Southwest High School - Sachem Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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awarded positions. Young Agee was given honorable mention as center due to his consistent good playing at that post throughout the season. A similar choice of an all-star team is made at the end of the basketball season. Although Southwest did not have a mem- ber on either the first or second team, there were three who received honorable mention. Captain Dick Cox, Fred Eyssell, and Ed lohnson were rewarded for their play at guard, forward, and center, respectively. On the All-Star chosen by the sports department of the lournal-Post, these three boys and Bill McDonald again received honorable mention. Fred Eyssell was second high scorer in the league, being sur- passed by the sharp-shooting Lester Shartzer of Manual. No other school in Kansas City can claim the distinction of Southwest in the field of essay writing. ln each important contest this year a Southwest student has won first place. A grand slam! Among the essays submitted in the Kansas City Art lnstitute Contest on Oriental Art in the Nelson Art Gallery and Mary Atkins Museum two by Southwest stu- dents were awarded first and second honors. Dorothy Diemer, a Senior, received first, and TOM ROBINSON a Sophomore, Bichard Brown, second. The Thomas Iefferson Essay Contest was won by Byrne Martin, a Senior, and two other Seniors, Betty Beard and Alice Violet, were rewarded for their efforts by honorable mention. First and second places again went to Southwest in the Sons of the American Bev- olution Contest, in which l-lugh Weston received the gold medal and George Strother, the silver. A new essay contest sponsored for the first time this year by the Kansas City Medical Association on Fifty Years Progress in Medicine was entered by several Southwest students. Although we did not win first place, Margaret Stansell received honorable mention in recognition of her well written essay. President, Class of l934 An oratorical contest on the Constitution was sponsored by the American Legion and open to entrants from all Kansas City high schools. The orations were delivered at Southwest and Page Nineteen

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Prince, '3l, a lunior at Baker University, has invented a combi- nation electric clock and calendar, a washerless faucet, and a new type of safety zone button. l-le has received substantial royalty offers on the first two of these devices from manufacturing companies. Literary and dramatic achievements are perhaps the most outstanding. Catherine McCune, '34, played an important role in the Park College all-school play, Bollo's Wild Oat. Barbara Mandigo, '34, also took part. Samuel W. Pierce, '26, is playing with Ethel Barrymore and other famous actresses and actors in L'Aiglon. Lawrence Burd, '32, is the desk editor of the publication, Daily North- western. Lorraine Shafer, '34, was made news editor of the Bradley Tech paper of Peoria, lllinois, being the first Freshman ever to receive such an honor. lack Wilkie, '33, has just recently been named Editor-in-Chief of the i936 Missouri SAVITAB. Stanley lacobs, '3l, has had four of his short stories accepted by the Mcljadden publications. l-le also has written for the Kansas City lournal-Post and reported on the newspaper of Missouri University. lack larman, '33, has preached several sermons at the Country Club Christian Church and now has his own church in Martinsburg, Missouri. DICK MILLER President, Class of l933 Notable as this record as been, doubtlessly it can be improved. Many fine young men and women not here mentioned have carried on Southwest's traditions-character, leadership, scholarship, and service. The duty and privilege of every graduate should be to hold these standards yet higher. Interscholastic Achievements This year, the tenth, Southwest students have carried on the record of their predecessors, have blazed new trails of victory and have brought additional fame to the Orange and Black. At the close of each football season, the lnterscholastic League coaches meet and choose an all-star team. Two South- west line men were placed on the first eleven, Wade Nelson at guard and Bay McCanse at tackle. Cn the second team, Captain Al Nigro and George Luna, both outstanding ball carriers, were Page Eighteen

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from the ten contestants Albert Waters, our representative, was chosen as the winner of the silver medal. ln the fall of this year the National Press Association held its annual convention in Kansas City. There were present representatives from the majority of the states in the nation. Each staff of a high school annual entered the round table write-up contest. The Southwest Sachem staff was the proud victor in this national contest and the receiver of a sixteen dollar camera. Toward the close of this tenth year the Missouri State Singing Contest was held in Springfield. From among the many solo entrants two Southwest students were given first rank and the privilege to enter the National Singing Contest. These two are Alice Neal and Mary lane Nicholson. ln the Print Contest sponsored by the Scholastic, the National High School Weekly, Edwin Iohnson, a Senior, won the right to exhibit his etching in Carnegie Hall, and in the Draftsman contest, sponsored by the same magazine Ralph Myers, also a Senior, won second award in Furniture Design. Thus ends Southwest's first decade. The name of our school is known throughout the nation, our reputation is one of distinction and high honor. lt is with pride that our Alumni say, l graduated from Southwest. With the present students rests the responsibility of perpetuating these fine ideals, of carrying aloft to new heights of triumph the Southwest torch of victory! Page T wenry