Paxton High School - Reflector Yearbook (Paxton, IL)

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PRRLK M: VIS “Sport Entered second grade; Plutonian; Junior Carnival 1; Class Basketball 1; Football 2, 3, 4; Basketball 3. 4; Track 3. 4; French Club 3. 4; Baseball 4; Pickles” 4. Slow and easy is his mark, But yea! ye athletic shark! IIAIIOM) II. SWENSON “Harry Entered Freshman; Baseball 1. 2. 3; Baseball Captain 3; Football 2. 3; Track 3; Class Treas 3; French Club 3. 4; “Pickles” 4. An eight-cylinder fellow from a one-horse town; 51rls call him up. then call him down. HICII A It II W. CARSON “Hick Entered Freshman; Baseball 3. 4; Glee Club 4; Class Basketball 4; Musical 4; Hotsy Totsy Syncopators ’ 4; Stunt Show 4; “Pickles 4. A “hotsv-totsy” with banjo fingers; A peppy fellow with a smile that lingers. oeoiigk w. wimkk Entered first grade; P la ton i an; Plutonian Debate 1; Baseball 1, 3, 4; Football 2; Glee Club 3, 4; “Around the World with Captain Kidd 3; Stunt Show Committee 4, “Pickles” 4. A business head and a business-like way, A whistle renowned that w'ill ever stay. Page Twenty-Five

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LESTER JOHNSON “Le ; Entered seventh grade; Platonian; Glee Club 2. 3. 4; Orch 3, 4; Band 3. 4; Stunt Show 3. 4;Freneh Club 3, 4; Reflector Staff 4; Class Basketball 4; “Pickles 4. Eyes of blue and hair of gold. Rosebud lips, just two years old. KERNON N. W ATTS Athenaeum; Inter-Society Debate, Orator 1; Junior Carnival 1; Class Basketball 1, 4; Inter-scholastic debate 2; (Mass VMce-Pres. 3; French Club 3. 4; Glee Club 3; Varsity P 4; Mem’ry Ladles 4; Reflector Staff 4; Pickles” 4. Entered fourth grade. Kernel Bill Snort is the kind of guy That prefers the girl who can make the best pie. HELEN M It I K SW ANSON Entered first grade; Athenaeum; G. A. C. 1; Glee Club 1. 2. 3. 4; Home Economics Club 4: Stunt Show 4; Basketball 4; Track 3; Pickles 4 This little girl is a to-be nurse; All the boys are feeling worse. EVA I. M I LI. Entered first grade; Glee (Mub 1. 2; G. A. C. 1; Junior Carnival 1; Platonian Contest 2; (Mass Treas. 2; Soph. Show 2; Track 3; Around the World with Captain Kidd 3; Banquet Entertainment 3; Reflector Staff 3 4; Varsity P 4; Musical 4; Pickles 4 Mem’ry Indies 4; French Club 4; (Mass Basketball 1. 4. Health personified, lots of pep ; A popular kid with a mighty good rep. WlllEL ELIZABETH 1)1 NAAN Entered first grade; Platonian; Glee Club 1. 2; G. A. C. 1; Class Treas. 1; Basketball 4; Track 3; Junior Carnival 1; Platonian Contest 1; Around the World with Captain Kidd 3; Mem’ry Ladies 4; Pickles 4; French Club 3. 4; Chairman Junior-Senior Banquet 3; Musical 3; Stunt Show 4; Varsity P 4; Reflector Staff 4. Hair of onyx, teeth of pearl. Ups of ruby, a jewel of a girl. Page Twenty-Four

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19 26 CLASS HISTORY OF 1926 In the year of ’22 a new band of warriors, 65 in number, entered the hunting grounds of the P. C. H. S. Indians. This new troop was called Freshmen, and according to the custom of their elders they called a meeting of the clan to choose leaders. Gordon Johnson was chosen chief and was to lead in all active warfare. Otis McQuiston, being second chief, was to be his right hand assistant. Helen Newman was selected as historian of the tribe, and Mabel Dunnan was to have charge of all affairs of trade. The consuls of the band were Mr. and Mrs. Eaton and Miss Howell. A scalping party was staged by the older braves, and the young and untried Freshmen surviving this severe and painful physical test, were declared equal to their Indian brothers. The first year the youths took quite an active part in the contests with other tribes. The Freshmen were represented in football, basketball, and baseball. They excelled in finer arts as well as in warfare. Having scrubbed off the paint of war and having applied the dainty tints of rouge and lipstick, topping off their make-up with abbreviated bathing suits, they gave a most realistic representation of the Mack Sennett Bathing Beauties at the Junior Carnival. The result of this exhibition was $5.00 in white man’s money. After so strenuous a year the band left their wigwams (class rooms) and departed for summer hunting (pleasure.) In the autumn, when the Indian summer was beginning, the band returned. Some had fallen by the wayside, but they were few. As a result of the excellent execution of duties when Freshmen, this band was dubbed Sophomores, and consequently were raised a notch in the estimation of the tribe. A meeting was called in one of the wigwams and leaders were chosen Chief and assistant were Donald Swanson and Otis McQuiston; historian, Evelyn Ostrom; head of affairs of trade, Eva Mull; consuls. Miss Kerns and Miss Hi. During this year the class was well represented in sports and it took charge of advertising for the basketball tournament and gave a benefit show. In the spring the tribe once more adjourned for the summer hunt. At the beginning of the third year, leaders were chosen as in the previous years. Chief, Otis McQuiston; assistant, Kernon Watts; historian, Vernette Larson; manager of affairs of trade, Harry Swenson; consuls. Miss Kerns, Miss Gracen, Miss Koch. This year the band took the name of Juniors and with it assumed a high position in all tribal affairs. Many of the class took part in sports. A seal was selected and practically every member secured a class pin or ring. All through this year the membeis traded delicious morsels of rare meats (candy and hot dogs) for wampum. True to form, the Juniors took the $5.00 prize for the best stunt in the Senior Stunt Show. A benefit show was given and all the wampum that had been secured throughout the year was used for a huge banquet at the Middlecoff hotel, for the oldest of the four bands of the tribe, who were soon to depart into the rugged ways of life. Thus ended the third year of this renowned band. In the fourth year, the band returned, only 48 in number, as dignified elders (Seniors.) The burdens of the last year were heavy and great re- Page Twenty-Six