How did Tremper acquire its nickname?

“At least in my family lore, my brother Richard had something to do with naming Tremper the Trojans,” Mike Sigman said during a telephone interview on Monday.

The Plano, Texas, resident said that his younger brother moved from California to Kenosha and attended Tremper when it first opened in 1964.

“He was at Bradford when they held a contest to figure out what they were going to call the new school,” Mike Sigman said. “Having lived in southern California, of course he remembered the USC Trojans. It made sense. The USC Trojans, as they are now, were a great team even to a 13-, 14-year-old boy like he was when he left there.”

Richard, one of Mike Sigman’s seven siblings, currently lives in North Carolina.

“A dozen other people might claim it, but to this day he’ll say, ‘I helped name ’em. I put that name in there. That’s what won the contest.’ ”

— Andrew Horschak