Unionville High School, The Graphic, 1946, Page 37

Description:	A Senior s Autobiograpny(By Thomas Hardy)I guess I was pretty young when I was born, because I can’t remembera thing about it. It must have been a very happy and joyous day for my parents, though, to see such a brilliant addition to the family. And I must havebeen brilliant, because how else could I have had such a large vocabulary(consisting of da-da and ma-ma) in the short period of three months?There were two brothers older than I in the family, and I was alwaysthe object of their jokes and bullying. I give to them the credit for my greatsinging voice; my lungs had much practice in my younger years.My school career was started at the Hunter School in Bloomington, andmy only happy memory of that institution of learning is that I was permittedto skip the first half of the first grade. We then moved west of Bloomington,and I continued my education at a small, two-room school, with the classicalname of Joint School. There are many happy memories which I connect withthis school--ball games, fights, frogs in the teacher’s desk, and other things.But I was really sorry when I unintentionally knocked a friend’s teeth out witha ball bat. Could I help it if the boy I was aiming at ducked? But the teachercouldn’t see it that way, and as a result I had to take the consequences.When I was in the fourth grade, my parents decided to move to Ellettsville. My fourth grade teacher there was Mr. Floyd Christie, who is now coachat Unionville. One of the incidents which I remember well was the humiliatingexperience of standing on tip-toe with my nose in a small circle which had beendrawn on the blackboard--and just for eating candy in class, too. Kind reader,do you not sympathize with me? The fifth, sixth, and seventh grades all passedin their turn with no special incidents which would bear remembering. In the
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