Park University - Narva Yearbook (Parkville, MO)

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DOLLIE MAE TOWNE Parkville, Missouri Calliopean “What will not woman, gentle woman, dare, When strong affection stirs her spirit up.” Country bred. New England accent. Tall and fair. Entered Park as First Year, been at the head of the class ever since. Height of her ambition is to weigh one hun¬ dred and sixteen pounds by commencement. A very busy body. Assistant censor (1), vice-president (3), president (4), and sergeant (4), of C. L. S., class secretary (3), secretary (2), vice-president (3), and president (4), of Missionary Society. Won second in essay contest (1), Bible prize (1), second in Junior-Senior Oratorical (3), On Freshman and Sophomore Declamatory Contests, and on the negative of the Woman Suffrage debate (she will have some one to vote for her). Plays piano and tennis. Valedictorian of class. Magna cum laudt. Expects to teach for a while. MR. J. B. PENNISTON Parkville, Missouri Parchevard “Quality, not quantity.” City bred. Entered Park two years ago, as a Sopho¬ more, been on the go ever since. Took all Junior and all Senior work this year. Keen minded and well liked though he be not so very handsome. Expects to take post graduate work. ALFRED R. WESTFALL El Reno, Oklahoma Parchevard “ How angel-like he sings.” “Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee At all his jokes for many a joke had he.” Brought up in town. First appeared on the campus as a third year. President of Athletic Association, Parchevard Society, Prohibition Association and Missouri Prohibition Association, in 191 1. Debated on Freshman Inter-society, Coe College, and two Ottawa University teams. Made his maiden attempt in oratory as a representative of Parche¬ vard in 1909, but has since been practising persuading the natives that prohibition will cure all their ills. Won mile run in 1909 and mile, half-mile, and quarter-mile in 1910 and 1911. Acquired the pace on the general force— running from work. Especially famous for his puns. Also a member of the “Senior Quartette”. Anticipates “being good”, but previous training rather inadequate. 31

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WILLIAM P. BIXLER Larkin, Kansas Parchevard “A steady, sober sort of citizen.” City and country bred, doubly fortunate. Entered Park Academy as a Third Year. He’s not very old and not very pretty but he cracks lots of jokes and is always quite witty. A good worker. Plays ball once in a great while. Official janitor of Labor Hall. Expects to be a medical missionary. MARION DOROTHEA DUTTON Miltonvale, Kansas Calliopean “The best things are sometimes done up in small packages.” A country flower. Entered Park College ranks as a wee First Year, and stuck to the same old class in spite of a siege of typhoid. Warbles in the Calliopean Glee Club, and is one of the standbys in the choir. Held an officer’s chair in C. L. S. in Senior year. Contends against “Industrial Woman”. Not very big but—condensed sweetness. Worst trial is her roommate. Expects to wield the switch in the schoolroom. WILLIAM MILTON HARBAUGH Colorado Springs, Colorado Parchevard “Had you been silent, you might still have passed as a philosopher.” “And laughter holding both his sides.” Reared in small town. Entered Park a green Fresh¬ man. Fine student. Soph Declam preliminaries. P. L. S. Attorney, critic and Stylus reporter. Plays tennis, baseball for class and society; basket ball for class and once for society. Sprinter, 50 yard, 75 yard, 100 yard winner (3 and 4). All round athlete; won tro¬ phy 1911. Winning relay race team (1, 2, 3). “0, for a farm in Colorado,” his by word. A cum laude man. Expects to study civil engineering or farm. 30

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LEOLA L. LASLEY Raymore, Missouri Lucerne “She is pretty to walk with, and witty to talk with and pleasant, too, to think on.” Also a small town representative. Enrolled in Third Year. President of Lucerne in 1911. Secretary of same in 1908. Censor 1908. Attorney 1910. Manager of Lucerne Glee Club in 1911. Finds time besides to take music lessons. An all round good girl. Says she expects to teach, but, “Honest to John”, do you think she will long? MAXWELL S. HAMM Parkville, Missouri Lowell “She hath made me neglect my studies, lose my time.” Reared at Park and has been with us ever since. Basso Profundo in Glee Club since Freshman. Plays base ball in the left field. Plays guard in basket ball for class and L. L. C. Inter-society debater (1, 2, 3). Park vs Drury debater (3 and 4). On Junior-Senior oratorical (3). Censor of L. L. C. (2); president (3). Park Oratorical Committeeman (3). Bass horn man. Likes the “Bart¬ lett” pear best. Expects to enter business. EDITH MAY HUGHES Pataskala, Ohio Lucerne “Absence of occupation is not rest A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.” It is passing strange how many good students come from small villages. This representative of 1911 entered Park in 1909. A real worker. Worst fault is breaking No. 2. 32