Southwest High School - Sachem Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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SCHOLARSHIP ratings focused a great deal of attention on Southwest this year. When a survey was made of schools turning out National Merit Final- ists, Southwest was rated one of the top thirty-eight high schools in the nation. Publicity in many national magazines and newspapers, such as this illustration from Newsweek, resulted in a tide of let- ters to the school office requesting in- formation on curriculum and teaching methods. Southwest, the only school in Missouri to receive this distinction, has thus been officially recognized for its perennial crop of outstanding students. 76970016 cf f 4 I r 5 LEADERSHIP abilities of Southwest students have often come to the front with prominent offices. but seldom have we been so well represented as by these outstanding Indians, who hold the three most important high school offices in Kansas City. Student Council President Dick Menu has served this year as Presi- dent of the All-City Student Council and City Hall Day's Missouri Governor. Cadet Colonel Carl Reniley is student commander of all the city's R.O.T.C. units. We also had the President of the All-City Red Cross in the person of Bob Davenport. We are proud to add these three to a long line of capable Southwest leaders.

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PARENT - TEACHER ASSOCIA- TION --With a membership of 2,235, which includes 79W of the parents and 100723 of the teachers, the Southwest PTA is the largest in the state of Missouri. The of- ficers, pictured here, are part of the executive board of fifty-five who keep the community informed of the interests, activities, and needs of the school. STANDING: Mrs. A. A. Levy, Mrs. Lloyd Faeth, Mrs. D. E. Lyons. SEATED: Mrs. P. Q. Eckels, Mrs. D. L. Schmelzinger, Mrs. Burke Miller, Mrs. Ralph Hill, Mrs. J. P. Laing. THE HALL OF FAME honors former Southwest students who have achieved distinction in their fields of service. Below, Diane Coen, daughter of a Hall of Fame member, inspects the familiar row of pictures by the library door. The follow- ing persons have received this honor: Carl Al- lendoerfer '26-Rhodes Scholar, W. F. Coen, Jr. '28-National Boys' Tennis Champion and Davis Cup Team, David Duncan '33 - Korean War Photographer, James Green 528 -- Addressed League of Nations at Geneva, Fowler Hamilton '26-Rhodes Scholar, Frederick Noted Artist, Lawrence Kimpton james '32- '27-Chancel- lor of University of Chicago, Larry Miller '42- Rhodes Scholar, Elliot Norquist '28-Second Place, National Oratorical Contest, ,Iohn Phillips '32-First Place, National Oratorical Contest, Berton Roueche '28-Author and staff writer for New Yorker, Lasker and Raben awards for spe- cialized writing, Mrs. Delia Taylor Sinkov ,30- Research Analyst, Army Communications Serv- ice, Edmund Suor '36-As a delegate from West Point, presided over Institute of Public Affairs, Ben Swafford ,33-First Place, National Oratori- cal Contest, Sandra Warfield '38-Metropolitan Opera.