Paxton High School - Reflector Yearbook (Paxton, IL)

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THE PAXTOy HIGH SCHOOL EE ELECT OK GENERAL NOTES Attendance during the first two weeks of school after Christmas was somewhat irregular on account of the cold weather. Classes were dis- missed several days as the rooms were not warm enough. The heating system has been gone ov£r and more radiation added in several of the rooms. It is quite comfortable now. A new bell system has been put • into use since the vacation. The signals are given now by an au’omat- ic clock which rings every bell in the building at certain times. It took quite a little time and work to get the system in perfect order. All the foot ball team appeared in new sweaters after vacation. The sweaters are dark blue with the plain block letter P on them. The swea- ters were very popular during the cold weather, especially among the girls. We have had a little trouble about arranging the program for the second semester. Having so many classes and so few in our faculty, it takes quite a little work to arrange the program to please everyone. Some of the subjects are studied only one semester and new ones are taken in their place. The changes this year are: Physiography to Physiology: Zoology to Botany; English History to American History; Algebra IV. to Geometry IV.; Civics IV. to Reviews; Algebra II. to English History II. Just a gentle reminder that the next number of the Reflector is general. You, who write themes for English should make them extra good during the next two weeks so we may have some good stories. 74 The following have visited our high school during this month: Hazel Hanson, Verne Healy, Miss Bridge- man, C. C. Strickland, Ethel Birket, Clithroe Rudolph Eva Karr, Margaret Gourley, Miss Helgeland. A spelling exam, was given Jan. 23. The pupils having an average of 95 for the semester were exempt. The average grade in spelling counts one- fifth on the grades in English. In many cases this helps the student greatly. Monday, January 29th, was a day of readjustment of classes for the sec- ond semester. The work of many of the classes was necessarily interrup- ted. By Wednesday everything was running smoothly. Some radical changes in the return pipes from the steam radiators of the recitation rooms in the old part of the building, made last Saturday, have put a quietus on the so-called “radia- tor strike”. At times, during the past month, the noise made by the pound- ing of the steam plant in this part of the building sounded as though old Cyclops had brought a gang of his blacksmiths from the nether world to hammer the thing to pieces. We ought not to sufTer in zero weather from inadequately heated rooms hereafter. The two n w radia tors placed in the window alcoves of ihe high school room have increased the heat radiation about one-thir.l. A new radiator has been placed in the Superintendent’s office, and addi- tional sections have been added to radiators in all of the recitation rooms except the biological labora- tory, which has always been comfort- able in extreme weather.

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BASE BALL OUTLOOK The prospects for a winning base ball team this year are unusually bright. The surrounding schools gen- erally have due respect for our bunch In base ball because of our strong pitchers. Kelso held them all at bay for a number of years and Swenson is equally feared. This is his last year, however, and we will have to make the most of a good thing as next year we will be in a precarious position as to pitchers. In fact, if ever we expect to make a good record and a clean-sweep, the chances favor us this year. The fel- lows have showed a great deal of in- terest and enthusnasm about a team this year as twenty have promised to become candidates. The lack of a suitable place to play will not trouble us this year. Swenson, Carlson, Overstreet, Ham- merlund and McKegney, are the regu- lars from last year’s team and Mc- Colley and Morgan have had base ball experience at other schools. C-apt. Swenson knows the game from start to finish and we can rely upon him rounding out a winning team for us. Roy Hutchinson, formerly of Clar- ence has been elected captain of the Perdue University foot ball team for next year. “Hutch” starred for the P. H. S. team during the season of 'OIL The U. of I. has had hard luck in basket ball, having lost three big games straight. Lack of capable substitutes and the flunking of some of the men in their studies, are given as the causes for their defeats. The indoor track men, however, are look- ing forward to a successful season and intend to carry off their share of gold medals. Byrd, the all-around athlete, from Milford, has received an invitation to- attend the try outs at Chicago from which the men are picked who repre- sent the U. S. at the Olympic games. Byrd drew a great deal of attention because of his records in weight- throwing at the various high school meets. The P. H. S. basket ball team are enjoying themselves immensely. They are merely out for exercise and amusement and ‘allow’ the other teams to tramp on and play ’tiddle-de- winks’ with them. The fellows would make a strong team if they could get a place in which to practice, but are certain to put up a losing fight as conditions stand. The score has actu- ally totaled over 150 in favor of oppo»- nents so far. Pat ’em on the back.

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jfctxfam ttiiuli S rluuil iRrflrrtur Published Monthly by the Paxton High School (Office with Eastern Illinois Register) SUBSCRIPTION Single Copies ... Yearly Subscriptions . . RATES 10 cent 75 cent Editors Sophomore number-Edla Johnson,Einar Lindstrom Editors General Number Donald Moffett and Angie Latter Exchange Editor ... . Lois Richards Business Manager . . . Wendell McCracken Assistant Business Manager . . Herbert Stevens Athletic Editor.....................Mack Wylie Alumni Editor . . . . W. M.-Glenn, '06 Faculty Adviser . Miss June Lindley CLASS REPORTERS Ruby Shelby, Swan Swenson Senior Class Junior Class . Freshman Class Bessie Kirkpatrick, Oscar Mcegney . Gladys Corbly, Arthur Frederick SI7I — The class of ’14 extends greetings! This is the first and last opportun- ity of the class of T4 to edit a Soph- more paper, and we hope to succeed as well as any of the preceding Sophomore classes have done. We shall take this opportunity to speak of the high school Literary So- cieties toward which very little has been done this year. The year is half f one and if there are to be any en- tertainments this year, it Is time to be thinking of them. If the high school students were more interested an entertr inment in the form of a contest or debate could be given which would be of profit and enjoy- ment to everyone. The public would be glad to attend such a contest, and this was proved by the great success of last year’s entertainments. l ast year the class of '14 took an active interest in the societies. In the Athenaeum play, “Hans von Smash, ’ the class of ’14 was not rep- resented, but in the Platonian play, “A Case of Suspension,” our class was represented by Candace Kuder and Elizabeth Thomas. The remain- ing parts of the entertainments con- sisted of speeches, orations, and vari- ous musical numbers. In the Athen- aeum entertainment Miriam Rockwell sang a vocal solo, and on the Platon- ian side Helen Ludlow and Florence Cruzen played a piano duet. The class of ’14 was then a freshman class, and this was doing very well for freshmen. It remains to be seen if the class of 15 will do as well in the coming entertainments. There is no reason why we can not have just as good and better enters tafnments this year than last. At any rate the class of ’14 can be depended upon to do its best.