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

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Mr. Allen ‘Either one is right. Protection is better, I should say. Question? Alright, Mabel.” Mabel the protection of the Reman people is—” Blanche—“I don’t see that. What is‘is’? Mr. Allen—“Question? Blanche - “Oh, I understand now. Mr. Allen—“Alright, Amabilis.” Mabel is not Helen “Would you say is not? That is plural, isn’t it? Oh I see what she means! Mr. Allen (impatiently)—‘Gj on Mabel. Mabel—“is not absent from you.” When Mr. Allen asked Kenneth to pray in German I, Kennneth’s mind was a blank. He tried to think of the Lord’s Prayer, but couldn’t, so he went back to “Now I lay me down to sleep.” He got through the first two lines alright, and then, “If I should die before I wake—I would —I well oh Him-inel—I should worry!” Mary finished it for him. Elsa (speaking hurriedly to a poor little gray mouse), ‘ ;Get out of here, you crazy thing! Juniors think exams are things teachers use to flunk students with. Aren’t we right? Variety is the spice of life.—A. W. N. Minnie (with book) “Father, are you good at punctuating? Father—“Yes, dear. What is it?” Minnie -“This place. ‘The wind blew a five dollar bill around the corner.” Father “Well I would simply put a period after the whole sentence. Minnie (energetically) “I wouldn’t. I would make a dash —after it.” All great men are dead or dying. Mr. Niedermeyer hasn’t been well lately. “Isn’t 4 and 17 tenths near enough to call it 5, Mr. Niedermeyer, inquired Blanche in advanced Algebra class. Elsa always liked Advanced Algebra so well. It is no wonder. The rest of us would have too, if—well, if—we were as smart as she. Mr. Niedermeyer (to Gladys) “Gladys why were those boys chasing that poor cat across the yard? Gladys—“Oh, Miss Cook said yesterday in the botany class that she wanted us to bring something alive and not dried up things so I guess they are getting it for her. INSEPERABLES Mr. Niedermeyer and his grade book Mr. Allen and his roller skates. Miss Cook and her smile. Gladys and and her frown. Elsa and her blush. Minnie and her booky ways. Blanche and her laugh. Gertrude and her German. Kenneth and Tug. Mabel and her freckles. LIMERICKS Everybody works but the Seniors, And they stand around all day, Talking about their clothes And the things they are going to say The Juniors take in work And so do the Sophomores, Everybody works in High School, But our Sen-iors. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, All high school students went to heavent Heaven broke down, Juniors came down, Just 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Blanche (when reading in Cicero) “That sounded like a period but it wasn’t. It was just a comma.” Joe W’s mother speaking to him in a weary yet patient tone—“Well dearie if you are playing automobile, you just run over to the store and get mother a pound of butter ’ Joe (sorrowfully?)— I’m sorry mother, but I am out of gasoline. Mary says: A bird in the cage Is worth two in the tree. But to hold boys’ affection Is sweet captivity. We are seven.—Junior Class.

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aiiilc 'i We will be glad when we are seniors because then the teachers won’t frown and shake their heads all the time. And then too, everybody talks about those learned seniors. They get receptions, but I suppose by next year the alumni and juniors will both be out of money. A Freshman’s idea of the classes First—Freshmen (Naturally! Second—Juniors Friends Third Seniors (Bosses' Fourth Sophomores (Enemies) When Miss Cook called on Kenneth in English History class and he did not respond at once, Blanche innocently asked Miss Cook if she called on her. Kenneth— Why is it the girls all like sunset and twilight?” Mr. Allen--‘‘Don’t you know? Because they are daughters of Eve.” Gladys (excitedly to Elsa who is lost in study “Oh Elsa, look at that horrid bug on the ceiling. Elsa • absently)— Never mind, Gladys, Step on it and let me alone. I’m very busy with this geometry. Miss Cook is simply ashamed of her botany class, to think they don’t know smilax. We told her we all knew mouse traps, though. Kenneth says, Why, in Queen Elizabeth’s time they killed and executed men daily.” Wonderful isn’t it? Mr. Niedermeyer (to Minnie who was working a problem) What did you do to that equation? What is the process?” Minnie (disgusted)—“What did I do with it? Why just spread it over more space.” Wentworth’s Geometry oft reminds us We can make those lines sublime And by laboring, toiling, working, Better records leave behind. Mr. Allen says, Cicero was continually pulling his friends out of holes with his tongue.” Gertrude (translating German about a man who by playing his violin, charmed bees so they stopped to listen.”,) Gertrude— and the little bees sat on the flowers and smiled.” Oh, a loud noise! Who rapped on my skull?” Kenneth. “I don’t see why I have to take Civics again in High School for I’ve studied about the air and earth before.”— Mabel. Cicero Class Conducted by Mr. Allen: Mabel (translating) Since these things are true,— Mary—“0 dear! Where’s the place? I can’t find the place—oh yes.” Mr. Allen—“Has someone a question? Was some one speaking to me? Mary— Oh nothing now. I just couldn’t find the place. That’s all ” Mr. Allen—“Alright Mabel go on!” Mabel —“Since these things are true, senators, the protection—” Helen Well now do you say protection or aid?

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Alpha Literary Society. Front Row'from left to right)-Helen Davis, Ruth Eldredge, Gladys Quick, Ada Doty, Maurine Stevenson, Anna Dorjahn, Grace Dodson. Back Row Mary Colyer, Paul Fisher, Earl Hines, Joe Cogdal, Beryl Quick, Merton Suffern, Kenneth Wilson, Elsa Heerdt.