Post by Aiden & Bob on Jul 10, 2007 21:28:07 GMT -5
Take a trip to the library;;
Very few people are interested in Abbington Heights’ history. Even if you aren’t I think you should read this. Maybe you’ll find a few things you’ve never heard of before. Maybe you’ll even find something that linked you to the past.
Abbington Heights was founded shortly after the end of World War Two by a man named James Abbington and his wife Catherine Abbington, a direct blood line to the founder of the town. What started as a one roomed school house in 1946 quickly turned into the prestigious Abbington Heights of 2007. But first it went through a lot of work.
In 1946 Abbington Heights had one teacher (Mr. Abbington) and taught all students in one room, and had a total of 30 students for the whole school. The following year Catherine’s father died leaving all his worldly possessions to her. Seeing as he was a rich merchant of the sea she acquired quite a lot of money. Happily she gave to the school. By 1950 Abbington Heights was transformed into a boarding school for the rich (and a small population of the talented). It had a staff of nearly 30 had a student body rounded to nearly 200. From then on the school has only been expanding. Even after the death of James Abbington in 1953, and his wife shortly after in 1954, did the school continue to grow bigger and better.
The year of 1970 were a big time for the world. January 21 - Five lifeboatmen were killed when the Fraserburgh lifeboat Duchess of Kent capsized during a rescue off Kinnaird's Head, Aberdeenshire. February 1 - A train collision near Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 142. February 10 - 39 tourists are killed by an avalanche at Val d'Isère, France. March 6 - A bomb being constructed by members of the Weathermen and meant to be planted at a military dance in New Jersey, explodes, killing 3 members of the organization. April 8 - A huge gas explosion at a subway construction site in Osaka, Japan kills 79 and injures over 400. April 16 - 74 people, mostly young boys, die as an avalanche buries a tuberculosis sanatorium in the French Alps. May 4 - Kent State shootings: Four students at Kent State University in Ohio are killed and 9 wounded. May 14 - In the second day of violent demonstrations at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi, state law enforcement officers fire into the demonstrators, killing 2 and injuring 12. October 11 - Eleven French soldiers are killed in a shootout with rebels in Chad. October 30 - In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in 6 years causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War. November 14 - A fatal airplane accident in Wayne County, West Virginia, Southern Airlines Flight 932, claims the lives of all 75 onboard, including 37 players and five coaches from the Marshall University football team. December 12 - A landslide in western Colombia leaves 200 dead. Along with these deaths can accomplishments. Much like the Noble Prizes awarded to Physics - Hannes Alfvén, Louis Eugène Félix Néel, Chemistry - Luis Federico Leloir, Medicine - Sir Bernard Katz, Ulf von Euler, Julius Axelrod, Literature - Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, Peace - Norman E. Borlaug, and Economics - Paul Samuelson; also February 11 - Osumi, Japan's first satellite, is launched on a Lamba-4 rocket. March 12 - Teenagers in the United Kingdom vote for the first time, in a by-election in Bridgwater. April 22 - The first Earth Day is celebrated in the U.S. April 24 - China's first satellite (Dong Fang Hong 1) is launched to orbit using a Long March-1 Rocket (CZ-1). These along with many other accomplishments were gotten during the year of 1970. The most important of these I have no mentioned yet. August 27- Three students were murdered at Abbington Heights in Canada; murderer is yet to be found.
That’s right, 37 years ago three students were killed. There three students were Jonathan Keller, Anna McHean, and Fredrick Clouts. Jonathan was an aspiring athlete looking towards a career in any sport of his choice. Anna McHean was president of her senior class, along with Valid Victorian. Fredrick Clouts was nothing of those things, but he had a father, brother and sister that had attended the school before him, and played in the school band. Each of these students was murdered in the same way. The police report says that they were each taken by surprise or from the back and strangled. It is believed that the school flag that was left around each of their necks was used to strangle them. Then they were each placed some where they would be found regularly. Keller was found in the boys’ locker room, the flag knotted around his neck, naked under a running shower with the numbers 333 burned into the flesh of his upper arm. McHean was found in the schools library, flag knotted around her neck, also naked by covered by books all turned to page 333, she was also branded with the numbers on her upper arm. Clouts was found in the band room, and you guessed correctly he was also naked with only the flag knotted around his neck though he was covered in three copies of Beethoven's third movement covering him, once again his upper arm was branded with 333. Many students were questions and all of the staff was also. Once they came to no answers with in the school they turned to the town, no answers came once again. The police searched for answers for a year then gave up. The murder has yet to be solved.
With in the following years the school has changed their flag and a memorial has been built to honor the students killed that year. The school went on, with higher security, and tried to get away from this dark spot on their clean record. The school is now one of the most prestigious in the world and has sired many of the great brains of the world.
