Southwest High School - Roundup Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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aided, wherever possible, by broad horizontal windows made of ultra-modern glass bricks. These illuminate the stairways and are also used for sky-lighting in the gymnasium, locker rooms, and art rooms. The floors of the lobby, as of almost all the school, are made of a special kind of cork which is not only noiseless but resilient and is not tiring to the feet. The Walls of the lobby are of dull-faced tile. The entrance to the auditorium is in the hall West from the lobby. The auditorium itself seats 1383 persons. The windows are located at the top of both sides of the auditorium. For motion pictures and other activities which require the darkening of the auditorium, electrically operated shades are lowered over these windows. The lower part of the Walls is paneled with dark oak, Plaster, ranging in color from a delicate pink tint to the deep rose color which furnishes the trimming, has been surmounted on this, giving the walls a dis- Twenty-two ,

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SEEING SOUTHWEST HIGH SCHOOL By JANE JACKSON Viewing Southwest High School from Kingshighway Boulevard, you see, standing out clear and distinct, its walls of red, sandstruck colonial brick rising sharp and unrelieved against the pale blue background of the sky. The building itself, built to accommodate 1300 pupils, is decidedly square, and has no elaborate ornamentations. It consists of three stories with a fourth floor in the center. Between the building and Kingshighway lie the quarter- mile cinder track and the football and baseball practice lields. A closer view of the school discloses the symbolic figures which rest domi- natingly over the entrance. As a whole they represent Youthful Leader- ship : but, individually, they are interpreted as follows: Exact Sciences, Social Interests , Youthful Leadership , The Liberal Arts , and Athletic Activities . These statutes were sculptured by Fred Morie of St. Louis. Having entered the school by way of the main doors and having ascended a flight of marble stairs, you find yourself in the main lobby from which extend three halls to the south, the west, and the north. The modernistic architecture strikes your eye immediately. Indirect lighting prevails throughout the school, Twenty-one

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tinctly modernistic effect. The auditorium is artificially lighted by drum- shaped coves, placed in the ceiling. These coves are trimmed with metal. The ventilation of the auditorium is easily controlled by 'Amush-rooms under the seats through which air may enter or be drawn out of the spacious room as desired. Equipment of the auditorium includes a projecting room, movie screen, spotlight, Hoodlight, footlights, scenery hangers, and a public address system, with which all the other rooms of the school are also equipped. On either side of the stage, built in the Wall, are modern grills of deep rose color which provide an outlet for the public address system. Across the front of the stage at regular intervals are stations for eight microphones, which Will be very helpful in producing plays before a large audience. As you proceed through the school, you must not omit from your tour one of the most interesting places. It is the lunchroom on the first floor. It boasts an ultra-modern kitchen gleaming with aluminum and stainless steel utensils. There is a forest of tables topped with a smooth composition material, which is easily cleaned, and of several hundred, four-legged stools. Not one place can be found in the cafeteria where dust and dirt may accumulate. for all cracks and crevices have been eliminated, and all the equipment is set out from the walls so that it may be cleaned on all sides each day. A Twenty-threp