Tom Cercel: A Brief Biography

Elbert Frank Cox was born December 5, 1895 in Evansville, Indiana He grew up with his parents, maternal grandmother and two brothers. Elbert F. Cox was born and raised in a college town in a racially mixed neighborhood, but at segregated schools. In fact, his father, a school principal, had graduated from Evansville College and had done graduate work at Indiana University. Raised in a close knit and religious family, Cox learned the importance of education and fostered a talent in mathematics. During his life, he overcame various difficulties which arose because of racism. When young Elbert demonstrated unusual ability in high school mathematics and physics, he was directed toward Indiana University. With all the separation and hardship and strife around him at the time it inspired him to strive for a better education. At high school Elbert showed talents which made his choice of career a difficult one. He was a talented violinist but also showed remarkable talents in mathematics and physics. Cox was awarded a music scholarship which would have enabled him to travel to Europe to study at the Prague Conservatory of Music. His love of mathematics won and he entered Indiana University.

His grandma went to the grocery store as Max was pushing the cart his grandma wanted to make roast with mash potatoes and corn and other groceries makes was carry five bags and gallon of milk his house was close to the store walking distant as the car needs to be fixed something is wrong with the motor why old cars will never work as Max was thinking walking back from the store. Max help his grandma put the groceries away and help with dinner as his grandma had smile on her face Max wanted to learn how to cook something different to do as school was cancelled for a snow day. Three days passed Max was happy to go to the store acquire with money for his pictures. He went to the counter the lady found his pictures Max paid cost was $7.99 max gave her eight dollars with penny back for change. He went outside and open the packet for the pictures all of them were awesome he favorite was the one with his grandma Max went home to show his grandma the pictures she loved them too. The next day the sun was out and Max was wondering snowman would melt? Freezing temps as forecast under 30 degrees the snowman will be here another day Max thought as he went outside to see the snowman with smile on his face. Max wanted to do something fun as he was setting on the steps on the porch watching the cars go by he was bored. He missed Kevin wondering what he will do if he was here. Max was wondering if Kevin

Tom Horn was born in 1860, November 21 and then died November 20, 1903. Tom’s mother was Mary Ann Maricha Horn and his father was Thomas S. Horn. He had many siblings including Charles Horn, William Horn, Nancy Bell (Horn) Adams, Martin Isaac Horn, Hannah May (Horn) Williams, Austin H. Horn, Mary Ambrosian (Horn) Simpson, Ina Horn, Ima Horn, Bertha Alice (Horn) Brown. Tom left his home and school to escape an abusive father at an early age.

The Carolina Day Key Middle School had an overnight in September 2015 at a place called Camp Timberlake for Boys so everyone would get to know each other better. On our last day we went on a canoeing trip in the French Broad River and some of our canoes flipped over! One of them was Lacy, Aubrey and Mr. Flamini’s canoe. Lacy and Aubrey were in the canoe, and then Mr. Flamini tried to get in….. and the whole thing flipped. They haven’t even started! Then, about ¾ the way into the ride, Nick, Mac, and Michael's canoe flipped over as well, and they were in one of the most calm parts of the river. The guide had to canoe all the way back up, against the current, and help them get it back right side up. I was in front of mostly everyone except for

The next morning a young boy woke up startled by his mother shaking him and telling him to get up. She said they were leaving and Ben didn’t know why they were leaving, but he trusted his mother. He got up and followed his parents to where everyone else was standing. Ben wondered why everyone was wanting to leave. He thought about all the fun times he had had there with all of his friends. Running around, playing tag, and swimming

When the war ended, he returned to St. Louis and joined a big band led by George Hudson”( KEEPNEWS). He actually become interested in music due to over hearing his sister’s husband playing the tuba after that something sparked in him and he at the age of ten built his own trumpet attaching a funnel to a garden hose. The Neighbors were so taken with him that later pitched in to buy him a trumpet from a local pawnshop.

Taylor was working on his family’s ranch, he was the hardest worker on that ranch. Well he and one of their hired hands went to unload a grain bin. Some grain was stuck on the corners of the bin so they tried banging the outside of the bin with a hammer. That did not work so Taylor hopped in, while he was in there, the grain had a crust layer on top. That layer broke and Taylor fell in, the grain and dust covered him head to toe. The hired hand hopped in to try to save him, but he couldn’t get him out, so he hopped in a nearby tractor and knocked the bin over. They cut the side of the bin open and got Taylor out.

