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

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PARIS HIGH SCHOOL YEAR BOOK The Years Between During the years 1932 and 1933, no book was issued to tell the public of the activities at Paris High School. A detailed account of all these ac- tivities cannot be given, but, in order to have a permanent record of the intervening years, it has been thought advisable to include in this Year Book at least the highlights of this period. Let us consider first the happenings of 1932. In the Literary Society for the Spring Term, Sylvanus Apps was president and Dr. Jeffery was Honorary President. The Editor-in-chief of The Quill was Gordon Miller. Vera Cruickshank was president of the Girls' Athletic Association and Syl- vanus Apps was president of the Boys' Athletic Association. The girls entered a team in W.O.S.S.A. Basketball for the first time, but were defeated in the first round by Brantford C. I. The Junior Boys' Bas- ketball Team won three out of four games with Brantford. They were beaten by one point on the round with Kitchener C. I. for group honours. The Junior and Senior Oratorical Contests were held on January 29, when Edgar Nash won the Junior Boys', Elleene Munroe the Junior Girls' and Vera Cruickshank the Senior Girls' Contest. On February 8, Vera went to Kitchener where she came second in the W.O.S.S.A. District Orat- orical Contest. The Junior District Contests were held in Paris on February 12, Edgar Nash was first and Elleene Munroe was second, in their respec- tive contests. Inclement weather in the fall of 1931 made it necessary to postpone the Burford-Paris-Simcoe Athletic Meet until the following spring. It was held on May 11 at Simcoe. There were no entries in the girls' events from Burford and Simcoe, so our girls did not compete. The boys of our school won both the Junior and Senior cups. At the W.O.S.S.A. Field Meet held in London on May 21, 1932, Sylvanus Apps made a new record of 11 ft., 63f4 inches in the Senior Pole Vault. He was first also in the Senior Running Broad Jump. In the Intermediate class, Homer Wilson was first in the Half-mile and Verne Martin was third in the Running Broad Jump, while Russel Taylor was first in the Junior High Jump. At the Provincial Field Meet held in Toronto, Sylvanus Apps was again first in the Senior Pole Vault, Homer Wilson was second in the Intermed- iate Half-mile and Russel Taylor was third in the Junior High Jump. For the fall term, Mr. Chas. McCausland was Honorary President and Murray McGill was president of the Literary Society, Lawrence Cassady was Editor-in-chief of The Quill, Margaret McArthur was president of the Girls' Athletic Association, and Homer Wilson was president of the Boys' Athletic Association. The annual Field Day was held on October 5, when the Athletic Cham- pions were: Senior Girls-Olive Robb, Intermediate Girls-Hazel Peberdy, Junior Girls-Verna Gedney, Senior Boys-J ack Taylor, Intermediate Boys -Russel Taylor and Junior Boys-William Rutherford. The Burford-Paris-Simcoe Athletic Meet was held in October at Bur- ford. The Paris boys won both the Junior and Senior Cups, but the Bur- ford girls won the Girls' Cup. On November 10, the Annual Remembrance Day Service was held. Third Form had charge of the service. Mr. Cocks was the guest speaker and gave an inspiring address on The Great War. At the Commencement Exercises on November 25-, Sylvanus Apps was Valedictorian and diplomas were presented to twenty graduates. A one- act play Brothers-in-Arms , under the direction of Miss Ramsay was giv- en by the senior students. The usual post-commencement concert was held 23

