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

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in the embryonic democracy , when one sees that from our little democracy, Parkerites have graduated into a larger democracy and taken their rightful places as intelligent and useful citizens. They have become doctors, lawyers, housewives, executives, club women, clergymen, teachers, scientists, salesmen, musicians, en- gineers, secretaries, mathematicians, newspaper col- umnists, architects, actors, editors, bankers, designers, artists, government workers of all kinds-even tax collectors. We may boast of quite a few well-known names among the list of alumni. Names such as Celeste Holme, Hollywood actress, Perry Dunlap Smith, North Shore CD., Elliott Dunlap Smith, president of Carnegie Tech, Mildred McAfee Horton, president of Wellesley College and one time head of the WAVES, is iff ff it R111 AX,---.-....,. Katherine Taylor, well-known educator, and Darlene Stern Ceis, authoress, who writes that in her book, Design for Ann, she used Parker as a background for her characters and called the school Parsons, True, that for some individuals, life at Parker was simply a phase, the school itself just another institu- tion of learning. the country to many years in learned to love But to those who came from all over attend it, to those who have spent the circle of the Parker family and it, to those who have graduated and now look back on their days there with a certain, warm glow, to those people, what has Parker meant? Wfell, it has meant a way of life and of living, it has meant people and learning to live with them and to like them, it has meant an interest in everything from animal life through the arts, and a surer faith in hu- manity and the world. J W a MT -Q. N,

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