Parker High School - Parker Pine Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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n 0 OUR PRINCIPAL MR. WILBUR H. WRIGHT Mr. 'Wilbur H. WV right, who has been principal of Parker High School since October 14, 1924, and who took the place of our former principal, Mr. Charles H. Perrine, came to us directly from the William Henry Gladstone Grammar School. Before his principalship at Gladstone, Mr. Wright served as principal of the Grant Grammar School, and previous to occupying this position, he was for seven years assistant principal of the McKinley High School. For several years before becoming assistant principal of McKinley, he taught biology and chemistry there. In connection with his work at the Gladstone School, Mr. Wright also served as principal of the Brainard Grammar School, a branch of Gladstone, and as prin- cipal of the Juvenile Detention Home. Mr. VVright is a graduate of the University of Illinois with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He spent an additional year at Illinois in the study of law, and has also done graduate work at the Universities of Cornell and Chicago. Although Mr. Wright has been with us less than a year, in that short time he has won the honor and respect of both the faculty and the students, because of his fairness and his high ideals. He is always ready to encourage the promotion of any activity that he thinks will be helpful to the welfare of the school. His untiring efforts already have begun to bear fruit. .14

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4 FACULTY

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. 2 - TEACHERS WHO HAVE LE FT MR. CHARLES H. PERRINE ' Throughout the year the following teachers left Parker for higher positions in the Chicago Normal College: Miss Gavin, our well liked English and journalism teacherj Miss Dopp, Dean of Girls and favorite of the Seniors in the pastg Miss O'Sullivan, teacher of domestic science at Parker for a year, Mr. French, teacher of art and former art adviser of the Annualg and Mr. Helbing, teacher of mechan- ical drawing, and of the first rank in his interest in all Parker's affairs. 1 Along toward the middle of the semester, our principal, Mr. Perrine, whom we much respected and liked, announced that he had accepted an offer to become head ofthe Lake View High School. . Mr. Post, teacher of science and agriculture, famous for his farmilife camps, has gone to Englewood High School, Miss Deming, physiology teacher, who won the hearts of the Freshmen because of her labor in their interests, isinow teaching at a branch of the Hyde Park High School, and Mr. Fleming, teacher of forge, foundry, and, wood work, who worried himself about the lockersl and lost keys, is teaching at Tilden Technical High School. , Those who have quit teaching are, Mrs. Graham, English teacher 3 and Mrs. Bachrach, vocational adviser of Parker, who also taught typewriting, and short handy Miss Collins, English teacher, and Miss l1Valbridge, physics teacher, have merely taken leaves of absence and are touring the world. Though the high school has decreased in membership by reason of the absence of the Freshmen, nevertheless, we feel the loss of these teachers very much. VVherever they may be, in unanimity, we wish them well. I5