Paris High School - Arena Yearbook (Paris, IL)

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Foreword Pixie Paris presents this graphic edition depicting Paris High School personalities, sports that made headlines, and the varied organizations and activities which correlate with the academic courses. We hope that each time our little printer’s imp, Pixie Paris, takes you for a stereoscopic tour of the 1951 Arena you will again imagine yourselves students at P.H.S., congregating in the halls, cheering with the excited crowds at games, participating in assembly programs, revues, plays, carnivals, and contests, dancing to sweet music at the proms, and then graduation night-. These pictorial records are composed of Review of Personalities, Review of Sports, and Review of Activities. Each club or organization has been associated with the educational course from which it emanates or is related. The curriculum includes language arts, the physical sciences and math, the social sciences, physical education, music, and vocational education. Each club or organization should and usually does reflect a spirit of service toward the school. The Paris High School Student Council, as the students’ representative body, heads the list of such service organizations. Its interrelated activities are graphically depicted; in addition, the other clubs which render special services are explained and pictured. The language arts section includes English, Latin, French, speech, dramatic,, productions, and contests. The science and math division is composed of both the physical and social sciences and the choices of courses in mathematics. Associated with the physical education department are activities in the P. E. classes and the May F'ete. The music section pictures both the choral and instrumental departments with their programs and contest work. The vocational department depicts school and on-the-job courses and includes homemaking and agriculture, commercial education, distributive education, office practice, and diversified occupation, plus the allied clubs. Senior Week with its activities that leave such nostalgic memories forms a logical conclusion to this blended review of school life. We hope that in later years you will refer to your ’51 Arena and look upon your high school days as some of the happiest of your lives. Please follow our Pixie Paris through the Arena pages and scan our Pictorial Review of P. H. S. Happy memories!

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Paris High School Established—1875 Present building erected—1908 Girls’ gym and auditorium added—1922 Roys’ gym erected—1942 Present enrollment—662 Seniors—125 Juniors—169 Sophomores—162 Freshmen—206 Faculty members—32 Accredited by the North Central Association and the Department of Education, State of Illinois. [2]

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Pictorial Review Pages 33-51 [4]