Tuscola High School - Tuscolian Yearbook (Tuscola, IL)

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Julie Kohlbecker presents Mr. Kidwell with his very own Teacher of the Year plaque. In the beginning of May, TCHS students voted on Teacher of the Year. The school had to wait one month until Honor's Day to find out the results of the voting. During the June 3 ceremony it was announced that Mr. Richard Kidwell was the 1987-88 Teacher of the Year. Mr. Kidwell was born in Sullivan and raised in the small, central Illinois community of Bethany. It was there that he graduated from High School. In 1967 he graduated from Eastern Illinois University with a major in Math and minors in Physics and Chemistry. Just recently he received his Masters Degree in Education Administration. Mr. Kidwell has been a resident of Tuscola for twenty-one years, the same amount of time that he has taught at TCHS. He has said that teaching brings him the most enjoyable rewards. He has announced for the Warriors Boy's Basketball Teams for approximately fifteen years, and he hopes to become an administrator at the High School level one day. Mr. Kidwell is a self-made man. He has owned and operated his own painting business for eighteen years. He also owns several properties in the Tuscola area. His wife Donna, to whom he has been married for the past seven years, is the owner of Wood, Tin and Lace. Mr. Kidwell was quoted as saying, “I have an excellent family. He is the proud father of three children. He has a twenty-one year old daughter Kim, a thirteen year old daughter Ellen, and a four year old son Nicholas. When asked how he comes up with those infamous jokes of his, Mr. Kidwell replied, “I think most of them up on the spur of the moment.” He said that he is always on the lookout for puns, and that he enjoys one liners and material from M A S H. In response to being named the 1987-88 Teacher of the Year, he said, I loved it. It was an honor. I am very much delighted. Mr. Kidwell commented that the students are lucky to have so many fine teachers at TCHS. It is obvious that the students feel that Mr. Kidwell is one of those fine teachers; the award went to a well deserving educator. 13

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A Day in the Life of an Underclassman is challenging to be sure. Often times, just coping with life's everyday struggles is enough to stress out the average Underclassman. It seems chat each individual class has a set of problems which is unique to itself. Freshman are the first ones in the classroom in the morning and are the last ones to leave it in the afternoon. (Dare we say that they need help?) Being the new kid on the block is a tough job, but someone has got to do it. Surviving semester exams and Freshman initiation are really their only long term goals. The Sophomores, better known as Sophomorons, are stuck between a rock and a hard place. As they look at the Freshmen milling in the halls, they often wonder if they ever acted so immature. (Surprise! You did!) But the most important thing in the life of a Sophomore is spending that one hour, twice a week with Mr. Burress. Once they get their driver's licenses, the Juniors are home free. They have high school all figured out. (Or so they think.) Though the ACT and planning Prom will pose minor'' problems in their lives, they are fairly well qualified to become Seniors. 15