West Seattle High School - Kimtah Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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ADMINISTRATION The Pioneer Woman, statue at Ponca City, Okla- homa, unveiled in I930, in memory of the courageous women who played so great a part in the development of the West.

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AVAGE tribes of Indians, starvation, cold--dangers lurked beyond every turn in the road, behind each tree. As the wagon trains rolled westward, these dangers had to be met. Scouts, well acquainted with the territory, guided the immigrants over un- familiar terrain and educated the pioneers to the ways of the wilderness. Difhcult and try- ing situations arose. Frequently the entire suc- cess of the journey rested solely upon the scouts. Had they been inexpert or wrong in their judgments, the entire wagon train would have met disaster. We, too, have our guides. Our faculty is well trained to meet the dangers of the present. With a map of the course to be followed, with the rules, the standards, and the methods, but more especially with their sympathetic under- standing of us, teachers stand ready to guide us over difficulties that arise. Their guidance has helped bring success not only to the school, but to the individual as Well.

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MR. FULTON? MESSAGE Trails! Beyond the last sun-baked vestige of frontier, across the bare prairie shunned for weary miles by tree and bush alike, farther even than those dim blue mountains, marking vague distance, there ran the trails of the Old West. Danger lurking every mile: the conquering thirst of the desert sands, the pitiless thunder of stampeding buffalo, the fiendish whoop of paint-streaked Indians, the crack of the outlaw's pistol. Gut of those trails, out of those dangers, came an unique courage and an ac- complishment unequaled by past years. The desert has grown lush with alfalfa, the rivers have been harnessed for their power, the mountains have been pillaged of their precious metals. Great grandfather would have said: Pshaw, it can't be done! But the Old West did it! And the New West will do still more. The Youth of 1942 are of the New West and if courage and vision have not been drained from your veins by the ease of l942, you will read the message of the Old West: All things are possible, and you will bend your lives accordingly. -REED FULTON.