Paris High School - Arena Yearbook (Paris, IL)

Page 14 text:

CAROLINE LOUISE WENZ. Photo by Jay. ETHEL E. HCWELL. l-.ioto by Jay. Photo by Jay. O. R. JONES. Yes indeed—I’m a cousin of Casey Jones. —0. R. Jones.

Page 13 text:

MISS BERTHA MILLER. Wc have a splendid faculty, we have a new building, we have a live enthusiastic «fode I body, we have a generous and intelligent school board.—and to crown all ac have Miss Bertha Miller as principal. As long as we arc fortunate enough to have her with us every student is confident of a “square deal: every teacher is given to work under a capable head, every member of the board i sure of the standard of superior work. Due to her work and influence. Paris High occupies the enviable lead it hold» among the high schools of Eastern Illinois, and with her continued guidance assured, we .cannot but advance to a place of higher efficiency and usefulness. ELLA REID SLEMMONS. If President Taft would only refer the tariff question, the reciprocity bill, the Mexican uprising, and the territorial expansion and international arbitration move- ment to «.nr Miss Slemmons. and her political economy class, we feel sure that this assembly would settle them all in the morning, and proceed to annex Canada in the afternoon. The air gets so thick with discussion and dehate it has to be shovelled out at the end of the hour. Of course in addition to this she teaches medieval and modern history and has time in between to make warm friends among the student boJy. HELEN MILLER. Mis Miller’ sanctum is room No. .L where under the double eagle, and the approv- ing eye of Bismarck, she teaches Deutsch and Junior English. Her standard of work i so high that you must get a step ladder to reach the level of her classes. I might add. that when you flunk the drop is correspondingly unpleasant She i small and petite, but like the ancient mariner “she fixes you with her glittering eye. while y u alas stand still, you look, and feel like thirty cents. Miss Miller has her will. She takes a personal interest in the student who really work, and is ready at all times in school or out. to lend a helping hand in amputating the feet of a lame verse, or plastering together a weary theme. Hoch! I er Vaterland.”—Miss Helen Miller.

Page 15 text:

CAROLINE LOUISE WENZ. Mi»» Wenz occupies the Chair of English Language and Literature in the University of Paris- Under her supervision we take a personally conducted tour from the Epic to the Short Story, stopping at Julius Caesar. The House of Seven Gables; and visiting the Merchant of Venice, and Macbeth and hi naughty wife. Also as she i intimately aciiuainted with all the past masters. We arc introduced to Mr. Milton. Mrs. Mary Ann Evans, and (till Shakespeare. We wish to recommend this trip to all those interested in literature, and wish our capable and kind'y guide the best of success in her future tours. ETHEL E. HOWELL. For a long time the Latin students have trembled at tlic sight of. and admired from afar, our Latin teacher. Miss Howell. We feel sure that if the old l.atin worthies were suddenly resurrected, she would correct their grammar with the same impas- sioned manner that she pick to pieces our fluent (?) translation». A touching ability—why she chiseled Caesar. Cicero and Vergil into the heads of the departing Seniors, a task difficult enough to baffic the most competent educator. We hope she will linger long in our midst and instruct the youth in the mysteries of lingua Ciceroni . O. R. JONES Xs 2 X y y2” V t2 A [ “]” We feel «ure th.v. if the brain of Prof. O. R. Jones, our Math, instructor and faculty manager, were dissected, his grey matter would be mathematically arranged, and geometrically «haped. with the proof for the entire affair neatly inscribed on his pia mater. And, Shades of Demosthenes! what a vocabulary! His conversation re- semble a heavy freight train—long and well loaded. He i the only man. whore Johnsonian accents can persuade Harris to unlock a door, or turn on the hot water. He i an authority on all matters of athletics and training, and his efficient manage- ment of the basketball team, helped them in large measure to make stirh a glorious recoid in 'll. Pretty, blue eyed maiden.”—Cora Jacobs.