Paxton High School - Reflector Yearbook (Paxton, IL)

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FACULTY Helen Sanner Bethel Woman’s College Illinois State Normal University B.Ed. Degree Commercial Courses Sophomore Class Adviser Fletcher McConnell Illinois State Normal University B.Ed. Degree Science Physical Education Virginia Cleaveland Northwestern University B.M. Degree Glee Clubs Wilmot Ridner University of Illinois B.S. Degree Manual Training Agriculture Adviser of P.F.A. Mary E. Holme Blackburn College University of Illinois B.S. Degree Home Economics and Science Dramatic Coach Junior Class Adviser Irene Rear De Pauw University A.B. Degree History and Civics Reflector Sponsor

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FACULTY John J. Swinney William Jewell College A.B. Degree University of Illinois M.A. Degree Principal Mathematics Homer Hankenson Carthage College A.B. Degree Plane Geometry Physical Education Coach Jeannette Kresler Northwestern University A.B. Degree Latin and English Sophomore Class Adviser Maude Gracen Ypsilanti State Normal College B.S. Degree Cleary Business College Assistant Principal Mathematics Freshman Class Adviser Madeleine Anderson Illinois Wesleyan University A.B. Degree University of Illinois English Senior Class Play Senior Class Adviser Marjorie Strong Muskingum College A.B. Degree French and English Junior Class Play Junior Class Adviser Student Council Adviser

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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.