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e PROP. S. B. HOOD. 0, , PROP. S. B. HOOD took a course in the old Union Academy of Sparta, and did his first teaching in that institution the last year he attended, in the capacity of an assistant. Later he took a partial course in the University of Michigan, but Was prevented from finishing by the breaking out of the r ebellion. He also took a business course in a private school of book-keeping, inatheniatics, and stenography in Nashville Tenn. - At the opening of the Civil war Mr. Hood was teaching in Eden. Resigning his position he en- listing May 1, 1861 answering to the first call of his country. He l'8IY1El.1I16d:flIl the service a little over three years, being discharged in July 1864. Mr. Hood's interest in the school and in each individual student will be attested by every one who has enjoyed the privilege of membership in any of-his classes.
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Cpedicaiion. . . N all the past record of the Sparta High iq School, no class has attempted to issue an annual. But the class of 702, feeling L that lack of precedent alone deterred the former students from the undertaking, will presume to place before the public this iirst Volume of the NIIBBOR. Q- In making this experiment 'We do not think our abilities superior to those of our predecessors, and the following pages may show our folly in thus Venturing into a field as yet untried by Sparta's students. c 4 But, hoping that om efforts may he crowned With success, We would dedicate this modest vol- ume to Prof. S. B. Hood, the venerable Superin- tendent of the Schools of Sparta. May it be of such a character as will not detract from his honor or the reputation of the Sparta High School. 'QQ'
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SPQAVRTCA HIGH SCHOOL. COLORS-Cerise and Yale Blue. YELL. Ana-be-vo! Ana-bi-vo! Ana-be-vo-bi-vo-bum! Bum get-a-rat-trap bigger-than-n-cat-trap! Bum get-a-cat-trap bigger-than-a-rat-trap! Cannibals! Cannibals! Sis! Boom! Bow! Crack-Sparta High School! Row! Row! Row! Provision was made for the establishment of a high school in Sparta school district by an act of the state legislature approved February sixteenth, 1865. In pursuance of this act on the 31st of March, 1865, Mr. John Watson, Mr. James Gordon, Dr. J. C. Childs, Rev. JohnF. Stewart, Mr. Wm. R. Brown and Hon. John E. Detrich were elected and organized as the first Board of Education with Mr. John F. Stewart, president, Mr. W. P. Murphy, secretary, and Mr. James Gordon, treasurer. Mr. George Simpson of Sparta was the first superintendent of the Sparta Public School and
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