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

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WC,fc,,A, 3 50 earri eruzce I 904 l 954 Early ln the years 1904 the people of South St Lours proudly harled a new hrgh school m the1r mtdst lt was narned for Pr srdent Wrl ham Mclimley ard was desrgned to meet the1r growrng secondary school needs Durmg the frfty years that have passed smce then McK1nley rltgh School has m ant many thrngs to many peopl but xt has always stood for frrendly constderate treatment of 1ts puplls and genurne servrce to the1r rntellectual physr cal and sp1r1tual needs Or' 1ts faculty there ha Je always been out standtng men and women whose lrves have made a deep 1mpress1on on the1r students made 1nvaluable contrrbutrons to thrs com munrty Whtle the outsrde of 1ts bu1ld1ng has re marned very much the same the 1nter1or has undergone num rous alt ratrons desrgned t rneet the changlng n eds of tts students Changes have taken pl ce also rn 1ts cur r1cula rn the boundarres of rts drstrrct rn the number of 1ts faculty ana student body and ev n tn llS fundamental organ1zat1on For a short tlme rust after Roosevelt l-hgh School was openea 'along over the Mclimley NORMAN BLISS DEE Pr1nc1pal faculty and most of 1ts former students Mc Krnley b came an lntermedrate Hrgh School servrng only puptls of the seventh erghth and nlnth grades of the communrty Thrs caused a complete change 1n the fac ulty rn the school colors 1n the names of the school publrcatlons and athletrc teams 1n the overall program and rn the nature of the student body As the era of Junror hrgh schools rn St Lours came to an end McK1nley once more became a four year hrgh school rn 932 Wrth the population drrft from c1ty to county wrth a aeclrnrng brrth rate wrth a change rn d1str1ct ooundartes Mclirnleys enrollment dropped from ZOUO m l933 to l3OO 1n 1950 Nhere 1t has rema1ned mth very l1ttle change durrng the past four years What of the future? We make no clarm to belng a prophet but we feel safe ln saymg that the St Lours Board of Educatron will frnd th alumnr the present student body and the present faculty anxrous and w1ll1ng to do all that they can to mamtarn the farr name of Mclfmley Hrgh School come what may Norman Blxss Dee Prmcrprxl I ' ' . r e ' ' - ' ' , ' , . . -I ' ' na ' . 4 . v I 9 A I V l 1 A 4 5 4 . 9 . . u V .V A - Y - I I I -I y - l . Among its alumni are hundreds who have . . , , , .' , , l , - e ' e ' - ' O ' A ' e ' ' . - V G V I A . , I - W 3 , A , , ,A u e ' L ' A . I L I I A , lt ,

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189 951 Mr Fleming qroduoted from McKinley High School 1 1911 Then he entered the University of Missouri where he received his B A ond B S degrees Atter teochinq in other 111 S he come to St Louis ond beqon his teochinq here ot McK1nley in 1921 Loter he becdrne principal ot Corondelet Grade School principol of Clin School ossastont principol of McKinley High School dnd then principal ot McKinley ln lonuory 1946 he vos promoted to the positio ot D1re tor of Elernentory Edu cortion Mr Fleninq wos CI willing worker CI cornp tent 111 structor cmd oi crocress ve edu otor 3 - l .H . . . . , ' ' 1 c' 'e ' . ' ton-Peabody School, ossistont principdl of Clevelond High V l . 1 . . , , 'v . r ' ' ' , .e f 6 aunC2y .9 September 1944 ldnuory 945

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ur Aaiafanf pfincipa A WILLIAM T WELD Greetlnqs warm and SITICGTG to all MCKID leyltes At thls trme students faculty and we r flect uoon th schools Irtty years ot GTVIC6 to St Lours McK1nley graduates rnclude outstandrnq leaders 1n every held nor can we torqet those who d1ed bravely rn battles 1n dlstant lands Thls Golden Annrversary ernohaslzes aqaln the vltal role playea by the CUDl1C hlqh schools II the reallzatron o' the Amerlcan way oarxh A Connor A srst rrt Pmnclraal It IS hard to express rr' a few words the ap precratlon I feel for havlnq had the prrvxleqe of workmq wrth you at Mclirnley Hlqh School for the past twenty years To all my former students our former qradu ates and thelr parents I wlsh to extend my qreetlnqs and slncere best w1shes VV1ll1am T Weld Asslstant Pr1nc1pal SARAH A CIONNOR , ' r., alurnnt are justly proud to honor McKinley as e e ' ' I ' , ' ' v I , 5. t. - bl I U 4 I ,. c, l . .s- - 1 1 ' .