Abramson retires after 33 years of teaching, coaching
Harold Abramson started his teaching career in Washington, IL teaching 7th and 8th grade science for one year. For 32 years he has taught in Dist. 117, with the first 31 at ACHS and one at LCHS.
Abramson taught Biology, Honors Biology, General Science, Ecology, Natural Science, Nucleonics, Psychology, Integrated Biology-Math-English and Driver Education for our district.
Beyond teaching, Harold spent seven years as the athletic director at ACHS.
He had a variety of experience coaching including sophomore/varsity boys' golf and started the girls' golf program. He also coached freshman and sophomore baseball teams, junior varsity and varsity girls' basketball teams, junior varsity and varsity girls' softball teams and took swimmers to conference, sectional and state meets, even though ACHS had no official school swimming teams.
story by Nancy Moore