Sacramento County
Biographies
CLARENCE R. PARKER
CLARENCE
R. PARKER.--Doubtless among the most popular of all high school officials
in Sacramento—and the high school has long been favored with an exceptionally
able and experienced faculty, all well-liked—is Clarence R. Parker, the
aggressive athletic coach, a native son proud of his association with the
Golden State, having first seen the light at Santa Ana. He was born on June 2, 1887, and his parents
were I. D.
and Helen May (Gill) Parker. His father
crossed the great plains as a ten-months-old babe,
brought by his parents, who moved to Pomona,
where the Parkers took up ranching.
There the mother died, mourned by all who knew her excellent qualities.
Clarence went to the grammar school and
high school of Pomona, and after that matriculated at Claremont College, from
which he was duly graduated in 1911, when he received the coveted B. S.
degree. Later, in 1916, he was given the
M. A. degree by the University of California,
and when thus equipped, he taught for a year in the high school at Turlock. He next went to Fullerton,
in Southern California, and for three years instructed there, and added to his
experience and friends; and after that he was for a year in San
Francisco.
In the fall of 1917, he came to the Sacramento
high school, and here, as elsewhere before, he has had charge of athletic
exercise and physical development. He
likes his work, and thoroughly believes in it; and he is recognized as an
inspiring athletic instructor, well-liked by
everybody. He has raised the athletic
morale in the Sacramento high school decidedly since he came to the capital
city; and in so doing, he has extended the fame not only of one of the most
important of all the secondary schools in California, but of the historic city
as well.
By his marriage, in 1915, Mr. Parker was
united with Miss Elsie Barnes, of Iowa, the ceremony
taking place at Wichita, Kans;
and the well-mated couple have enjoyed their domestic
life, our subject being decidedly a “home man.”
He is fond of farming, and duly interested in Sacramento
County, its stirring past and its
promising future; and in political or civic affairs he thinks and acts
independent of party.
Transcribed
by Priscilla Delventhal.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History
of Sacramento County, California With Biographical
Sketches, Page 1004. Historic Record
Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 P. J. Delventhal.