Parker High School - La Reata Yearbook (Parker, AZ)

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Settlor BARBARA WILBANKS Class President I Class Secretary-Treasurer 2 Cheerleader 2 La Reata Staff 1. 2, 4 Loudspeaker Staff I. 2. 3 La Reata Editor 4 Loudspeaker Editor 3 Student Body Sec.-Tr. 3. 4 Girls' Glee Club 2, 3. 4 Honor Scholastic Soc. I, 2. 3, 4 Prom Queen 4 D. A. R. Representative 4 A Swift Kick” 3 Digging Up the Dirt 4 Valedictorian 4 CAMIE WITZLEBEN Class Vice President I Class President 2 Student Body Vice President 3 Student Body President 4 Lettermen's Club I, 2. 3. 4 Sports' Manager I. 2, 3 La Reata Staff 2, 4 Loudspeaker Staff 3 Basketball Letterman 4 4-H Club I. 2 Glee Club Accompanist 2, 3 Glee Club 4 A Swift Kick 3 Honor Scholastic Soc. I. 2. 3. 4 Salutatorian 4 HENRY WASHINGTON Class Vice President 4 Vice-President (Parker Dam) 2 Ink Spot Staff (Parker Dam) 2 Minstrel (Parker Dam) 2 8

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Se U vi GEORGE LOMAYESVA Class President 4 Loudspeaker Staff 3 La Reata Staff 3, 4 Lettermen’s Club I. 2. 3, 4 Basketball Letterman I, 2. 3. 4 Football Letterman 2. 4 Basketball Captain 4 NORMA McCOY Girls' Glee Club 2, 4 Loudspeaker Staff 2 Girls' League 4 LIDA LEE PADDOCK Loudspeaker Staff 3 Girls' Glee Club 3, 4 4-H Club I. 2 ANNUA SHULL Loudspeaker Staff 3 Girls’ League 4 Girls' Glee Club 3. 4 LORETTA STEPHAN Girls' League Vice President 4 Loudspeaker Staff 2, 3 Girls' Glee Club 2. 3, 4 Cheerleader 3 Honor Scholastic Society I MALCOLM SWICK Football Letterman 4 Class Pres. (Tucson Ind. H. S.) 3 Football Letterman (Tucson H.S.) 3 7

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Se U n The history of the Senior Class of '49 began way back in grammar school when a few of us started together in the sixth grade right here in Parker. We looked forward to the day when we would be graduated from grade school. It seemed a long time then, but the time passed quickly, and before we knew it we were out of grammar school ready for high school. I admit, it seemed a long road while we were traveling it, but looking back, it was only a short while that we were in grade school. We then entered high school where we were joined by new members who had come in from other schools. Our freshman year seemed great because we thought we were getting places in the world, now that we were in high school. The Seniors, and everybody else for that matter, seemed to have it in for the Freshmen, poor un- derdogs is all that we were. The Freshmen had good morale though, so we took it all right. Everybody got his four sacred credits for which he had put forth many hard hours in his Freshman year, so we all journeyed on toward the day we look forward to. In our Sophomore year we didn't feel quite so important because high school wasn’t so new to us, and we were still lower-classmen. We poured it on the Freshmen of that year at initiation time though. The Sophomores felt they carried a lot of weight around school that year, having taken the school tournament in basketball and scoring more points in the track meets than any other class. When it came to wield- ing influence in the Student Council we had hardly any. It seemed that even the Freshmen had it over the Sophomores, and I would say we were robbed. I guess it was then we felt we were just lower-classmen and didn't get what we wanted just because we thought we ought to. At that I believe the second year was the best and passed almost as quickly as our Senior year. Our Junior year was next in line, and we felt important because of our being upper-classmen. We acquired a few more juniors from Parker Dam who came to school over here. As for Student Council, we had three Juniors in there, and we did fairly well as far as getting dances was concerned. Time dragged for the simple reason we kept wishing the year would end soon, so that we could get out of school a little more quickly. That's all we could think of, graduation. We gave a nice ban- quet for the Seniors, and the Junior-Senior Prom was a great success. At last our long year was ended. We were seniors ! ! ! ! All the Seniors came back to school in good spirits with the thought of gradu- ation in mind. In our Senior year, we were the big wheels of the school. The year we had waited for so long had arrived. We had control of the Student Council, as Seniors always do. We had choice dances and other activity dates. The first semester went by fast, and our graduation was drawing nearer. The second semester seemed to go a little more slowly because we were getting over-anxious for graduation day when we no longer would go to high school where we had spent four hard years of toil and strife, mixed with pleasure, fun, and trouble. At last the big event came and passed, and now, as we look back over the journey we have made it doesn't seem so long. We say it seems like just last year when we graduated from grade school, and now from high school, to start out on our life-work or to go to college to further our education. Whatever we do, we will always remember our four years in high school and most of all the day we graduated. 9