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

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Faculty M Meyers, Miss Magillicuddy, Miss Lockhart, Mr. Dotson, M ite, Mr, Murphy, Miss Sorenson. MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE DEPARTMENTS nt How: Miss Pierce, Miss Tozier, Miss Peaslee, B k How: Mr. Wohlrabe, Mr. Bonar, Mr. Sicelolf, Mr. Anderson, Larson, Mr. Mackey. 12 , Up in room 247, is a minia- ture office, where girls who have aspirations toward a commercial career actually practice typing, shorthand, stenciling, mimeographing and comptometer. Working to Yankee Doodle Dandy and similar tunes, the typing classes develop rhythm in their typing, as Well as fa- miliarize themselves with the correct forms of letters and addressing envelopes. Learning to keep records and file accounts reguires a large amount of training. That is Why this year the lunior Business course was added to the Commercial Department. Besides this important study, bookkeeping is offered as an advanced opportunity in com- mercial work. L:!Zl:C,Ci1CZC1C The future Einsteins find the World of test-tubes, bunson burners and black rubber aprons a fascinating one, heroically disregarding the sometimes unbearable prod- ucts of their delving into the elements. And then there's the un- mistakable evidence dis- played in slide rules, egua- tions, and brainpower to prove that someone in the vicinity is a student of alge- bra, geometry, or trigonom- etry. Proving their interests in field trips, pollywogs, and the alimentary canal of sguid, the students of Zoology find out about the rest of the ani- mals in this World.

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Vice-Principal For twenty-five years this annual has delighted generations of West Seattle boys and girls with graphic reminders of the happy companion- ships of their high school days. When the 1920 annual initiated the series, there were boys in school who had served in the First World War. lt was then hoped the last War had been fought. Their generation failed in the wisdom needed to prevent the life-and-death struggle now going on. So we, their sons and daughters, are giving up our normal, free, peace-time living to take part in this Second World War. Many of us will never know again what happy peacetime living is. We who are giving our lives, wrote one high school Bombardier, want you who remain to use yours to start the world on its long journey back to the light. That Germany and lapan and their threats to our American Way of free cooperative control will go down in defeat we dare not doubt. But when the War ends, the ugly faces of our age-old enemies here at home will continue to leer at us. lntolerance, race and class hatred, selfish interference With the right of men to choose their own Way back to the light are not so soon de- stroyed. Against these enemies we need continually to arm our minds and fortify our hearts. Gnly so can the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness be made a prized pos- session of every honest-intentioned, cooperating mortal the world around. -A. LYLE KAYE. 11

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SOCIAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT Front Row: Mrs. Friar, Miss Clark, Mr. Babcock, Miss Kraus, Miss Ford. Back Row: Mrs. Cooper, Mr. Smith, Mr. Brink, Mr MUSIC AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT Miss Hague, Mr. Behymer, Miss Babcock. f f' What year was the Mon- roe Doctrine signed? When was Marie Antoinette execut- ed? ls there a racial distinc- tion in America? That's right! lt's World History, American l-listory, Contemporary Prob- lems. All the exciting stories of the ages are answered in the study of these subjects. And that's not all. Whether it's realized or not, students of these studies are building in their minds the background they'll need in the future for intelligent citizenship. Yes, the most fascinating things they can know about are the struggles of countries, peoples and their problems down through the ages. There are teachers who have spe- cialized in these fields to thank for giving them the privilege of knowing about this world in which they live. Ci Appreciation and knowl- edge of fine music is taught these students who participate in programs for the rest of the school body. The value of developing an ear for this music promises to last well into the years to come. Bringing foreign relations closer, especially to fit in with the plans of the world to come, is the study of foreign lan- guages, courses which will draw all peoples together toward a common friendship. .Ci ff. fx