Paris High School - Arena Yearbook (Paris, IL)

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I AM PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN BECAUSE THE AMERICAN PURPOSE. BORN OF BROTHERLY LOVE AND HUMAN EQUALITY. IS TO SERVE: NOT TO RULE. THIS IDEA IS EXPRESSED IN OUR HOMES. OUR CHURCHES. AND OUR REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY. AMERICA SERVES ME: I SERVE AMERICA: AND. THROUGH HER. I SERVE THE WORLD. THERE IS PRIDE IN SERVICE. CRUEN NATIONAL ESSAY CONTEST 1939 SL'SANNE TAFLINCER PARIS HICH SCHOOL - L THE HAPPIEST AND FREEST IN THE WORLD

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fc What could be more appropriate in such troubled times than an emphasis upon America’s greatest heritage. Democracy? We all agree that a democracy is vitally dependent upon the universal education of its people. Since it is the purpose of our democratic pub- lic schools to shape and mold the students into intelligent citizens, we, of the Arena staff, have chosen Education In a Democracy” as the theme for the 1940 yearbook. Never has a greater need existed for good citizenship and interest in the institutions which teach it and support it. Our country is flooded with foreign isms”; and it is the duty of our democratic schools to produce in- telligent men and women to fight, not against these foreign isms”, but to fight for the only ism” true to our democracy—Americanism! We of America cannot fully realize the ad- vantages of education in our democracy over the training given to the youth of foreign lands. The youth of the dictatorships arc trained with wooden guns and military drills and exercises; we, of the democracy, are trained with the ideals of citizenship. This book is the Staff’s presentation of Education In a Democracy.” OUR SCHOOL P3a This section contains the pic- tures of the faculty and organiza- tion groups with a historical sketch of each. ITS ATHLETICS fe An accurate account of all ath- letic events in story and picture is recorded in this division. AND STUDENTS te This is the album section, fea- turing the seniors and lower class- men with accompanying stories.