Paris High School - Arena Yearbook (Paris, IL)

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FACULTY

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Faculty Every person who has attained prominence in the world must attribute part of his success to the people, or to the circumstances under which he acquired his learning. So it was with Washington. Yet he had little of the learned, considerate guidance of his studies which marks the education of the modern youth; for his instructors consisted of an ignorant parish priest, rescued from slavery, under whom he learned his alphabet; and a Mr. Williams, a conscientious, but rather incompetent individual. Yet these did not complete the list of his teachers for, being a close observer, he learned an enormous amount from his associates, his parents, and relatives. Moreover, he was to a great extent his own instructor, and studied conscientiously of his own accord during his entire life. So we see that, in addition to his formal teachers, we must add his associates, friends, and his own initiative as elements which helped train his body and mind to the perfection which was his. Signing rhe Declaration of Independence Without doubt the most important event in the history of our country occurred when that illustrious group of men met in July, 1776, and formulated the Declaration of independence. Trumbull, the artist, has provided for us the pictorial commemoration of that event in the opposite picture, which now hangs in the Rotunda of the Capitol at Washington.

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E H E ARENA FACULTY John R. Moss, B.S. Superintendent of Schools Sm vm