Tama High School - Iuka Yearbook (Tama, IA)

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UEDIEATIUN It 1S wtth feelrng much deeper than the students of Tama H1gh School can express that thls IUKA of 1946 has been ded1cated to hm McK1nney who dted late thts Wlnter whlle servlng as janltor 1n our school hm an early settler of th1s communlty not only contrtbuted h1S SGIVICGS to the school but to the communtty as a Whole He held many pubhc ofhces such as counc1lman and mayor of the c1ty The communxty looked to htm for ass1stance tn many other ways and no matter what h1s task was he saw lt through He fought Wllh determ1nat1on for what he be It was a comparatrvely easy task to dec1de to Whom the IUKA should be ded1cated but 1t IS a d1ff1cult undertaklng to say anythmg that w1ll do Justlce to thts loyal frzend hm has been m1ssed from the halls of Tama l-hgh by all the students Always w1ll mg to g1Ve h1s t1me and SSIVICSS to the student that was 1n need of help he eas1ly ga1ned the conftdence and respect of everyone hm McK1nney w1ll be long remembered 1n Tama I-hgh School and tn the c1ty of Tama as a man who asked 11ttle for hlmself and trred to serve others tn every way poss1ble lieved to be right.

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What does Iuka mean? Where d1d rt come from? Perhaps we have never a ked ourselves or others these questlons but now that we are cons1der ng our background our currosrty IS aroused Much research shows that the name has had a colorful h1story Tama after the ground was plotted was frrst named Iuka 1n honor of the old1ers of Tama County who partrcrpated ID the battle of Iuka 1n northeastern M1SS1SS1pp1 rn September 1862 durrng the C1v1l War This brref but bloody battle was fought as a part of the North s struggle for control of the Tennessee regron under the leadershrp of General Rosencrans Several Iowa reg1ments part crpated rn the conflrct w1th the Tenth Infantry whose number mcluded more than 160 Tama County men recervlng credtt for great bravery Accord mg to the Federal statement between 1000 and 1500 men were krlled and wounded out of a force of not more than 6000 men actually engaged m the battle wh1ch ended 1n a vrctory for the North Or1g1n of the word Iuka has been traced back to the Chrckasaw Indrans one of the most C1V1l1Zed and frrendly trrbes l1v1ng 1n the southern part of the country Iuka was an Indran Chlef of th1s tr1be who lrved near the Tennessee Hrver Hrs burlal place was po1nted out by the Indlans to the early settlers as berng on the town square under what 1S now the Iuka Bank 1n Iuka Mrss The c1t1zens of Tama were evrdently well satrsfred w1th the name Iuka but the postoffrce department thought dxfferently probably due to the confuston wrth the town 1n MISSISSIPPI Therefore 1n 1866 the name was changed to Tama C1ty wh1ch was later abbrevrated to Tama The word was not forgotten 1n th1s communrty however for a theater bore that t1tle many years When pubhcatron of a hrgh school annual was begun Iuka was adopted as IIS of f1c1al name SIIRAPBUUK Our Present Hlgh School Built m 1939 +v

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