Paris High School - Arena Yearbook (Paris, IL)

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 HAIL TO THE CHIEF'' JOHN R. MOSS, B. S., M. A. John R. Moss, Superintendent of Schools, provides the students of Paris with the necessary tools for learning. He performs these duties in a competent and pleasant manner. He is especially interested in the educational and social welfare of all students under his supervision. To the Members of the Class of 1946: In meditating upon what to write that would be interesting and valuable to the members of the Class of 1946, I thought of the definition of an educated person according to Isocrates, the Athenian orator and teacher of rhetoric who was born in 436 B.C. Its conciseness and appropriateness, in my opinion, justifies its reading by all serious-minded students. It follows: Whom, then, do I call educated? First, those who control circumstances instead of being mastered by them, those who meet all occasions manfully and act in accordance with intelligent thinking, those who are honorable in all dealings, who treat good natur-edly persons and things that are disagreeable, and furthermore, those who hold their pleasures under control and are not overcome by misfortune, finally those who are not spoiled by success. These precepts of Isocrates are referred to with the hope that they will aid in some small way the members of the Class of 1946 in facing the problems of life. JOHN R. MOSS. BOARD OF EDUCATION The Board of Education guides the students of Paris through their twelve years of schooling. The members who serve on this board are the citizens of today interested in the welfare and the development of the citizens of tomorrow. Left to Right: Sam Blair, William Cramer. B. O. Luttrell, Rodney Bell, Francis Hartwich.