Paxton High School - Reflector Yearbook (Paxton, IL)

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One of the purposes of the Student Council is to promote the spirit of participation in every student. During the spring months of 1966, the Student Council organized such events as Fun Nite, Student Take-Over Day, and Domestic Exchange. The annual A.F.S. Ban- quet and the Mr. “D” Benefit Concert proved to be big successes. When school re-opened in the fall, the new Council was on hand to conduct the Freshman Orientation program. One of the biggest projects was the planning and supervising of the annual Homecoming activities. Student Council Activities .Iboi'c, Left: Student Council Induction Ceremony; Right: Domestic exchange of students with Fisher. Below, Left: Bonnie Hustedt, Guidance Secretary during Student Take-Over Day; Center: Student Council members believe in physical fitness; Right: S.C. Prcxy mingles. I:ar Right: Student Council refreshment stand. 29

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Above, Left: Graduation exercises; below: A view of the Graduating Class of 1966. Above Right: Scholastic gold cord winners Stone, Kinkenberger, Hardman, DeMuth, Apland, Dunnan, Harrington, McQueen, Hartt, and Lindgrcn. Commencement June 3rd became a most memor-able night for the one-hundred and four seniors who were breaking ties with classmates of 12 years. Entering the flower-adorned gym, watched by parents and relatives, the graduates slowly and proudly took their places on the stage. Mr. Goebel Patton spoke humorously and interestingly about the accomplishments of the class, of their future, and of their “obligations” to the past. Sentimental recollections of exciting or amusing experiences and memorable events raced through the minds of the graduates and their parents, as they viewed P.C.H.S. for the last time as active participants. Below: A diploma is handed to Bill Hansen by Board President Lee Carlson. 28

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Gifts and Memorials The school directory in the main entrance was given by the Class of 1940 in memory of Miss Maude Gracen, a business education teacher at Paxton High from 1921 to 1945. In the agriculture wing of the school is a glass-enclosed bulletin board, a memorial to the late Mr. Ray W. Foster, local farmer and member of the Board of Education. The attractive trophy case in the front lobby, a memorial to the late Stanley Marshall, was purchased from a Memorial Fund established by the Class of 1965. A beautiful oil portrait of Mr. O. J. Bainum, a former teacher and Superintendent of Schools in Paxton, now hangs in the southwest corner of the library where a special section was officially dedicated to him in November 1966. Foreign exchange student Petra van Kampen (1964-65) left an authentic doll from her native Holland as a reminder of her Top: Maude Gracen directory in the front lobby; Bulletin board in memory of Ray Foster. Bottom: Sum Marshall trophy case, given by the Class of '65; Portrait of Prof. O. J. Bainum, hung in the Bainum Xook of the library. 30