Paxton High School - Reflector Yearbook (Paxton, IL)

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F is for Foothill The opening of the 1941 football season placed a big responsibility on the five remaining lettermen. The new team had to defend the 1940 Wauseca League championship as well as three previous years of success. The result was not a record to compare with those successful seasons, neither was it one to bring shame to P. C. H. S. The team showed a gradual improvement, leaving brighter hopes for 1942. The football lettermen for this year were Stanley Peterson, William Scott, Arnold Magnuson, Ronald Sivill, Andrew Hendricks, Wendell Siddens, Robert McCabe, Gordon Johnson, Cornelius Noland, Richard Cottrell, Jack Miller, Wilmer Smith, James Nuss, and Robert Gustafson. Jack Ireland received a letter as manager. SCORES Paxton 0 Gibson City 11 Paxton 0 Milford 26 Paxton 7 Gilman 13 Paxton 13 Rantoul 6 Paxton 6 Watseka 7 Paxton 33 Onarga 6 Paxton 6 Hoopeston 24 Paxton 0 Rantoul 0 Paxton 0 Gibson City 20

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Early in September, 77 of us entered P. C. H. S. in high spirits. After a few days in searching for class rooms and learning our way about, we settled down to routine work as members of the student body. The freshman class elections resulted in the selection of William Overstreet, president; Jack Kenney, vice-president; Betty Frank, secretary; Betty Robertson, treasurer. Miss Gracen and Mr. Bidner were class sponsors. By the end of our first semester, we were beginning to realize that school wasn’t all fun as some of us must have believed, judging by our report cards. We decided to try a little harder second semester. Our Student Council representatives were Barbara Jean Given and Lee Carlson. Mary McGauley was one of the regular cheerleaders of P. C. H. S. Robert Lateer efficiently served as co-manager in athletics. Barbara Given represented P. C. H. S. as a French horn soloist in the District contest at Fairbury. She won first place.