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

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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.

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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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 Philomathean Literary Society. Front Row (from left to right)—Flo Shonkwiler, Minnie Scheffer, Blanche Rodgers, Maud Weatherholt, Annie Laurie Suffern, Mabel Smothers, Roma Call. Back Row—Gertrude Long, Herschel Baker, William Offenstein. Joe Wyeth, Floyd Wildman t Joe Moore, John Biggs.