Paris High School - Owl Yearbook (Paris, TX)

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Q 4 I ir. . - -U -H -mate .-A .4 ,1.- ,ni-..5gg,..t-:.' ' , ffl !,.. ,Ii E 3 GATT Qqxpmzeciatiulr 4 : 0 the people of Paris and lN'lot.rog county and to those, who within the last quartt r-century have gone out from them to help build up the Newer West, the name of the Paris High School brings to mind not an institution but an individual. This results from the tact that, for twenty- seven years, one man has been at its head, and his influence has become its tradition., Instructors have some and gone, the course ot study has been revolutionized, the Board of Education has been almost completely altered in composi- tion, graduates have married and their children, in turn, have completed its courseg even the olgl Hsehool house, endeared to so manyhearts by the memories otyouthful joys and woes, has givenyplace to a new and Vmodern build- ing. Still, sthrough all changes, they same genial and cul- tured nature Ytas impressed itselt alike upon' student-body and community. ' y 'S A ' y VVilliam Douglas Christian, since 1884 Superintendent ot' Schools at Paris, was ,born in 1855, at Cassville, Barry county, lVIissouri. ln I863lllSli2tll1Ql'WZl5 conhned at Spring- field, in the historic',court house on the square Cnow about to be replaced byginevv structurej by the Federal govern- ment, and so Mr. Christian started to school in that city, on his eighth birthday. His most intimate acquaintances alone can have any great knowledge of his early life, for his ex- treme modesty prevents him from speaking much of bim- seltg and only from chance remarks, let fall in familiar con- versation, does one obtain an Occasional glimpse of his rich