Paxton High School - Reflector Yearbook (Paxton, IL)

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24 Paxton High School Reflector Class iViqlit :]Jmigrant |Jaxtnn Hic h J5 cluuil iFriitau betting, iHau 23, HU9 ‘EXCELSIOR” Music..................... Salutation, “The Transit” Class Song............... Class History— (a) General... (b) Individual. ...High School Orchestra ...........Helen Swanson ...........Class of 1919 Erie Hutchison . Mabel Farrell Class Oration, “Edward Coles, the First Anti Slavery Leader in Illinois”..................................................Lester Johnson Giftorians ............................. Class Will.............................. Class Poem, “Purple and Gold”........... Class Prophecy.......................... Vocal Solo, “Sing, Smile, Slumber”...... Class Baby Pictures..................... Presentation of the Gavel to Junior Class Response to Presentation................ Piano Duet.............................. Valedictory—“Excelsior”................. Music................................... .....Hazel Morgan, Glenn Sallee ......Iveila Karr, Mahlon Kenney ....................Edgar Peterson Marie Bennett, Clarence Kollman .................. Florence Hodam ..Hazel Morgan. Mauritz Anderson ........................Mae Tibby .............Catharine Thompson ..Lorene Hanson, Edith Chrisman .................Florence Hodam ..........High School Orchestra Class Stunts— Mary Fox, Ervin Swanson, Hazel Morgan, Clarence Kollman, Bessie Brown, Marie Bennett, Guy Gee, Edgar Peterson, Glenn S3llee, Charles Ernst. Mary Webber, Nobel C. Johnson, and others. (A) “And the Lamp Went Out;’ (B) “Miss P. H. S. Senior Entertains.” Class Colors—Purple and Gold. Class Flower—Pansy.

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Paxton High School Reflector 23 Shirty-ninth Annual Commencement “Excelsior” program Music, “Madrigal in May” - - E. Newton High School Girls’ Glee Club Invocation - The Reverend W. Roy Columbus Vocal Solo (a) “The Swallows - Cotoen (b) “Come to the Garden, Love - Salter Miss Mary Tiffany, Supervisor of Music Address, “The Man in the Moon” William Forkell Music, “Night in June - - Offenbach High School Girls' Glee Club Presentation of Diplomas - O. J. Bainum, Supt. Benediction THE BUSINESS MANAGER. Mr. Lester Johnson. T9 has acted as business manager for this number of the Reflector. Special credit is due him for the skill and efficiency lie has shown. On account of the great advance in the cost of paper and printing, it at first seemed that it would be impossible to get out a sixty-four page Senior number this year and still dispose of single copies at the old price of twenty-five cents. Careful estimates, when the bids were in, indicated that, with the usual additional expense for pictures, each number, on the basis of 250 copies, would actually cost more than 50 cents. Rather than advance the price to the subscribers, tile business manager undertook the problem of increasing the income from advertising and at the same time decreasing the expense for pictures. With only a few exceptions, photos and groups appearing in this issue have been paid for by the persons most interested. Mr. Johnson has further shown his business ability by so meeting Paxton business and professional men in his rounds to solicit advertising as to increase, chiefly by securing a larger number of advertisers, the receipts from this source by about 75%. With this increased revenue in sight, it is now believed that the venture will pay out and leave a small balance.

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Paxton High School Reflector 25 05 client I Department MISS RUTH JEANNETTE HOLMES RESIGNS Some weeks ago Miss Ruth J. Holmes gave notice that she did not wish to be considered an applicant for re-employment as a teacher in tne Paxton High School for next year. Her plans for further educational work have not yet been fully determined upon, but her superior scholarship and the completeness of her professional training, supplemented by her three years of exceptionally successful high school teaching experience give abundant assurance that her ambition to enter upon some more advanced and more remunerative department of educational work will be realized. Miss Holmes began her work in the Paxton High School three years ago. Her major class-room work has been in English. She has also had charge of one or more special classes each year in Pedagogy and related subjects designed to prepare students for the successful taking of the state teachers’ examination. Miss Holmes' value to the school has not been limited merely to tne strength and efficiency of her class-room instruction. During her first year here, she took a leading and successful part in the direction of the dramatic and literary society interests and activities of the school. During her second year, she directed the physical training of the hi TPTchool girls. In recognition of iter fine influence over the entire school, as well as of her efficiency, both in instruction and management, she was advanced to the position of principal a short time before the opening of school in September, last. No teacher can serve in any appreciative school and community for a series of years, giving from the treasures of her mind and heart the best that she has. and then separate from it. without a sense of loss being felt. With Miss Holmes’ decision tc close her work with the students of this high school, there is felt to be something more than the loss of an efficient and conscientious teacher, a kindly adviser, and a warm hearted school-room friend. It is the loss of the silent daily influence of a personality and character that ever re-inforced and intensified the worth of all formal school-room instruction. Notwithstanding this loss and the regrets resulting from Miss Holmes’ withdrawal from the Paxton High School, all of her students and associate teachers will rejoice for whatever may prove to be compensating gains for her in her new work wherever and whatever it may be. In recognition of the high esteem in which Miss Holmes is held by the members of the Senior Class, and by the entire school, this number of the Reflector is affectionately dedicated to her.