Brian was a 13 year old boy who’s plane crashed in the woods in Canada. It was fall and no one was around to help him. He was left to try to survive. He built a shelter to live in. He constantly had fires going to keep himself warm. He had some survival stuff such as cooking pots, a hunting knife, forks, spoons, a first aid kit, a cap, fishing line, lures, hooks, sinkers and packets of dry food. Brian learned warning signs such as when it was getting cold. He also got warnings that something wasn’t right. One instance of that was when Brian’s rifle stopped working. The warning he got was when he felt a touch on his cheek. That resulted in him learning how to make bows and arrows. He hunted various animals such as rabbits, deer, and mule. To keep wolves away, Brian marked his territory. Living in the woods gave Brian a lot of work to do. Such as when he had to fix his shelter after a bear came to steal some of his food. He had a skunk living next to him who sprayed the bear away. To get food, Brian had to hunt and kill animals. Winter came and Brian’s cloths were ruined. Brian was forced to hint in the snow. It got so cold that when he spit, the salvia bounced on the ground. He celebrated Thanksgiving with ribs from a mule. In the end, he comes to a crude log shelter. Someone was living there. The man, who was living there, took him in and shared some of his food with Brian. Brian is

At the school Byron gets in trouble all the time. He beats up Larry Dunn for bullying Kenny, He kills a bird by throwing a cookie at it. He is really upset and is crying about that. There parents are frustrated with him. But then one day he comes home with a chemically

On May 8th, 1946, Thomas Lloyd Radford was born. Tom was born to Thomas and Ruth Radford. He was the oldest of 13 kids and stood 6’4”, the shortest of the nine boys. Tom’s parents raised him believing in the value of hard work, honor, and determination. Tom’s mother, Ruth went to college at the age of only 16, a major accomplishment for anyone, but especially women of this time. Tom's father, Thomas went to serve as a captain of the US army where he earned two purple hearts.

That day he decided that he wanted to go trouting in the creek by his friend’s house because there are a lot of trout in Pennsylvania. My Uncle was also a great Troutman and new they would pull in a big hail. “It was a beautiful day out” stated my uncle, and after a couple hours of trouting the boys were tired so, they packed up and started heading home. The boys were about five minutes from

The next morning, Tommy woke up to a new angel food birthday cake. When he went out to burn the trash before school, he forgot something. So his sister Mary Lou went out to burn it for him. When she lit the fire, she got caught on fire too. So her mom rushed her into the car where a fire blanket lied on the floor. She wrapped it around Mary Lou. Then she took off for the hospital. When Tommy found out that Mary Lou would not come home soon, he knew he would have to do the paper route. After a couple of days, he got used to it. But one day at school the teachers told Tommy and Eddie to go buy some chalk from the Little Skinny’s (his real name is sam and they bullied him) dad’s store. When they got to the store, they saw some really cool Yo Yos.

Here I was laying in my bed with a bad attitude, the reason for this is because I got I to a fight with my mom about whether I should got to school or not.

A three-foot little blonde girl named Madison was having a great winter break. During her break in Cedar Lake, Indiana it was chilly but fun. Madison was hanging out with her cousin, Jeffery and his mom Jessica. The first day of her break kindergarten year they decided to go to their grandparent's house which was right next door. Before they started to walk over they had to get on their winter clothes because it started to snow. Madison wore her winter coat but did not put on her winter boots, she decided to put on her pink plastic sparkly heels. Jeffery and Jessie wore their winter coats and winter boots.

There was a young Boy named Steve which had parents named Kelli and Matt. They were a very poor family and almost didn’t have enough money for school let alone food. Steve always got bullied at school all the time because he was very poor. Steve in his free time would try to steal food from carts in the big apple, New York. One day the family got a new better job in Minnesota for more money so Steve and his parents moved over to Minnesota from New York. His parents boss payed for the flight. Once they got all the furniture over to Minnesota the only thing that needed to go there then was the family on the last trip. Steve wanted to move because he got bullied at his old school and he thought this school would give him better opportunities to not be bullied and picked on.