- Curtain Going Up, Bye-Bye Birdie
1991- The Matchmaker, Godspell
1992- Lavender and Old Lace
1993- Don’t Drink the Water, Guys and Dolls
1994- An Evening of Song, Dance, and Suspense, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Sound of Music
1996- Anything Goes, Godspell
1997- Arsenic and Old Lace, Cinderella
1999- God’s Favorite
2000- Godspell, Flowers for Algernon
2001- See How They Run, One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
2002- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Androcles and the Lion
2003- Fools, The Wizard of Oz
2004- Spoon River Anthology, Oliver
2005- Harvey, An Evening at the Theatre
2006- Don’t Mention My Name
2007- You Can’t Take It With You, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown
2008- Our Town, Little Shop of Horrors
2009- Rumors, Little Women
2010- The Diary of Anne Frank, Once Upon a Mattress
2011- Curious Savage, Thoroughly Modern Millie
2012- Gramercy Ghost, Crazy For You
2013- It’s a Wonderful Life, Grease

Choir

Lowell offers four classes of choir: beginning mixed choir, advanced mixed choir, beginning female choir, and intermediate female choir, as well as an after-school club designated to show (also known as swing) choir. Two of the four choir classes compete at ISSMA competitions in Group 1 at Gold level. A third choir class competes at ISSMA competitions in Group 2 at Gold level. Beginning mixed choir competed for the first time in 2013 at ISSMA competitions in Group 3. The classes compete in the categories of solo and ensemble. The four choir classes join together four times a year to perform public concerts, each class learning a collection of songs at their vocal level that ties in to an overarching theme. Some students from the LHS choir also get selected through competitions to sing the National Anthem at sporting events -- such as at the Railcats Stadium in Chicago, IL.

Notable alumni

Jo Anne Worley — Original Laugh-in Cast Member (1968-1970)

References

Kozma, Danyelle. Personal Interview. 4 Nov. 2013.
Killion, Andrew. Personal Interview. 29 Oct. 2013.
Gianotti, Joseph. Personal Interview. 26 Oct. 2013.
Rickaby, Terri. Personal Interview. 25 Oct. 2012.

External links

Category:Public high schools in Indiana Category:Educational institutions established in 1892 Category:Schools in Lake County, Indiana

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