Paris High School - Arena Yearbook (Paris, IL)

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OUR FACULTY SHELBY S. SHAKE, B.S., M.S. Mr. Shake, a newcomer to Paris, filled the vacancy in industrial arts. He says his boys have come to understand by this time that he’s not really an ogre. Pet peeve—dirty hands, neck, and ears. Likes dependability, honesty, accuracy, pre- cision. Hobby—golf. A card shark, he has a sense of humor and likes to kid” people, but in classes he demands attention to business. DON H. HAMILTON, B.S. Mr. Hamilton teaches the future farmers of the community. When he attended P.H.S., he was a basketball star and a member of the first Paris team to play in a State Tournament! A sailor in the first World War, he made two trips across the Atlantic. Pet peeve — seasickness. Hobby — pinochle, shrubs, and trees. Spends his summers visiting his students’ projects and in farming. AGNES HENDRICKS, B.S., M.A. A teacher of Home Living, Miss Hendricks has hobbies that are often connected with her job—collecting recipes, making slip covers, and refinishing old furniture. She says she usually discards each hobby as she masters it. Two years ago she learned to weave in an Art Colony located on the Croix River. Last summer she spent two weeks in a nutrition workshop at the University of Illinois. MARY A. PERISHO, B.S. Another Home Ec. major, Miss Perisho was, in her college days, the first freshman member of the Glee Club. She likes to travel to different parts of the country and sample dishes — a la Duncan Hines. One summer she worked in a settlement house at Bloomington. Believe it or not, she owns a black cat and a speckled dog that get along together marvelously well. MARY IDA RIEDELL, B.A. When Mr. Blair left for the armed services, an old friend returned to fill the vacancy. Before her marriage last summer, Mrs. Ricdcll, better known as Mary Ida Stcidl, had been with us three years. She likes to travel—either actually or in books, go horseback riding, sketch, arrange flow- ers, and experiment on new recipes. Pet peeve— flat bicycle tires! Mr. Shake InJm rijl Arts Mr. Hamilton Agriculture Miss Hendricks Home Using Miss Perisho Home Living

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SEVEREST CRITICS... lives very much in the present. He is an advo- cate of the See America First” idea. His hobbies include golf, reading, collecting phonograph rec- ords, and making recordings. H. DON SWEELEY, B.S. A history shark, Mr. Sweclcy also coaches football. This laconic character has a variety of hobbies—milking the cows, fishing, and raising prize-winning carrots. Pet peeve—public ban- quets. Likes, as all American History students should know, a good biography. MIRIAM L. CHURCH, B.S. Freshman class adviser, Miss Church has taught general science four years; she worked in a Chicago laboratory before becoming a peda- gogue. Hobbies—freshmen and miniature china dogs. She owns and loves a beautiful collie. Fond of sewing, she might have been a dress designer. FANNIE M. LUCKHAUPT, A.B. Miss Luckhaupt teaches biology and from the flourishing plants in her laboratory evidently has a green thumb.” Hobby—flower gardening. Likes traveling to national parks to study natural life there. She has a famous recipe for ice-box rolls. C. J. LITTLE, B.Ed. High priest of the Bunsen Burner and our very efficient athletic director is Mr. Little. His initials, C. J., arc a high school mystery. Summer is perhaps his most interesting season; in years past he has taught in summer school, worked on the railroad, and been an engineer at Camp Atterbury. OTTO R. ARIENS, A.B., M.S. A master of efficient detail, Mr. Ariens teaches physics and freshman algebra. He once joined the air force as a mechanic. Works with the State Highway Department during the sum- mer. He says he has no hobby but tinkers” with physics. Miss Church Mr. Little Science Science Miss Luckhaupt Mr. Ariens Science Science Mathematici

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2) THE SENIORS in RETROSPECT Wonder if it really is a sign of old age to feel reminiscent? Maybe the closer one is to saying good-bye the dearer familiar things become, hour years at P.H.S.! How full they’ve been—how fast they’ve gone. Those freshman baptisms in the showers by upperclassmen. Those assembly room teachers whose icy glares paralyzed impressionable new- comers. We’ve since found them really human beings. How we rushed from class to class afraid of being late and forced to go to the office. How often we found ourselves in the wrong room! Remember when those three houses next to the school were moved (under the watchful eyes of everyone in the study hall) to make way for the new gym? Football and basketball games, cross country and track meets, music and dramatic contests, school dances, G.A.A. playdays: then we were carefree and came to school just to please the teachers and to have fun, not to study. Now we realize how dear all these things arc —just common everyday happenings: General science lessons—those algebra problems so diffi- cult to understand—the poor old Romans, who suffered under the heavy armor of Latin—Ivan- hoe’s many jousts. English was just As You Like It, although grammar sometimes made our life miserable. We found that a circle is a closed plane curve, all points of which are an equal dis- tance from a given center point—Macbeth’s downfall was explained in Mr. Shakespeare’s work. In chemistry we discovered an atom is something so small that it almost isn’t. A class especially interested in mathematics learned the principles of solving a triangle in trigonometry, while every- one studied the government of the best country in the world in civics. As seniors we have fol- lowed our nation’s history, become acquainted with her authors and poets from the very begin- ning, solved the mysteries of the typewriter, and taken a new interest in advanced math, languages, and science. We heeded the saying, All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy,” by having dances, parties, and dramatics. There were freshman- sophomore dances, the various class plays, Midge Goes to the Movies,” Sunset by Slantsky,” Selma Goes Psychic,” and Mayor for a Day,” and last year’s more ambitious three-act, What a Life.” There were Arena sponsored dances as well as gala proms. All in all, our high school lives have been well rounded with both work and play. These are all experiences we seniors have shared during our four years. Now, the first class to graduate under present war-time conditions, we face a doubtful future, confident that our ambi- tions will some day be realized as were the dreams of our new gym. As our high school career ends and we go into the world to make new friends in new surroundings, to our dear Alma Mater we say, Good-bye and—thanks for everything!” Taflinger, Ashley, Cleveland, Dickenson, Bence SENIOR OFFICERS PRESIDENT Donald Dickenson VICE-PRESIDENT David Ashley SECRETARY Janice Bence TREASURER Jack Taflincer SPONSOR Miss Cleveland