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

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DRINK DEEP OR TASTE NOT THE PIERIAN sPR1No qeopey BY JANE OECHSLE Since its opening ten years ago Southwest has acquired an outstanding reputation along many lines. Among these is scholarship. One needs but look at the college records of our graduates or glance at our publications to feel well satisfied with our achievement in this, the most important field of accomplishment. Until January, 1945, one senior from each graduating class received a four-year honor scholarship of S800 to Washington University. Jimmy Sisk Know Dr. James Siskj won our first one in 1939. As the years passed, Gladys Manewal, Betty Cohn, Robert Von Houton, Helen Herr, Joyce Har- relson, Corinne Thomas, Marilyn Mesloh, Jeanne Zeller, Annette Nahmen- sen, Richard Overbeck, Audrey Vogel, Ella Mae Eickmann, Carol Sagner, Herman Ottenad, and Jewell Roberts followed in his footsteps. All have been a credit to their Alma Mater. Most of them have made excellent records. Many have been elected to Phi Beta Kappa or Sigma Xi. Wash- ington University now presents an additional scholarship of 31,200 through a city-wide competitive examination. In 1945, Bernard Dell received one of these coveted honors, and in 1946 Southwest students, Carol Sagner and Charles Baker, received two of the ten given. Space will not permit our naming the many scholarships our students have gained from other universities. We cannot, however, fail to mention one of the finest ever received, the Westinghouse Science Talent Search Scholarship, presented to Jules Kernen in 1946. It entitles him to four years of study at any university in the United States. Jules is now work- ing hard at Harvard, carrying on the fine record he made here. Another, also, which is outstanding was awarded to Emma Jean Kramer by Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. In literature, Richard Cohen, Bill Conwell, and Milton Lauenstein won essay contests competing in a wide field of contestants. A glance at the ROUNDUP throughout the years shows the following honors in poetry: sixty poems printed in the National High School Poetry Anthology, twenty-three read at the College Club Evening of Poetry, and three re- ceived honorable mention from the Wednesday Club. From the time of its beginning on October 7, 1938, our paper, the PIONEER, has reflected the ability of the groups who have edited it. In 1944 and 1945 it won the All-American honor rating from the National Scholastic Press Association. Each year new ideas and features appear. Combined, these help to make the PIONEER the great paper it is now- indeed worthy of the high honors bestowed upon it. Looking back, we find that the first yearbook was also published in 1938. A study of the pages of the nine books published shows-the high standards Southwest has maintained, for each one gives a resume of the school's achievements. So you see, Southwest has achieved a great deal in the field of scholar- ship. We can look back with pride at the past ten years. Are we going to keep up the good work? It's up to you students. How about it? Eighteen

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