A Maryland school gets new panther mascots, courtesy of a graduate
has the Parkdale High School gymnasium. When Stevenson was a 17-year-old senior at the Riverdale school, he was asked to adorn a gym wall with Parkdale’s mascot: the panther.Two panthers, actually. That was in 1973, and for nearly 50 years those big cats presided over countless basketball games, volleyball matches, pep rallies and gym classes. But when Stevenson came down last fall from his home in Lancaster, Pa.
“We didn’t have scissor lifts back then,” Stevenson says. “All we had was metal scaffolding. At 17, I could climb up there like a tree lemur.”“I did get out of study hall and gym and a couple of math classes I didn’t want to go to,” he says.
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