November 22, 1963.  A day I will never forget.  The map of Horace Mann that you included in Friday’s post brought that day back in focus.  I remember entering the Boys’ Gym to shower just before my lunch period, when we all heard the loud speakers with the sound of a radio announcer.  We quickly heard that President Kennedy had been shot and taken to a hospital in Dallas.  I then remembered walking down a hall to the lunch quad for the next period.  It must have been the 400 building and those of us were telling the 9th graders that we passed that Kennedy had been shot, as they hadn’t heard since they were leaving their lunch period. Hardly anyone talked much at lunch and we didn’t participate playing tether ball, etc.  My next period after lunch was English.  I guess in the 600 building.  Midway through that period, someone came into your class and handed a note to our teacher.  He started to cry and announced that President Kennedy had passed away, that school was immediately dismissed and there would be no school until the president was buried. No one was happy we were leaving early that day — Frank Apgar ’68 (’65 at Horace Mann)