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

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Robert Taylor, “Cheer Leader” We desire to express our hearty admiration and appreciation of Robert Taylor our “cheer leader.” Too much can not be said in commendation of his marked ability along this line. We know that much credit is due him for the successful basket ball sea- son just past, for with “Bob” as leader we were able to express our enthusiasm and true school spirit and our boys knowing they had the whole- heai'ted co-operation of students and faculty back of them were urged on to greater victory. Will we ever forget how those pep meetings quickened our hearts and how our voices rose with Bob’s in many mighty cheers for dear old S. P. H. S., or forget the thrills as hand in hand we wound in and out through the snake dance to the tune of “The Yellow and the Black?” No game or High School celebration of any kind would be complete without “Bob ’ and in re- turn for his faithful services and unswerving loy- alty the Parisian tenders him this recognition. 66

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What We Hope Will Happen at S. P. H. S OND reader, you have read in our alumni section what has happened in S. P. H. S. in years gone by. The rest of the book has enlightened you as to what is happening now at S. P. H. S. Now let your imagination wander to the smoker of a Pullman car on a Chicago-New York flyer and see what we hope will happen at S. P. H. S. in the future. Two members of Class ’21 meet for the first time in sixteen years (Date—May 10, 1938). “Why hello Cliff, thought you were running the New York Supreme Court.” (Just leaving Co- lumbus). “Well, good-night, Ted, where’d you come from? Sit down here I want to tell you something. Pve just been back home for a few days, first time in sixteen years. How long has it been since you were back?” “Well I was back—let’s see in ’28 just after I got out of school, but it was just between trains. You know father and mother had moved to California just before that and I had to settle up some business. “Things seemed to be booming what little I saw. Tell me about it. Did you see the old school- house?” “Booming? You said it. Why, there are a dozen large factories (more or less), street cars, traf- fic cops and everything. You wouldn’t know the old schoolhouse. Remember how barren the old grounds used to look, no trees, grass or anything else. Well, they are covered with a swell lawn now. The west end of the building is covered with vines giving it an appearance of some stately old university building you have seen somewhere.” That semi-circular, crushed stone drive we used to talk so much about became a reality a year or so after we got out of High School, and say it sure looks fine. There are a row of maples on each side of it all the tvay to the building but there are none directly in front to shut off the view. “That athletic field that was laid out on the east side of the grounds has been completed and it is certainly a peach. There is a regulation foot ball field with a base ball diamond in one corner and a quarter mile cinder track around the whole thing. There is a grand stand back of the catcher’s box and bleachers on both sides of the foot ball field. The base ball diamond is so well drained that they can play on it within two or three hours after a hard rain.” “Well what good will their athletic field do them; Do they use it? It used to be that they would never play anything but basket ball and a little base ball about once in seven years.” “Don’t get in a hurry, old top, you seem to think old S. P. H. S. is still as much of an old fogie as she used to be, but you’re mistaken. Why just the day before I left, their base ball team played the deciding game of a Tri-County High School base ball league. This league was organized this year and takes in High School teams of Miami, Clarke and Champaign Counties. They won the game too, from Piqua, 11 to 12. They had a little celebration after the game, ceremony of presenting the pennant etc. That evening they staged a banquet in the gym, for both teams and I guess they must have had a glorious time from what some of the fellows were saying.” “For both teams? That’s something new isn’t it? We used to almost hoot a defeated team out of town. Remember the night the basket ball team got hooted out of Urbana? Gee ! Bob Taylor was sore that night. But go on tell me about the rest of the grounds. Did they ever do anything more to the play grounds?” “Well yes, they graveled it all over and got some new equipment. You know the school has grown so that they had to do something. The County Normal School outgrew its one room and now have a building of its own across the street.” The whole school has grown so that they were finally forced to buy more land and build a build- ing for the grades and give the old building to the High School. They had the new building about 67