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

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PRINCIP 3, gh, : s r f Q vga. -1 zf W I The RECORD of 1949 is that of an able, energetic, friendly class and of a memorable year. Seldom, even at Parker, has school life been so full, or have its activities been so generally shared by old and young, boys, girls, parents, graduates, and staff. Remember the doublefjointed elephant of Seniors that helped the First Grade dramatize for the rest of us 'What Happened on Mulberry Street'? And the parent' studentfgraduateffriends' orchestra in the MESSIAH? And the similar orchestra that, with the Ninth Grade, made IOLANTHE so good? And DOWN IN THE VALLEY, that was so lovely a beginning to the midfwinter meeting that the Parker Association gave over to a party in honor of the Seniors? And the sidefsplitting ECCLESIA' ZUSAE, with Fourth Grade chorus and highfschool dramaticfclub protagonists? And the parentffaculty Floradoras that outweighed the varsity football line - and yet made feminine hearts light and gay at the newly invented STAGfette? And the moving final meeting of the Association, at which her students and their parents, her colleagues young and old, and the whole Parker family honored the completion of Miss Cornell's great service to us and to American education? For her, for the Senior Class of 1949, and for us who face the new halffcentury without their immediate presence, it seems reasonable to hope that this culminating year together may have brought what Masefield calls SCTISC Of life so lovely and intense It lingers when we wander hence - That those who follow feel behind Their back, when all before seems blind, Our joy, a vampavt to the mindl' 6 HERBERT W. SMITH

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DEDICATIO HAZEL M. CORNELL Miss Cornell is leaving Parker after more than twenty years of distinguished serv' ice to the school. Under her guidance the Social Studies department has developed into a most important part of the curriculum. Those who have had her as their teacher will remember the stimulating classesg the way she made dry History live. Who will forget, Death of Alexander Q 323, or struggling with your Constitution chart? But it is not only the details that are so importantg it is also the insight into the whole span of history with which one leaves Miss Cornell's room. The culmination and real value of her work is shown in the way her students think. They learn to weigh facts with careful judgment, and acquire intellectual curiosity and habits of research into areas outside of her field. As one student put it, Gee, she really makes you think! Outside of her work here at the school Miss Cornell has held innumerable im' portant positions: among them, Chairman of the Eight Year Plan for Improvement of the High School Curriculum, Chairman of the Headmistresses' Association, and Chair' man of the Kentucky State Federation of Women's Clubs. But her greatest contrif bution has been to her students who have benefited from her fairness and rare under' standing. It is hard to put into mere words the thing that she has created in those young minds made eager to learn, but the RECORD joins all those who know her in proudly saluting HAZEL M. CORNELL as the type of teacher which forwardflooking young people need today. 5

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