Johnson St Paris High School - Parisian Yearbook (Saint Paris, OH)

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Rest Room Only this year has the Rest Room been added to the buildling. The furniture consisting of two willow chairs, an oak table and large davenport were given to S. P. H. S. by the class of 1919. This certainly is an improvement to the building and one of the most essential rooms. This room is lo- cated on the first floor on the west side. (Many thanks to you Class ’19.) Lecture Course For the first time the school undertook the Lecture Course this year. We secured a course from the United Lyceum Bureau, consisting of four numbers. The tickets sold at a very reasonable price for this kind of an entertainment at one dollar for adults and fifty cents for children. The Course was held in the school auditorium and well atten ded. The first number was the Pelletier Players and was a fine and enjoyable number. The next was a lecture by Mr. Stanley Krebs, the third a Musical program by the Nevin Musical Club consisting of five girls, all artists, and the last a humorist, Mr. Clarence Burgderfer. The course this year pleased all of our patrons and a better one has been booked for next year. Basket Ball Banquet One of the most enjoyable events of the school calendar for 1920-21 took place in the High School library on the night of March twenty-sixth when the lady teachers of the school entertained this season’s basket ball team with a splendid banquet. A color scheme appropriate for the approaching Easter season was carried out and a delicious four-course dinner served. Those present were Mr. Turner, Coach; Mr. Klapp, toast-master; Paul Vickrey, Captain; Emory Crouse, Clifford Barger, Mitchell Reed, Theodore Harter, Robert Taylor, cheer-leader; Frank Ross and Paul Klapp. With Mr. Klapp as toast-master a few short talks were given by different members of the team after the dinner had been served. The affair was novel and new this being the first team ever entertained in this manner in S. P. H. S. Such affairs bring out and strengthen fellowship among the students which is very important especially in an athletic team. It also gives them a stronger interest in and a more serious view of the athletic work. We hope that some similar function will become an annual event. We would sug- gest that in years to follow this should be taken up by an Athletic Association which should be formed in S. P. H. S. p. T. K. The Carnival One of the most attractive programs which our school has ever given was the Carnival. The eighth grade and the four classes of High School each prepared their own unique part separately. The first was a play entitled “The Changing of the Seasons” given by the eighth grade. The different seasons were personified by the members of the class. It was given in a very pretty and effective manner. This was followed by the “Mock Wedding” by the Freshmen of which every detail was carried out with perfection. The whole ceremony was performed with dignity and grace. The Sophomares presented a play entitled “P iss Civilization.” It was well prepared and highly appreciated. The characters displayed a great deal of dramatic talent. The “Mechanical Dolls” was a unique feature given very successfully by the Juniors. The dolls looked and acted their part very well. The Seniors concluded the program in a comic way by presenting a Photograph Gallery. This was an original play and pleased the audience. The different characters and the different conversa- tions had with the photographer made it quite interesting. This play was last but by no means least. Each part was about a half-hour in length, but there was such a variety that the audience did not seem to lose interest at any time. Everyone pronounced the Carnival a success in every detail from beginning to end. —Ethel Pence ’21. 49

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School Events Our New Teacher On the morning of September sixth 1920 we first met our new teachers, Mr. Ralph Klapp whose home is in St. Paris, Miss Helen Kremer of Somerton, Ohio, Miss Christine Gordon of Delaware. We will always remember the last days spent in dear old S. P. H. S. and are glad to associate with these, the remembrance of all of our new teachers as well as of the old. The Community Theatre The Community Theatre opened November nineteenth 1920 at the school auditorium, with as good equipment as any large motion-picture house. The screen is of gold fibre, the most expensive and best screen that can be purchased. It was bought of the Manager of the Lyric Theatre of Urbana, being too small for use there, after the re- modeling of that theatre. The machine was purchased of Mr. Nichols who started motion pictures at the Union Opera House, but quit in a few weeks on account of lack of patronage. The machine is a Power’s Camrograph Size 6B, manufactured by Nickols Power Machine Com- pany, New York. This machine had been run only ten hours when bought by us. The equipment was purchased by a corporation of ten business men of the town acting with the school board. The money over the expenses is to be paid to these men, and after the entire amount has been paid, then the equipment is to become the property of the St. Paris School. The entire equipment cost about five-hundred dollars. The opening night Friday, November 19, 1920, Evangeline,” one of the best productions that can be obtained was presented. The second production November 25, was ‘ Checkers which was very good and well attended. An educational and a very interesting program was obtained December third entitled “The Tale of Two Cities.” “Les Miserables” another very good production was well attended and very interesting and pleased the people. January twenty-ninth 1921, “His Majesty the American” was shown being one of Doug’s best pictures. Another one of the Fail-bank’s pictures will be shown April fifteenth entitled “Mark of Zorro.” After the expenses are paid educational films will be purchased for different classes, which will be a big help to the students. We hope the people will attend every production in order that these may commence as soon as possible. —Clarence Beaver 21. Box Social As it has been customary in S. P. H. S. to hold a box social each year, we lived up to the custom this year and held the social on Saturday night, March twelfth. The Study Hall had been very artistically decorated in Yellow and Black the High School colors. This year the fund was to help on the piano purchased for the auditorium. On account of ban roads only a few attended but with the assistance of our popular and successful auctioneer, Mr. Chas. Stapleton, we realized the neat sum of fifteen dollars. Better English Week Better English Week was observed in this school during a week in November, through the ef- forts of our English teacher, Miss Gordon. Posters were made by the students of the Seventh and Eighth Grades and the High School and placed in the business district and throughout the school rooms. A contest was held in nature of a secret ballot to determine the persons making the least gram- matical errors during this week. Two Seniors were chosen and awarded prizes. Also an original play was given in Chapel by a few of the High School girls, emphasizing the triumph of “Good Eng- lish” over “Bad English.” Altogether the week was a most profitable one and too much praise can not be given Miss Gor- don in her efforts. 48

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G. G. G. Club HE brilliant idea of forming a club originated in the fertile brains of some of the Freshmen girls on entering S. P. H. S. in 1917. Our aim was to become better acquainted with each other, to mix a little fun with the awful grind of Algebra and Latin and to instill loyalty not only to each other but to S. P. H. S. as well. A Constitution and by-laws were adopted and the officers chosen to take charge of the organiza- tion were: President, “Kay” Leedom; Secretary, “Jane” Wiant; Treasurer, Marguerite Botkin (nee Perfect). The original members were “Pat” Hunt, Elma Beatty, “Babe” Rudasill, “Lucy” Hamilton, “Peggy” Perfect, “Jane” Wiant and “Kay” Leedom. At the same time we furnished the club room where we met every Tuesday night for a “pot luck” and a trip to the Lyceum. The only royal road to membership was through a process of initiation. So it was a weird and uncanny initiation which took Ethel Pence into the Club on Christmas eve 1919. Through the four years we have kept our name in secret, and now to relieve your curiosity, we feel it our duty, to reveal the name. Take your choice of the following: “Green Giggly Girls,” “Grit, Grind and Gumption” or “Grand Glorious Groupe.” Guess again. It is needless to say that this club stands for the “best of all”—of the cultural side of High School life. It includes much, but none of that which is not best. We have always striven in every way to keep S. P. H. S’s star in the ascendency and bright and shining. 50