Editing Hunter S. Thompson (section)

===Education===
[[File:Hunter S. Thompson (high school senior portrait).jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.6|alt=Oval-shaped photo portrait of a young man with short hair wearing a suit|Thompson's high-school senior portrait]]
Interested in sports and athletically inclined from a young age, Thompson co-founded the Hawks Athletic Club while attending [[Public schools in Louisville, Kentucky#Elementary Schools|I.N. Bloom Elementary School]],<ref name="HawksClub">{{Cite book |last=William McKeen |url=https://archive.org/details/outlawjournalist00mcke/page/9 |title=Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson |publisher=W.&nbsp;W. Norton & Company |year=2008 |isbn=978-0393061925 |page=[https://archive.org/details/outlawjournalist00mcke/page/9 9] |author-link=William McKeen}}</ref> which led to an invitation to join Louisville's Castlewood Athletic Club<ref name="HawksClub" /> for adolescents that prepared them for high-school sports. Ultimately, he never joined a sports team in high school.<ref name="whitmer" /> He grew up in the same neighborhood as mystery novelist [[Sue Grafton]], who was a few years behind him in school.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://carnegiecenterlex.org/kwhf-2019-sue-grafton/|title=Sue Grafton|website=carnegiecenterlex.org|access-date=September 14, 2024|archive-date=April 19, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240419222810/https://carnegiecenterlex.org/kwhf-2019-sue-grafton/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Thompson attended I.N. Bloom Elementary School,<ref>{{Cite book |last=McKeen |url=https://archive.org/details/outlawjournalist00mcke |title=Outlaw Journalist |publisher=Norton |year=2008 |isbn=9780393061925 |page=[https://archive.org/details/outlawjournalist00mcke/page/5 5] |url-access=registration}}</ref> [[Highland Middle School (Louisville, Kentucky)|Highland Middle School]], and [[Atherton High School (Kentucky)|Atherton High School]], before transferring to [[Louisville Male High School]] in fall 1952.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Wenner |first1=Jann |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8EVYFEDvsiYC |title=Gonzo: The Life Of Hunter S. Thompson |last2=Seymour |first2=Corey |date=September 4, 2008 |publisher=Little, Brown Book Group |isbn=978-0-7481-0849-7 |access-date=October 2, 2020 |archive-date=January 27, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240127090909/https://books.google.com/books?id=8EVYFEDvsiYC |url-status=live }} Chapter 1, section by Lou Ann Iler.</ref> Also in 1952, he was accepted as a member of the Athenaeum [[Literary society|Literary Association]], a school-sponsored literary and social club that dated to 1862. Its members at the time came from Louisville's [[American upper class|upper-class]] families, and included [[Porter Bibb]], who later became the first publisher of ''Rolling Stone'' at Thompson's behest. During this time, Thompson read and admired [[J.&nbsp;P. Donleavy]]'s ''[[The Ginger Man]]''.<ref name="Guardian">{{Cite news |last=Homberger |first=Eric |date=February 22, 2005 |title=Obituary: Hunter S. Thompson: Colourful chronicler of American life whose 'gonzo' journalism contrived to put him always at the centre of the action |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/feb/22/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries |url-status=live |access-date=December 11, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161130181305/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/feb/22/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries |archive-date=November 30, 2016}}</ref>

As an Athenaeum member, Thompson contributed articles to and helped produce the club's [[yearbook]] ''The Spectator'', until the group ejected Thompson in 1955 for criminal activity.<ref name="whitmer" /> Charged as an [[Accessory (legal term)|accessory]] to robbery after being in a car with the perpetrator, Thompson was sentenced to 60 days in Kentucky's [[Jefferson County, Kentucky|Jefferson County]] Jail. He served 31 days and, during his incarceration, was refused permission to take final exams, preventing his graduation.<ref name=Guardian /> He enlisted in the [[United States Air Force]] upon release.<ref name="whitmer" />