Drug diaries and a fatal dive into addiction faced in Harlem
A diary by 17 year old Eileen Sullivan reveals a suicide after a drug binge, while a New York drug hustler Jimmy thrives on cocaine profits. A grim extremist poem found beside a heroin addict's car death echoes the toll of narcotics, with a note blaming a former dealer.
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Richard Woodley
Jimmy
Eileen Sullivan
New York
Reefer
Congressional Record
Heroin
House of the Damned
Bloomington High to adopt 60 minute period system
Bloomington High plans a 60 minute period schedule starting next semester to handle enrollment over 1400 students. Two hour classes become one hour, laboratory work excluded for now, with a monitor system to be organized soon.
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Bloomington High
W. A. Goodier
Illinois
SHS
Boomington High School
Bloomington
Poem by Blatz and School Memories From 1969
A student poem recounts a May Fourth 1969 shooting on a hill as National Guardsmen monitored rioters. The narrator recalls pain and a vision of a second life, while the piece also notes biographies of staff and students at Rock Falls High, including Bowers and Miss Echternach, with anecdotes about educators and activities.
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Ed Blatz
Rock Falls High
National Guardsmen
Bowers
Whittenburg Wit
Miss Brough
Cuba
Eades
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Echternach
May Queen
Cornell College
Iowa
Miss Hunt
Red Cross
France
Marsh
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Eileen
Blatz
China
Scheid
Colege
Whaley
W. 2Nd St. Rock Falls, Ill
Sandy
Student Express
Blackhawk
Harlans
First Ave
Sterling
Greener’s
Earl
Dean Dahlgren
Haskell
All
Aichineman
St. Sterling, Hil
W. Fourth Sterting
Hil
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