People read the news updates from The Tom Tom every day: on the Internet, on Twitter, on Instagram, even right now as you flip through the pages of this publication. But what exactly is a Tom Tom?

By definition, it is a Native American drum, for the purpose of this question, is the real meaning behind The Tom Tom and the long history of the publication at Antioch Community High School.

“Back in 1958, a girl named Ann McMillen won a ‘Name The Newspaper’ contest and named it the Tom Tom because we were the Sequoits,” said former Tom Tom adviser Michael Gordy.

According to Gordy, in the 1980’s there was another contest held as an attempt to change the potentially politically incorrect name, but low and behold, the name “Tom Tom” won once again.

As for the history of the Tom Tom, Gordy believes the newspaper has evolved significantly in the past 60 years from a two page mimeograph full of gossip to its current state as a professional publication that incorporates all aspects of a real newspaper both in print and online.