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

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THE POST SENIOR CLASS HISTORY It was a rainy morning in September, 15)18, when forty-three Freshmen entered the Atwood Township High School. Ye must have wandered rather aimlessly through the corridors until some kind upperclassman directed us to the assembly room. Our first year was one of hard study. We worked diligently to attain the position of a Senior, which seemed to us a long way in the future. But now those four short years have flown, and we are ready to leave our place of learning, where we have spent so many pleasant hours. As Sophomores of 11)19-20, we were only thirty-one in number. We had gone through one year of High School and we thought we knew everything there was to he learned, but we soon found out that Geometry and Caesar were to he mastered yet. We soon got down to work and showed the Freshmen our wisdom at the annual Freshmen-Sophomore reception. The next year found us classifying ourselves as Juniors. To our •lass we added three new members Earl Dick, Vera Johnson and Martha I'owell. Several had left the year before, so these three made a total of twenty-nine. The Junior-Senior banquet showed that we were not satisfied with well-enough, but wanted to do better. This is our last year. We are ready to leave these rooms which we love so well, and most of us are wishing we were Freshmen again. This year our class has greatly increased in number. September, 1921, found thirty-two pupils calling themselves Seniors. Marie Horton, Gladys Harder, Charles Taylor and George Romine came from Garrett ; Grace Broyles from Hammond and Virgil Shonkwiler from Bement. We now have thirty Seniors left. Martha Rowell has gone to Villa Grove High School and Daisy Dobbs has become Mrs. Edward Bridge and is living in Decatur. Every one felt sorry for poor Willie when Martha left because lie looked so sad and lonely. Four of us, Grace Bushell, Wallace Wiley, Edward Parsons and I Hilda Greve started to school together. We went our first three years in the old school building. Our fourth year was in the temporary building, which was more commonly known as the “sheep-shed . Then for the remaining four years we went to the new grade building. The boys of this class have done exceedingly well in athletics. In our Freshmen year, Hugh, Claude and Richard were on the basketball team that won the District Tournament at Decatur. We also had representatives in football and track. Through the Sophomore and Junior years we had other athletes added to the list. As Seniors, we find Ware as captain of the All-Star State Basketball team and Harshbarger and Manaugh are members of the second team.

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Senior Class Harold Wayne Stevens. (Tommy.) Football-20; Basketball-21-22; Track-20-21-22;‘Platoniao Literary Society; French Play-21-22; Joke Editor of Post—22. Maurice Grace Broyles. (Shortie.) Glee Club-22; Orchestra-22; Operetta-22; Latin Play—22; Platonian Literary Society-22; Hammond High School-19-20-21; Class Play-22. Virgil Guss Shonkwiler. (Shonk.) Bement H. S.—19-20-21; Platonian Literary Society-22. Grace Adela Bushell. (Gracious..) Wry Ionian Literary Society; Glee Club—19-20-21-22; Public Speaking Play-19; Operetta—21-22; Senior Class Editor—22; Class Play-22; Camp Fire-19-20-21-22 Leslie Perkins Harshbarger. (LessJ Platonian Literary Society: President of Platonian Literary Society-22; Public Speaking Play-19; Class Play--22; Orchestra—19-20-21-22; Latin Play-20-22; Operetta-21.

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THE POST Other school activities have also appealed to our class. Orchestra, Glee Clubs and Oratorical have good representatives. We have always had a good class spirit, and we hope to set a good example for those following us. —Grace Bushel], '22. SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY Heard and Seen in 1932 Mr. Virgil Slionkwiler, organizer of the Sleep-Moore Trust, is in Chicago again. He has been making a tour of Europe. —Chicago Tribune. Mr. William Braithwaite, star comedian of the Select Moving Picture Company, and his pretty wife, Martha Powell, of the Paramount Company, Wt the old United States last week for a tour of tin Orient. —Hollywood N , ws. Mr. Leslie Ilarshbarger, the accomplished violinist, will appear at the Metropolitan tonight. —New York Evening Post. Professor Harold An Id, :' Harvard University, has left for Egypt where lie will be engaged in scientific research work. —New York Morning Telepraph. Mrs. Everett Wood, formerly Ouenelle Dukeman, has returned from a visit with home folks in Atwood. —Arthur Graphic. Congressman Neil Reedy recently delivered a famous speech in the House, entitled. “Nonsense in School . This was probably taken from his own experience. —New York Times. .Miss Opal Monroe recently accepted a position as superintendent of nurses, here. —Chicago Herald and Examiner. Mrs. Leaman Wildman, formerly Jessie Ilenrickson, has return'd from a shopping trip in Chicago. —Atwood Herald. .Miss Helen Quick returned from Reno. Nevada, where she had her fourth marriage annulled. She has resumed her maiden name. —Atwood Observer. Miss Grace Broyles, private stenographer for the Standard Oil Co., has announced her engagement to Mr. Lewis Moberly of Hammond, Illinois. —New York Times. Miss Mina Peters has accepted a position as matron of the Orphans' Home at F ieklin, Illinois. —Tuscola Review. Laverne Manaugh has been employed as operator of the largest radio station in the world, which is in New York. His wife, Mary Hofsas, is serving as his bookkeeper. —N. Y. American. Mr. Edward Parsons, the daring sea diver, is taking more risks with the briny deep. He is again diving for pearls to complete a rare necklace for his wife, Beulah. —New York Observer.