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

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Freshman Class Clauste Anderson, Harold Auld, Joseph Baker, William Braithwaite, Lillian Bowman, Grace Bushell, Gladys Cameron Maurice Doty, Daisy Dobbs, Guenelle Dukeman. Ralph Erhardt, Cecil Edmondson, Carl Garrett. Hulda Greve Charles Hay, Leo Harshbarger, Hugh Harshbarger, Leslie Harshbarger, Elizabeth Harshbarger, Vera Johnson Keith Kimmel, Laverne Manaugh, Carl Merritt, Opal Monroe, George O'Laughlin, Glenn Ott, Edward Parsons, Helen Quick, Neil Reedy, Richard Riggs. Arnold Short. Everett Stallsworth, Harold Stevens, Inez Utterback, Claude Ware, Wallace Wiley, Gerald Wilkerson, Ruth Hendrickson, Stella McConnell

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THE POST- cookies, was the culprit, Jimmy. A moment she stood clinging to the door speechless with rage. A moment she stood thus and then the storm broke. “Oh you little rascal! I’ll teach you to track my clean floor.” She snatched the broom and rushed madly at Jimmy. He hurried out of the pantry, double quicked it to the door, and then shot out into the yard. Biddy followed him but as he was the swifter runner, he was soon at a safe distance. She realized that she could never catch him so she threw the broom at him, but just as the broom left her hand her foot slipped on the wet walk, she lost her balance, and down she went in a puddle of water. Jimmy dodged the flying broom and turned in time to see her fall. She rose quickly and hurried into the house while Jimmy, convulsed with laughter, called after her, “goody, goody.” Biddy’s dress was covered with mud and muddy water ran from its folds. Her face was dirty and she held her arms so that they looked as if they were artificial. Now when Biddy has company and tries to reprimand Jimmy, he sings: “Biddy, Biddy took a run. She took her broom along and thought she’d have some fun—” But he never gets to finish for Biddy won’t let him.

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THE POST- FRESHMAN NOTES One rainy morning in September, forty-three Freshmen entered the door of the Township High School. Some came from the Baker school, some from Easton and Harshbarger and still others from Pierson. Of course most of us graduated from the grade schools. We wandered rather aimlessly through the corridors until some kind person showed us the way to the assembly. In the first few days we might be found any where in the building gazing and appearing awestruck by the magnificence of our surroundings. But after we finally located our different class rooms we settled down to study diligently. The prospect looked rosy indeed, but of course all realized there were many difficulties ahead. At the initiation of the “Freshies we showed our class spirit in the way we took the jokes, and had almost as much fun as the ones who were watching. What if George O'Laughlin did have to receive private instruction before he could whistle like a mocking bird or what difference did it make to the “Freshies if the noises they accredited to the giraffe were not received with enthusiasm by the audience? The initiation was an occasion long to be remembered. Claud Ware, Richard Riggs and Hugh Harshbarger played on the second basket ball team and helped win the tournament at Decatur. Several of the boys entered the triangular track meet at Tuscola. Maurice Doty. Carl Merritt and Hugh Harshbarger carried off some of the honors. Bonnie Roberts represented the school in humorous reading, and Lilian Bowman in modern poetry, in the oratorical contest at Charleston, May 10. Freshman may be called “green but if there were none, where would the Sophmores, Juniors and Seniors come from?