Paxton High School - Reflector Yearbook (Paxton, IL)

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CLASS WILL We, the departing senior class of 1936, set forth our last will and testament in the hope that it will be a lasting reminder of the ideals which we are leaving to the school and the student body. Let it be understood that we are in our right minds and everything done is in the spirit of good will. Frank Anderson—my scientific ability to Mr. McConnell. Glenn Anderson—my agricultural ability to Donald Ryan. Ruth Anderson—my beloved debate cards to Roy Larson. Catherine Archer—my artistic tendency to Clara Belle Earnest. Harold Barr—my shapely legs to Dick Fager. Virginia Bess—my out-of-town dates to Dorothy Geegan. Arlene Burklund—my interest in insurance companies to Miss Kresler. Alice Carlson—my gentle manner to Paul Jones. Loren Carlson—my alertness in history classes to John Hill. Donald Clouse—my bright remarks in French class to Vernon Moline. Mabel Doan—my rhythm to Peggy Brunton. Elmer Flannigan—my restaurant ability to Edward Spencer. Delores Frank—my ability to make speeches to Joe Ashley. Grace Gifford—my tranquility to Shirley Davis. June Grimsley—my dignity to Shirley Watts. Gail Hedrick—my appetite, so he can grow and take my place on the football team, to Max Frump. Leon Henry—my pleasant dreams in the study hall to John Campbell. Victoria Horridge—my vocal aspirations to Barbara Benjamin. Elmer Johnson—my Saturday night rampages to Lavade Hanson. Lucille Johnson—my “get-up-and-go” to Ferd Marshall. Kenneth Jones- my dark complexion to Martha Lantz. Delbert Karr—my title of “one woman man” to Milton Schofield. Zelma Kiest—my interest in tenors to Mary Archer. Lyleth Larson—my poetic ability to Miss Anderson. John Lind—my straight hair to Cecil Reehl. Delmar Lundy—my interest in California to Irma Coulter. Linden Magnuson—my physique to Jimmy Purtill. Evelyn Marlatt—my cheer leading ability to Dorothy Stine. Earl Marshall—my speed in typing to Ralph Flora. Laura Belle Miller—my stature to Donald Flannery Marian Moline—the envy I cause to Gibson City girls to Betty Olson. Elinore Munson—my commanding voice to Paul Mortweet. Dorothy McFadden—my V-8 to Bud Thilmony. Albin Nelson—my liking for country roads on dark nights to Emil Sandstedt. Marcia Nelson—my ability to “brush up” on certain things to Vernon Swanson. Norman Nelson—my interest in ministers’ daughters to John Sederlund. Beulah Orr—my ability to win class basketball games to Virginia Froyd. Earl Palmberg—my light hair to Max Sullivan. William Parker—my irresistible attraction to the frail sex to Bud Van Antwerp. James Reep—my interest in junior girls to Chuck Cornelison. John Reep—my interest in Gallagher’s Business School to Shirley Apland. Marilynn Ryan—my interest in Onarga to Virginia Jones. Louise Sandstedt—my sweet voice to Philip Lindell. Irene Schwartz—my different coiffeurs to Alice Starkey. Phyllis Stevens—my attraction to miniature cyclones (Gails) to Mary Barnes. Thomas Stevenson—my blushes to Nobel Skon-berg. Clara Rose Stubbins—my knitting ability to Wanda Fiscus. Bill Sullivan—my bass voice to Virginia Stremme. John Swanson—my aggressive basketball technique to Tommy Curran. Norma Swanson—my pep at basketball games to Miss Strong. Thelma Swanson—my belief that “silence is golden’’ to Juanita Randolph. Vernon Swanson—my bottle of brilliantine to Walter Amerman. Hartzell Teesdale—my dancing ability to Jimmy Magnuson. Virginia Tweet—my straight A’s in history to Alma Warfield. Marjorie Vevig—my interest in negative debating team captains to La Verta Glabe. Thelma Walker—my studiousness to Jack Custer. Eugene Whitman—my place on the F.F.A. basketball team to La Verne Rasmus. Frances Woodward—my red hair to Martha Apland.

