Paxton High School - Reflector Yearbook (Paxton, IL)

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A PEEK AT THE ATHLETICS The past year gives promise of an athletic renaissance in P. C. H. S. with championships in all sports just around the corner. Although the football season ended with a two win and five loss percentage, promising underclassmen give hope for the next season. The big surprise was the record the basketball team rolled up. Winning thirteen out of seventeen scheduled tilts is the best a Paxton quintet has ever done. Baseball followers were delighted with the showing the team made. Last year’s nine was the first in six years. The track team contains so many undergraduates that there is a strong-nucleus for the coming season.

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DRAMATICS The Heathers at Home JUNIOR PLAY November 28 Cast: Bertie Hill Demar Gurley Bessie Heather Mary Jane Clem Mack Heather Ronald Frette Elsie Heather Lola Van Antwerp Julie (Mama) Heather Janet Swanson Lotty Hill Mildred Chartier Fred Swanson Harold Cornelison George B. (Papa) Heather Albert Carlsten Oscar Smith Elijah Adkins Mike Heaton Gordon Anderson Dr. Elmer Graves Leon Healy Scene: The living room of the Heather home in a middle-sized city in Washington. Director: Miss Marjorie Strong. Stage Manager: Sam Earnest. Property Committee: James Anderson, Dorothy Engstrom, Catherine Martin. Spooks SENIOR PLAY May 25 Cast: Elliott Butterfield Richard Nelson Judy Wilma Thompson Marian Blackwell Mary Kemp Sam Peter Larson Douglas BlackwelL-Eugene Carlson Laurette Payne Jane Laurence Silas Willoby Wilbur Adkins Messenger Boy Everett Stine Inspector Ryan Robert Sw-anson Miss Brown Viola Carlson Police Officer Vernon On- Scene: The old mansion of Simon Blackwell. Director: Miss Elma Shearer. Stage Manager: James Walker. Property Manager: Arlene Coulter.

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FOOTBALL . . . Coach hankenson’s first can for football brought forth an assemblage of aspiring grid heroes numbering about forty-five. However, as is usually the case, before the first two weeks had elapsed, fifteen aspiring-stars had expired, and the number dwindled to thirty for the remainder of the season. Eight lettermen were among the aforementioned forty-five candidates, while nine more of said candidates had pulled down varsity “P’s” by the end of the Armistice game at Gibson. The returning lettermen were Gene Carlson (Capt.), Vernie Orr, Dick Nelson, and Wilbur Adkins, seniors; Sam Ernest and Hugh Stone, juniors; Harold Marlatt and Clarence Nuss, sophomores. The boys to win football letters for the first time were Don Lewis, Warren Stone, Bob Swanson, and Bob Olson, seniors; Elmer Flannigan, Bus Healy, and David McKinney, juniors; and Leon Henry and Kenneth Jones, sophomores. The 1933 grid season marked the first in three years that a freshman failed to win a letter. A 25-0 defeat of Gibson to start the season more than opened the fans’ eyes, while a second victory the following week at Milford gave Wauseca League followers the impression that the locals were the team to beat for the title. About that time, though, the turning point in our football year came; for a few minutes after the second half of the Farmer City game had started, Don Lewis, senior halfback, broke his leg, and with that leg our hopes for a successful season went glimmering. Kenney Jones filled in at left half the remainder of the season and played a hard, courageous game, but 118 pounds is far from sufficient to back up a line. The Farmer City tilt went on the wrong side of the ledger, 13-7, and the game the following week with Rantoul was lost by a 14-0 count. In each of these games the local eleven gained more ground than the opposing teams, but in each case the old punch was lacking when the goal line was especially inviting. In these two games and the following three, thirty, forty, fifty, and even sixty yard runs by the other teams’ backfield stars were the causes of successive defeats. Rossville, Little Six champs, came to Paxton, November 3, and after trailing at the half, 7-6, put on offensive splurges in the third and fourth quarters that left the Hankenson men behind, 18-7, at the final gun. A fast charging line, hard running, and aerial attacks featured the Vermilion county outfit. The next week-end we entertained Rex Benoit and his Onarga gridders and were perfect hosts in every respect, for Onarga’s victory in this