North Kansas City High School - Purgold Yearbook (North Kansas City, MO)

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pride and nts master rents were geranium il events as vw North Kansas City High School, its students and their activities, their achievements, their welfare, his faculty friends, his teaching have all been the things to which he has devoted his life. He would not have changed his choice of a career for any other. , -Mrs. Tom Moore The past year left little doubt in the minds of all Northtown students as to whom this PURGOLD would be dedicated. The PURCOLD staff undisputably chose Mr. Tom Moore, due to his unequalled contribution to Northtown. Mr. Moore, a life-long resident of Clay County, was educated in the North Kansas City School 'District from first grade through his graduation from high school here at Northtown in 1926. While a student here, Mr. Moore was president of both his junior and senior classes. The faculty also selected him as president of a school spirit and activity club known as the 13 Club. ln the fall of 1934, Mr. Moore began his teaching career at Northtown where he was instrumental in setting up new departments. He instructed the first driver training and photography courses, as well as his regular mathematics classes, Mr. Moore was also associated with the various educational committees in the North Kansas City School District, At times he held offices in the North Kansas City Teachers' Association and was once president of the Missouri State Teachers of Mathematics. Mr. Moore retired from teaching in the spring of 1973, leaving many people with fond memories of the numerous organizations and activities he had contributed to. Perhaps there will never be another teacher at Northtown that has devoted so much time and effort to the field of education and students as Mr. Moore. With that final thought, the 1973 PURCOLD is most proudly and respectfully dedicated to Northtown's own Mr. Moore. fi'

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Time is not measured by the passing of the years, but North Kansas City High School has been standing tall since 1926, bidding new sophomores a warm welcome and giving a final farewell to her loyal seniors, The past school year has been filled with tradition and with change. But no matter what has happened in the past or what the future will bring, Northtown remains a place where thousands of students centered a portion of their entire existence. As our sophomore year began, the questions were numerous, and the answers came few and far between. It seemed strange to be starting over in a different school again, with many new firsts in store. But at last, we had reached high school, and life was at our fingertips. We stumbled blindly down strange halls, longing to be known not merely as a sophomore, but as a Hornet, not merely as an object, but as a name. Entering our junior year as upperclassmen, we were no longer labeled a group of beginners. The school had an air of familiarity and the repeated activities held memories from the year before. We felt a sense of security as a member of the middle class and found it comfor- table to settle between the more distinct years of high school. Knowing what lay ahead, we were anxious to begin our senior year, the year that would mold our lives for years to come. As 1973 graduates we began our senior year, the future seemed suddenly at hand. High school became dai- ly routine, and the excitement we expected became anx- iety for what was ahead. lust as we had once done things for the first time, we were doing them now with a sense of finality. Though it sometimes seemed as though the end would never come, our twelve years of education sudden- ly ended, quietly, yet definitely. Throughout those years we had constantly searched to find the meaning in life. But as we made our final exit, we knew we had definitely begun living Looking back through the years, we wonder if any of our questions have been answered or problems solved. We may even wonder if our mere existence as human beings changed to become the actual lives of individuals. However, when we look through the T973 PURCOLD, we see proof of the individual lives in the student body. For an entire year, lNorthtown held the hopes, dreams, successes and failures of over 1,300 students. ln fact, it held a small portion of each of our lives. T