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SENIORS . . . . . . 1936 It is with just pride with which we, as successful seniors of P. C. H. S., cast a backward glance upon the history of our worthy class of esteemed students. We began our careers as “frantic frosh” in the year of 1932, and “them was the good ole days” when we were far from the responsibilities and burdens connected with the status of seniors. Miss Irene Bear, it was, who taught us the rudiments of high school life and aided us in the selection of Delmar Lundy as class president, Beulah Orr as vice-president, Virginia Tweet as secretary, and John Reep as treasurer. Our class enjoyed a picnic at Foster’s timber and supplied a program for assembly. As seasoned sophomores we were again ably advised by Miss Irene Bear. Our class officers for this year were Leon Henry, president; Hartzell Teesdale, vice-president; Marilynn Ryan, secretary; and Arlene Burklund, treasurer. When the next year rolled around, we found ourselves composing the junior class, sagely advised by the Misses Irene Bear and Elma Shearer. By this time we knew enough to elect class officers, who were as follows: Harold Barr, president; John Nielsen, vice-president; June Grimsley, secretary; and Gail Hedrick, treasurer. In the fall of this year, 1934, practically the entire class turned Thespian to try out for the junior play, Stop, Thief! Miss Shearer directed and produced this play. This year also, we royally entertained the senior class at a banquet at the Middlecoff Hotel. Miss Bear had charge of the banquet this year. Several members of the class aided as ushers and with the supply and arrangement of the flowers for Baccalaureate and Commencement. It was not until the fall of 1935, however, that we realizezd how juvenile we had previously been, for this year began our senior year at P. C. H. S. This year Harold Barr served the Student Council as president, and Gail Hedrick and Virginia Bess served as class representatives to that worthy body. John Swanson, president of our class, also served as the first president of the Junior-Senior Dramatic Club, and other members of our class also held important positions in that organization. The senior class also showed its prowess in the realm of sports by both the boys’ and the girls’ teams winning the first round of interclass basketball games. Our class advisers this year were Miss Irene Bear, who was the faculty adviser for the Reflector, and Miss Madeleine Anderson, who directed the senior play, Growing Pains, which was produced the latter part of May. Following the usual customs, the seniors were entertained by the juniors at the junior-senior banquet in May. On May 24, we attended our Baccalaureate service, with the Reverend Mr. Starr as speaker, and on May 28, we ended our high school career with Commencement.

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SENIORS ANDERSON, RUTH Transferred from Chicago; Dramatic Club, 4; Debate, 4; Glee Club, 2, 3, 4; Growing rains, 4. ANDERSON. FRANK Rand, 1, 2, 3, 4; Track, 1, 2, 3, 4. ANDERSON, GLENN Dramatic Club, 4; Class Basketball, 3, 4; Glee Club, 1, 2, 3. 4; Band, 1, 2, 3. 4; Future Farmers, 3. 4; Basketball. 2. 3. ARCHER, CATHERINE Glee Club, 3, 4. BESS. VIRGINIA Literary Contest, 3, 4; Dramatic Club, 4; Glee Club, 1, 2, 3, 4; Contest Chorus, 3, 4; Student Council, 4; Growing Pains, 4. BARR, HAROLD Transferred from Rankin, 1%; Class President, 3; Dramatic Club, 4; Student Council Pres., 4; Class Basketball, 2; Basketball. 3, 4—Letterman, 4; Track, 2, 3, 4—Let-terman, 2, 3, 4; Baseball, 4—Letterman, 4; Football, 3, 4—Letterman, 3, 4; Stop Thief; Growing Pains. BURKLUND, ARLENE Dramatic Club, 4; Dramatic Club Treasurer, 4; Class Basketball, 2, 4; Stop Thief; Glee Club, 1, 2, 3, 4; (.rowing Pains. CARLSON. LOREN Class Basketball, 1, 2, 3, 4; Track, 3, 4; Future Farmers, 2, 3, 4; Future Farmer Judging Contest, 3, 4; Wrestling, 4; Boys’ Glee Club, 1, 2, 3, 4; Stop Thief. CARLSON. ALICE Glee Club, 3. 4. CLOUSE, DONALD Transferred from Wellington, 1, 2; Class Basketball, 4; Track, 3, 4; Wrestling, 3, 4; Glee Club, 3; Band, 3, 4.