Benton High School - Wahwahlanawah Yearbook (St Joseph, MO)

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lPage 61 Benton Historically When in September, 1905, a high school in South St. Joseph was opened in a vacant lodge room above Clark's undertaking parlors, only six young people reported for Work! From the entire South Side, Whose population then was very close to what it is now! The new building, the first modern school building in the city, would not be ready for occupancy for some two months. November, 1905. A gala day it was when the pu- pils gathered their books and marched up the hill to take possession of the new building-the north wing of the present building. 111 1908, the building was com- pleted to the present length, though the south rooms were unfinished. Harvard Street continued east across the hill. The building was thought of as facing north. In 1908 came basketball and in 1915, the present gymnasium that has housed so many Hbattles of the century. The curriculum had long since expanded beyond academic subjects to include manual training and commercial work. Since 1929, when as part of the reorganization of the city school system, Benton became a Junior-Senior high school, one piece of physical expansion after an- other has taken place. Two entirely new blocks of class rooms were added at the east, extensive rear- rangements and repairs made over the older interior. Last scene of all was the acquisition in 1930 of the hillside tract across the street east of the building for use as an athletic field. This addition to the school scene is still so recent that its development, while con- siderable, is as yet quite in its infancy. The school has always clung to the Indian legends clustering about King Hill and claimed them as her own. And with the best of reasons. While excavation for the building was going on, a magnificent specimen of Indian, judging by the skeleton, was exhumed. With great ceremony the skeleton was reburied beneath the tower and the school dedicated to the Indians, whose burial ground King Ilill was. Red and white for the colors were chosen in the very earliest years of the school's existence. Some years later, about 1929, when the need for an athletic mascot-symbol was felt, the cardinal was adopted, largely because it is suggestive by name and coloring of the school colors. Newsmen and others have had cause to note respectfully the drive of the Redbird athletic teams. Bentonls scholastic emblem is, most appropriately, its tower, the com- manding landmark of the South Side's skyline. lt is used on all class jewelry, school publications and formal invitations, and on the insignia of the Benton Chapter of the National Honor Society. Most precious tradition of all is the passing of the flag, a ceremony which is part of every Senior Class Night program. The flag was presented in 1909 by Mr. Golding of the St. Joseph News-Press to the Benton grammar school city basketball champions. They in their turn entrusted it to the care of the senior class. So each senior class president from that day to this has committed it to the keeping of the president of the junior class-a symbol of the qualities woven into the fabric we call t'Benton . MISS LAURA JESSIE LOMAX Dean of Girls MR. J. A. BELL Flrst Principal