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

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MEMBERS OF THE SGHOOL BOARD RETIRE. At the recent annual election of the school board for the year 1913, two of the members who have served longest and two whom we have come to know well, retired from the board. It is customary for the seven members of the board to be elected, and the president is then chosen from this number. Mr. Wlison and Mr. Easton, who have served long and faithfully in their offices, were not again on the list as candidates for re-election. Mr. Wilson has filled the office of president for nearly eleven years, the entire length of the time that he served as a member of the board. He and Mr. Easton have proved to be two of the most interested patrons of the PATRON'S On Friday evening. March fourteenth, occurred the annual Patrons’ Day. The teachers and pupils had been busy for several days previous in preparing the work for exhibition in order that the patrons might inspect and understand the work which their children had been doing throughout the year. The patrons were met at the south entrance by a reception committee appointed by the Mothers Club, composed of Mrs. Riggs, chairman; Mrs. Ware and Mrs. Smith. The exhibits of the High S:hool consisted of drawings on the blackboards by members of the botany and physiology classes, and piopositions and constructions by the class of solid geometry. In the laboratory 'Mr. Allen’s den) the blackboards and walls were covered with extracts from Latin and poems written in German script. The note books and English work of the various classes was also on exhibition. After viewing the exhibits the gathered in the assembly room of school, visiting it often and keeping in close touch with teachers, patrons and pupils. Both were formerly more or less closely associated with school and their interests have been aroused to its needs and conditions. During their terms in office, the four years’ course was instituted, and the High School was placed on the fully accredited list of the University of Illinois. We realize that we have lost two valuable and efficient assistants, but we hope we will not lose them as patrons of our school, and that we may continue to hold, at least, a part of their interest. In return for the great good that they have done for us and for our school, we can only give our heartfelt thanks and regards. DAY f , J$Shool where a program was given, as follows: patrons the high Piano Solo II’ Trovature Mary Colyer Maud Weatherholt j M a urine Stevenson ) Effie Stovall Song Summer Roses J Ada Doty Gladys Quick L Flo Shonkwiler Address Vocational Training Dr. Thos. Galloway Dr. Galloway is a professor at the Milli-ikin University of Decatur. His address was interesting as well as educational and was enjoyed by all who heard it. The teachers have worked hard the whole year and the exhibits showed the results of their skillful tactics in managing the progress of their pupils, and although the patrons were highly pleased with the entertainment and the exhibits it would be impossible for them to praise the efforts of the teachers too highly. Herschel Baker ‘13

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S. M. Riggs, President B. T. McClain, Sec’y. H. H. Wildman E. C. Burger J. T. A. Edmonson C. E. Morrison E. R. Parsons

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Arthur W. Niedermeyer, A. B. SUPERINTENDENT Decatur High School ’07, James Millikin University T2, Illinois State Normal University, Summer ’12.