Lydia Alvey is a staff writer of the Tilghman Bell and is a junior in Highschool. She enjoys reading Encyclopedia's and writing poetry. She makes characters of various backgrounds and apply them to her work. She is interested in Paleontology and enjoy learning about the giant Mammals of the Oligocene and Pleistocene. Her favorite extinct animals are the Paraceratherium, Megacerops, and the Woolly Mammoth.