Francis Parker High School - Cavalcade Yearbook (San Diego, CA)

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Parker Honors Renaissance Man A man who admires Renaissance men and in many ways is one himself, is esteemed by those he helps prepare for college. This teacher was born in Inglewood, California, but soon after his birth, the family moved to Trona, California, where he spent 13 years of his childhood. He was next to the youngest in a family of six children. His father worked in a chemical plant at Trona. When he died, the family moved to San Bernardino where his mother worked in a rectory as a cook until she retired last year. He went to Aquinas High in San Bernardino where he admired Father KJV Sullivan, another Renaissance man. After he graduated from Aquinas, he received a scholarship to go to the University of San Diego where he majored in history and minored in political science and philosophy. Two important professors in his life at that time were Dr. Braniss and Dr. Gilbert, at USD, To earn money for his schooling he worked for an insurance company for a year. He also worked as a night watchman. He felt the jobs were not suited to him so he went to University High to teach. He graduated from USD in 1966. In 1967 he married Diane Schmeits and a year later alson Kurt was born. Kurt was followed by a sister Colleen in 1973. This teacher joined Parker's history department in 1970 and also coached football his first two years. He had played quarterback in high school as well as baseball. At University High he had coached water polo. He feels coaching is not for him. He is at home in the classroom where he enjoys teaching history and humanities and taking the students on cultural fleld trips. He also likes to teach all of his students to think for themselves. He is fond of quoting one of his heroes,xThomas Jefferson. Parker is suitable for him because he is free to teach what he wants. He feels the class sizes are right for teacher-student rapport. His hobbies are: Western art, history, sculpture and writing. He believes in diligence, a favorite quotation of his is: HFor with slight efforts, how should one obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it. -Euripides With pride, a smile, and a handshake, we dedicate the 1977 CAVALCADE to the man in the hat - Dave Russell. l- , e . 'f

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CAVALCADE Editors Express Feelings We are presenting this year's CAVALCADE with a theme of Faces and Feelings. You will notice that this year there are many new faces on the pages of the book-Parker's enrollment is up not only because of new seventh graders, but also because of many additions at upper levels. The feelings of the students at Parker can be expressed in individual ways or in group situations. A cheerleader's mood of anticipation as her team receives a kickoff can be matched with the team's mood of jubilation as they score a touchdown, and misgivings of a seventh grader as he begins his first day at the upper school can be equated to a senior's anxiety as he prepares to enter college. A most important event of 1976-77 was the accreditation of Parker by WASC, or Western Association of Schools and Colleges. This evaluation was done by giving the students questionnaires on the school and by having the faculty, administration, and service people write lengthy reports on all of the school life. This accreditation was climaxed by a visit from WASC representatives in lVlarch. The accreditation should prove valuable to Parker, through the analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of our school. A phenomenon of 1976-77 was Parker's Ubaby boom. lVlr. and lVlrs. Corbln's son appeared on the scene for Thanksgiving. On Jan. 5 lVlrs. Rogers had a baby girl and lVlrs. Cheskaty had a boy a few hours later. The next day lVlrs. Pooch gave birth to a little boy. We would like to thank our industrious staff, our literate contributors, our busy photographers, our illustrious advisor lVlrs.'Spain, and professional photographer Tony Francis, and special thanks to lVlr. Galyan and Otto Hirr for building us an excellent darkroom. We would also like to thank all of our generous patrons and advertisers for their much needed financial help. cum Www. Moya 711-M570 j it Below left and above, industrious editors Alex lVlayer and Maxine Fuentes study yearbook material. Below, an important part of making a good yearbook is filling the HSuper Dummy. However, Alex lVlayer has different ideas, 54 is if-si mix M TT f :xi 7' fllillg K M ff tg gag at sr E '53 '- ggi l, X X 5 x Y 1 ix f5l1 t as If , msg 3 A it , 'K ff F553 ?. .,,f.,rgJg? . Santa' , 571' A N , .A . 5 fi' s9,tf.s' nfs ,, .4 . a, r 1- N. if logi n 6. ,El N ex ' A 'S k k 1 ln, 1-, 6 ee