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

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20 PARIS HIGH SCHOOL YEAR BOOK School At Horne The Annual At Home was held on February 25, and was well attend- ed by students from every form. The program began with the usual surname contest. The winners of this contest were Agnes Maus and Arden Miller. Then came the Treasure Hunt which some of the less Athletic participants might have called an Endurance Test , because they were directed from one room to another by different signs on different boards, and no one wasted any time in reachin the next room. The object was to find letters written on the boards. These letters were to be replaced by letters at the end of the Alphabet correspond- ing to them. The word was Treasure The winners of this contest were Bill Stockton and Jack Kelley. The most amusing event was the recognition contest. A group of stu- dents dressed in costumes paraded around while the rest guessed their iden- tity. Rita Granton was disguised as Greta Garbo. Betty Cameron as Mae West. Wallie Creedon, as W. C. Fields, Francis Inksater, and some of the boys of Ix B as Snow White and Seven Dwarfsg Bill Campbell as Eddie Can- tor and five IxA girls as his five daughtersg Bill Stockton, Bobby Westg Charles Barnes, Hitlerg and Pat Larin, Martha Raye. Sixteen participants guessed them all. Lots were drawn and Dorothy Morgan and Richard Knowles won. For about an hour after this bingo and dancing took place. Lunch was served by waiters distinguished by frilly aprons. Thus ended the At Home of 1938. Donna Pottruff Remembrance Day Service The students of Paris High School assembled in the auditorium on Thursday, November 10, for the annual Remembrance Day Service in memory of those who gave their lives that there might be peace. The service was opened by the singing of O Canada after which the winners of the Canadian Legion Essay contest were announced as follows: Grade IX, Betty McCowang Grade X, Mary McCallum, Form III, Winni- fred Elsong Form IV, Jack Muir. Mr. Butcher then introduced our guest speaker, Reverend Mr. Gowdy, who delivered a very impressive address on the theme of remembrance. He introduced his subject by the question, Why should a school of youth, whose students are just beginning their life, find time for a service of such a nature-of remembrance? It would seem on first consideration that only the more mature minded should be concerned with memories of the Great War, but, on studying the question more closely, the speaker pointed out that there was nothing in the whole subject of remembrance that was not vital to youth. At the close of the speech we stood with heads bowed while the Hon- our Roll of our school was read. The service closed with the singing of the National Anthem.

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PARIS HIGH SCHOOL YEAR BOOK 19 an exhibiton of tumbling. As was shown in all the succeeding events, the quick response to the trainer's whistle was the main feature of the actions Following this the boys of Forms II. and Junior Commercial presented a ser- ies of pyramid formations, which were the result of long and possibly ted- ious, practice by both trainer and pupils. The quick applause of the audience was given to the folk dance, Tan- toli provided by the girls of Form IXA to the accompaniment of June Clancy. Attired in black and white sport clothing, twelve of the Form II and Junior Commercial girls gave a gymnastic showing, ending with a short but grace- ful dance. Eileen Lee played soft and appropriate music. The Senior Commercial students took charge of the next portion of the program, devoting their part to an interesting exhibition of Shorthand and Typing. An explanatory talk on the origin and development of shorthand was given by Dorothy Leishman, who said that Isaac Pitman, the originator, discovered this great system, by merely drawing a circle. As a conclusion to her explanation, three students, Teresa Murphy, Gladys Bemrose, and Kathleen McDonald took down in shorthand, a letter dictated by Miss Taber, at an average rate of sixty words per minute and the former two girls transcribed it to the typewriter. With the aid of a victrola, Florence Morris, Doris Shannon, and Kathleen McDonald demonstrated the value of typing to music and the resulting rhythm, increasing speed from thirty-five to forty-five, and Finally to fifty words a minute. The concluding portion of the program consisted of musical renditions, directed by Mr. Edward Barrett, musical director of Paris schools. King Kent, with Jimmy Mogan assisting at the piano, conducted an old familiar French song, A1ouette. Form IXA girls, directed by Edith Lewis, gave the number, Sur le Pont, with June Clancy at the piano. The school uniforms, navy blue and white, present a neat effect. The choral group rendered effectively three songs: Oh Dear, What Can the Matter Be, a three part German choraleg and Annie the Miller's Daughter, after which the IXB boys interpreted Billy Boy and Shenandoah Concluding their program, they were assisted by Jimmy Mogan in a sailor's song, The Sailor and the Mermaid. A mixed student chorus of Form II sang Evening Song CGrulkeJg Come Let Us Dance Cl-lungarian Folk Songjg and De- dicationf' At the close of the program, the audience was invited to inspect the classrooms, and view a display of art, typing, shorthand, spelling and writ- ing, and the Commercial Bookkeeping Notebooks. There was no doubt left in the minds of the audience that the pupils were certainly worthy of the well-earned praise and congratulation which they received during the course of the evening. After examining the ex- hibiton of work, they more readily understood how great and unceasing were the efforts of the teachers and pupils to make their Junior Night the success they strived to obtain. , , K. MCDONALD

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I H C 1 H I 512' l v, BR ,E X I 4 .ii I ,F f noi if we as .XY Executive of Literary Society, Fall Term 1938,--Names on Page 85. Staff of The Quill Fall Term, 1938.-Names on Page 89. Your Book Committees. -Names on Pago 89.