Published: June 01. 2010 2:00AM

Many of our young people will graduate this month, beginning a brand-new phase of life and, with any luck, a new job utilizing all the skills they have to bring to it. The students at Parker High School seen here participated in a program in which traditional curriculum was combined with vocational education, including actual training on the job. Parker graduated its first class in May 1924, with the last class graduating in 1985 when the old high school building became Parker Middle School.