Paris District High School - Yearbook (Paris, Ontario Canada)

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Q V6 I 1 2 ' PARIS HIGH SCHOOL YEAR BOOK I CONSTANCE ELLEN LUCY McKIE On August 29, 1916, a maiden with brown eyes and dark auburn hair was born in Paris. . . For six years, Connie, as she was known to her friends, played in sand piles, and amused herself with paper dolls. In 1922 she began her quest for knowledge. This led her through four different public schools, all in Paris, until, at the age of twelve, she passed with honours her examinations for entrance into High School. In five years more, she had completed full Junior Matriculation and Honour Matriculation in nine papers. As she was clever, it was unfortunate that illness prevented her from writing her examinations last year. Credit, the highest percentage ever giv- en to those who fail to try the examinations, was granted her on her class standing throughout the year. This year Constance is staying at home in Paris. I am sure that her school-mates join with me in wishing her success and good luck in the fu- ture. QV - L. J. c. H 3 3 J VERNON WILFRED MARTIN Verne is a prominent Paris boy, and needs no introduction. He is the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Martin, and was born on April 4, 1916. At the age of six, this little blonde-haired boy decided it was high time he had started on his search for knowledge, and so he began his school-boy career at Paris Public School. For six years he graced the halls of this school where he was noted for his novel methods of getting into mischief. In 1928, due to his ever-increasing thirst for knowledge, he left public school and started his career of fame at P H S During his sta at P H. S. . . . y , , which we wish could have been longer, he took a leading part in ali our school activities and held practically every office in both the Athletic and Literary Societies. In 1929, Verne began to show his ability as an athlete by winning the Junior Athletic Championship. During the fall term of 1931, Verne had charge of the Classified Ads section of the Quill and was on the Year Book Committee. The sam he Won the Intermediate Athletic Championship. e year' 1933 was Verne's big year as well as his last. During this year, Verne was president of the Literary Society for the Spring term. Once again he showed his athletic ability by winning the Senior Athletic Championship, d b t ' ' an y s aI'I'1I1g in both the basketball and rugby teams. At present Verne is in New York taking a course in printing. We all join in extending to him our heartiest congratulatiops, and in wishing him every success. I V D. M. JOSEPH FRENCH LEOROY MEGGS 3 Joseph, third son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Meggs was born on March 31, 1915 at Falkland. His first few years were spent in keeping the Meggs household in a state of excitement, until at the age of six he broadened the scope of his activities to include Paris Public School. In 1928 he was suc- cessful in passing the Entrance Examinations, and thereupon he entered these our noble halls of learning. . At P. H. S. Joe proved himself an industrious student, and was a well- known and well-liked personality. In school he preferred the study of Ianguagesg in his spare time he turned to hunting, and the enjoyment. of outdoor life. ln 1934 he graduated with complete Senior Matriculation, and is now studying Commerce and Finance at the University of Toronto. He laughs a little now and then, And lightens life a lotg . He can see the brighter side xx ' Just as well as not. , . 5 .1 'f .1 , Doesn't go mournfully around , -- AV , ' , 1 ' Gloomy and forlorn, g in X ., I Isl Tries to make his fellow-men if 1 ' T ' f- Glad that he was born. 5 11 A. R. M. 'L

