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

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The largest improvement thus far has been the extensive remodeling program of the administration building, undertaken in 1955 through the 585,000 gift of Mr. Raymond B. White. The building was renamed White Hall, in memory of his two sons, John Barber ll and William Nicholas, who both attended Pem-Day during the l930's. Besides a considerable revamping of the curriculum, the enlarge- ment of the faculty and institution of several new courses iamong them, Near East History and Russiani, Mr. Schwartz has been influential in com- pletion of a senior room, improved lab facilities, and renovation of the ath- letic field, including the addition of two baseball diamonds and an electric scoreboard and wire fence for the football field. Plans are now being made for a language laboratory to be put in use next year. Now included in a S300,000 building program are a biology labora- tory, an addition built on the south of the junior school for classrooms for the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades. Highlight of this program is a winter sports center which would have facilities for volley ball, badminton, shuffle- board, weight lifting, and squash. ln addition, the building would serve win- ter practice in shot put, broad jump, and baseball. Also still on the drawing board is a 550,000 combination football huddle room, shelter, and senior concession stand, tentatively located where the green track buildings stand now. This would be coupled with steel stands and lights on the west side of the football field and a wire fence enclosing the baseball field. Pem-Day's greatest pride, however, has been in a constantly rising level of enrollment and educational standards. lts greatest hope will be in the maintenance of these standards. To maintain the appearance and the condition of the buildings and campus is the job of Mr. Edward N. Steffen. Actually we tend to under- estimate the importance of well kept surroundings. When the curriculum toughens, the beauty of the campus eases the students' mental burden. Edward Steffen

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The idea of a private school for boys in Kansas City began with the establishment of the Country-Day School in 1910 by Mrs. A. Ross Hill. Located on the old Wornall Homestead, the school opened classes in its first year with three teachers and nineteen students. With its incor- poration in 1914, the school moved to the present 22-acre site at 51st and Ward Parkway. The campus, which included, at first, only an administration building lwith a cafeteria in the basement and a gymnasium on the third floor? and a manual arts shack, expanded gradually as both students and available funds increased. A temporary gym was constructed in 1918, the junior school building in 1922, and the Schuyler Ashley House in 1930. A rival academy, Pembroke, founded in 1925, merged with Country- Day in 1933. Present faculty members who have been teaching at Pembroke- Country Day since the merger, include: Mr. Coad, Mr. Nault, and Mr. Wedin fof Country-Dayl and Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Holte lof Pembrokel. Headmasters of the school have included: Mr. Ralph Hoffman, 1910- 1917, Mr. Underhill, 1917-1920, Mr. Mitchell Froelisher, 1920-1923, Mr. Charles Bradlee, 1924-1931. Under Mr. Howard E. A. Jones, 1931-1943, the enrollment grew to 183. ln the decade from 1943 to 1953, with Mr. Bradford M. Kingman as headmaster, the school was able to burn a sixty-three thousand dollar mortgage as part of the 1945 commencement exercises, add a dormitory addition in 1948, the Phillips Memorial Gymnasium and Howard Flagg, Jr. Auditorium in 1949, extension to the junior school and headmaster's house in 1950. The shop-garage and tennis courts were completed in 1952. Since Mr. Peter A. Schwartz was awarded the headmaster's position in 1953, Pembroke-Country Day has nearly doubled its number of students.

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