Pembroke Hill High School - Raider Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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New Plans Located in the Country Club residential district of Kansas City, Mo., the twenty-acre campus offers natural beauty, ample space for athletic activities and is within easy walking distance of the Country Club Plaza. There are playing fields, a quarter-mile Cinder track and tennis courts with the school buildings situated on a wooded hill which extends toward the northwest side of the campus. The school is fortunate in being able to provide an all-day program in such an attractive setting. T The new plans provide for the replacement of all buildings, with the exception of the dormitory. The plans also call for new landscaping which will eliminate the present drive from Slst Street, and substitute a new entrance from State Line. Parking space for athletic events will be developed on the west side of the present entrance. The present buildings on the campus include a junior school buildingg a combined middle school, upper school and administration unit, a manual arts building, a gymnasium, and modern fireproof dormitory. The possibilities for enhancing the natural beauty of the campus and the need for new buildings are apparent to all who are familiar with the school. The most urgent and immediate need is for a modern gymnasium to replace the one now in use which was built as a temporary structure twenty years ago. The gymnasium facilities on the ground floor include room for boxing, wrestling, shuffleboard and other games. There will be showers and dressing rooms, a dispensary room and storage space. The main gymnasium floor will be 90 x 50 feet, the size required for a regulation basketball court. Provision has been made for bleachers having a seating capacity of five hundred. The war has served to stress more clearly than ever the need for placing greater emphasis on a carefully planned physical fitness program. This must include corrective work and a schedule of intramural athletic contests to supplement the varsity and junior varsity programs.

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Board of Trustees Mason L. Thompson, President loyce C. I-lall ludge Leslie A. Welch, PC1111 Hamilton Vice-President Mrs. A. Ross I-Iill Harold R. lones, Secretary Theodore N, Law l. G. I-lockaday, Treasurer Cornelius Lgmbqydi lustin D. Bowersock lohn T. Pierson Mrs. Manvel H. Davis Oscar M. Straube A. L. Gustin, lr. Wilson D. Wood - The board of trustees of Pembroke-Country Day School, though seldom coming in direct contact with the students, plays an important role in the general school program. lts members are businessmen who are interested in the welfare of the school largely because they are alumni or because they have sons enrolled here, and are therefore eager to see it advance to educational excellence. They and the headmaster confer on all subjects relating to school policy and improvement. They decide as to the proper course to be taken in such matters as the school budget and all financial problems, all plans for campus improvement and expan- sion, and, probably the most important, the educational program. The members of the board are elected for a term of three years and may be re-elected at the close of their term. The officers of the board are elected for one-year terms and may also be re-elected. The board meets five times during each year and decides upon the impor- tant issues at hand. At these meetings, the various committees get together and discuss their findings. There are six of these committees, one for each phase of the school handled by the board. There are committees for buildings and grounds, finance, education, scholarship, endow- ment and athletics. The board has, in the past few years, paid off the mortgage on the admin- istration building, drawn up the plans for an entirely new campus layout, brought in as head- master Mr. Kingman, an exceptional educator, and raised large sums toward paying for the new buildings. Pembroke-Country Day School owes an unpayable debt to its hard-working board of trustees.