We have been asked by the PRHS officers tn mention that the PRHS scholarship awards will be given again this year. Please send your letter of nomination to Marion Barnett, President PRHS, RR#1, Box 99, Parker, KS 66072. This letter should be received no later than May 4, 1996. The banquet will be held at the Parker Grade School on May 18. (third Saturday in May as usual). The scholarship awards will be made at the banquet. Also the museum will be open on May 18 at 11:OO A.M. and on that evening, as uell as on Memorial weekend. If the museum is not open when you wish to visit, please call one of the above officers. They wili be glad to open the building.

We make every attempt to keep an up to date list of society members with their correct address. We also maintain a book of obituaries of the Parker Community; as well as PRHS graduates and teachers. Please send information of this kind to Cheryl Erwin, RR#1, Box 96A, Parker, Ks 66072. Cheryls telephone number is 913-898-6891.

Many new and interesting donations have been made since our last letter. Among these are: a 1906 plat of Linn County in large book form (Helen Haverfield has laminated all the pages so that they may be read and studied without harm to the book); an old horse drawn potato digger; a 1929 Montgomery Ward Catalog; an in the window ice ordering sign; bricks from an old Linn County school; some old eyeglasses and razors; a picture of an oid Beagle store; some history of John Brown; an old registered hog sale bill (McBride); several Linn County Heritage newspapers; ledgers from the Cadmus store and Blaker Lumber in Parker; a rare Kodak instant camera; a piano from the Masonic and Eastern Lodge. We have also received newspaper articles of the Parker area and of the old Cadmus area. We want to thank all who made these excellent contributions.

James Wilson had the pleasure of conducting the 4th grade class from the Parker grade school on a tour of the museum. On October 12, l995, Susie Mahon and sixteen of her students made the tour. Jim received a nice thank you from Susie and her students.

Since our spring newsletter of 1995, the following deaths of Parker Rural High School alumni and teachers have been reported;

Class	Name	Date of Death
1919	Herbert Jackson	11/19/95
1921	Lucretta Crosswhite Hodgson	7/29/95
	Alta Collins Cantrell	9/24/95
1931	LaVone Collins	10/16/95
	Clayton Rae Conrad	1/03/96
1932	Ray Stainbrook	11/27/95
1934	Frances Byerley Krull	10/11/95
1936	Ralph Merrill	10/15/95
1939	Velma Clark Stainbrook	6/29/95
1941	Alden Satchell	2/21/96
1943	Emma Logan Polzan	5/23/95
1959	Norma Webb Rogers	12/27/95
1960	Lorene Brownback Jackson	11/23/95
1941-1943	Teacher Hattie Smith Batchelder	6/10/95