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

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PARIS HIGH SCHOOL YEAR BOOK 21 Open Meeting of Literary Society On Thursday evening, May 19, the Literary Society of Paris High School held an open meeting in the school auditorium. The programme was supplied by the Paris High School Choir under the capable leadership of Mr. E. R. Barrett. The programme began with the singing of O Canadal' by the choir and audience. The general business of the Literary Society was discussed by Mr. Butcher. The choir favoured with two, three-part numbers, Jeru- salem by C. H. H. Perry, and The Rhyme of the Country Road by Nob- le Cain, and three more- Carillion -R. Sheehan, At Pierrot's Door, a French Folk Song and the Wonderful Inn , a German Folk Song. Two contralto solos, Linden Lean by Vaughan Williams, and Praise of God by Beethoven were very acceptably given by Dorothy McCrow. Following this, the boys of the choir sang Tom's Gone to Hilo and Haul Away Joe . Audrey Brooks gave the school poem and Gladys Schuyler the phophecy. Mary and James Mogan played two piano duets, Morning Mood and Hungarian Dance No. 7 by Brahms. The choir again favoured with Ye Watchers , Lasst Uns Eufreven, and Shepherd's Dance Henry VIII by Ed. German. After this the boys of the choir sang, A-Roving, Soloist, Eoin Currie, and The Keeper , and the girls Care flies from the Land by Aur. Moffat, and Golden Slumbersf' Arlene Tom and Oliver Mowat played two violin duets Spring Heavens by Curtis and Drink to me only with thine eyes , an old English air, very acceptably. The choir then sang Stars of the Summer Night, Woodbury, Nocturne, Mendelssohn, Whistling Farmer Boy , Root, and Home on the Range , a Cowboy song. The pro- gramme closed with the singing of God Save the King by the whole as- sembly. After the programme the parents and friends of the pupils of the High School went through the different rooms in the school. Grades IXA and IXB had art exhibits displayed. The members of the choir and their parents enjoyed a social hour afterwards. The athletic society served lunch and Vera Bradley supplied music for dancing. ' A.I.N. Don McLauchlin had retired and was living in California. He devot- ed his time to growing oranges. One day he chanced to visit Charles Barnes, also retired, but living in Florida. Charles was showing Don an orange tree near the house. Don said, Why, out in California, we grow a tree that size in about a year. Said Charles, Well, I can't say for sure, but I don't think that this tree was here yesterday. Mary M.-My what a lot of freckles you have. Art Racey-Those aren't freckles, that is my iron constitution going rusty. Wally Creedon-What colour is that girl's bathing suit. Lancelot Cwith Wally at the beachj-I can't seeg she's reading a book,

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22 PARIS HIGH SCHOOL YEAR BOOK A Chinese University in VVar Time Before the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in July 1937, the campus of the West China Union University was a busy spot in the life of a great interior province of China. The university is just a mile or so outside the south gate of the city of Chengtu, the capital of the province of Szechwan. On a clear morning We can look out to the west and see the great snow moun- tains of Tibet, the land of fascination and romance. We had a student body of some four hundred students divided among the faculties of Arts, Science, Medicine and Dentistry. But today a much different picture can be drawn. For we have welcom- ed to our campus refugee students by their hundreds and refugee teachers by the score. Up to the present there have come, either in whole or in part, four other Christian universities and one great government school of medi- cine and dentistry. Our student body has increased to almost one thousand and consequently classrooms and laboratories have been put on double shift in order to meet the new demands. Our guests have had a hard time as they fled from the downriver in- stitutions before the arrival of the Japanese. Practically all are separated and out of touch with their families, money is very scarce and the future uncertain. One of our friends, a professor of chemistry in the University of Nanking told us of being given forty-eight hours in which to pack up all chemicals and apparatus and move the faculty and student bodies out of Nanking. Carpenters by the hundreds were called into nail up the boxes which were feverishly packed as carefully as possible. Imagine the amount of delicate apparatus that would have to be disconnected, wrapped individ- ually and then carefully packed so that the gentle handling of the Chinese stevedores would do no damage. Another friend told of the inteolerable crowding on the few steamers that were left in Nanking to carry crowds of refugees upriver to a haven of safety, of being without food or even water to drink for days, and of the constant fear that a Japanese bomber would sight the boat and ruthlessly bomb them. What kind of leaders and teachers are these, who have come to our campus? They are a fine group. Most of them have spent three years or more abroad studying, after graduation from a Chinese university. In addition, they have been leading the way in finding new ways and means of educating Chinese youth. One of our guests, Dr. Wu, is president of Ginling Women's College, commonly called the Vassar of China. She is one of the outstanding women in China today. Another is Dr. Wei noted for his development of extension Work at the University of Nanking. He has pioneered in the use of educational movies in Chinese high school work. Still another is Dr. Bi, a leader in Public Health work in China. He was forced out of Mukden Medical College by the Japanese conquest of Man- churia in 1931 and now six years later is again driven to a new sphere of work. These leaders have come, conscious of the privilege that is theirs,