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

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THE GRADUATES MAT!DE BLACKWELL “In ripples and gurgles, it gusheth forth, Thut musical giggle ©fliers.” •-Maude Blackwell MAUD BLACKWELL From -earliest infancy Maud was always of an Inquiring turn of mind and took a deep interest in everything. In the picture she has evidently been much excited on ! e-ing told that a little bird will come out of that big black box and is awaiting its coming with much eagerness. JOHN LIVENGOOD “Wisdom shall die with you.” -“John Hvengood JOHN IJVKVdi OD, Hen we have a baby. It Is composed o 11 bald head and a pair of lung , on -of the lungs takes a re-t while the other runs the simp. One of them is always on deck all the linn'. The b:;! 1-n bigger man than his mother. He ii .es to walk around with h father at night. The father do s most of • l.e walking and all oi the swearing, l ittle girls,you will never know whu it U to be :» fat her. PHOTOS BY TERRY

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THE GRADUATES BERNICE BARBER. “One of those manly men whom Providence hath sent to make the world better. 1 —Bernice Barber. BERNICE BARBER. Bernice was a very small baby indeed, and hasn't grown very much since, nor has he changed Ills babyish ways. He was a very remarkable child as you all know. At the age of H years he was att.cived by a mad rooster, but he was not afraid for he pulled up a nearby tree and gave the rooster a sound thrashing. A' the age of 4 days he began to talk very intelligently and is talking yet. He will talk for uson commencement night, for he has become our “honored class president. ’ “Give me a place to stand and I will move the world.’ —Fred B. Romine. PIT TOS BY TERRY This, the llrst portrait of Fred B. Romine, Was taken u few months after his birth 111 IX9 . It shows tin unmistakable featuresof a very congenial and Industrious youth. There Is something in his pleasant face which seems to say that some time or other he will be a notorious runner. When this picture was taken his proud mother thought that he was going to be a strong and robust man when he grew up. But for some cause, which Is beyond our means of knowing, he got a set-back in his early youth and he lias never gro.vn to be u joung giant as his mother had anticipated.

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T ii K O H A D V A r K B (rKN’KVA GROSS. “A pearl of great price, —Geneva Gross, M KIK Hum N'soN “O your sweet eyes, your low replies! A great enchantress you may Ik . — Marie Robinson PHOTOS BY TERRY GENEVA GROSS Geneva when small posscs.-ed many talents such as making mud pies and fingering on the piano. She was always exceptionally gifted In the line of music. While she was yet too young to read she learned her music by note. After she became a little older she became very fond of the bible. It Is said that when she was three years old she had read It through twice and had memorized many passages In it. MARIE ROBINSON Marie was born In u»e year IS o Alter being fed on cow’s milk It was soon discovered that she had a remarkable talent for “music (?) especially vocal, but her parents fearing that she might injure her lungs by such strenuous efforts decided they would buy her a tin horn on wnich sue might expend her superfluous energy. She soon took a great liking to this and spent much time in blowing, much to the dismay of her fond parents. After a while she gave up part of her time for play and began study lug. She went through the grades, then entered high school as a Freshie and by everlastingly sticking to it she has reached that last and superior step, her graduation.