Park University - Narva Yearbook (Parkville, MO)

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THE NARVA By the Students of PARK COLLEGE 1936 Parkville, Missouri

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I • NARVA of Personalities HICkOk-1936

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4 FOREWORD Legend of Those Who Helped in the Publication of This, the Latest Edition of the NARVA By THE EDITOR At first glance you must wonder what it is all about. We don’t blame you because that is what we’ve been doing ever since that unforgettable day when the board elected us and we found ourselves eating badly imitated Chinese food at King Joy Lo’s and listening more or less attentively to a smooth-talking salesman. After a summer of these same swift-gabbing sales experts, we at last picked up a line ourselves and were able to shoot it back just as fast. We won’t ex¬ plain the funny¬ looking boy with the whiskers that greeted you on the cover. However, he is the only person in the book who is not at Park. He Alden Steinbeck Editor never was on campus; he is the spirit of “College.” a You will find, probably much to your surprise, that this is the Narva of Personali¬ ties. Every picture in the 1936 Narva is a picture of someone you know—or if you don’t know him you should. If you were working behind the scenes, and you probably were if you were one of the fifty per cent of the school who helped put out the Narva, you will remember those hectic days just before deadlines; you will remember how we let everything slide until that last minute and then worked frantically, one eye on an inexorable clock. If you were one of those you will recollect the panel pasting in September. John Barnes, Jr., was there and kept us howling while he drew lines on mounting board and Paris and Parmer pasted. There was that day when we suddenly popped the “Herd Book” at you with the startling announcement that it was free. It will probably find its greatest value as a hitch-hiker’s manual. If you’ll kindly look at the snapshot sec¬ tion near the end of the book, you will dis¬ cover that all year we had photographers taking pictures of you behind your back. J. Ed Bilby, our star snapshotgetter deserves orchids as well as Ray Lindeman and Ed Montgomery. They got their men and we’re proud of their pictures. Ubiquitous former newspaper photographer Montgomery flashed his light and snapped his photos at every game, performance and party. We regret that Bob Parson had to leave in March on account of ill health, because as business manager he added kick to work which needed kicking every step of the way. He kept after advertisers, the administration and if you remember, you too. Much of the “push” was given by Leo Phillips, who was the doer-of-all-jobs. Any work from picture taking to ad-selling was handed to him, and he did it smoothly and efficiently. ROBERT Parson, Business Manager