Francis W Parker School - Record Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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5 PARKER RJECURD H l I' ,:...4L p I- 'L g ' 1930 GEORGINA M. L. HENDRY Assoriaic Hostess In Charge of Pulilicafions NORMA B. JONES Financial Secretary IRNA V KUELLMAR In Charge of Store MABEL Q MERCER Secretary lo the Principal WILLIAM F MEYER School Pnnter BARBARA STEUBIG Assistant zn Secretarzal Work Page Nmelem l l J lr xl l . . gn l- ull 'L lp 7 rl lr Y v -i

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PARKER RECORD . IH HATTIE A. WALKER First Grade MARY E WALSH Teacher o French WALLACE F. WORTHLEY Hearl 0 Natural Sciences Curator o Museum JANET O. WORTLEY Assistant Seventh Grade JOSEPH S WRIGHT Head o Physical Education-Boys MABEL M. WRIGHT Head of Physical Education-Girls ELSIE A. WYGANT Director 0 Publications HERMAN .L YAGER Teacher of Physics and Mathematic FRANCES M. ARNOLD Registrar ANNE HQ COOPER General Secretary ALICE L. FALK Assistant in Secretarial Work KATHERINE K. FRISTROM Switchboard Operator In Charge of Children? Accounts BESSIE M. HENDRY Assistant in Library GEORGE HENDRY Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds Page Eighteen ie 141 as if 1930 '

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-----ff PARKER RECORD COLONEL PARKEIVS SPIRIT The Parker Spirit-what is it? A small boy in the first grade recently defined it as something very goodf' The occasion was a birthday wishing party. Every member of the group had his lighted candle from which he blew his birthday wish to the child who was seven years old that day. The wishes came eagerly and fast,-one for a Pomeranian dog, another for an electric train, for a little baby brother, for a motor boat,-each wishing for his friend something which doubtless he himself most desired. Finally the turn came for a thoughtful eyed little boy to make his wish. I hope, he said, that Peter will grow up big and strong and always have the Parker Spirit. What is that? I asked. And he answered, I don't know exactly what it is, but Mr. Wahlstrom said in Morning Exercise when we were working in the Christmas Toy Shop that we all ought to use the ParkerVSpirit, and I am sure it is something 'very good. And, something very good it is, if it is truly to represent the spirit of the man who made the Parker School possible. Francis W. Parker was a true pioneer who gave his whole life to a struggle to make education better for children. He said, Nothing that is good is too good for a child, no work too great, no toil to arduous. He firmly believed that every school ifn the land should be made a home and a heaven for chil- dren. He believed that no one can give another education but that each must gain it through his own efforts. He wanted a school to be a place where the strengths, gifts and natural interests of every child could develop to their fullest measure. He wanted a school to be like a fine garden, a place rich and nourishing in which a child could live freely, a place which would stimulate him to work and play and grow. Out of my long experience with Colonel Parker, I should interpret the Parker Spirit as one which must continuously portray courage, strength and unselfishness. It must be at once fine and generous yet keenly critical and intelligently discriminating in all its larger aspects. Parker Spirit shows itself in athletics and sports because of the school's belief that every boy and girl needs an opportunity to play as well as to work. It puts itself squarely and loyally behind its teams to support them whether winning or losing-so long as the players give their best individual and cooperative effort to the game. But Parker Spirit does not function alone in sports, it permeates and inspires every phase of our living together. It demands at once thorough individual scholarship-the fullest measure of knowledge and skill, and it expects from each person, big and little, his most useful and loyal service to the best interest of the whole group. It does not recognize as its own the selfish grabber or shirker in a community. It claims gladly the potential artist, the lover of beauty, and attempts to help him find his own avenue for the expression of his ideas and dreams. The reach of the Parker Spirit extends far beyond the borders of the school itself, and not only helps those imbued with it to meet adequately the immediate prob- lems of the small school community, but it also equips them potentially, we hope, to cope with the difficult problems of the more complex adult world in which they must so soon participate. The fruitage of the Parker Spirit is something which grows and comes to perfection only through long years of practice. It is not made up alone of what Colonel Parker gave to it, but also of what has been .brought into the school life by fine teachers and students during the many years of its existence. Thus it happens that every member of the school at present is in some measure responsible for what this spirit is just as every graduate is its exponent Its quality must be judged not by what some of us wish it were but by what characterizes it in everyday practice If the school of 1930 31 is to be worthy of the spirit which Colonel Parker bequeathed to it it will not consist merely in glorifying a tradition but it will be exemplified in a type of living wholly good happy and useful Students possessing it will without any self Page Twenty 31930 , . . ' 3 1 9 - '