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

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,v-- ' I fear the contented man SUld John P Marquand ress unless there IS dIscontent WIthout It today I even belneve there can be no Inner peace of mInd Active and constructIve dIscontent has marked 'I949 1950 at Parker Student Government dlscarded ITS old CONSTITUTION and spent much of the year In wrItIng a new one The SIxth Grade establIshed a newspaper an scooped the Weekly on the sensatIonal event of the year the break INTO the lIttle school bUIldlDg Student commIt tee and faculty have laborIously transformed mornIng exercIses from sporadIc entertaInments mostly by films or speakers from outsIde the school to the central role they used to play that of the expected dClllY gatherIng where day after day dIfferent members of the school famIIy test theIr mastery of new Ideas and experlences by makIng them VlVId to us all The Twelve Days of ChrIstmas added pageantry to the musIc of Vespers Such numbers as TrIal by Jury replaced the trIvIalItIes of recent forums The Fnfth Grade found no Vlklng play to G, ,..A..AAIl T- ITS taste and wrote ITS own SenIors who belIeved n the clnema verslons collaborated to write theIr own for senIor play In partIcuIar the Record staff were dIscontented and determIned to break precedent They reported and be gan work before school opened and devIsed and loyally carrIed out a plan of raIsIng addItIonal money wIthout compllmentary advertIsements or advertIsements from Parker parents Throughout the year they have organ Iled eI'ficIently and worked well possIbly wIth less encouragement than any other actIvIty GIVES from faculty and admInIstratIon KHOWIDQ Parker I have no fear that you or they wIIl be dangerously contented eIther wIth the 1950 Record or wIth any other aspect of the school And so I am realIstIc In wIshIng the Class of 1950 the Record staff and all theIr readers the Inner peace of mInd that comes from progress makIng dIscontent I Is I I P is H. E 1 il R i . M I w I Y 3, I' N i I C . NI I I P T A L V, ' L I H N ' I 3 '-If . I ' I ,, l,, , ' . , . I . . i to a Time reporter. I fear him because there is no prog- Crime and Punishment but disliked both the stage and , - - - d . . . . . . I I ' . . . t YL . . . H ' , ' ' ,, . ,, . . .. . . . Q ' ,V ' 4' X ' I I . y I 'P MTL W 4

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'ff ldv ln' A iw laa ix fr fifty 5 my A long tlme ago we were In Fourth Grade Miss Davis was our teacher then We were about elght or nlne and very lm presslonable It was a bug year for us A year fulled wnth Greek fantasy when the Illad and the Odyessy were not names on a Great Books lust but vlvnd picturesque stones as real to us as our growang pauns lt was a year when Persephone danced for us, Hercules lnfted our chaurs, and Pegasus and Ballerofon galloped across our room Mass Dovus belueved In learnmg by domg, so that year we dad thungs We staged, directed, wrote, and acted m our own plays, we -X I U 4 had typmg lessons and spellmg bees And through each of these actnvmes we were guuded by her sweet temper and quuet pataence lt was a bug year for us We were growmg up And so we went on Fifth Grade Slxth Grade until now we are Seniors But somehow a part of Mass Dovls has always remamed with us and a part of us has always remamed I that Fourth Grade room So the 1950 Parker Record takes great pleasure IR dedncatmg theur book to Mary C Davns, because to us she IS symbolic of all that we love and cherish nn our school !2, ajax Jadl' ll ffl . all - e . -' - n e is l X 1 y ' Q5 n 4 I W 'Wk , U ll QW .t ul, , Z . 1-f

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