Tippecanoe Valley alumni enjoy a meal together at the TVHS 40th Anniversary celebration.

Tippecanoe Valley High School celebrated it’s 40th anniversary on Saturday, June 20.

Alumni from TVHS, along with some from Akron High School, Mentone High School, Beaver Dam High School, Burket High School, and Talma High School gathered for food and a few activities. Th event was presented by the Valley Hometown Advisory Board.

Organizers brought in a bounce house, cornhole boards and broke out some basketballs for the event.

“The Valley Hometown Advisory Board is a 17 member group representative of Tippecanoe Valley High School graduates, current students and staff,” wrote Tippecanoe Valley School Corporation Superintendent Brett Boggs in a recent press release. “The Advisory Board administers the Valley Hometown Fund with the following purpose: The mission of the Valley Hometown Fund is to connect TVSC Alumni with their schools and hometowns in support of education and community development.”

“:The Valley Hometown Fund is an effort to raise awareness and funds for community and educational needs in the Tippecanoe Valley School Corporation, while recruiting alumni to re-engage in their hometowns,” Boggs continued. “It is not a separate non-profit corporation with its own overhead expenses; the Northern Indiana Community Foundation has graciously offered to serve as its fiscal agent so that all contributions to this effort are tax-deductible and go entirely to support projects in the community.”