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

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PARIS HIGH SCHOOL YEAR BOOK 21 Prophecy for Form V 1937 While going to school yesterday, I reached the corner just in time to see a big silver zepplin stop at the edge of the road. Startling red letters on it said: SPECIAL CENT-A-YEAR EXCURSION INTO THE FUTURE- THE OPPORTUNITY OF A LIFE-TIME. As I jumped on board, a Hash of white light blinded me and a voice that sounded somewhat familiar said, Well lassie, how far do you want to go? Emptying my purse, I found that my net proceeds were 200, so, figuring that 20c would take me 20 years into the future, I said, As far as 1957! Though I still saw no one, I heard the Voice giving strange orders that sounded like a night-mare Chemistry formula- 3 2 4Fifth Form of 19373 x Q20cD divided by Julius Ceasor plus H SO 2 4 The zeppelin rose, and it seemed that almost immediately we reached a park vaguely like the Lions Club playground in Paris. But, instead of benches, there were easy chairs, and instead of a wading pool, a long sandy beach with waves lapping the shore. There the zeppelin landed, and the Voice shouted: Everybody out! Change here for 1958. As I stepped out -the door, a small card was thrust into my hand, which said, Go next to Snoop and Snoop, the Deadly Detectives. Looking about, I saw James Elson over in the corner of the park, mounted on a huge box marked SOAP , He was addressing a large crowd of Knock 'Em Down Strikers-among them the Georges QGarner and Lee?-who looked fero- ciously at me as I hurried past. Soon I saw the sign Snoop and Snoop, the Deadly Detectives over an office door and entered. There I found Ruby Watts, who had realized her life-long ambition and had become a detective. While busy with a couple of clients tthey were Teresa Murphy and Ethel Sinclair, anxious to have tracked down the brute who had stolen their Inviso-Eyelashes under false pretencesj she gave me a newspaper to read. On the front page was a pic- ture of Grace Dennis and Louise Sovereign in nurses' uniforms, receiving something from a smiling official. The subnote explained that they were being given the special award for the nurse who had the most soothing ef- fect on the jaded eyes of her patients over a four-year period. They had tied for the honour. An ad. on page two praised in Howery phrases the merits of the finest appetite-teasers in the world, Luscious Tummy Temptersi' Elizabeth Maus, it seemed, was the now wealthy creator of its wonderful formula. A note added that the world-famous singer and leading soprano of Universal Opera, Rita Bradley, would star on the radio program to be broadcasted the following Thursday, under the sponsorship of the makers of Tummy Temp- ters. When the clients had gone, Ruby came over to me. As was natural to one in her profession, she had followed the fortunes of all our former class- mates, and proceeded to tell me about them. She said that- David Maclaren was exploring a newly-discovered island where he be-

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20 PARIS HIGH SCHOOL YEAR BOOK for me to pass the torch on to you, and wish you, most sincerely, every success and happiness. Dear fellow graduates let us ever keep before us this poem, written by Longfellow- LIFE Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time:- Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er Life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. VERNA M. POTTRUFF. 39cm Qrahuates Of Middle School who left during 1937 James Cameron-Bank of Toronto, Paris. Marjorie Cavan-Brantford Business College. Beulah Coates C6 Middle School papersb-Paris. 5 Burleigh Crozier-At home, No. 5 Highway. Joyce Graham-Paris. Lucy Grulke C6 Middle School papersb-Kitchener. Verna Hutty-At home, north of Paris. Dean Johnston C4 Middle School papersj-Sarnia. Erma McConnell 16 Middle School papersj-Jarvis C. I., Toronto. Donald McDonald C3 Middle School papersj-Paris. Geoffrey Mitchell 17 Middle School papersj-Paris. Gordon Parsons C6 Middle School papersj-Leicester, England., taking a course in construction of hosiery machines. George Redfern 15 Middle School papersj-Paris. Jack Rogers C2 Middle School papersj-General Office, Penmans. Barbara Thomson-Clinton C. I. CThis student has qualihed for a Gradua- tion Diploma but she hopes to return to Paris to take the Honour Ma- triculation work later.

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O 22 PARIS HIGH SCHOOL YEAR BOOK lieved that grass-skirt grass had first been cultivated. He was exploring it on behalf of an old friend and class-mate, Glenn H. Taylor, who was col- lecting material for a book on the subject. At the time, it seemed, Glenn had gained great fame as a writer of thrillers, but, believing that his name belonged among those of the literary giants, he intended to raise it to that position by his proposed book- The Rise and Fall of the Grass Skirt. Barbara Telfcr, who had started the Hrst aeroplane taxi-service to the Moon, had on her last trip, been lost and had discovered a brand-new pla- net which she was calling Tennis-Land, and which she hoped to make a sort of Tennis-players' Heaven. To emphasize the Heaven impression, Barb had persuaded Grace Heaney to meet the earth-folk at the gateg Grayce's aides were to be those two red-heads, Loretta Wilson and Marg. Nash. Vera Bradley, as we had always predicted, had ended up in Hollywood. Now known as the lovely Lily Pond, she was thrilling thousands of movie- goers with her fatal methods of ensnaring the hero. Gwen Bemrose, too, had been lured by the silver screen, and her dramatic talent had won for her the coveted Tear-Jerking Trophy. Milton Brooks, known as the Demon of Wall Street, had cleaned up millions on the stock market and was still adding to his hoard. He devoted his spare time to designing Bigger and Better Bird Houses, and also had founded the annual prize for the most outstanding work in Canadian Sculp- ture. Marion Wreaks had won it the preceding year with her striking con- ception, in marble, of The Turning of the Worm, while Catherine Mit- chell had been the runner-up with a life-like presentation of The Snail on the Thorn. Mildred Sibbick was now a perfume-sniffer in Dorothy Watts' perfume salon. People were coming from all over the world to have these two ex- perts create a new perfume especially for them, for Marge Gillies and Betty Larin, who had joined the ranks of the bridal rich , they had concocted two distinctive perfumes-Glamor-O-Smellio and Hotcha-Patootsie. Don Simmons, who had risen to fame with his song hit, Strolling Through the Cemetery, was still writing successful popular songs, in be- tween broadcasting as a top-notch pianist. Speed Lee, Don's featured vo- calist, had astonished the whole civilized world by his ultra-modern 1957 interpretation of the old-fashioned Swing, Joyce Priest had become so famous as a dress-designer that the fashion centre of the world had changed from Paris, France, to Paris, Ontario. It had been Joyce who had decided the great question of the style of ladies' gas-masks during the Second World War, basing her decision on the inside style-information provided by Jean Perry. Ethel Henderson had opened a kindergarten school and been very suc- cessful for he ran it on the principle that the pupil is always right -and how could such a school fail? Walter Miller, the schoo1's financial backer, took a fatherly interest in all the pupils and proved it by presenting an an- nual prize to the worst all-round student. Jack Wilkin and Keith Brown had made good in the automobile and aeroplane industry. Their newest model was a combination aeroplane and automobile which did not require gasoline as fuel, but ran on potato peel-