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PARIS HIGH SCHOOL YEAR BOOK VERTA KENERSON Verta trails from over the border where she was born on July 26, 1918, in Buffalo, N.Y. We next find her in London, Ont., where she first learned her A. B. C's. After five years of school life there, Verta came to grace Paris Public and High Schools. During her years at P. H. S., Verta made a name for herself, both as an athlete and as a student. She played on the school baseball and basketball teams, and held prominent positions on the executive of our Literary So- ciety. Verta received her graduation certificate with first class honours in Modern History and Second class in Mathematics, French and Latin. Once more Verta is in London, this time at Western U , taking an honour course in Business Administration and Secretarial Science. Verta, we all wish you success in your future vocation. --- K. s. DELMAR WALTER nnfr Delmar Kipp was born June 13, 1916, in the village of Princeton. He spent the first few years of his life in ease and comfort, but at the tender age of five, he was sent off to the Princeton Public School. There he toiled over his studies until the year 1929. In this eventful year, he passed his Enrance and embrarked on his high school career. This seemed to pro- gress quite favorably, and in the year 1933, after four years of hard work mixed with sports, he graduated from Princeton Continuation School. Then determined to secure more knowledge before beginning his struggle with life, he enrolled' at Paris High School. This year he is graduating from Paris High School, and intends to set- tle down and look after his farm. He has always been very much interest- ed in sports, and his favourite pastime is hunting. In fact, in any of his spare moments, one may glimpse him heading across the fields with his gun over his shoulder. L- R. V. MURRAY AUSTIN McGILL His life is gentle, and the elements So mixed in him that nature might stand up And say to all the world, This is a man! Lord Tennyson. Murray McGill, noted musician, past Editor-in-Chief of the Quill, and ex-President of the Literary Society is the kind of student that Paris High School simply must appropriate. From the day of his birth, the seventeenth of January, 1916, the gods have Watched over Murray and directed his life along useful paths. The first was the path from the house to the barn on his father's farmg the se- cond was the path to the Stone School, which he trod from his sixth to his twelfth year. He kept to this narrow way so diligently that he won the First Penman Scholarship at his Entrance examinations In P. H. S., Murray displayed his outstanding ability b winnin th , , Y 8 e QIILUIIIOI' Clgatorical contest and, two .years later, the McCormick Matriculation nze urray held an enviable position in the social and literary life of the school, he made friends with everyone and was liked by all. This fact is pro- ven, because Murray was elected President of the Literary Society twice and was Editor-in-Chief of the Quill twice. After having run the race and finished the course at Paris High School by delivering the Va1edictorian's address, Murray has entered on his degree course at the Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph. We all wish that his climb on this new path will take him to well de- served success and happiness. The shining throne is waiting But he alone can take it Who says with Roman firmness . I'l1 find a way or make it. And Murray will. L. S. B. 10

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PARIS HIGH SCHOOL YEAR BOOK EDITH LENORE MILLER Always smiling and cheerful, to everyone a friend. QuQe a disturbance was created in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Miller upon the arrival of their first and only daughter, Lenore, Who' first saw the light of day on April 112, 1915. During the pre-school age childish mischief took up most of her spare time. u O At the age of seven she began her quest for knowledge, if such it was, at Moyle's School. In 1928 she gave up this carefree life to enter Paris High School, passing her Entrance with Honours. During her six years of High School life, Lenore laughed her way into the hearts of all who knew her. In 1932 she won Mrs. J. K. Martin's Scholarship for proficiency in Junior Matriculation papers. Being a good student herself, Lenore was al- ways eager to help someone elseg thus, she spent most of her last year in teaching some fifth-form boys intricate problems of mathematics. However, she did not spend all her time in this manner because she served as fifth form reporter of The Quill during three terms. This year Lenore graduated with complete Junior and Honour Matricu- lation. At present Lenore is amusing herself at her home, but in the near future she expects to enter Hamilton General Hospital. Her many friends wish her every success in her chosen lplrofesgon. HELEN PRUSS Helen was born on June 4, 1916. Her home was on the fifth conces- sion cf Blenheim, about two and a half miles south-west of Drumbo. At the age of five, she began her education at the Public School of Springhill, about a mile from her home. Here she attended school for seven and a half years, and at the age of thirteen she tried her Entrance at the Drumbo Continuation School and was successful in passing her examinations. The next fall she entered High School at Drumbo, and spent four successful years there. During this time she drove a horse to school. She scarcely ever missed a day, and was seldom late. At the end of four years, she had com- pleted her Junior Matriculation and had graduated from Drumbo Continuaf tion School. She planned to attend P. H. S., and in her year there gained nine subjects for her Senior Matriculation. Not satisfied with the results of her labours, she did not wish to end her education there. At the Hamilton Normal School she can still be seen bending over a desk, deep in the study of grammar and arithmetic. So kind and gentle the livelong day She makes all happy who come her way. M. R. MADGE ROUNDS Madge was born on February 7, 1916. Her home was situated on the tenth concession of Blenheim, about four miles north-east of Drumbo. She resided there until she was four, and then she went with her parents to hve about half a mile north of Drumbo. From here her first steps toward an edu- cation began at the Public School at Drumbo. ln three years' time she mov- ed again with her parents to the eighth concession, where her home still is. She remained a pupil at the same school, passed her Entrance at the age of thirteen, and entered the Continuation School. For four years she plodded through the Wearisome routine of ,mathematics, languages and agriculture, and in the end gained her Junior Matriculation. With the ambition to rise still higher, she continued her studies at Paris High School, and in one year completed her course of nine subjects for her Senior Matriculation. Not yet willing to leave her studies, she decided to enter Normal School, and for the 1934-35 term will be found still bending over her books. With a wish to put her name on the pages of Time She bends o'er her studies from five until nine. H. P. 12