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

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Robert Stuhr Bob left Parker after eighth grade, but came back his senior year to gradu- ate with his old classmates. Funny to listen to, funnier to watch, he always has some new and different phrase or mannerism for the benefit of the class. Bob is our social lion, ask him any question about etiquette, or anything else for that matter, and you'll get on answer whether he knows it or not, and, whether or not he knows what he is talking about, his answer is bound to be good. Grace Weber To those of us who know her, Grace personifies sweetness and a bit of old-fashioned quaintness. To her went the highest honor that Parker can bestow upon a senior girl: because she is demure, gracious, and lovely, Grace made one of the most charming May Queens that Parker has ever seen. 3 Doris Weinsheimer Full of vim, vigor, and vitality. With only three years of Parker to her credit, she is by no means unknown to anyone, She can talk louder and longer, and think of more crazy things to do than any other member of the class. Orville Wetmore The most versatile and best dressed member of the class. His versatility includes a dead-eye for baskets, which gave him the highest personal scoring record ever made at Parker, skill in art and dramatics, and a good mind. Orville has strong likes and dislikes, but a character sketch would be incomplete without mentioning his broadmindedness, his straightforward- ness and sincerity, and his abundance of common sense.

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FROM AN INDIAN TO A CITIZEN IN TWELVE YEARS, OR THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A. SENIOR CAII rights reserved and all facts falseb Twelve Iong and pleasant years ago a young, a very young man started his career as a scholar, in fact, now that I think of it, this man was hardly more than a boy seven years old. But he was a big boy, for wasn't he starting to school? ,lust think, First Gradel Gee, playing Indian was sure fun, but learning to read was really hard. Those words like Thanksgiving were pretty bad to have to sound out. I guess he must have gotten by, because next year they put him in Second Grade. Gosh, whoever said a boy has no worries must have been cracked. Those multiplica- tion tables were the worst things I ever heard of. The addition was all right, but that awful multiplication was too much. Then, as if I wasnit working hard enough, why, I only got to play outdoors in the afternoons! I was in a Morning Exercise, too, just think, all the children in the school were going to be there, and I had to recite a poem. It wasn't so terribly bad after all, it was kind of fun after the scaredness wore off. Third Grade was stacks of fun, all except the spelling. Studying about Chicago a Iong time ago was swell. The Santa Claus Party was keen, 'course I don't believe in Santa Claus anymore, but I wouldnit tell the little kids. Then Miss Davis was awful nice in Fourth Grade and learning all about the Greeks was interesting. Parker certainly has good basketball teams. It was just through luck that Latin won 35-IQ. The boys that play are all real big, too. You sometimes can see them in the halls with a HI-7 on their sweaters and everything. Fifth Grade is the tough one. Dr. Lukens is kind o'crabby at times, 'specially if you don't get your slips in on time. I've got seven out now and I guess I'II never Iearn those 'lmile streets, anyway. Well, I Finally got all those slips in, even if I did only get one HQ. K. all year. And here I am out in a portablel Some of the guys like girls, but theyire just sissies. I know, and when we play stinggo before school, they're always tryin, to show off. The seventh grade beat us in football once Iast week, but we'Il take 'em this week, I was elected captain. I am still in a portable, but heck, I like it better than the building anyway. Sev- enth Grade is really pretty high up, in two short years I'II be in high schooll We're studying about the Pharaohs in Egypt now, and earlier in the year we found out about prehistoric man. Parkers football teams aren't so good, I'Iarvard really ran through us, Q7 to O. Wait till I get to high schooll But l'm sort of small, maybe I won't make the team my first two years at that. Back in the building again to finish grammar school. I'm actually growing up. CNext year l'lI wear Iong pants, if mother lets mel I didnit think dancing would be any fun, but it isnlt half bad. That first party that I ever went to ata girI's house was a pack of fun, wish I hadn't had to be home by nine-thirty. Those newspapers that we put out every two weeks are a lot of work, but I guess they're worth it. Some of the jokes we had in our last edition were pretty good, I was editor that week, I-Ioly smokes, High Schooll After all these yearsl I certainly used to be a kid. Guess I'II join the Weekly, it seems like a good organization, and I wouIdn't 28