Paxton High School - Reflector Yearbook (Paxton, IL)

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The Paxton High School Reflector Published monthly by the PAXTON HIGH SCHOOL (Office with Eastern Illinois Register) Subscription Rates Single Copies ...........................................................cents Yearly Subscription .................................................75 cents Editors-in-Chief .............................. Esther Engstrom, Leon Kelso Exchange Editor ................................................. Ella Morgan Athletic Editor ................................................ Walter Nelson Faculty Adviser ............................................... O. J. Bainum Business Manager ...........................................Tohn Karl Moffett Assistant Manager ................................... Melvin Frankford Froyd REPORTERS Junior Class ..................... Howard McCracken, Lou Hammerlund Sophomore Class .......................... Elam Stewart, Nanny Fuller Freshman Class ....................... Edgar McKegney, Lois Richards MAY, 1909 The Reflector wishes to acknowledge its obligation to the business men of Paxton for their liberal patronage and support of its advertising columns. Without their good will the Reflector could not be published, as the annual subscriptions would not meet more than one-half the expense of publication. We trust that the expense incurred by them has been more than balanced by increased sales, but if not we still believe that the good will of Reflector readers will in the end make good the shortage. PAXTON HIGH SCHOOL FACULTY FOR NEXT YEAR. Only a few changes will occur in the personnel of the high school faculty for next year. Mr. Langworthy having resigned his position as principal to enter upon a college professorship in his native state, will be succeeded by V. E. Dudman, who has been selected by the Board of Education to fill the vacancy. Miss Hepburn will continue in the department of biological science and bookkeeping which she has so acceprably filled during the past five years. Miss Good will remain in the department of foreign language, where she nas done highly creditable work during the past year. Miss Fordyce will still have charge of the music, and Miss Jennie Thomson of the University of Illinois, will have charge of classes in “free hand” and mechanical drawing in the high school in connection with her work as supervisor of drawing in the grades. Miss Thomson is a graduate of P. H. S. —class of 1904 For three years she has been studying art at the University of Illinois with the view of becoming a special teacher and supervisor of drawing and art in public school work. Prof. Bainum will enter upon his thirteenth year as superintendent of the Paxton schools and as teacher of a number of high school classes.

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■Mr THE TAX rox HIGH SCHOOL EE EL El TOE O. J. BAINUM Chief in the vanguard of high school activities stands the honored name of our beloved superintendent, Mr. O. J. Bainum. Seniors have always attested to his honesty and have always so respected his integrity and personal influence as to make his word a criterion for all higli school codes of morals and action. It however remains for us in this, the final opportunity of our united career to make a public expression of our esteem and gratitude toward this benevolent teacher. Like a true teacher, his work was never ended. In the class room he taught; before the assembled students he taught and lectured; and to each individual unit he made personal appeals the value of which can never be estimated. Resolute in all his undertakings he never took advantage of his authority to impress upon the students the infallibility of his judgment. He has ever made them to feel that the position which this school is to occupy among the institutions of this state depends not only upon the wisdom of the instructors but upon the attitude of the pupils as well. In matters of discipline, he combined a firm disposition with such excellent tact as to rarely, if ever, cause any dispute over his decisions. And finally, as an example he has never fallen below his own standard and that standard is sufficiently high to make its attainment a true index to the character and noble-mindedness of any man. Like the climbing sun that each day rises to a world more grand, this teacher has striven with every new day’s duties to heighten his influence in such a way, that the pupils might feel and appreciate his interest in them. As Seniors, then, we silently affix our names to the ever-increasing roll of those who can and will revere his memory. —A senior.

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22 THE PAXTON HIGH SCHOOL RE ELECTOR Are you absent? Are you absent without a good excuse? If you are, this means you. There is a job for every man in this country, and all jobs are alike aren’t they? Hold on: you say, they’re not. You say some fellows hold down snaps. You say jobs are not all alike? Oh yes, they are all alike, every one of them. You’ve got to work to hold any job, unless you’re the exception, in which case the job has to work to hold you and in any case the job is just a little bit larger than you are whether you think so or not. Now you fellows who are holding down jobs on Main street eevrv night and holding them down so tight that it wears out the seats of your breeches—let’s quit work a little while and do a little figuring. Suppose we take, for example, .John and Willie. John comes to school every day, gets his lessons, we’ll say, just average well, nothing extraordinary. John likes books and likes his teachers He’s a boy, too, he likes to fish and hunt, and play base ball, and fight just like any other boy, but he comes to school He don’t smoke cigarettes, and he don’t know a billiard ball from a sky-rocket. Now John goes his four years to high school and all the while he’s getting a tendency toward some special line of work After while he makes a little money and goes to college Well he gets through college somehow and comes back home to make a living. He don’t know so very much but he gets along and one day he meets Willie. Now all this time Willie’s been living, too, but things don’t seem to go quite the same with him. He never went to school unless he had o, he smoked cigarettes, he drank a little now and then—not much, but then a little,—he played pool and billiards and didn’t care much for books, or base ball, or fishing. When he finished high school—if he did—he didn’t get through very strong. The teacher said, “we had to be charitable with Willie; and the other boys said, “he got through but I guess he left a good deal of hair on the fence.” He didn’t go to college and never wanted to. He wanted to get to work. Oh yes, he wanted to have some money in his pocket. He didn’t want to be embarrassed by mixing with fellows who had the money and he didn’t care to give up their company. So he got a job in a factory. He sneered at hard-grinding John and called hint a snot).