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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W Back: W. M. McDonald, bam P. Quarles, Albert Drake, Robert G. Wallace, Harold Brent, Robert Wag- staff. Front: John A. Kroh, Mrs. Gerald Miller, Harold R. Jones, Marshall Long, president, Peter A. Schwartz. Absent: Herman Sutherland, Vice-President, C. Cook Jordan, Sec., Marshall Bliss, Porter T. Hall, ll, Dr. Richard Kiene, George P. Sharp, Jr., R. Hugh Uhlmann, E. P. Wolferman, James A. Hazlett. Ex Officio Members Peter A. Schwartz Harold R. Jones Mrs. Gerald Miller White Thompson Board of Trustees The principal functions of the Board of Trustees are the determination of school policy and the direction of finance. The Trustees employ the headmaster, who directs the school and is answerable to the Board. This is the Trustees' only direct contact with the educational branch of the school, as it is not concerned with the employment of the fac- ulty or administration. The Board of Trustees sets tuition and assessments and approves the budget com- piled and submitted by the Business Manager. Through its power to allot funds and to censor the budget, the Board is solely responsible for the direction and status of the school's fiscal affairs.