Atlanta High School - Atalanta Yearbook (Atlanta, IL)

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Atlanta High School, 1919 Courses of Study—Atlanta High School Latin Preparatory I Scientific Home-Making Course ♦English ♦English ♦English ♦General Science ♦General Science ♦General Science ♦Domestic Art ♦Domestic Art. ♦Domestic Art ♦Manual Training ♦Manual Training Drawing ♦Algebra ♦Algebra ♦Latin I. Drawing Drawing ♦Music (singing) ♦Music (singing) •Music (singing) II. •English ♦English ♦English ♦Latin II. Biology ♦Geometry ♦Algebra ♦Geometry ♦Home Nursing, Hygiene, Biology Manual Training Physiology Mechanical Drawing ♦Domestic Science History (Anc. or Mod.) H istory Drawing Drawing Drawing ♦M usic M usie ♦Music III. ♦English ♦English ♦English ♦Modern History ♦Algebra Advanced ♦Modern History ♦Geometry Plane •Geometry, Solid Chemistry Latin III. ♦Chemistry Advanced Algebra Chemistry History Mechanical Drawing Solid Geometry ♦Music M usic Drawing ♦Music Drawing Drawing IV. ♦English ♦English •English Latin IV. ♦U. S. History U. S. History ♦1). S. History, year •Civics ♦Civics ♦Civics, year Commercial Arithmetic Commercial Arithmetic Commercial Arithmetic Bookkeeping Bookkeeping Bookkeeping ♦Physics ♦Physics ♦Physics Advanced Algebra f Solid Geometry ( 1 year Drawing Drawing ♦Music ♦Music ♦M usic KKQl’IltKl) SI'IUKCTS Two years of algebra and geometry. Four years English. Physics or Chemistry required. • General Science required. Two years history. Modern, U. S., and Civics. One year of manual training or household economics. No credit for less than one year of language. Music (singing) twenty minutes three days per week. Drawing optional. •Required for course outlined. 7

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Atlanta IIicii School, 1919 Athletics The basketball season of the past year (1918-19) was the most successful that the school has ever had. Owing to the Spanish influenza epidemic the boys got a late start and several of the games had to be cancelled. Nevertheless, the squad worked hard and succeeded in winning most of the games played. The team was composed of Captain Taylor and Paul Stroud, four year “A” men. Iceland Dunham, Paul Houghton, and Harold Squier, three year men, Byron James, a two year man, and Lyman James and Edgar Houghton, who played their first year. Four of the five regulars of the 1918 team furnished the background of this year’s squad. Squier and Houghton took their turn at playing the fifth position. Lyman James and Edgar Houghton were always dependable substitutes and got into three or four of the games. Because of the success of the team our games were all very well patronized, and old Murphy Hall fairly shook her sides at the shouts of victory from Atlanta’s loyal rooters. On several of the out-of-town trips the team was accompanied by delegations of Atlanta rooters. Perhaps the most amusing game was the East Peoria game, played here. The final score of this game was 70 toll. After piling up a big score Leland and Paul, the scoring forwards, were pulled out and the midget forwards, Lyman and Squier, were sent in. This did not seem to hinder the scoring in the least, as it continued to rise until the final seventy was reached. Louie was bewildered (?) several times and whaled away at the opponents’ goal. It happened that Mr. James was home at that time and Bud performed for him in great fashion, netting five or six ringers to our score. We felt quite puffed up last year when we succeeded in taking Lexington into camp after they had licked us earlier in the season to a tune of 40 to 18, but we feel even more proud this year. They had just beaten Bloomington badly on the Bloomington floor when we went to Lexington. Every school in the country that was watching the papers expected to see us get a good drubbing. We surprised them, for we took Calhoun’s mighty five on their own floor 28 to 24. They fought Coach Sugg’s quintet to a finish, tried climbing the wall under the goals for shots, made two cushion shots out of the ceiling and wall, resorted to trick plays, an’ everything—even had a loose referee, which gave the odds to them on far heavier players than we had. 9