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

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The Phillips Gymnasium and Howard Flagg, Jr., Auditorium furnish the school with modern indoor athletic and dramatic facilities. been accredited by the North Central Association, the Missouri State Department of Education and the University of Missouri. As evidence of the fine teaching and instruction received at Pem-Day, one needs only to look at the record of its graduates. They have gone out of P.C.D. to the finest colleges in the land and have made themselves and their school proud. Being the only school ot its kind in this area, Pembroke-Country Day has become well known and recognized as a leading preparatory school for boys in the Midwest. l The rapidly increasing collection of athletic trophies. Q F

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cf? The Administration Building, one of the oldest structures on the campus, H is the center of school activity. The history of Pembroke-Country Day may be traced back as for as 1910, when for the third time in the history of the United States a school was organized on the country day school plan. This school, named the Country Day School, was located at 61st and Wornall Road, and was established under the leadership of Mrs. A. Ross Hill. A year later the school was moved to 57th street west of Wornall Road. Then, in 1914, the Country Day School moved to the present location of Pem-Day. A gym was built in 1918, and a iunior school building was added in 1922. In 1930 the Schyler Ashley dormitory, with accommodations for forty boarding students, was built. During the year 1925, a group of masters from the Country Day School founded the Pembroke school at 75th and State Line. This boys boarding school operated for eight years until 1933 when, during the worst part of the depression, the two schools merged into the present Pembroke-Country Day School. In 1943, atter serving as headmaster for twelve years, Mr. Howard E. A. Jones resigned and was replaced by the incumbent, Bradford Kingman. Mr. Kingman wasted no time, and on graduation clay 1945, a sixty-three thousand dollar mortgage was burned, and P.C.D. looked forward to additions and expansion. The addition to the dormitory, which serves as middle school classrooms, was built in 1948. This permitted the upper school to take over the main building. ln the spring of 1949 the Memorial Gymnasium was completed, replacing the temporary gym which was built over thirty years before. Pembroke-Country Day has consistently maintained the highest scholastic standards. Athletics have entered into the over-all plan of the school and have brought it much fame and recognition. It has 90l'llAI 0 20 60LlIl flag .SQA oo!

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The Schuyler Ashley Dormitory houses some of the faculty and their wives, and out of town students. This Memorial to Henry D. Ashley is the traditional site for graduation exercises in the spring.