Parsons High School - Panther Yearbook (Parsons, WV)

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1 9 2 8 THE BLACK ARROW ..HIM.I,.|„„„,. „.Ill.I.........HU.minim..mu.nmillinm...minim. immni.I.nnnnninninmmnni LETTERS FROM OLD FRIENDS I should have difficulty in picking out any one event or happening to write about In fact. 1 prefer to think of the time there as one continuous association with good students and teachers. This time of the year, however. I am reminded of the temptation to go after that elusive speckled trout that others say may be found on the riffles. It was not my pleasure to speak for myself in this regard, tho I attributed the result to the alleged fact that the sunfish didn't give the more refined school a chance. April comes only once a year and school comes nine times as fast’ Yet. fishing in April and learning aviation in January come high to most of us. In reality, they both come late in the afternoon. Most sincerely. W. K. Rice -----------o----------- It has been thirteen years since I left the Parsons High School as a graduate. At that time our high school was quite young. We had no year book, no athletics, and no judging teams. Our only organizations were the literary societies—the Corinthian and the Columbian. The rivalry that existed between the two societies was the life of the school. At one time this rivalry ended in a real fight when the boys of the Columbian Society attempted to remove the Corinthian banner from the wall just above the stage. The Columbians were badly beaten—I was a Corinthian. I believe that I hold the honor of being the first graduate of the Parsons High School to graduate from a University. Since then many of the alumnae of the High School have completed a university course. I hope that more will continue to do so in the future. Your four years attending a university will seem even shorter. It is well worth the effort. Chief Game Protector. Ernest Angelo. West Virginia Game and Fish Commission. ----------o---------- MIKE FRIDLEY STUDIES PHOSPHORUS During the second or third year of my teaching at Parsons, we had in school a large strong boy by the name of Mike Fridley. Mike was one of the hardest working boys in our school. He had somehow gotten behind in his Chemistry class and his teacher had him working during the noon hours to catch up. The class was ex- perimenting with phosphorus. Mike had observed the behavior of phosphorus in the aif. so he concluded to take some of it home to show his folks how it re-acted. When the teacher was not watching him. Mike took a stick of it. wrapped it firmly in fine tissue paper, and placed the bundle in his coat pocket. The bell rang for books at one o’clock and Mike came into th? large study hall and took his seat to answer the general roll call. I noticed that he was restless and uneasy, which was contrary to his usual nature. Suddenly, he jumped four or five feet high, threw his coat on the floor and hollowed Whoopee . Then an immense cloud of smoke suddenly arose from his coat and filled the room. The room was filled with students who felt the last had come. Several cried, others shrieked, and some almost fainted. We restored order, and school went on as usual. Mike went home that afternoon without a coat. S. C. Grose Principal 1915-2T page thirty

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Cj I E o SOPHOMORE CLASS First Row: Addison Lyons, Neile Harper, Virginia Canfield. Lena James, Marjorie Paugh. Maxine Reed, Marguerite Wagner. Mabel Johnson. Juanita Long. Ruth Evick. Ada Auvil. Ruth Parsons, Minnie Messenger. Pearl Kee. Mae Parsons, Gladys Kalor, Marguerite Kalor. Second Row: Tracy Nestor. Paul Miller. Elizabeth Ambrose. Lenora Lambert. Marguerite Poling. Hilda Repair. Mary Hoffman. Ruth Simmons. Elena Shahan. Evelean Goff, Ruth Schwartz. Harry Phillips. Carl Swisher. Morris Wilmoth. Thomas Sim- mons, Robert Shrout. Third Row: Huff Morrison, Frank Rightmire, John Armentrout. Junior Bright. Dale Corcoran. Delmar Phillips. Dale Mullenax. Carl Stemple. George Bowley. Lester Summerfield, Ben Long, Frank Plumb. Paul Repair, Denzel Kee. Hoye Smith. Jack Cross. Milford Adams. Don Griffith. Earl Mallow'. Jack Currence. W. N. McClung. Those not in picture but in class: Harry Holsberry. Francis Wagner. Jack Hill. Fern Carter. Eugenia Hickman. H X jm loa jr I In 1 'O I I 00