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

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PARIS HIGH SCHOOL YEAR BOOK 23 they have given us the past six years. Then, too, we have our different societies which offer the best of train- ing in ways of leadership and self-discipline, and the opportunity to de- velop personality and character. And to you students who remain, the graduating class urges you to give of your best to the Literary and Athle- tic Societies, for the wonderful advantages that they offer will remain with you always, and enrich your lives long after you have left these halls and your lessons have been forgotten. I think the graduating class of this year will forever cherish the mem- ory of Paris High School for yet another reason than merely that of ac- quiring knowledge. During these years some of the most enduring friend- ships have been formed, friendships that will stand the test of years and still be binding. A few of us went to Public School together, but many of us had never seen one another before a certain September morning six years ago. Since that time we have worked and played together, and be- cause of those happy hours we hold many precious recollections in our hearts, and although for many of us our school days are over, and we are even now Widely separated, these bonds of friendship will become still more enduring as the years roll by. They will not like the rose wither, but like the evergreen live forever. To you who remain!-we trust that you will preserve the stainless honour of our school, the good sportsmanship, and the friendly spirit, and may you strive to maintain the reputation that both scholars and athletes of this school have maintained in the past! So to you we throw the torch, be yours to hold it high! And thus we leave. But before we say farewell, we take one last look at the School that will always be held most dearly and forever cherished in our heart of hearts. Ruth M. Gilbert. 1

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22 PARIS HIGH SCHOOL YEAR BOOK Valedictory Mr. Chairman, Students of Paris High School, Ladies and Gentlemen: Once again a graduating class must say good-bye to Paris High School, and it is with the greatest pleasure that I address you tonight as Valedic- torian of this 1936 Graduating Class. It is true that this is the goal at which we aimed for some five or six years, and yet, I think it is rather with a feeling of regret that we remember that these few happy jyears. spent within these walls, are past, never to return. Tonight we stand on the threshold of another life, and from this threshold there stretches out into the beyond a great highway dotted with the sign-posts of advantage and opportunity. Ours is the future! Ours is the youth! May we, as we travel along life's road, firmly grasp these ad- vantages and opportunities and by moulding them with honesty, clear- thinking, determination and fair-play, know in the years to come the joy of success and achievement! As we look back into the past, we remember one bright September morning back in 1930, when seventy or eighty very new students enrolled at Paris High School-the Graduating Class of 1936. Truly, we are not that many in numbers now, for many have forsaken our ranks at various times to follow different paths. Perhaps the first two years of our sojourn here were spent chiefly in adapting ourselves to our new studies and new surroundings, and we often used to wonder whether or not we would ever graduate. That eventful day seemed so far away in the uncertain future that we were wont to think of it only at remote times. But, finally the days, the months, the years iiew by, as if on Wings, and we found ourselves passing from Middle School into Upper School. Then it was, and not till then, that We truly realized that we would have to leave our beloved school, and all its dear associations. And so, tonight we have gathered together once more that we may bid farewell to our School, our teachers, the students we leave behind us, and our friends, although in the future we hope to return many times, and trust that we may remain at least in spirit still members of the school. As we recall the countless hours spent here under this roof, I think it is not so much the struggle for knowledge that confronts us, but rather the memory of the happy times spent at our Field Days, our At Homes, our School Dances, Oratorical Contests, Literary programs, our spare periods, our physical training classes, and our basketball games. During these years we took so much for granted, and it is only now when those joys are gone forever that we realize that we did not treasure them enough nor re- cognize their true value. The graduating class tonight would like to express its deep apprecia- tion and gratitude to the Board of Education and to the citizens of Paris who so ably support it. It has always taken the greatest interest in our welfare, and to it we owe our many advantages and privileges. We indeed have a school of which to be proud, and we most certainly have an asset in our principal, Mr. Butcher and his capable staff. Our teachers are al- ways ready to lend a helping hand either in or out of class-periods, and to them we say 'thank-you' for the kindly and most helpful direction that

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24 PARIS HIGH SCHOOL YEAR BOOK N.-. -exa- nv ,J i fl M i Llterary Society W ff A2 'vvii D 1, , IJi-ff? ' Q, 3 IWIO in iii ii.y it ,fl Hifi ii V -.. iilf ii iii gimeiuliml Honorary President President .......,. .,..... .,A., First Vice-President .. Second Vice-President Third Vice-President Secretary ,......,,,........., Treasurer ...,... Critic .,...... Poet ,.A...,... Marshall ...... Honorary President President ..,4...,......,.....,.. First Vice-President Second Vice-President Third Vice-President . Secretary .......,..., . ... .A Treasurer ...,, r,.r , , Prophetess ..... Poetess ....,.., Critic ,..,......, ......,..,.. Marshall ...,..,............,..,. Fall Term-1936 Geofrey Bell, D.D.S. H in Iliu .A ....... William McCrow Arthur Barrowclitfe Harry McCormick Frances Inksater William Rutherford .. . .,..,, Douglas Moss Hubert Wells . ..,.. Milton Brooks Emory Knill Dr. F. H. Jeffery Glenn Taylor James Cameron Gladys Bemrose ,. Durward Midgley , Betty Larin Vera Bradley ,, Mary Jeffery Audrey Brooks Jack Wilkin William Campbell S 2 The first meeting of the Fall term of the Paris High School Literary Society, took place on October 2nd. After a lengthy business session, the members of IA were initiated and were formally ushered into school life. The initiations consisted largely of jokes and humorous recitations. IB re- ceived their baptism into P.H.S. on October 19. On October 7th, we were privileged to have with us a former student who has brought honour not only to himself and to his family, but to his school. Sylvanus Apps was kind enough to address the Society on his re- cent trip to Germany as a member of the Canadian Olympic Team. He told us in a friendly and charming manner of his voyage across the ocean and vividly described the Olympic games, the Olympic village and present con- ditions existing in Germany. The annual Remembrance Day service was held on November 10. Rev.