McKinley High School - Nugget Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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l874 l942 Twenty years ago a beautrful burldrng made of brrck lumb r glass and other materral thtngs became a school by vrrtue of the fact that the two absolutely necessary elements puplls and teachers had entered w1th1n rts portals lt was not really a school untrl thrs had happened though 1t was one of the most beautrful publrc school burldrngs that had ever been erected servrng as a model for other C1l19S to follow for years to come frft en thousand boys and grrls many of them now men and wom n wrth chrldren rn the hrgh schools have come under the rnfluence of the school Sorne of them remcnned only a week or two son e a month some a year or more Altogether hree thousand dnd frfty nrne have gradu t d from four year courses seventeen hunarea and rghtyerght grrls and twelve hunarea .ma seventy one boys ur jwenfiefL grfhclag fmwm! IQ WW ,. Assrstant Prrnclpal 19131914 Pr1nc1pal 19141925 lt rs 1mposs1ble to estrmate the total effect on the l1ves of the frfteen thousand puprls who have come under the rnfluence of the 1nst1tu tron Of one thrng we are certaln however that the rnfluences have been good and whole some And rf these frfteen thousand have been favorably 1nfluenced they wrll rn turn have rnfluenced therr chrldren therr fr1ends thelr busrness assocrates Thus the good done w1ll contrnue to functron and to spread 1n ever wrdenrng crrcles for all trme Good old Mclirnley Hrgh we dont know what use wrll be made of you when the new Roosevelt rs completed but we are sure that to attempt to move your name and tradrtrons to another burldrng would have been to at tempt the rmposstble To those who have known and loved your rooms and halls 1t wrll ever be a Joy to VISIT you and come agarn under your hallowed spell The myrlads of boys and grrls who have knelt at your shrtne and who have r cerved rnsprratron rn your presence wrll never cease to feel a thrrll of at srght of you Whatever drsposrtron may be made of you rn the future we feel assured that the splendrd sprrrt and tradrtrons that have DG orne a part of your atmosphere wrll ever endure Acc pt our lovrng and heartfelt con ora ulatrons on th occas1on of your twentreth orrthaayl E P W' 2 F Q BY Il? . T 1 . 0 I V . E? I I V V I Since ther eventful opening day, probably Dleeeure when hervrey memories ere revived e ' ' ' ' . D A L4 1 C A . I 1 N . 9 V . - . . , 1 f ' - , I ' r G T ' ' Q1 9 Y L l .

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L L6Ll'l'l.SQll,y I' Ass1st Drrn 1p,1l l904 l9lJ Pflfl Qlfi l9l4 The complet cons rousness of loss ID the pass1ng aw ry of any rare personal1ty w1th whom we have been or1v1leged to assocxate lS a certarn proof of the surv1val of the lnfluen of that personahty ln oecommg the pr1n 1pal of the lvl Ktnley l-l1gh School 1t was Mr Schuyler s mo t araent w1sh to br1ng the schoo 1nto the same relot1 n w1th the communrty around 1t Fe beheved that he who has once known and nroyed supreme excellence can no more sat1sfy h1mself w1th the med1ocre and the vulgar than he who has tasted the pure cool waters of l1v1ng spr1ng can turn from that to slake h1s th1rst 1n a waysrde pool He deplored the 'nult1pl1cat1on of cheap places of amusement the auest1onable character of the1r enterta1nrnent and the constant tempta t1on to the young to waste the1r t1me 1n the'n and he felt that the only way to check the ev1l IS to put sorr1 th1ng better and more at tract1ve 1n llS place To educate the taste to subst1tute for the ster1le pleasures of the eye and ear the fert1le pleasures of the heart and the brarn appeared to h1m one of the most rmportant tasks of educat1on l-le loved l1berty as he loved l1fe but he be l1eved that perfect l1berty IS the fru1t of knowl edge and self mastery and that only they can know 1t 1n 1lS fullness who can v1ew l1fe IH 1lS relat1on to etern1ty and feel 1ts l1m1ts 1lS worthlessn ss 1n compar1son except as 1t IS a d1sc1pl1ne for the larger l1fe of the 1mmortal sou Nothmg 1n modern l1fe drstressed h1m so much as the tr1umph of rnater1al1sm over the th1nos of the sp1r1t and rn the later 8 years of h1s l1fe h1s thought was chrefly oc cup1ed w1th the means of restorlng 1deal1sm to her throne among the arts He cornbated vrgorously the tendency to f1X IH dogmas the hypotheses of sclence and was never weary of show1ng how 1nsuff1c1ent are all her theor1es to account for the s1mplest phenomenon of 1 e And so stand1ng for that whlch can nelther be werghed nor measured pass1ng among us w1th the breath of a larger l1fe 1nsp1r1ng us w1th a love for those thrngs whtch gave energy to h1s own large act1ve sp1r1t he has left us a her1tage of 1ntellectual wealth of 1ncalculable value Ftsher THE L,Af5llNA lO'Nl Vcl ll N l p G a W - f f ' 'ww ' fs' f . 'N ' ,nr , ,A , , ' fs 1 1 - 1 -zpah . - , me ' 3 V 1 ' . F , , L ' , ' ' ce F l Y l l , c'L c ' 1' , ' , s 1 , W v ,O , . 4. . . . A, lv' .. ,,.,, - ,. Q . A V y V V 1 55-1914 c 1 1 . I , 1 4 1 - 1 ' ' ' ' - A , f . . , . 6 . i W . - , Q I N., A V V , ' ' V V ' t ' , 7 , 9 , ' ' ' ' - Lffcxry' ,.' ' ' T ., ,. , 0. , .9, 'J -'g ' jn.1.15.

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9 6 az1,,,mf1 PUUCIDGI 1925 1945 Mr Eclwords Came 10 M fmley C111 r ihe hlqh sChoo1 was W ved to ROOSGVG1' 11 Na cm n Vnedlcrte S hoo1 from 1925 Edwards retlred 1-19 IQ S1111 fu11 of WH :mo humor Just as he v vvhew we knew' 'um 16 r t MCK 'Hey I C . 1 , Cvx' 9 ' ho 1 , .. 1 S . i te . C To 1932, when it oqaih became CI high school. 111 1943, Mr. 1. as ' ' . . 1 1 ' .9 e C1 1. .