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Farr Calls Attention to Substance Abuse

By Megan Butt • Dec 7, 2017

Principal J.C. Farr sent an email to Tam parents and students on October 19, requesting support for better drug and alcohol prevention in the community. He cited the 20 drug and alcohol-related suspensions...

Push For No HW Weekends

By Adam Tolson and Madeline Asch and Maddie Asch • Nov 15, 2017

Senior and leadership member T.K. Dahlke is working on a project to designate certain days or weekends on which teachers are not allowed to assign homework. Dahlke first had the idea for this policy towards...

Tam Holds Unity Rally in Response to Hate Crime

By Kennedy Cook • Aug 7, 2017

In response to the recent act of vandalism on Tam’s campus targeting Principal JC Farr, an estimated 60 members of the Tam community, including both staff and students, gathered in protest at the Tam...

Graffiti Targets Tam Principal

By Megan Butt • Jul 20, 2017

An act of vandalism targeting Principal JC Farr with the use of profanity and racial epithets occurred at Tam High on the night of July 18. The graffiti was found on an exterior wall of Hoetger Hall,...

Tam Wins Golden Ribbon Award

By Maddie Asch • Jun 4, 2017

Tamalpais High school was awarded the Gold Ribbon award by the California Department of Education (CDE) on April 18. “The [award] seeks to recognize outstanding educational programs and practices,”...

Serious Answers to Silly Questions (Bizarre Hypotheticals with Tam & District Staff)

By Samantha Locke and Samantha Locke • Jun 3, 2017

We so often only see administrators and teachers as their positions or subjects, but they are so much more. To bring this to light, The Tam News asked bizarre hypothetical questions to show that our...

Craft and Dorsett Win Golden Bell Awards

By Miles Rubens and Miles Rubens • May 4, 2017

Budget secretary Carol Craft and counselor Evelyn Dorsett received Golden Bell Awards for classified and certificated staff, respectively, this year. The awards, given by the California School Boards Association...

Increase in Swastika Graffiti in Marin

By Elissa Asch • Apr 3, 2017

Over the last few months the Marin community has experienced a sharp increase in anti-Semitic behavior. This behavior includes the drawing of five swastikas found at Tam, Mill Valley Middle School, the...

David Rice Joins Administration Team

By Marina Furbush • Mar 17, 2017

At the beginning of the 2016-2017 school year, Assistant Principal Brian Lynch was replaced by former Drake Assistant Principal David Rice, who previously worked at Tam as a social studies teacher. Lynch...

Breakthrough Day

By Megan Butt • Mar 10, 2017

Students participated in Breakthrough Day on February 27 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Operation Breakthrough, a student-led initiative that took place in 1967 following race riots on campus....

Table Dedicated to Tam Alumni Eleanor and Ralph Tierney

By Marina Furbush • Nov 17, 2016

Tam unveiled a new table in honor of Eleanor Tierney, and her late husband Ralph Tierney, who met at Tam in the 1940s. The ceremony took place on November 16, Eleanor’s 90th birthday. "I'm so impressed...

JC Farr Hired as New Principal

By Elissa Asch & Marina Furbush • Sep 21, 2016

By this point in the school year you’ve probably seen a new face on campus, talking to students and giving assembly presentations. This new addition to the Tam community is principal J.C. Farr. Farr...