Paris High School - Arena Yearbook (Paris, IL)

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JIM MONEY HARRIET MORRIS WILLIAM MURPHY JUNE NORTH THEODORE OCHS ROBERT OGLE HELEN O'HAIR CAROLYN PARKER JOHN PIPER WALTER POOR MARTHA POWERS MILDRED PRESTON MORRIS RAMBO JOHANNE REDMAN GLADYS REEL CHAS. A. RHOADS KATHRYN RICHESON BERT SANDERS NORVAL SEELEY MAXINE SISSON SENIORS The final step in youth's high school training has been taken. Few, if any classes, have excelled the Class of '39 in scholarship. This year the seniors furnished fifty percent of the basketball team, which had a very successful season; and five men on the main football squad, which won the E. I. League Championship. The class was also well represented in track in the spring. An operetta, The Ups and Downs of the Browns, written and directed by Mr. Farmer, in which a number of seniors participated, was presented to the public. The class showed its dramatic ability again in the presentation of the senior class play. Following this were the baccalaureate and commencement exercises; then the CLASS OF 1939 left their Alma Mater to demonstrate their worth to the world.

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JOAN HULS BARBARA HUSTON CHARLES IRISH MARIE ISAAC RUTH JOHNSTON VIRGINIA JOHNSTON FLORAINE JUDY MILDRED JUDY JEAN KEEFER FRANCIS KEENEN RICHARD KNIGHT CAROLYN LAMB DAVID LAUGHLIN MARGUERITE LITTLE u a dt re a mn t rwir J. D. LOY MERRILL McCULLEY LYLE McEVOY JACK MANN RUTH MILLER SENIORS a sophomore play, The Tantrum, was presented, and an all-school operetta, The Buccaneers, was eagerly taken part in by members of the class. At the E. I. League contest, places were won in several divisions, and, the Writers' Club having been organized for two years, several sophomores were honored by invitations to join. In the third year of high school, the class of '39 gave The Ador- able Spendthrift as their class play; they also helped to make the carnival a success. Former standards in athletics were upheld and surpassed when our football team won the E. I. League Championship and the basketball team, half of which were juniors, won third place in the State Tournament. The final activity as juniors was the entertainment of the seniors at the prom and banquet.

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FIRST ROW SECOND ROW HELEN SMITTKAMP JOSEPH SULLIVAN BETTY SOUTHARD WILBUR SWINFORD LESTER SPUNG SUE TAFLINGER THELMA SPUNG RUTH THIEL BETTY STEIDL BETTY THOMAS FLOYD STOTTS EUGENE THOMAS THELMA STURGEON VERN THOMPSON THIRD ROW FOURTH ROW MARTHA TOMLINSON JOHN WILLIS MADELYN TRUEBLOOD HARRY WILSON ELLA BELLE VAIL JANE WILSON EULA WEAVER LA VERNE WILSON MARGARET WEBER PHILIP WINANS J. R. WETZEL EDWARD WRIGHT WILLIAM WILLIAMSON ROBERT WRIGHT