Parsons High School - Panther Yearbook (Parsons, WV)

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Tj ic C ass Of 947 Presents 11111 ci iiicm From the Latin “silva,” forest or woods, comes the name Sylvanian, chosen for the year book by the class of 1947, for a reason which we hope can be recognized and appreciated. Parsons, West Virginia, nestled in the midst of the Monongahela National For- est, is a community that was made by the forest which surrounds it. Industries were brought here because of the abundant raw materials to be found in the woods that covered the hills as far as the eye could see. As it was then, it is now. The beauty of the leaves which bedeck the trees in the springtime and fall turn out a multi-colored pattern which no artist can copy with palette and brush, no poet can truly describe, for the words have not been fashioned to picture the gran- duer of this place in which we live. The old proverb reads “The grass is always greener in the other fellow’s yard,” so it is with many of us, living here and wishing to leave, while many people dwell- ing in huge cities, crowded together, dream of a place of freedom and beauty such as this. R. L. Rowland, Forest Ranger for this district stated, “Your selection of this name could be the beginning of a tradition for Parsons High School in years to come.”

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SENIOR CLASS SPONSORS HAZEL HULL MARY ALICE FRUM A. B. Shepherd College; Home Economics A. B.. A. M., W. V. U.; English; Latin; Journalism FOREWORD Like a tree in the forest—so are our lives. School influences shape our ideas and principles and gather them together for us; on this we base our entire lives. In the years to come, we hope that the “Sylvanian will help as to recall the pleasant memories of high school. Perhaps then, when we leaf through these pages we shall have the same feeling as the wanderer, who. while walking in the green forests, main- tains that.— There is a pleasure in the pathless woods.”