Maplewood Richmond Heights High School - Maple Leaves Yearbook (Maplewood, MO)

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-. lm' ,lnlzn Philip Sousa will: the ,HRH Band 1927 - 28 A Year of Champions On November 21, 1927, John Philip Sousa visited Maplewood High School. He delivered a humorous, informal talk on music before directing the band in a rendition of The Stars and Stripes Forever. This was the first public appearance of the Maplewood High School Band. The year of 1927-28 was very exciting in the line of sports. The football team scored a total of 149 points to our opponents' 32. ln basketball Maplewood won the championship from University City on percentage points, and p-ui-,... -- ' inantl lui the track team placed second in the county. The baseball team extended the previous year's record of 8-0 by beating Hancock 23-0. 1930 saw many victories in sports. The basketball team won their third straight County Cage Title, while in track, ,lim Owen, later to become one of the top dash men in the United States, broke an all-county record in the 220-yard dash. The debate team was runner-up for the State championship out of 230 schools. They won fourteen straight debates. 'if Baseball in 1928 1545? TIA The Junior Pram Queen of 1928 receives her crown.

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. 1 ln 1926 the Chip was awarded a certificate of honorable mention by the Missouri Inter- scholastic Press Contest for high school news- papers, and our track team took the cham- pionship. lt was in this year that a group of students interested in instrumental music made up Maplewood's first orchestra. A French Club and a Spanish Club were organized in 1927. Among the French Cluh's many activities was the publishing of a French journal, Le Miroirf' A war memorial of white bedford stone, bearing a bronze tablet symbolizing young manhood answering the call to duty. was erected at the Sutton and Lyndover corner of the campus in 1926 with funds donated by the public. The inscription reads. ln Memory of the Men of Maplewood Who Served and Died in the World War-1917-l918. Herbert S. Hadby, then Chancellor of Washington Uni- versity, was the guest speaker. Dedicati 2' Oil Urrlzffsira 1925 . Y T, chip Staff 1927 of War Memorial ..-ff . l l1lWg i'5ti' 'fi lt 1 SEQ? if liifalll Q l

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I -3' Svengali Magic Club-1933 New Clubs Organized During the 1930's many more extracurricu- lar activities were begun, such as the science club, Greggites, and Torch. Home Economics Club, A Cappella Choir, and many others. The Chip won third place in the Missouri Interscholastic Press Association contest in 1931. In 1933 the Debate Club, going strong for many years, won the state tournament at Webster in debate, and oratory and extempor- aneous speaking. ,. ' '. -vt' NTT' '35 Honor Students carry on tradition of outstanding scholarshzp The Maplewood Relays, the outstanding high school meet of the middle west at that time, came off in splendid style in 1935, due to the careful planning of the outstanding coach A. A. Wahlbrink. Four hundred and twenty-five athletes, representing schools from Kentucky, Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri entered into the meet which was witnessed by a capac- ity crowd of more than three thousand. Great crowds watch Maplewood Relays in the '30's. 'Hin I