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

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ADMINISTRATION The present organization of the high school dis- trict was completed in 1915, consisting of fifty-six sec- tions, which area is a part of three townships and three counties. The entire district covers thirty-five thousand eight hundred and forty acres of Illinois' finest farm land. The construction of the new township high school began immediately after the district was organized. .lust as the new building was being completed, it burned, leaving nothing but the walls standing. The walls of the former building were used as a founda- tion for the new one, which was immed'ately con- structed and ready for use in the fall of 1916. The difficulties, great though they were, were over- come, and the township high school, a magnificent building it seemed, was ready for use. Its first board of education was composed of men who put forth a strenuous effort to gain for the community the best in educational advantages. They were untiring in their efforts, and they deserve the sincere thanks of the present students of the high school for the foresight they have shown. They were the late Mr. W. F. Kim- mel, Mr. G. W. Smothers, Mr. J. A. Kamm, Mr. U. S. Garrett, Mr E. 0. Sm'th, the late Mr. J. B. Fisher, and Mr. J. H. Dorjohn. -14-