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

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seniors SUSAN WEINRESS Susie — my nose is my own — polyhilopregini- tive — Hackett ' s prodigy — What have you gol for lunch? — Uncle Nate — Did you say Prince- ton? — class secretary — Emerson House. Devoted, anxious, gener- ous, void of guile, and with her whole heart ' s welcome in her smile. — Mrs. Norton JONATHAN CHARLES WEST Jon — Dramatics Associ- ation Head — movie cri- tic — the Gatherer — ■ ' Major Swindon, I pre- sume. — That ' s a dan dan dandy. — Let me see it! Longings sub- lime and aspirations high. — Byron SYLVIA WILLIAMS Sylvie — class secretary — Youth Orchestra — vi- olin — baby sitter sans compensation — 2 little and 1 big — future nurs- ing career. With modest dignity, and calm content. — Rogers BERNARD J. NEGRONIDA B. J. — Barney — Haalo — Spanish and sports — Watch your privileges Como esta ud? — I don ' t like being a policeman. — Gin, his spice of life. — shadow-like briefcase. The whole art of teach- ing is only the art of awaking the natural curi- osity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. — France 4W

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seniors € A FAITH TWIETMEYER Tweet — cheerleading — H2S04, concentrated — former female tenor — Carnegie — But honest, its the natural color — — Auntie — Isn ' t that foxy. ' Gentlemen prefer blonds. — Dorothy Parker MARGARET TOMPKINS Margie — Social Services Committee Co - head — Princeton tiger — Sunday School teacher — Gogie — Brunette in a crowd of red-heads — Roses, from whom? She has two eyes, so soft and brown. Take care! — Anon. WILLIAM JAMES TANNENBAUM Billy — Christmas tree — PeeDee — B r y n Mawr pro ' — Emily Post says ... — cousins galore — Smog — But, I ' ve been smoking for years — ef- fervescent chemist. I ' m tired of four walls and a c e i 1 i n g . I have need of the grass. ■ — Hovev PETER ANTHONY TCHEREPNIN Pierre — Tcherp — 3 year graduate — talkative vo- cabulary — multilinguist — ' ' Dues ore due — May I drive your car home? ' ' — 3rd Man Theme. His language expresses not only his great thoughts, but his great self. — Newman PAGE TWENTY THREE

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' That ' s not what Gunther says A tense moment in morning ex SENIORS SENIORSTUDENT: As wo aro both about to leave Parker, Oh Herbertsmith. you for your Pythia on Cape Cod, we for our diverse colleges, may we look together at one final paradox? HERBERTSMITH: Certainly. SENIORSTUDENT: Have we not come to agree that some kinds of conduct and only some kinds are to be praised and others are not? That Responsibility and Everything to Help and Nothing to Hin- der are good, and Undependability and Thoughtlessness are not? HERBERTSMITH: Indeed we have so agreed Oh Seniorstudent. SENIORSTUDENT: Does it not, then, follow that a class that has been thoughtful and diligent and mature will stand in Parker annals as admirable, and one that has been heedless and arrogant and faltering will be despised? HERBERTSMITH: Yes. But in what lies the inconsistency? SENIORSTUDENT: In this: the Class of 1956 has been both unthinking and thoughtful, kind and mean; gauche and indolent yet clever and productive. We know that we depend on each other; yet we won ' t give up any little part of ourselves that would make us any less the individuals that we strive to be. How will so contradictory a class stand in the RECORD? HERBERTSMITH: Are you not, oh Seniorstudent, forgetting the law of opposites? Had you been less frustrated by disunion, would you have learned to work together, or have achieved humility without first making the blunders of overconfidence? Is it not worth while to have been thought of, by those whose judgments are hasty, as the Worst Class in Years, in order to stand now. in th.- .judg- ment of the knowing, as ' 1956, the Class that Improved Most ' ? Herbert Smith Arlyn Miner Lunch in the Senior Room Hello Hitchcock, This is West Is Parker in There? i ' 1