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

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GENE MADISON Vice President GALEN CHEUVRONT President GLORIA WHITE Secretary IACK WEEDEN Treasurer 17

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4W'33?57'1-W JUNE SENIORS 1946 Did you say the luncheon committee is meet- ing today!-Gosh, I don't even have time to think any more? We give you merely part of the conversationxof an active senior. It is said that seniors don't Work, but that idea is strictly on the dream side. We Worked harder in our last semester than in any other. During the division period the auditorium is alive with nine or ten activities, committees, class dues, pine sales, pine pictures, officer elec- tions, and a million other things. On occasions, the class and all the teachers connected with it have the feeling of the last rose of summer. We even begin to look forward to what We call the oncoming peace -the commencement ex- ercise. When the last days actually come along, this feeling is replaced by another-that of fond attachment and reluctance to leave the school that has struggled with us for four years. We, the Iune class of 245 members, leave with different futures before each one of us. Our high school education has built up a strong foundation for whatever career we may choose to enter upon. We wish to express our gratitude to our principal, our sponsors, and our teachers, who have given us constant assistance in the many problems occurring throughout the years. PROM COMMITTEE Bob Anderson, Dave Beard, Hal Carlson, Bev- erly Clarke, Camille Eggleston, Roy Forster, Betty Hunziker, Betty Iohnson, Kay Larson, lack Leonard, Barbara Lidster, Bob McArdle, Mary McClusky, and George Nelson. PROPHECY COMMITTEE Dolores Benson, Connie Brannigan, Alberta Cochran, Dolores McLarnan, Dolores Nieses. Howard Seiselmeyer, and Marilyn Singer. SOCIAL COMMITTEE Lucille Bennett, Edith Benzies, Shirley Gay, Ag- nes Iorgensen, Ioan Kennelly, Lois Parker, and Evelyn Ritter. LUNCHEON COMMITTEE Dorothy Agnew, lean Allenfort, Geraldine Ar- nold, Dorothy Quintana, Gail Rader, Gerrie Schoenstadt, and Gertrude Zimmerman. GIFT COMMITTEE Nancy Averill, Edwin Emmart, Tom Hanley, Su- zanne Henderson, Kaye Ross, Lois Sears, and Christine Simpson. FINANCE COMMITTEE Lorraine Drawert, Don Elger, Agnes Gilbride, Florence Hughes, Betty LaForce, Mary McCoy, and lack Weeden. GRADUATION COMMITTEE Tessie Callas, Gloria Galbraith, Fred Kimmey, Elizabeth Koller, Iewel Prince, Ramona Schnei- der, and Rosie Tantuyama. ANNOUNCEMENT COMMITTEE Betty Arnold, Ioan Brunell, Frances Christian- son, Ieannette Grotsma, Don Keane, May Mc- Lean, and Carolyn Ruhling. 16 4

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xygwwxuf 'f ,-avi Drifting through the air, as we nervously don our graduation robes, are the solemn notes of Pomp and Circumstance. Seated out front are our parents-all is ready for the graduation. Semester after semester We have watched others in this position, but somehow it never seemed really close to us. Here we are about to walk down the stairs. Before us is a sea of faces. We don't know Whether to feel sorry or glad, but slightly damp eyes indicate the former. The one thought flitting through all our minds is Why doesn't this thing end? We are be- ginning to feel that We don't want to leave. Someone is speaking now-we want to lis- ten-but looking at the darkened and dimmed outline of the building which has been a part of us for four years draws our thoughts to many other things. There was our first view of the campus. Funny, we didn't even know what building was Parker High. Every person in the place looked like a senior. We couldn't find the assembly hall, but would rather have died than question anyone. We can laugh now, but then our mis- takes were a major tragedy. Our first acquaintance with high school life . . . overpowering crowds . . . conscious of every new face we saw . . . losing books . . . racing to classes to beat the tardy bell . . . casting ad- miring glances upon the greatest people in the world, the seniors.. . . confusion, noise, and often, a befuddled mind. How quickly We become part of it all,-too quickly. There were times when classroom min- utes seemed like months, and the months turned to rapidly passing minutes. Nothing much seemed to happen in our freshman year, but it didg we grew up. 18 1942-1946 By the time the second year skipped along. Parker was just a daily occurrence. Maybe we could term sophomore year the club-joining era. The junior High Honor Society meant a lit- tle more than it had in the previous semester, and the importance of service credits hit us harder. Maybe we joined the choir, band, or glee club. Many of our classmates combined their voices with the choir to help win those S's it received in the annual choral competition all four years we were there. Our A Cappella Canaries were Katherine Chelepis, Camille Eg- gleston, Norma Galbraith, Shirley Gay, Olive May Holmes, Betty johnson, Richard jackson, Fred Kimmey, Kay Larson, Barbara Lidster, Clayton Loughlin, Robert McArdle, Roger Mc- Caig, Bernadette McGlenn, Dolores McLarnan, Dorothy Nelson, George Nelson, Wava Pennoy- er, Dorothy Quintana, Evelyn Ritter, Bob- Spirakes, and Helen Vlahakis. The glee club gals were lean Allenfort, Adri- enne Bankert, Gerrie Benjamin, Dolores Benson, Irene Broverman, Tessie Ann Callas, Gloria Galbraith, Dolores Graf, Ioan Hickey, Georgi- anna Hicks, Nancy Ihrie, Ioan Kennelly, Betty LaForce, Norma Nelson, Mary O'Neil, Ramona Schneider, Christine Simpson, Marilyn Singer, Barbara Sneath, and Trudy Zimmerman. Band musicians were Fred George, Iack Stackhouse, Blair Dixon, Hal Carlson, Bill Wise, Bob Larson and Bob McCarthy. Terrific was the word for the September of our junior year. So many things happened it made our heads swim. Excitement raged high when we elected our first officers. At last the votes were counted and we discovered Fred Kimmey Was president, Ann Filler, vice-presi- dent, Shirley Gay, secretary, Kay Larson, treasurer. These earnest officers immediately began planning a sleighride party. Sleighbells, snow, and song. Gosh, what fun it all was! Football was our biggest thrill that fall. With Galen Cheuvront making touchdowns, we be- came real fans. But life had its ups and downs, and we hit one of the downs when Ioe Ward broke his leg in the Harper game. Ioe Wasn't a guy easily knocked down, and he proved it by returning as team manager the next yearg Ga- len was the new captain.