Park University - Narva Yearbook (Parkville, MO)

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Wfyo’s Wl)o n6 First Second Third Handsomest Man Everett Shouse Carl McConnell James Torrence Best Athlete Lawrence Pruitt Stanley Shetler James Peeke Most Popular Boy Fred Frizelle James Torrence Millard Concklin Best Mixer Lawrence Hurley Fred Frizelle Covert Brown Most Popular Girl Mary MacReynolds Mildred Holly man Gene Hunt Prettiest Girl Jeannie McRuer Gene Hunt Mable Ruland Most Capable Girl Florence Cramer Alice Piper Gene Hunt Jolliest- Girl Beryl Fouts Nancy Love Mildred Hollyman Best Natured Person James Peeke Henry Christoff Beryl Fouts Biggest Bluffer Elijah Jacobs Lawrence Derby Marsh White Best Student Eva Williams Marion Bradford Dewey VanDyke Best Conversationalist Lawrence Hurley Marguerite Searson Eva Williams Marsh White Worst Tease MMlard Conklin Lawrence Derby James Green Wittiest Person Fred Frizelle Carl Renderly Paul Morrison My Ideal Senior Eva Williams Mary McReynokls Gene Hunt Park’s Suffragette Bertha Low Laura Johnson Opal Berkey Platform Star Carson Hathaway Paul Wolfe Gertrude Wolfe Best Event of the Year Ada Roach Company Philo-Andrion Debate Park-Warrensburg Baket Ball Game Shrewdest Politician Elijah Jacobs John Meyer Jessie Taylor Who shall be our next President—Woodrow Wilson—By a vote of 8 to 1. Park Slogan for 1916—“Push Park’s Program of Progress.” Author of Slogan—Harry W. Brown.

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Class of 1916 Of course we won a debate when we were Freshmen, lost one when we were Sophomores, had a mud-fight with our opponents, the 15’s, and a scrap with the 17s. Of course the Faculty, from the first, recognized in us unusual scho rship and talent, originality and intellect. All such matters are to be taken for granted. As Freshmen we were once green, ignorant, bucolic and unsophisticated; and it is to be expected that as Seniors, we leave Park bereft of our verdant hues, our heads crammed with knowledge, our countenances radiating wisdom, our speech always that befitting the cultured;—for are we not suddenly in possession of the title, “College bred men and women?” Has there not been a marvelous transformation in us during the last four years? Has not every class since time began gone through similar experience of metamor¬ phosis? The world would be shocked did we not say we had done the same. There is no doubt in our minds that the Class of ’16 is the smartest, the biggest, the bravest, the strongest, the grandest, and altogether the most wonderful class that Park College has ever produced. Has not every Senior class suffered like honor? Now the time has come for us to leave our Alma Mater. As with others, so with us. We must forsake our familiar haunts and pathways, we must sever the ties of friendship which have so closely held us, we must pass out from under the influence of our teachers—men and women whom we have learned to love, and who have contributed so largely to the ideals which we now hold. We must say “Good-by to Park. We have lived the traditional Park College life. The atmosphere which we have breathed is the same which gave inspiration to George McCune, Frank Bible and Dick Newell, the influences about us the same which gave im¬ petus to our own Roy V. Magers, Howard Dean and J. Hamilton Lawrence. We too have imbibed a measure of that unseen but pow¬ erful thing known as the Park College Spirit, and as we scatter to the far places of the earth, it is our desire that we may still follow the traditions of this institution and bring naught save honor to its name.