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

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SENIOR GLASS HISTORY The first day of school ninteen hundred and nine, four Freshmen entered High School and called themselves “The Big Four,” whether anyone else thought of them as that or not we will not venture to say. The class was composed of Esther Gross, Ada Terril, Paul Fisher and Maud Weatherholt. The first three attended school here all of their lives and the last one joined the ranks in the fourth grade. These members however were the only survivors of perhaps two dozen who were in the same class in the grades. The first of October a strange gentleman entered High School and when we ventured to ask who the person was, we found that it was the Honorable Mr. Herschel Baker. He had finished the eighth grade at the Landis school and had come here to take the four years’ course. The next year Annie Laurie Suflfern came from Pierson after having completed the ninth year’s course at that place. She had to miss much school on account of sickness, but in spite of this she “made good.” The next two years we had bad luck, for at the beginning of the nineteen hundred and eleven school year, Esther Gross did not appear. We certainly felt lonesome for she was the life of our class. If you remember, she was the one who told Miss Hale that a noun was “a word that asserts. At the beginning of “our Senior year. Ada Terril started to school but came only a short time for she soon moved to Oregon. The second day, Mary Colyer came from Garrett to attend school. She was graduated from a three years’ course at that place and came here to take the rest of the High School course. It is hard to tell where Helen Davis “blew in, but anyway she hasn’t considered herself in our class until this year. She started to school here in the seventh grade but completed the four years’ course in three years. There were four of us in the first place, but after adding and subtracting, we now have a class of six, two of which were members when we were Freshmen. Maud Weatherholt, ’13.

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MARY COLYER Garrett High School ’12. Declamation ’13, Class Play ’13, Sec. and Treas. of Class ’13.

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GLASS PROPHECY About three o’clock one afternoon before school was out I was sitting at my desk back in the southeast corner of the well known assembly room, when I noticed outside it was becoming dark. In a few minutes 1 heard the distant roll of thunder then the lightning flash. The windows were up and a good fresh breeze was blowing thru them. I was thinking deeply when “ker thump a book dropped oft of my desk on the floor. I reached down to get it and as I did so I — did what, you ask—gave my third finger on the right hand an awful rub and on that very finger was our class ring. With startling suddenness the ugliest little mortal you ever saw appeared. One of those well known genii - which we hear so much about and never see. Up he jumped on my finger and asked in a hollow voice, ‘What do you want with me? I’m here.” Well! I was scared and dumfounded too, but suddenly my senses returned to me end I whispered, “Will you tell me anything I want to know? “Certainly I will, miss. Just then the thought flashed across my mind, “Ask what is to bs the future of your fellow students who are to graduate with you.” This was the very best tho’t I could have had, so my friend the genius was asked immediately. “My Lady, I’ll begin with the Valedictorian and you need not be mad because you are not that person. Laughing I told him I was not at all jealous. “Alright Miss, I’m ready to talk if you are ready to listen, my visits are limited so I can stay only a certain length of time. Helen Davis, the girl of whom I’m going to speak will go to Northwestern next year, take Liberal Arts and Music, and as usual will be at the head of her class and she will graduate with honors. Soon you will be readiug in the large newspapers of her success as a language teacher in the famous Vassar School for girls. Now then you say you want to hear a-bout Herschel Baker and Paul Fisher. Those two young men will of course finish their college career and in so doing Paul will become interested in pharmacy and Herschel in medicines. Just before they receive their sheep skins, the two young men, who are now ready to fight the battles of life will decide to become partners, and now if you will walk down Madison Street in Chicago, you will see the sign in a large window, Dr. Baker and Dr. Fisher. “Next I will tell you about Maud Weath-erholt and Mary Colyer two more of your good students. Maud will go to Millikin, take Domestic Science and become very much interested in that subject. In i915 you will find her in San Francisco at the World’s Fair demonstrating the new and practical applications of Domestic Science. She has become by this time one of the best Domestic Science lecturers in the great West. And Mary Colyer will-------” Wait a minute Mr. Genius what else a-bout Maud?’,, That little drawn up drawf of a genius just looked at me and blinked his eyes; then he gave his skinny head a twist and said he wouldn’t tell me any more a-bout her - Little Wretch! Guess “I’ll talk a-bout Mary now if you will let me, said my strange friend.