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

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ISS PARIS HIGH SCHOOL YEAR BOOK, I943 Zfzana ifion PARIS HIGH SCHOOL IN 1925 J 12 gifted with Supermarfs mar- vellous X-ray eyes, you were m peer intently into the comer-stone of Paris High School, you would make an interesting discovery. What you would see there is revealed in the following news-item: from The Star-Transcript of Wednesday, Au- gust 29. 1923. It reads as follows: There was a good attendance last Saturday afternoon of members of the Board of Education, Town Coun- cil, and others, at the function in connection with the laying of the cor- ner of the new 580,000 high school. Mr. Ernest Apps, chairman of the Board, presided on the occasion, and after welcoming all present, briefly referred to the object of the gather- ing, He then called upon Rev. J. C. Nicolson who offered the dedicatory prayer. To Miss I-L. McCosh, the first and only lady member of the' Board of Education, was accorded the honor of laying the corner-stone, during which Miss McCosh aptly spoke of the necessity of high schools and of the great benefit education was, not only to the boys and girlsg but to the community at large. En- closed in an iron box were copies of the Toronto Globe and the Mall: and Empire , The Paris Star-Tran- script , the Voters' list of 1922, and the Financial Statement of the town, a silver coin of each denomination, of the vintage of 1923, and a Union Jack. On a scroll were also the names of the members of the Board of Education and Town Council. The box containing above was placed in a cavity in the corner stone, the cap put and duly sealed. The proceed- ings closed with the singing of the Naiional Anthem. After the stowing away of these

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PARIS HIGH SCHOOL YEAR BOOK, 1943 17 During the lambing season there is enough to keep three men busy. The herder, of course, is busy look- ing after the main flock during the day and also Lhelps out at night by getting up a couple of times to put the new-bc-rn lambs and niothers iii- to the shedi During the day at least one, better' two, are kept busy mo- thering up the lambs and turning them out 'to feed, looking after those ,kept in the shed. and later bringing in the diiferent bunches. ' ll x. l. Haying is started in the West about the first Eof July and lasts pos- sibly until harvest. So you can see there is no definite haying season. The hay consists chiefly bffcrested wheat, 'sweet clover and prairie'hay. The hay is stacked in the fields due to the unlikelihood of frequent heavy rains. The haying lasts for quite a winter. Sheep will graze pretty Well if the snow is not too deep andif there is not too much crust. ' ' Shearing is done sometime in the latter part of May. As a rule it takes three days for a flock of 1200. It is done by a gang of six or eight men who go from ranch to ranch. A good shearer can shear from 70 to 100 sheep a day. The fleeces are tied individually and are packed in- to large sacksf Later these sacks are shipped to Ontario where the wool is graded and processed. A In the fall of the year the wether lambs and old ewes are shipped to Moose Jaw for sale or to buyers in Ontario or Alberta. They are therii fed during the Winter, and gradually? put on the market. ' I hope that this short article has yvhile, for a large flock will get out-- given a general idea of a ' western' side of a lot of feed if it: is a' hard u sheep ranch. ' X ' tj' I ' ' L L: . . .l. I ' 'Q KEY 'ro GRADE XI Front Row Cleft to rightjg E. Rowe, L. Lofgren, M. Cotton, N. Charman, F. - Steinhoff, ML McKinnon,--E. Wilkin, M. Morrison, B. Horrocks, E. Phil- lipo. '- f -' Second Row: E. Watts, B. Morrison, J. Burrill, J. Hastings, B. Parsons, E. X Sibbick, J. Sutor, B. Perley, J. Brown, G. Nuttall. Third Row:'J. Pottruff, I. Edgar, J. Howell, J. Walker, J. Mogan, W. Paley, A. Hutty, W. Jones, A. Coxall, L. Granton, W. Edgington. Back Row: J. Nunan, D. Lander, R. Stickland, W. Turner, H. Foote, A. ' Whitbread, N. Cruickshank. ' - 1 - KEY T0 GRADE XII Front Row Cleft to rightjg M. O'Neai1, J. Stewart, M. Brown, M. Charlton, - A. Frosch, N.' Cousland, M. McEwing, D. James, J. Etwart, ' 1 Second Row: B. Folsetter, M. Sovereign, M. Maus, B. Holder, J. Hutton, M. - ' Holder, B. Hough, J. McPherson, R. Geiger. - Third Row: R. Emerson, A. Palmer, D. Munn, L. Wise, J. Otto, J. Cameron, - I. Robinson,-C. Pott-ruff. - ' ll .. .u.

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'PARIS HIGH SCHOOL YEAR BOOK, 1943 lil treasures for posterity, the construc- tion of the school was carried rapid- ly forward, until finally, on March 28. 1924, all was ready for the offic- ial opening. The Star-Transcript again states in part: The formal op- ening of the New High 'School last Friday evening will go down in his- tory as one of time red letter events in connection with Paris. From the hour of seven o'clock until past ele- ven, when the building was open to the public for inspection, it is esti- mated that some fifteen hundred from town and disfrict took advant- age of same. In the gymnasium sev- eral hundred had assembled, and which had been handsomely decorat- ed with flags and bunting for the oc- casion under the direction of C. B. Robinson. During the evening capi- tal selections were rendered by the Kuhlman Orchestra of Paris . . Miss I-Iopg Dunton favored with a recita- tion in her usual winning manner . , . Mr. E. O. Apps, chairman of the Boardg the Honorable J. S. Martin, Provincial Minister of Agricultureg Professor A. T. McCrimmon, ex- Chanicellor of McMaster University and Professor Maybury of Stratford made addresses. This brought a most enjoyable evening to a close. The following is a list of the pre- sent Board of Education: E. O. Apps CChairmanJ, Dr. D. Dunton, Dr. F. Barron, H. C. O'Neail, Dr. W. Gould, Dr. W. Logie, D. A. Briggs, J. P. Gregory, F. Luck, George L. Telfer, Frank Huson and D. McTavish. Three members of the last year's board who were warmly interested in the erection of the new High School were Andrew Taylor, Duncan Telfer, and Miss H. McCosh. The majority of the 131 contem- porary pupils were relrcant to 'leave the old High School, and at first th'-:F were unhappy in their new palatial academy. They resented being torn from all the hallowed memories and traditions of the venerable Old High, and being shunted into a new, shiny, rectangular box, that 'somehow had the unpleasant air of a rich upstart. The mood of one pupil is feeling- ly revealed in the following sketch It was eaglv spring when we moved from the old High School to he new. The daffodils were blow- ing goldenly against the old brick Walls, and the Campus was brightly green at the old school when we left.: when we arrived at the new, we advanced up the slick, new pave- ments between seas of mud, and the only campus we had was a rough field at the back, where cows had browsed six months earlier. The change was heralded by a certain amount of excitement on the part of the pupils and staff: but un- derneath was a nagging, wistful feel- ing of nostalgia. The sensation one has when leaving a shabby, comfort- able home for a fine, new apartment. There were no formal speeches by the mayor or the president of the school board. We simply packed up our books and betook ourselves to the ostentatiously new building at the other end of the town. We tour- ed t.he wide halls and bright rooms, peeked into the laboratory with its excellent equipment, and viewed with alarm the square, dark cham- bers that were designated as com- modious lunch rooms. We had been accustomed to eating in a convivial group of both boys and girls in the big downstairs room that was second form at the Old High. Of course we enjoyed the gm-