Paris High School - Arena Yearbook (Paris, IL)

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Whether we paramount importance in anyone’s life. Those little manner- isms, jokes, irritations, loyalties, ami ideals which comprise an individual are what make our friends dear to us; tlxy're tlx very elements which you will probably recall in thinking of your war experiences. When we can no longer prove the Pythagorean Theorem or give tlx date of the Battle of Tra- falgar, we will still remember the days we've spent Ixre, tlx friends we've enjoyed, tlx members of tlx faculty who tried to be as helpful as possible, the secretaries, and tlx janitors who kept our lives as pleasant as they could. The human element doesn't change much from one year to another, or even from one generation to tlx next. T xre still remain eccentric individualists, who go from one wild escapade into another or who insist upon proceeding through school doing everything just a bit differently from tfxir contemporaries, t xre are always some who can't open t xir lockers, ot xrs w x labor industriously and succeed brilliantly, all’types— the versatile, tlx athletic, tlx popular. These combine to make a little world we'll never forget; so in tlx following pages we introduce you to tlx personnel of— OUR SCHOOL

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16 OUR BOARD of STRATEGY and Hood John R. Moss, B. S., M. A. Superintendent Remember when you were a first grader and a visit from the superintendent of schools was an impressive event? As you grew older you realized that this same superintendent, John R. Moss, was very much a human being, interested in your problems and anxious to solve them and so im- prove the general administration. Dorothea Hood, his secretary, assisted him in the office until March when she was succeeded by Marie Raines. Back of Mr. Moss stand members of the Board of Education, responsible for our public schools from the primary through the twelfth grade. An insurance man, a seed merchant, a finance agent, an engineer, an attorney, and a tinner—these men representing a cross-section of the citizens of Paris have given freely of their time and interest to maintain for us an efficient system of education. Without their untiring efforts our Physical Education Building, long a dream, would have possibly been unrealized. In war or peace we owe a great deal to our Board of Education and superintendent. BOARD OF EDUCATION R. F. Cotton, attorney; B. O. Luttrcll, tinner; Karl R. O’Hair, sales finance; V. L. Cramer, life insurance; M. J. Money, seed merebant; R. L. Bell, engineer, (not in picture)