Parsons High School - Panther Yearbook (Parsons, WV)

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28 THE BLACK ARROW Canaan Valley. Fred Hansford and Gerald Summerfield have become farmers and are specializing in raising thoroughbred Jersey cows. One of the members of the class. Virginia Stumpf. the girl who was always so kind, stepped into a fortune over night and now she is one of the leaders of New York’s Exclusive “500”. The very much admired ability of William Phillips to “toot” a coronet, has at last full sway, in Paul Whitman's orchestra. As a whole, the members of the little Class of '27 have weathered the storm of life admirably and each and every one of them will, in some way or other, leave their mark in the world—If not directly discernable—in other ways. Perhaps, in helping another struggling graduate to find a foothold in a cold, hard world.

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THE BLACK ARROW 27 Wall street. His ability and capacity for work has won for him the title of The Wizard . Who does not remember Edward Higgs, the boy who worked himself up from cub reporter to the Parsons Advocate to be President of several of the leading newspaper concerns of America? Alda Yeager, the Quiet Little Mouse Girl , of the Class of '27, has become a very efficient bookkeeper in a large firm in Montrose. What cannot a busy brain, cheerful grin and willing heart accomplish? Ask Doris Gatrell, who has worked her way up from stenographer to lawyer W. K. Pritt, until she is now applying for the position of private secretary to the President of th United States. As your Little Prophet was passing through Parsons one day she saw two interesting signs. The first read as follows. 50% of the old maids in town have been married since we started our Beauty Shop. Hair Dressed—Curled— Massaged—Face made over or lifted—All for $1.50. Louise Greider and Helen Cosner, joint proprietors. The second read something like this, If you want him ne’er to forget you—To be always true and blue, Just send him a photo of you. Made in Claud's Barbe's Studio. What queer tricks time will play. Especially in the case of Ruth Parsons, who after going abroad and kissing the Blarney Stone, returned to America and immediately started in as a real estate agent. Quiet, precise. George Miller has become a very prominent socialist and his party has nominated him for Vice President of the United States. Prominence is written all over the face of Wilbur Minear. President of that Class, as he steps from his Packard to the curb. He has become President of the Federal Reserve Banking System. Several of that little class are married now—among them. Juanita Senior, who as Mrs. Ours is living in Virginia. But married life does not interfere with Juanita's career. In her spare time she pecks away at a typewriter, and looking in any of the late magazines you will see some of her stories. Who has forgotten the best looking boy of that Senior Class. Julian MurriH? He has achieved fame as a Boy Scout Leader, and with his wife lives in Detroit. The Songbird of the group. Nelle Vannoy. now Mrs. Nestor still lives in Parsons and sings solos for the Ladies' Aid Society. Another professional is added to the list. Carl Lipscomb, who ventured out on the Sea of Matrimony before graduation, has become a star baseball player and is. in fact, a second Walter Johnson. Many of the class have followed their natural instincts and although they have not all become world known they have lived up to their characteristics. Helen Repair's cheerful smile, so well known to her classmates, has brought a ray of sunshine to the deformed minds of the people of the Insane Asylum, at Weston, where she is a nurse. Nursing a broken heart and having a grudge against all women in general. Junior Stalnaker, one day. several years ago. ven- tured into Chicago during the crime wave in that city. He got mixed up with Dago Mike’s gang and since the leader has been killed. Junior has taken his place. The boy who drew the pictures for The Black Arrow , has become famous with his pencil. Teddy's sketches can be seen in most any of the fash- ionable homes in the large cities. Helen Morrison, the girl who for three years wrote poety for the Echo , and who wrote the Class Poem has at last come into her own. Her complete works are to be found in a little volume and are found in so many homes. She is living in England. The inability of Paul Senior to make speeches led him to take up Civil Engineering and now he is at work directing the construction of the dam in

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THE BLACK ARROW 29 Class Poem Our High School days will soon be over. We are neither sad or glad When we think of the way we've labored. And the many good times we've had. We've studied Math, Science and History. English and who knows what, But yet we feel happy about it, To think of the knowledge we've got. When we were Freshmen four years ago. The Seniors used to laugh. They'd look at us and say we were. As green as any grass” But soon we proved that little class Was brighter than they thought; The teachers, too. had to confess. That we weren't past being taught Our boys went out for athletics And were not the slowest on the team. The girls were always backing them— That gave them much more steam. When things went wrong, as they sometimes will. We fought the battle through And when the skies were blue again. We shared the sunshine, too. We’ve had good times and bad times together, We've broken many a rule; But still in the end we love it— It s a pretty good old school. And now we’ve finished our high school life. But if we live to be eighty and eleven We ll always remember Old P. H. S.-------- And the Class of '27.