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

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The desire of improved educational opportunities in Kansas City prompted the establishment of a Country Day School in 1910 by Mrs. A. Ross Hill. lt was recognized as only the third such school in the nation. The school was originally located on the corner of 61st 8. Wornall. The year 1914 saw nine- teen boys and three teachers at a new twenty-two acre location at 51st 81 Ward Parkway. A gym- nasium was promptly erected, with the addition of a junior school building and the Schuyler-Ashley Dormitory in 1922 and 1930 respectively. ln 1933, the reduction of financially eligible students due to the depression prompted the merger of Country Day School with the other private school of the city, Pembroke, which had been founded in 1925. Today there are several instructors yet teach- ing at the school who were with the schools at the time of the merger. They are: Mr. Coad, Mr. Nault, and Mr. Wedin Cof Country Dayl and Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Holte lof Pembrokel. From 1933 to 1943, with Mr. Howard E. Jones as headmaster, enrollment grew to 183 students. In 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 ceremonies. A dormitory was added in 1948, the Phillips Memorial Gymnasium and Howard Flagg, Jr. Auditorium in 1949, as well as the extension of the junior school building and construction of the headmastefs house -Q, . School History in 1950. The shop-garage and tennis courts were finished in 1952. ln the school year of 1953-1954 a new face appeared at Pem-Day. This was Mr. Peter A. Schwartz, who came from Allendale School in New York to take over as headmaster, Since the coming of Mr. Schwartz, the school has leaped forward in all fields, athletic as well as academic. The largest improvement thus far has been the extensive re- modeling of the administration building, undertaken in 1955 through the eighty-five thousand dollar gift of Mr. Raymond B. White. The building was re- named White Hall in memory of his two sons, John Barber II, and William Nicholas, both of whom attended Pem-Day in the 1930's. A huge three hundred thousand dollar building program has been undertaken. Beginning last year, it has already brought marked results. A beautiful and much needed biology lab has been constructed on the second floor of Ashley Hall. The blueprint for the next ten years is tremendous. Mr. Schwartz has recommended that the Endowment Fund be in- creased to one-half million dollars, a goal to be reached by the end of the 50th anniversary celebra- tion. The headmaster's goal is to achieve stability of the moving, flexible kind which will permit Pem- Day to continue to prosper in the next fifty years of unimaginable change, iust as it has from 1910 to the present.

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