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

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y 'O aol ces its LS Hill iorated Road. , 1 Ashley Memorial The year after the schoo1's formation it was moved to 57th Street, west of VVornall. The present location, a 22-acre tract of land, was obtained in 1914 when half of the present campus was bought and the other half was granted to the school on a 10-year option. It was at this time that the administration building and also a small manual training building were erected. At that time the dining room was located in the basement of the admin- istration building, and the third floor was used as a gymnasium. This arrangement was somewhat altered in 1918 by the addition of a temporary gym which was located on the southwest corner of the campus. The next addition to the school was made in 1922 when the junior School was added to the Country Day Campus. ln 1930 a dormitory, the Schuyler Ashley House, was added, a new wing of which was constructed in 1948. The other half of P. C. D.'s two-part past found its origin back in 1925 when a group of masters and stu- dents from the Country Day School formed the Pembroke School for Boys, which was located at 75th and State Line. This school was in operation for eight years, until in 1933 it was merged with the Country Day School. Several of the masters, including Mr. Coad, Mr. Wedin, Mr. Poster and Mr. Nault, were connected with the Country Day School. 1Vlr. Bennett, 1V1r. Kintigh and Mrs. 1-lolte were with the Pembroke School before the merger. 1938 saw the Henry D. Ashley lVle1noria1, the site of our graduation exercises, built. lVlr. Kingman, the seventh of our six head masters and one acting head master, took up his duties here in 1943. Three years later, at gradu- ation, the 863,000 mortgage was burned, thus paving the way for the expansion and building program which has followed. The Memorial Cymnasium was finished in 1948, thus completing the campus as we know it today. Athletically, P. C. D. has been in three leagues, the recently formed baseball Border League, the only one which the school is connected with now. Previous to the war, P. C. D. was a member of the Little Six, which was re-formed because of the distance involved between schools. It is interesting to note that in 1930 or thereabouts the first red-blue game was played. It was a meeting of the alumni of the two schools, and Pembroke School uint-rgecl with a 7 to 0 win. Pombroke-Country Day has grown steadily in the past few years, both in numbers Cenrollment was 186 in -li and now 326D and in prestige. There is no reason why the school cannot go on from here to become known 1-'verywliere as a fine grade and preparatory school for boys. 7

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adam! gfwlaza Country Day founded 1910 at Wo1'nall Road Homestead Pembroke-Country Day School, a well-known Kansas City grade and preparatory school for boys, traces its history back to two schools, the Country Day School and the Pembroke School. The older of these two, the Country Day School, was established under the leadership of Mrs. A. Ross Hill in the fall of 1910. The third school in the country to be organized on the Country Day plan, it was incorporated in 1914 under the laws of the state of Missouri. The school was located for one year at 61st and Wornall Road. During the first year, the student body numbered twentyg the faculty, three. Pembroke founded 1925 at 75th and State Lzne 6 l , f E 221 gfii I1'12:ll istrz 191 ncx ln der Sta Sew. Col of atio toll whi 11715 the Lilllf 'lil ff X C

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