Parkview High School - Spirit Yearbook (Little Rock, AR)

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5 Break tlme. Faculty lunch time groups V resemble students gathering at noon. Being humans, teachers, also, need time to relax. V K L, Ten YeQfsA1T1Eer 5 'IenlYearsfAft6r flew

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For 569 students and 33 staff members at Parkview, 1968-69 broughtaunique experience. They had shared inthe opening of a new school ,fParkview. Sophomores, the top class, showed more motivation,independence i and responsibility, then, said Mrs. Carolyn Filchesin, French teacher the first year. However, she said that without traditions the first Patriots lacked the school spirit that is characteristic of them today. i Parkview kids still show more concern toward people around them, said Miss Paulette Landers. Miss Landers was Principal Leonard Spitzer's secretary and the registrar, then, as well as sponsor of Y-teens. Even the first year there were 67 members. Though we mayreach high school as immature,ren,tn graders, here we grow t to tolerate those of different cultures, as well asrecognize our own abilities and accept our limitations. We are unique in who we are, 10 years after. 1 Who We Are 61465

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-W , As the Vletnam War was tearlng our country apart, 349 people who had founded a dlfferent school composed the flrst graduating Class of Parkvlew Hlgh School. As 423 members of the elghth graduatlng class of Parkvlew rushed Into thelr early teen years, these flrst senlors faced the realltles of work, college exams or the draft. The world of '71 had much to be compared wlth the world of '78. The flrst graduates began thelr year begglng for senlor prlvllegesg our senlor year also began that way, and what thelr efforts' accompllshed, ours were stlll trylng to expand. ,Q al- -1 Ax 7' Senlors of '71 enjoyed raclal har- mony, we strlved to preserve mature raclal relatlonshlps, too. The flrst senlors supported thelr school by engaging In a campalgn to Increase mlllageg we campaigned and galned the Increase whlch provlded funds for a new track and audltorlum. Durlng the course' of the flrst senlcrs' flnal year, the Arkansas Legislature faced a proposal to revlse the antlquated state constltutlon. Another effort to update It was made durlng cur flnal days. While ieeving for- the Ieet time, fleehee of the prfevioue yeerie nnneer- ee vve -'Q tr H As the Class of '71 began lts sw year, Chlef of Pollce Gale W L assumed hls job: durlng our senle year, he reslgned, and W.R. lSorfn1 .Slmpson took over the departmen Llke the flrst senlors, today's stu dents had a concern for soclety. Boi collected and donated money fi expansion of the Llttle Rock Zoo. 4 , 7 e xv qi 44 Q