Atwood Hammond High School - Post Yearbook (Atwood, IL)

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RY IALUTATORY TO THE POST Two years ago our High School woke up and published its first magazine, “rriie High School Post.” It contained a review of the school year. It had athletic notes, alumini notes, editorials, and short sketches. For the first issue, this edition was a credit to any school of our size. In a financial way, the Post” was a few cents to the good. In ’07, the magazine fever again broke out, and the high school edited another Post.” This number was a little larger, and more complete than the year before. The experience gained by the previous year seemed to have made it so. The ’07 issue contained more work of the pupils. Although the merchants and advertisers supported us admirably by increasing our “Ad” space, our two accounts barely balanced. This year we have done our best to make the “High School Post,” a post in reality. Not a post in the sense that it is stationary, and dead-acting, but in the sense that it is the corner-stone, or the main-stay of our school. The ’08 “Post” is the first real magazine that our institution has published. All of the preceding numbers have been large and bunglesome, and the advertising section awkwardly inserted with the reading material. ’These “Posts” were thought by the people to be more of an ornament, than an entertaining, and scientific magazine. This year has brought a radical change. We have Lksi.ie Lewis changed the size, to that of a regular magazine, Of in. by 10 in., and all of the advertising section has been placed either in tlie front or the back. These changes have been a wonderlul help. Patrons now think that they are getting their money’s worth, by catching a true, live magazine, and forget th.it they believe themselves to be helping some charitable institution. Merchants and all men who advertise think that now they have a better chance, and people can more easily read their ads.” By placing the advertisements in these conspici-ous places we have increased this section several pages, even more than the ’07 “Post” increased the “ad section over the 06 number. We have worked on the principal of “work while you work, and play while you play.” By so doing and putting ourselves in the place of the reader, we could readily see that it was a great deal better plan to put the two sections separate. Our '08 “Post” is broader and more complete this year than ever befoie, in that more of the real high school work is placed in this issue. Specimens from nearly every branch in the high school have been inserted in this number, so that by reading, you review the work done during the year. Not intending to say anything harsh against the pre-iousmagazines and their editors, we may refer the “Posts” of the different years to the Positive, Comparative, and Superlative terms in Grammar, the ’06 edition was good, ’07 was better, and ’08 is best of all, and can. never be excelled.