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

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In appreciation for ten years of devoted service as headmaster, and for countless hours as a friend, the 1963 Raider is dedicated to MR. PETER A. SCHWARTZ

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, W HQ CHCOL HI TORY The Country Day School, founded in 1910 by Mrs. A. Ross Hill, was the third school of its kind in the United States. Growing enrollment forced the school to leave its original site, the Wornall Homestead at 61st and Wornall, after one year. A permanent campus was selected and purchased in 1914, our current 22 acre plant at 51st and Ward Parkway. In 1930, the fourth building on this campus, Ashley Hall, joined White Hall, the old gymnasium, and the old jun- ior school building. A rival to the Country Day School had been founded in 1925--Pembroke. This second private school grew rapidly, and had surpassed Country Day's enrollment in three years. The conditions of the Depression, however, prevented either school from operating profitably. Despite great opposition from zealous supporters of one school or the other, the merger of the two schools was accomplished, and the Pembroke-Country Day School opened in 1933. Mr. Howard E. A. Jones, Country Day's headmaster, was retained in that position and served for eleven years. Despite the school's aca- demic success and the nation's economic recovery, enrollment at Pem-Day fell in this period. More- over, the school's debt grew to nearly S100,000. On May 28, 1943, it was announced that Mr. Brad- ford Kingman would become headmaster. 4- Ashley Hall 'Sv H. ,, .- 'w.Q+A f .3::s, . : K -F4 . . . .. ., The new Lower School in 13 me sg:-rf -L -- , V MM.. 1 K., ,. Q sw. . Ji K 1 P