Atkinson High School - Tiger Yearbook (Atkinson, IL)

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Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. --- Lord Brougham, 1828 We should honor our teachers more than our parents, because while our parents cause us to live, our teachers cause us to live well. — Philoxenus, c.400 B.C. No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher. — Sir William Osier, 1905 A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where hi influence stops. — Henry Brooks Adams, 1919 There is one in our crowd who is moving on and entering a new phase of her life. She was born and raiset here in Atkinson. She attended Atkinson schools and graduated from AHS in 1945. Here, she met anc eventually married her husband Bill. In the fall of 1945, she returned to the one-room country schools when she began her education. Now she was a teacher, covering five different subject areas on eight different gradi levels for a room full of students not much younger than her. From 1945 to 1947 she taught at the Kemmi School, and then from 1947 to 1948 she instructed the students at the Bass School. At that point she left th classroom to raise her family, having two children, Colleen and Kurt. In 1957 she returned to Atkinsoi schools, teaching language arts to middle school students. While she could legally continue to teach with he high school diploma, she felt her students deserved better. By attending classes at night and during th summers, she was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Education in 1965 from Marycrest College ii Davenport. Through the years she continued to teach, counsel, and guide generations of Atkinson students Since 1984, she has served as high school guidance counselor, doing everything from answering the telephon for the secretary, to filling out various forms for college-bound seniors, to listening to the problems of troubled student. Now after 35 years in education, she is going to retire. She will now be able to spend more time with her husband Bill, a retired postal carrier. She can enjoy th company of her two grown children, both of whom are still in the area. And she can share in the joy of helpin raise the next generation, her granddaughter, Audra. For the last 95 pages, this yearbook has been talking about how you can find a friend in every crowd. Ther are those who may douht that. They insist that they never had a real friend the entire time they spent i AHS. Obviously, they never sought out this person. If they had, they would have found that she was alway there. She always listened. She always tried to help. She always cared. There are many more things that the Atkinson Tiger Yearbook could say about this person in tribute to he years of service, but perhaps the simplist is the best; Mrs. Beverly Freddy was an excellent teacher.