Very few people are interested in Abbington Heights’ history. Even if you aren’t I think you should read this. Maybe you’ll find a few things you’ve never heard of before. Maybe you’ll even find something that linked you to the past.
Abbington Heights was founded shortly after the end of World War Two by a man named James Abbington and his wife Catherine Abbington, a direct blood line to the founder of the town. What started as a one roomed school house in 1946 quickly turned into the prestigious Abbington Heights of 2007. But first it went through a lot of work.
In 1946 Abbington Heights had one teacher (Mr. Abbington) and taught all students in one room, and had a total of 30 students for the whole school. The following year Catherine’s father died leaving all his worldly possessions to her. Seeing as he was a rich merchant of the sea she acquired quite a lot of money. Happily she gave to the school. By 1950 Abbington Heights was transformed into a boarding school for the rich (and a small population of the talented). It had a staff of nearly 30 had a student body rounded to nearly 200. From then on the school has only been expanding. Even after the death of James Abbington in 1953, and his wife shortly after in 1954, did the school continue to grow bigger and better.
The year of 1970 were a big time for the world. January 21 - Five lifeboatmen were killed when the Fraserburgh lifeboat Duchess of Kent capsized during a rescue off Kinnaird's Head, Aberdeenshire. February 1 - A train collision near Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 142. February 10 - 39 tourists are killed by an avalanche at Val d'Isère, France. March 6 - A bomb being constructed by members of the Weathermen and meant to be planted at a military dance in New Jersey, explodes, killing 3 members of the organization. April 8 - A huge gas explosion at a subway construction site in Osaka, Japan kills 79 and injures over 400. April 16 - 74 people, mostly young boys, die as an avalanche buries a tuberculosis sanatorium in the French Alps. May 4 - Kent State shootings: Four students at Kent State University in Ohio are killed and 9 wounded. May 14 - In the second day of violent demonstrations at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi, state law enforcement officers fire into the demonstrators, killing 2 and injuring 12. October 11 - Eleven French soldiers are killed in a shootout with rebels in Chad. October 30 - In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in 6 years causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War. November 14 - A fatal airplane accident in Wayne County, West Virginia, Southern Airlines Flight 932, claims the lives of all 75 onboard, including 37 players and five coaches from the Marshall University football team. December 12 - A landslide in western Colombia leaves 200 dead. Along with these deaths can accomplishments. Much like the Noble Prizes awarded to Physics - Hannes Alfvén, Louis Eugène Félix Néel, Chemistry - Luis Federico Leloir, Medicine - Sir Bernard Katz, Ulf von Euler, Julius Axelrod, Literature - Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, Peace - Norman E. Borlaug, and Economics - Paul Samuelson; also February 11 - Osumi, Japan's first satellite, is launched on a Lamba-4 rocket. March 12 - Teenagers in the United Kingdom vote for the first time, in a by-election in Bridgwater. April 22 - The first Earth Day is celebrated in the U.S. April 24 - China's first satellite (Dong Fang Hong 1) is launched to orbit using a Long March-1 Rocket (CZ-1). These along with many other accomplishments were gotten during the year of 1970. The most important of these I have no mentioned yet. August 27- Three students were murdered at Abbington Heights in Canada; murderer is yet to be found.
That’s right, 37 years ago three students were killed. There three students were Jonathan Keller, Anna McHean, and Fredrick Clouts. Jonathan was an aspiring athlete looking towards a career in any sport of his choice. Anna McHean was president of her senior class, along with Valid Victorian. Fredrick Clouts was nothing of those things, but he had a father, brother and sister that had attended the school before him, and played in the school band. Each of these students was murdered in the same way. The police report says that they were each taken by surprise or from the back and strangled. It is believed that the school flag that was left around each of their necks was used to strangle them. Then they were each placed some where they would be found regularly. Keller was found in the boys’ locker room, the flag knotted around his neck, naked under a running shower with the numbers 333 burned into the flesh of his upper arm. McHean was found in the schools library, flag knotted around her neck, also naked by covered by books all turned to page 333, she was also branded with the numbers on her upper arm. Clouts was found in the band room, and you guessed correctly he was also naked with only the flag knotted around his neck though he was covered in three copies of Beethoven's third movement covering him, once again his upper arm was branded with 333. Many students were questions and all of the staff was also. Once they came to no answers with in the school they turned to the town, no answers came once again. The police searched for answers for a year then gave up. The murder has yet to be solved.
With in the following years the school has changed their flag and a memorial has been built to honor the students killed that year. The school went on, with higher security, and tried to get away from this dark spot on their clean record. The school is now one of the most prestigious in the world and has sired many of the great brains of the world.