Parsons High School - Panther Yearbook (Parsons, WV)

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THE BLACK ARROW 22 NELLE PRICE (Curly) A. A. A. Club '27: Dramatic Club '27. Corinthian. Life's but a span. 1 enjoy every inch of it. JUNIOR STALNAKE.R (Hornet) Track '25, '26, '27: Football '26. '27: Basketball '27: A. A. Club: Bachelor Club '27: President of Corinthian Literary Society '27. None but himself can be his parallel. JOHN SCHWARTZ (Bus) Football '24. '25. '26. '77; Basketball '25. '27: Hiawaiian Club '27: Glee Club '25. '26, '27: President Columbian l.iterary Society '27. Out for athletics, music and fun: He helped a lot in the games we won. KENNETH MINEAR (Kennie) Echo Staff '26: Orchestra '27; Dramatic Club '27. Columbian. Where deep talk and wisdom is due. He is always called upon to give his view.” JEAN DICKSON (Dudy) Hiawaiian Club '27: Rinky Dinks Club '27; Vice President Corinthian Literary So- ciety. Ever in checrfulest mood thou art.” CLARA BALL H. W. AUVIL

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THE BLACK ARROW 21 DORIS GATRELLE (Polly) Echo Staff' 26: Orchestra '27; Hiwaiian Club '21 Dramatic Club '27. Corinthian. ‘ A beautiful happy girl, with steps as light as the summer girl.'' JULIAN MURRILL (Preach) Huntington H. S. 24: Shinnston H. S. ’25: Parsons 26. '27; Treasurer Columbian Literary Society ’26; Football '27; A. A. A. Club '27; Annual Club '27. What is worth doing at all is worth doing well.” NELLE CARTER (Nellie) Annual Club 27: Latin Club '27. Cor- inthian. However it be. it seems to me. tis only noble to be good.” HELEN REPAIR (Heliatrope) Glee Club 26. 26. 27; A. A. A. Club '27. Corinthian. “A smile, a word, a friendship true: That’s the way we think of you.” NELLIE BLY HARPER (Neddy) Harman H. S. ’24. ’25. '26: Parsons ’27; Annual Club '27; Cherokee 27. Her statue tall—I hate a dummy woman.” CARL LIPSCOMB (Lippy) Football '24. '25. ’26. '27; Track 25. '26. '27; President of Class '26; Echo Staff '27; A. A. A. Club '27. Corinthian. ”Carl decided he'd take a trip— So he got passage on the Matrimony ship.”

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THE BLACK A RROW 23 Class History In the fall of 1923. we the Senior Class of 1927 entered the High School as Freshmen. So puffed up were we over our promotion from the grades that we felt very important indeed. But we now apologize to our teachers and classmates for the way in which we first entered the school. As Freshmen we followed the custom of other classes and were very soon organized, elected our President. Vice President. Secretary and Treasurer, and soon took our places beside the Seniors. But we found that their “pace” was too strenuous for youth and inexperience. In spite of all our inefficiencies the end of the school year found us promoted to the ranks of Sophomores. During this stage in life we realized as never before or since our unim- portance. Not for love nor money would we have traded places with the Seniors. We took a regular part in all the school activities and in our minds, the school could not have been run that year without our help. Our hat size increased from six and three-fourths to seven and one-eighth, in our minds at least. But High School students outgrow all such stages and you must re- member we were all still human. In the fall of 1925 we came back to the school as Juniors and began to realize for the first time that we were probably no better than anybody else, We now began to look down on the Sophomores and almost despised them for the manner in which we saw them carry on their work, at the same time forgetting that we probably were worse when we were Sophomores. As Juniors we elected Carl Lipscomb as our Class President and upon his and the other officers shoulders we placed our responsibilities. Covering our- selves with the robe of carefree and happy-go-lucky ways, we sought for our- selves the avoidance of all work and responsibilities, and letting the world take the kind of course it could best travel without any of our exertions. Occasionally the teachers gave us a jolt and stirred us up to a period of activity. Just to show the Seniors we were still “there with the goods we challenged them to a game of baseball and of course, no Senior Class will let a challenge like that pass from a group of Juniors. The game was played. The Seniors said it was an accident but. at any rate, we won and to show them it was no accident, we beat them the second game. During our Junior year, we followed the custom set by other Junior classes and gave the Seniors a banquet. This was the greatest event of our entire school life. It cost us quite a bit of trouble as well as some money, but we comforted ourselves with the thought that the next year would be our turn to be the guests of the Juniors. In the fall of 1926. we came back to school, entered the center door and with slow and dignified steps ascended the stairs to the old familiar “study hall We were now a much diminished and wiser group, our sixty Freshmen now numbered but forty Seniors. Mr. Rice became our Class Adviser, and we entered upon the last lap of our High School educational run. Of course, we were now the leading class in school and all the other classes began to look up to us as examples. Without any hesitation, we assumed the responsibility of leading the school.