Paxton High School - Reflector Yearbook (Paxton, IL)

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173 COMMENCEMENT NUMBER, 1914 The A B C's of the Seniors A-ppetite—“Tub'’. Bright—Maud Clever—Neta Dimples—Carl E-steemable—Ruth C. F-air—Miriam G enerous—Bessie G. H-appy—Bess Bear I -ntellect—Ethel J-oyous—“Nosey” Knowledge—Einar Loafing—Austin Manly—Herbert Nightingale—Edla Optimism—Signe P-lacid—Floyd Q-uiet—Anna R efinement—'Ruth L. Studious— Prudence T-alkative—Mary Greenan U-rbane—“Pink” V aliant—Ernest M. W-it—“Ginger” Youthful- Marian. Z-ealous—Chester H. THE FACULTY—(Continued from Page 149.) Mr. E. A. Messenger, our genial high school principal during the past year, will return to us in September “brown as a berry” after having spent the greater part of his vacation on the mountains and plains of the far West. He will be cordially welcomed on his return. Mr. T. A. Rogers, our popular instructor in physical and chemical science, and in manual training, will probably spend his vacation, for the most part at least, at his home here in Paxton, and will devote some time and thought during the vacation to the improvement and extension of the equipment of his combined departments of science and manual training. We are indeed glad to know that Mr. Rogers decided that four years is not too long for a young man to remain in one position. Very recently Miss Edith Bisbee reconsidered her decision to seek a larger field for the development of her commercial work. The Paxton High School, we think, offers her abundant opportunities for the development of a full commercial department, and besides the girls of the school require her services as a competent and enthusiastic basket ball coach. Mr. Bainum will continue the work which he began in Paxton seventeen years ago as superintendent and as instructor of the more advanced classes in English and Mathematics. He will spend the entire vacation in rest and recreation. This, we are informed, he has not done before at any time for more than twenty-five years. Since his long and serious illness during the first months of school last fall, he has, slowly, but with increasing certainty, regained his former vigor and strength, and, with the invigorating influence of a full summer’s recreation and rest, will be ready to meet and solve all of the perplexing problems of school management with the same efficiency and strength as in other years.

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PAXTON HIGH SCHOOL REFLECTOR 172 (Hlasa taltatirs The class of 1914 has the honor of being one of the largest classes that ever graduated from the Paxton 'High School. The number of members in the class is twenty-six. Ten of these are boys and the remaining sixteen are girls. The weight of the Senior Class, as a whole, is three thousand, five hundred and thirty-two pounds, or about one and three-fourths tons. The average weight is one hundred and thirty-five pounds. The heaviest member of the class, who is a girl, weighs 190 pounds, or at least that is our estimate, since she refused to give her exact weight. The lightest, also a girl, weighs one hundred pounds. If every student of the class stood one on another’s head, the total height would be one hundred and forty-one feet, or about thirty-one feet higher than the city water tower. The average height of the class is five feet and five inches. The tallest member is G feet and one-fourth inch. The shortest measures five feet and one inch. Eighteen members of the class have blue eyes, six have brown, and two have gray. The total cost of sending the class of 1914 through four years of High School is found by careful calculation to be $31,200.16. Nine out of the twenty-six members of the class are of Swedish nationality, three are German, three Irish, one Swede Indian, one Norwegian, cne Scotch Irish, one German Dane, one German Irish, and six are English. Eleven of the class have completed their entire school course in the Paxton Public Schools. Eighteen members are now residents of Paxton. One resides in Ludlow, one in Ophien and the remainder of the class live in the vicinity of Paxton. The number of text books used by the Senior Class during the High School course was G24. If these books were stacked, one on another, the pile would be higher than the Commandery Building. This number of books would also be sufficient to pave half a Paxton block. The total distance traveled by the class in attending school during the four years is more than 37,GOO miles, a distance equal to one and one-half times the circumference of the earth. The Senior Class of 1914 has the honor of being the most talkative class ever graduated from the P. H. S. For this reason it has been too difficult to ascertain the number of words spoken in a year by any member of the class without the use of a specially constructed adding machine. The committee on statistics have made a careful estimate and will be glad to give a free ticket to the Crystal Theater as a prize to the person who makes the nearest guess to it. The total number spoken by the twenty-six members of the class probably, exceeds a number expressed in figures extending twice across this page.

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PAXTON HIGH SCHOOL REFLECTOR 174 ATHLETICS FOOTBALL. When the call for football material was made about twenty students responded. Most of the men were new at the game, yet there were plenty of vacancies to fill as almost all of last year’s team graduated in 1913. The team had no coach, but was under the direction of the captain, who with the aid of the old men, did the best he could to get a winning team. The season opened when the team went to Hoopeston for their first game. After the first few minutes the team played good football and managed to hold the heavy Hoopeston team. That was after the Hoopeston team had scored a touchdown, and it came before some of the new men had realized they were playing ball. The final score was G to 0, as Hoopeston failed to kick a goal. The next game was with the Grand ITairie Seminary at Onarga. It was a hard fought game with the teams evenly matched and it ended without either team scoring. The next Saturday the team traveled to Gil son to meet the Drummer Township High School team. They were accompanied by about one hundred loyal rooters and the team managed to bring home a very decisive victory. The Gibson team scored their first and only touchdown in the first quarter. At the end of the quarter the score was 6 to 0 in favor of Gibson, as they had failed to kick a goal. In the second quarter Art Fredrick started the scoring when he intercepted one of Gibson's long passes. The start was all that was needed, for before the game ended Gibson’s goal line had been crossed six more times. Harr.merlund kicked four of the seven goals, the three missed being almost impossible. The final score was 46 to G and it was the most decisive defeat “handed to” Gibson in the last four years. The next game was in Kankakee with the local High School team. This game showed us how little we really knew about the game. They romped away with the game to the tune of 81 to 0, and there is no excuse to make except that they were entirely out of our class. We did not quit, but did the test we could and took our defeat with a smile, as we did our victory the week before. The next game was at Fairbury and again we were defeated. This was due to the fact that some of the regulars were out of the line-up, and even at that the defeat was only 13 to 0. This game was played against odds as it was necessary to defeat twelve men instead of the usual eleven. This could not be done with a crippled team, although it could have been done with the regular bunch. The last two games were with the Seminary at Onarga. The first of the two was played in Paxton and was a 10 to 9 victory for the local team. The game was hard fought and it was in doubt up to the end of the game. The second was a defeat like that handed to Gibson earlier in the season (only we had the little end of the score). They outplayed us in every point