Atlanta High School - Atalanta Yearbook (Atlanta, IL)

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THE OFFICE The office is an expression heard frequently around a school. Time was when it was regarded as the holy of holies — that place wherein no student trod unless to be tried, judged, and executed. Today our office is used for a long list of necessary activities. Counceling, general administration, fiscal and academic records, and planning conferences round out the most important functions. The secretarial work ranges from recording every student cafeteria account, to typing forms and teaching materials, through mimeographing to ditto work. VIRGINIA KINDRED Secretary MR. HARWOOD Principal

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PICTURED ABOVE ARE OUR COOKS. They are left to right: Lita Mason, Vivian Zimmerman, Daisy Hor-rom, and Effie Kindred. C A F E T E R I A The cafeteria and kitchen of Atlanta High was built and first used in 1949. Of the original equipment, only two ice boxes are left which goes to show that our kitchen is one of the most modern and efficient in Logan County. Some improvements made this year are the redoing of the kitchen walls in tile and the painting of our school emblem, the winged A”, on the north wall of the cafeteria. At the present the cafeteria serves, on the average, 350 students a day which is an increase of 100 per day since two years ago. The cafeteria employs four full time cooks and eight part time student helpers. All-in-one these records prove that our cafeteria is one of the finest in the area.

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Pictured above are the bus drivers. They are left to right: Dick Howser, Harley Warrick, Roy Thompson, and Zeke Swearingen. The Seniors would like to thank each one of the bus drivers for being so helpful to us. Pictured below is a picture of the construction of the new Grade School building. Construction on thebuilding began June 1, 1955, and the building will be ready prior to September 1, 1956. The building is made up of six class rooms and an all-purpose room. It will be heated by a new heating plant in the old building. The bond issue is $180,000. The architect is Atkins and Barrow and the general contractor is Charles Routson. The building is fired tile with face brick. The halls have terrazo floors. The classrooms will be plastered with acoustical plaster and have asbestos tile floors. The rooms will be lighted by instant fluorescent lighting.