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

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I Four gnu--V. , W THE PARKER F MILY The companionship of parent, student and teacher has always made up the Parker we love and now, regretfully, must leave. Parkers very foundation is on the principles of cooperation, help- fulness and deep understanding. We feel, though, that in a troubled time, following a disastrous war, when bitter cliatribes against educa- tion are being hurled from all directions, it is well to state again that Parker principles are a vital, living force. We, the Class of '48, feel that Parker has given us a great dealp that our parents and teachers alike have always made us feel adult and like equals, so that now we can take our place in a troubled world with some degree of assurance. For these reasons we dedicate our RECORD to the PARKER FAMILY.

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The 1948 PARKER RECGRD Pulnlisliecl Tay THE STUDENTS FRANCIS W. PARKER 330 WEBSTER AVENUE CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

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When the Parker student of 1947-8 gets his Record, he first hunts out every picture of himself in it, and then uses it to collect autographs. But by the time he gets around to reading the text - this, for instance - he may begin to put the Record to its longer-range use. He is likely to look at the shot of the Harvard game and say, O yes, that was the game that .... And by the time he looks at the Record when he is home from college his comment will become, Lets see, l948g wasn't that the year when . . . ? Well, what has made this year memorable? Mostly, l think, an increased interest on the part of first one group and then another in doing all sorts of things that the rest of the school would profit by, or be proud of, or enjoy: . . . The Seniors, in the very opening Morning Exercise, at their own sugges- tion, at once given to their little brothers and sisters and by them triumphantly led off to the lower grade rooms .i.. The Ninth Grade tweather and the Police Department cooperating? organizing an out-door County Fair such as none of us could remember .... A Midsummer Night's Dream, with its graduate-coached fairy ballet, the Mendelssohn music by the student-parent- friend orchestra, the better-than-professional costumes designed and sewn by the devoted Mothers' Committee .... It has also been a good year competitively, and the class of 1948 has done its part well. When last year's outstanding athletes graduated, no one thought that even Coach and Mr. Horween could develop a team that again this year would make a strong bid for the championship. And in scholastic competition, too, the class has won distinction. Both the representatives whom it sent into the Pepsi-Cola competition placed in the highest tenth in Illinois and in the country, one of them, as you know, was one of the two winners from Illinois. So on many counts 1947-8 has been a good year, and the Class of '48 a good class, and to both we say farewell with pleasant recollections and with warm appreciation for what they have done for the Parker record. Herbert W. Smith MR. SMITH Principal l l