Paxton High School - Reflector Yearbook (Paxton, IL)

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10 Paxton High School Ixcjlcctor. in our team. That inspiration was furnished by Mr. Chenoweth in his very interesting and timely talk. BRIEF SCHOOL PARAGRAPHS Mr. Chenoweth's class in Manual Training is now constructing a fine set of cedar boxes. They are of large size and will be welcomed in the homes of the students when they are completed. Each student pays for the cost of the material in his box. This amounts to something less than five dollars. The Fourth year English class ia now taking a much needed review in English grammar. The work in American literature has been completed (Perhaps it would be more appropriate to say discontinued.) After a few weeks of special work 'n grammar, the two remaining “College Entrance Requirements”—'Burke’s Speech on Conciliation and Milton’s Minor Poems— will be taken up for critical study in class. The Teachers’ Preparatory class is now studying Illinois History. During the first semester, they made a close study of the pedogogy and con tent of the State Course of Study” and of the general principles of Pedagogy. As a result of necessary changes in the program for the second semester the plane geometry class was transferred from Mr. Huddleston to Miss Cush’ng. In like manner, Mr. Huddles, ten was for ed to transfer his begin ni.'ig class in Algebra to the tender norcieB of Miss Cushing, who now has charge of all of the classes in mathematics. The following new classes were organized for the second semester: — Advanced Arithmetic, Advanced Grammar. Civics, Botany, Physical Geography, Commercial Geography, English History, and American History. A new sewing machine was recently purchased for the sewing department. It was greatly needed. The school now owns four excellent machines. Two others are rented for use during the busy months. Although the classes in Commercial Arithmetic showed the largest perctn tage of failures and delinquencies— more than 25%—yet the popularity of the commercial course seems not to have suffered, as it is still necessary to provide two sections for the new class in Commercial Geography which regularly follows the Commercial Arithmetic. Last year the number of students enrolled in Botany was only 19, and but one recitation section was required. This year two sections are necessary to care for the 40 students who have enrolled in this subject. ■In order to maintain proper temperature in both the East and West Side school buildings during the extreme weather conditions of the middle days of January, it was found necessary to employ special help for the janitors, to keep up fires during the nights. As a result of this night firing of the furnaces, ideal temperature conditions prevailed throughout the entire buildings

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l uxlon High Schoui liejleclot. 9 Mr. Verne Healy of Clarence, 111., on Jan. 12th, at her home in Culpepper, Va. Mrs. Healy was also a popular teacher of Ford county, most of her work being in the primary grades of Clarence, 111. Mr. Healy is a member of the firm of Carson Healy, of Pax-ten, where Mr. and Mrs. Healy now reside. Mr. George Corbly selected the first day of the year (or possibly the selection was that of his wife), January 1st, on which to be married. The chosen bride was Miss Jessie Jenkin-sod of Gifford, 111 They are now living on a farm near Paxton. Mr. Coj-bly attended the University of Illinois, pursuing an agricultural course, for two years after his graduation from P. H. S. Mrs. Corbly is a graduate of the Gifford High School, and was a popular teacher for several years after her graduation. Junior Class Favorites. Favorite Diet—“Hamm Favorite Amusement—“Ferris” wheel Favorite Characteristic—“Wiley” Favorite Color—“White Favorite Fuel—“Cole” Favorite Buildings—“Barnes” Favorite Occupations—“Smiths” Favorite Fowl—“Hen” Favorite Means of Advertisement— “Bills” Favorite Pet—“Hat” Miss H.: “What was the result of George Roger Clark’s exped tion?” Floy: “Well, there was a ball going on.” Mr. Huddleston: “Maurice, can you tell us what resonance is?” Maurice: “O yes! It is a piece of an echo! PROFESSOR HOMER CHENOWETH GIVES INSPIRATIONAL TALK ON “ATHLETICS” TO P. H. S. STUDENTS. The fourth special faculty program was rendered in the Paxton High School Assembly Hall, Friday afternoon, January 28, during the last period. The principal feature was a talk by Mr. Homer Chcnoweth, our popular instructor in Chemistry, Biology, and Manual Training. Among the introductory and incidental parts of the program, the vocal solo, rendered by Miss Florence Hodam, of the Freshman Class, is deserving of special mention. Miss Hodam has a splendid voice, and appears before an audience with unusual ease for one with so limited platform experience as Freshmen generally are supposed to have. The High School Orchestra were slated to render one or more numbers of their excellent music, but on account of the illness of Miss Mildred Felmley, their faculty director, they were unable to respond. The interest of the occasion was somewhat heightened by the unexpected presence of the Kankakee High School basket ball team with their subs and faculty coach, who had come to Paxton earlier in the day to meet our high school team at the Coliseum in the evening. Mr. Chenoweth chose for his subject Athletics—a subject which was specially appropriate at this, the clos ing hour of the day on which the P. H. S. Basket Ball Team were to Win the First Victory of the Season! When it is recalled that our team had suffered five consecutive defeats, some very definite inspiration was needed to check the rapidly waning confidence

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Paxton High School Reflector. 11 A Victrola for the High School. The musical entertainment, which itt to be given by high school students under the direction and training of Miss Nora Ryan in the near future, has a double motive and purpose. The first of these is the stimulus which the preparation and public presentation of such a musical program serves to produce, and which is doubly effective in securing the highest results of the study and training involved. The second motive is quite incidental, and yet closely related to the prime purpose of improvement in musical knowledge culture, and interest in the high school and among high school students generally. This secondary motive is to create a fund for the purpose of purchasing a Victrola for the High School, and which may also be used by the instructor of music in the grades. The value, as an aid to musical instruction in schools, of the Vic-trola, is no longer questioned by teachers or their patrons, and the best equipped schools are suppl ed with it. or some other mechanical means of bringing to the children of the lower grades, and to the students of the high school, phonographic reproductions of the masterpieces of musical art and composition. Be sure to attend th s musical en-terta'nmrnt. It has taken months to prepare it. It will be worth your while, merely as an amateur musical entertainment; but more to be considered than this, is the fact that your small contribution of 25 cents for a seat will, together with like amounts contributed by the five or six hundred others who are expected to assemble at the Coliseum. Friday evening, February 18th, bring back to the school rooms of Paxton a hundred musical entertainments.that have been render, ed to listening multitudes the world over, by the most gifted musical artists the divine melodies of the great masters have inspired. A New Stereopticon Purchased for the High School. We are informed that a very valuable piece of apparatus has recently been purchased, for the high school from the “High School Library and Literary Fund,” and that it will be received within a few days. It is a stereopticon of new design, especially adapted to school use. A special feature is that no special electric wiring is required, and that it can be used in any room where connection can be made with the lighting system in use. The machines generally in use require special wiring and the use of a rheostat. The new nitrogen lamp attachment without transformer or rheostat, has been in use less than a year. High School Orchestra. The High School Orchestra is beginning work in earnest, now that the holidays are over. The orchestra has received some new music, lately, on which it is now’ working. This consists of “Poet and Peasant , by Sup pe; The Beautiful Blue Danube Waltzes,’ ’by Strauss, and “Festival Grand March,” by Gruenwald. The members have also bought orchestration for the high school song, “The Blue and the Gold.” This was arranged for them by Professor Restorff. In the future the orchestra intends to buy only classical music; as this arrangement was thought, by Miss Felmley, the director, to be more satisfactory.