Oak Park and River Forest High School - Tabula Yearbook (Oak Park, IL)

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i l .gn Wemoriam Mr. Richard Pax+on For rhirly-lhree years room I4l served as a workshop and Mr. Paxion as al-school dad for hundreds ol looys inleresled in worlcing wilh wood. Mr. Pax+on's slow smile, his approving loolc, or his hand on a boy's shoulder in commendaiion of good worlc held more meaning Jrhan any grades in 'rhe book. The wood-working we may forgei loday or Tomorrow, buf we shall never forge? lhe big, gray-haired man in +he green shop coal. Mr. Paxion was an experl in Jrhe designing. conslruclion, and finishing of lurnilure. much of which slands as a +es'rimonial lo him in many homes of Jrhe area. l-le also used his slcill lor humanilarian purposes and designed game boards and crulches Jrhal were widely used in World War ll. Surely Mr. Paxl'on's lifelong slcill in crealive worlc, and his palienl inler- es+ in boys, have become a pari of us and of 'rhe fine lradilions of lhe school. U01

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SuperinTendenT Dr. Eugene YoungerT Board oT EducaTion .xgalminidfrafion Oalc Park and River l:oresT l-ligh School is eTTicienTly and devoTedly governed by The Board oT EducaTion. These rnen and women, busy wiTh Their homes, Their businesses, and Their oTher civic duTies, Tind Time To serve well The educaTional in- TeresTs oT The communiTy and The school. Dr. Eugene YoungerT, as superinTendenT, direcTs The acTiviTies oT our school. l-le works Toward main- Taining The high sTandards oT which we've always been proud. l-lis work beyond The school on sec- Tional and naTional commiTTees and in educaTional meeTings has broughT added presTige To our school. LeTT To righT: lvlr. David l-layes, Mr. Edwin Anderson, Mrs. ErnesT Huggins, lvlr. John Cannon, Mrs. Paul Gebhard, Mr. William Bonnernai Mr. Elwood Rafclilll. mi