Paris High School - Arena Yearbook (Paris, IL)

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Eighteen PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT IS THE AIM OF THIS DEPARTMENT CARRIE MARTIN Physical Education CLASS IN DANCING Miss Carrie Martin, teacher of physical education, graduated from Indiana State Teachers’ College in 1934 and took a post graduate course at the University of Illinois last summer. She is head of health supervision and physical training for the first six grades, and has charge of the regular gym classes of the seventh ami eighth grade girls at Mayo and the girls at high school. She organized and trained the grade and high school girls for the 1936 May Fete. Miss Martin is now the organizer and supervisor of co-recreation among the country students at the high school during the noon hour. This new project includes such games as table tennis, badminton. and shufflchoard. Although Miss Martin has a varied program of instruction, she has accomplished many tasks, does her work well, and will always remain a lasting friend of the hoys and girls that she instructs. She is advisor of the Paris High G.A.A. and Plav Dav activities.

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Svtrnircn WHILE THE OBJECTIVE OF MUSIC IS TO DEVELOP THE AESTHETIC F.T1IEI, B. HOUCHAM Music Department Miss Ethel B. Hougham is the excellent anil capable supervisor of the music department of the Paris High and grade schools. Miss Hougham has received her B.S.B.E. from the University of Illinois, and she is now working on her Master's degree from Illinois Wesleyan, at Bloomington. During the years of Miss Hotighanrs supervision in Paris, she has sent several members of the music department to the all-state chorus. Until the last two years Paris has been host to a county music festival. The girls glee club was the earliest musical organization in Paris High, hut in 1928. due to the increasing interest, a new department was created, known as the girls’ chorus. Miss Hougham directs the girls’ and hoys’ glee clubs, tin? girls’ chorus and the orchestra. M iss Hougham always enters participants in the Eastern Illinois League Contest, and since she has been here the Glee Club has won this contest six times. Last year the contest was held at Paris, hut this year it was held at Charleston. Miss Hougham’s ten years spent as director of music in Paris schools proves her ability and efficiency in this very important work.

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Nineteen Bound by the Same Cables Most of us are accustomed to the fact that education has revolutionized industry. We are not so well aware that in the revolution education has tied the nations of all the world together with cables of international trade. Whitney, with a technical education, invented the cotton gin, thus opening to trade vast weights of short staple cotton grown in the United States. That cotton found a market in Lancashire, 4,000 miles distant across the Atlantic, because education had developed the steamship. Nowr sec what happened further: Manchester could weave more cotton cloth than England could use. Britain, combining her domination over India and her control of the shipping trade, forced India—far better at weaving than England ever wras—to buy English cottons. Thus the technical education of Whitney, Watt, Fitch, and Fulton reached over the waters and hound together Charleston, S. C.. Liverpool, Manchester. Bombay ami Calcutta. Here is illustrated one of the lessons which the Board of Education of Paris and the Hotarv (did) of Paris have desired to teach this year with the Institute of International Understanding. Their purpose is to acquaint men and women of all ages—hut those of high school age in particular—with the interdependence of nations since education made the world into a neighborhood. )Xe humans shall need all the intelligence we can summon to solve the problems of a world riven hv rival interests and distracted by divergent outlooks. Those who are now' fully mature can hardly provide that intelligence. The world must await it among those still young enough to learn without resistance. Allen I). Albert, Past President, Hotarv International.