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PARIS HIGH SCHOOL YEAR BOOK the stage, went to Hollywood where he has done very well in short com- edy pictures. Verne has been producing musical comedies on Broadway for several years. 'Dick Murray took up aviation as his life Work and I must' say he has been extremely successful. It was he who perfected the new rocket planes for the New York to London Trans-Atlantic Airway. Delmar' Kipp and Roger Veit have been partners in a milk industry for twenty years, and now operate the largest dairying industry in Canada. Four of the class pursued the teaching profession. Lorne Brooks, after a brilliant university career, began lecturing at Toronto University and is now professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University. Jack Taylor is now director of athletics at Toronto University and it was he who coached the Canadian team at the recent Olympic games at Paris, France. Helen Pruss and Lenore Miller taught school for several years near Paris, but later both married and settled down. I understand also that Jeanette Mur- ray and Madge Rounds were married soon after leaving school. Jeanette's husband is now Chief of Police in the' city of Hamilton. Constance McK.ie' became a nurse and is now superintendent of the Montreal General Hose pital. Murray Hamilton and Henry Smith both took up engineering as occupations. Henry now belongs to the firm of Golberg, Golberg, Golberg, Golberg, Golberg, Golberg and Smith, consulting' engineers hz. Winnipegg while Murray is chief engineer of the Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Com- panyp Yes, mother, concluded Mr. Butcher as he picked up his paper, That was truly a wonderful class and it gives me aa great deal off' pride to think of how well each member has done. We return back twenty-five years, through the pages of time and see this class whose destiny I have just set forth, seated in their desks in the lap boratory of Paris High School. I must say that they do not give one an impression of brilliancy- quite on the contrary but what does this matter now that we have found out that through the course of time, this class will blossom forth, displaying its hidden genius and taking prominent plai- ees in the outside world. Russel Taylor, Prophet. C' The prophet is wrong. This student was not the editor of the col- umn in The Paris Stany ' i The class had been told to write a composition on a bitter ending. The teacher gave as an example of such this concluding' paragraph, And the ship sank. Such a bitter end for the voyage! The next day Don Simmons handed in this as his composition, t'Our dog' chased our cat and bit 'er end. After all these years, remarked Craig Sowden, who had come back after twenty years to' lecture in Paris, I miss' many of the old faces with which I used to shake hands. This is a skyscraper, announced the guide. The old lady sighed and said, Oh my! How I'd love to see work!

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PARIS HIGH SCHOOL YEAR BOOK on the following Monday evening. The commencement program was re- peated with the addition of a few musical numbers. For the Spring Term of 1933, Mr. Charles McCausland was again ap- pointed Honorary President, with Murray McGil1 president of the Literary Society. The duty of Editor-in-chief of The Quill fell upon Donald Stewart. The executives of the Athetic Associations are elected in the fall, and hold office for a year, so the presidents were the same as in the fall of 1932. Q February 2 was Junior Night. Joyce Priest was winner of the Junior Girls' Oratorlcal Contest while Allan Veall won the Junior Boys' Contest. 'These two speakers ably represented P. H. S. at the W.O.S.S.A. District Contest held here on February 15. Joyce Priest succeeded in coming se- cond in the Girls' Contest. The annual School At Home was held on February 17. There were Labout two hundred present and everyone agreed it was the usual success. We were honoured on May 3, by a visit from the famous Hart House String Quartet. Members of the Board of Education with their wives and a few of the local musicans were present and all enjoyed the pleasant hour of music supplied by the Quartet. On May 4, at seven a.m., when Mr. Tate opened the school door he was greeted by a dense cloud of smoke. Rushing to the gymnasium, he found that fire of unknown origin had started around the platform there. He succeeded in extinguishing it unaided. The gym. was a total wreck and the smoke had blackened the walls, floors and ceilings throughout the entire school. The pupils had a vacation for two days while a large band of men cleaned up and made the school habitable again. At the W.O.S.S.A. Field Meet in London on May 24th, Keith Ratcliffe was second in the Juvenile Running Broad Jump and also second in the Juvenile High Jump. Mrs. Ferguson Spooner of Chengtu, China, a former teacher here, don- ated a pair of Chinese panels as a prize for a poetry contest These were b won y Jean Reid on her poem May Day. This poem appears elsewhere in this book. In W.O.S.S.A. Basketball, the Junior Boys' Team won three out of four games of a double schedule with Ingersoll C. I., but were beaten by Aylmer H. S. The Girls' Team and the Senior Boys' Team were eliminated by Brantford C. I. The Honorary President of the Literary Society for the Fall Term was Mr. George L. Telfer and Donald Stewart was president. Murray McGill was editor-in-chief of The Quill. Margaret Buck and Ve president of the Girls' Athletic and Boys' Athletic Associations respectively. Fine weather on September 27 played an important part in making the P. H. S. Field Day a success. The champions were: Junior Girls-Betty Kelley, Intermediate Girls-Laura Wilkin, Senior Girls-Hazel Peberdy, Junior Boys-Douglas Verity, Intermediate Boys-Donald Hickson, Senior Boys-Verne Martin. On October 12 the Burford-Paris Simcoe Field Meet was held in Paris, when all three cups were won by our school. Not bad, eh? The Paris Post of the Canadian Legion donated medals to the pupils writing the best essays on Canada's Part in the Great War. The winner in the first forms was Ethel McDonald, while Verna Pottruff's essay was the best from second form and commercial. Helen Wilkin wrote a fine es- say that she not only wonthe medal for Middle and Upper School, but the Legion presented her with a special prize at Commencement. 1 . At the Remembrance Day Service on November 9, Mr. Edgar Harold visited us. He brought to us some of his own impressions of the horrors of war. 24