Paxton High School - Reflector Yearbook (Paxton, IL)

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Horoscope of the Seniors NAME ALIAS APPEARANCE HOBBY DESTINY Class of 1914 Seniors Anxious Being Good World startlers Edla Johnson “Ed’ Pretty “Ginger” “Voodeville” singer O' rH Walter I arson “Nosey” Pleasant Motoring Who knows? Marian Rideout Marian Giggly (coined word) Basketball Athlete »- Albert Overstreet Tub” Ruffled “Ball Hoopcston jeweler X Mriam Rockwell Toodles” Worried Rural Economics Ask Percy X Neta Rollins “Juanita” Neat Week-end visits Kankakee S Herbert Swanson “Huh” Handsome Blushing Forester Carl Fagerburg “Collie” Classy Advice “Movies” H Florence Cruzen “Ginger” Cute Laughing A critic on “Art” Austin Sandstedt “Vine” Burlesque Loafing Grocer Ruth Lindgren “Ruth” Sweet Studying School “ma’m1 Signe Oleson “S.’gne” Calm Joking Business woman Dale McQuiston “Pink” Happy “Harvard!” Dancing master £ H s Floy Karr “Street” Disgusted Chemistry Gentleman of leisure Crester Hammerlund “Chet” Distinguished Hunting School teacher ss Maud Rotramel “Maudie” Amused “Digging” Spinster o u Prudence Rotramel “Prudie” Demure Being patient Nurse Ethel Wright Ethel Dignified Being a shark Person of intellect Einar Lindstrom Einar Serene Palying(?) piano Master of Music Mary Greenan Mary Sturdy Gossip A “Skinner” Eernest Martinson “Yens” Good-looking Baseball Lawyer Bess Bear Bess Plump Trains Village postmistress Bessie Greenan Bessie Rustic beauty Spatting” Cook Ruth Cade Ruth Curious Latin Culture Anna Erikcson Anna Quiet German Farm Helen Ludlow “Ruby” Enthused “Mac” Belle of U. of I. ui sC •

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PAXTON HIGH SCHOOL REFLECTOR 164 ton. The manager of the Universal Film Company was excitedly telling Ihc on-lookers that she was his best character, with the exception of his new leading man. .Inst then he entered, I mean Carl Fritz Fagerburg did. It really wasn’t such an unexpected event, for you remember they did so well in the class play, and Carl wrote on the “movies” for his Commencement thesis. Huth Lindgren? Oh, you remember, one of the best spellers, “punctuators,” etc., in our English IV. class. She simply flew to the top once she was started and as 1 saw her, was private secretary to Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, and undoubtedly one of the most cherished members of the Wilson retinue. , Who would think that Signe Oleson would take to “cutting up” so much as I saw her doing at Normal? She was really the talk of Normal; the wittiest, cleverest co-ed there. She went ostensibly to learn how to teach school like Mr. Messenger, our principal, but in reality she attended picture shows until she knew every “movie” actor by name, and was familiar with all the latest ragtime. But such is life in a large city, so Signe thought. Our one-time brilliant chemistry student, one Floyd Karr by name, had just completed the concoction of a very important drug, which he guaranteed would positively prevent fainting. He had every reason to know it would work all the charms he said it would, for he had had personal experience, and it had proved very effective. He sold it on the condition that money would be refunded if it failed. And thus one more of our friends has succeeded. , Marian Rideout a librarian? Impossible, when she liked to talk so well. Yet there is quite a little ouportunity to hear all the news and discuss Sewing Circle gossip in a library. She needed very little study for the work, for she simply lived in the Paxton Public Library, as I knew her. What wonderful music this was, which I was hearing. Who was tne great master playing? I read on the ticket presented to me that it was a large pipe-organ recital, at which a Swedish virtuoso was to preside. Now you know as well as I do that Einar (Lindstrom was one of the best musicians in our High School days, and this recital didn't disappoint me or anyone else present. An author’s home on the banks of the Hudson. What a wonderful place to picture scenes and to think out dark and villianous plots. And there on the shady lawn was the author herself writing as if her life depended upon it. This was a common occurrence with Ruth Cade, and that is the very reason she always did everything so well. A wedding on the program last of all, but not least. Who that saw that wedding will ever forget the handsome, although somewhat timid groom? But the bride, I could not see her face in the dim fire light, and I was left to guess whom among “Hub” Swanson’s many friends was the lucky one. Just then, as the last picture passed before my eyes, the fire flickered, and went out, and so ended the prophecy of the class of 1914.

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PAXTON HIGH SCHOOL REFLECTOR 166 A (£nmmntrrmrnt Crttrr From Our Former High School Principal and Much Appreciated Teacher, Mr. Harry Lathrop. The opportunity of a four year High School course is one that every boy and girl should appreciate. It is an opportunity that all men and women who have passed through it do appreciate and those who have been denied it deprecate. There is no substitute for a High School education. It is true that it may be made up in the college or university, but this “made up” work can never take the place of the High School course. If done in a higher institution, it is rushed through and is void of all the freedom and joy that characterizes our High Schools. Parents are investing in brains and relying on the hope that the future use of these brains will justify the investment. The question then, that should confront every High School graduate, is how to utilize the greatest interest from his investment—how to go on. For many High School graduates “going on” is entering into business. For many that is the proper thing to do. Many would find higher education too difficult. Instead of joy and pleasure they would find only drudgery. For such to go on in this direction would be madness. But there is a large percentage, the higher half, of our High School graduates who should go on into our higher institutions of learning. The State of Illinois offers nineteen years of training in the public schools and university. The High School student has finished twelve. For the student with vigor, push and energy, who wants to get the most joy and usefulness out of life, the other seven years, or a part of them, is indispensible. This is an age of specialization. The specialist is the man of today and of the future. The course above the High School is a specialist’s course. With the High School course as a basis the student reaches a climax in some chosen field. The more specialists there are in the world, the harder it is for him who is not a specialist. Statistics from our High Schools show that more are “going on” to our colleges and universities today than ever before. Sometimes it may not be easy. But the list must ever grow. The world demands it and the demand must be met. It may take a good many hard knocks, but it pays. Hard knocks are what count. The harder a man is hit the more erect he should rebound. The confidence in self that knows no failure is wrhat wins. It is my hope that many of the class of 1914 may go on to the college or university. And I am sure that you will make your “going on” such that it will reflect credit upon yourself, your teachers, your parents, and your school. Sincerely yours, HARRY LATHROP. Mr. Lathrop is noTw attending the Illinois State Normal University at Normal, and will complete the post graduate course there in June. Next year he will attend Chicago University, where he expects to obtain his master’s degree at the close of the year.—Ed.