Terry Parker High School - Chieftain Yearbook (Jacksonville, FL)

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Prologue Life is lived in many ways: in work and in recreation: in joy and in pain; in individual endeavor and in social activity; in meditation and in diversion. Terry Parker High School is all of these in embryonic form. In the classes, the extracurriculars. the athletics. and the parties, the student stimulates the various facets of his life. The 1972 Chieftain is that phenomenon which chronicles the life of the student at Parker: the three years that begin with the sojourn through the school at sophomore orientation; the year that gets off to a start with a magazine sale to out-do-all-others; and the brief visit that ends with a solemn procession into the Jacksonville Coliseum. In three years we have begun to see. to question, to rebel, to judge, to think. We will not be the same as yesterday, we will not be pacified with fiction. We will force the question, heat the debate, pry the answer, and demand our birthright: the right to be ourselves. As we start to learn and gain a glimpse of what it is to think, we come to realize that we have only just begun. And so it is to be. Each man's life represents a road toward himself. No man has ever been entirely and completely himself. Yet each one strives to become that—one in an awkward, the other in a more intelligent way, each as best he can. Each of us strives toward his own destiny. We can understand one another; but each of us is able to interpret himself to himself alone. The Chieftain opens with the new day, a new focus on the student at Parker. As he moves through his three year career at T.P., the student is portrayed as are the many areas of campus life with which he comes in contact. The Chieftain is his reminder of Parker, the sentimental period of his life, the beginning . . .