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

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MISS EDNA D. ORR, librarian, is kept busy supplying students with delightful reading as well as with research material. History is traced from its begin- nings to modern times in B. H. O'VERMAN'S world history course. F. WILLIAM PAUL'S applied malhemaiics and geometry courses deal with skills and principles of mathematicsg his commercial arithmetic and commercial law courses with those of business. Two interesting biological sciences, plant and animal life, are studied by the botany and zoology students of MISS ETHEL I. PHILLIPS. ' In her Spanish classes, MISS LUCILLE POWERS does her bit to help improve Latin- American relationships. An understanding of our govern- ment and of how it works is gained by the rivics students of MISS HORTENSE P. SCHAL- LER. MISS ESTHER SCHROER gives her students a knowledge of the structure and a realization of the possibilities of the English lan- guage. A year in one of S. C. SEE'S classes reveals to the student the importance of chemistry in the world of today. Page Q2

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GEORGE L. MacCURDY teaches the entire gamut of high school mathematics - from algebra through frigonometry. Both Latin and English, languages of yesterday and today, are very much alive in the classes of MISS CLARA B. MCDONALD. In the social science classes of J. S. McKEE, students are taught to apply their knowledge and rea- soning power to the problems of the present and the future. Students learn a beautiful lan- guage, read its literature, and sing its songs in the French classes of MISS DOROTHY S. MCLEOD. l J. R. MANLY guides his students toward skilled craftsmanship in metal arts and metal work. HERBERT O. MASTERS' alge- bra and geometry students learn to think and to reason through practice with mathematical princi- ples. The choral groups, under the leadership of ROBERT MILTON, have not only learned musical appreciation and technique but have also given their talents freely and artistically whenever an occasion has required. many of our southern neighbors and Latzn its classical mother tongue, share the attention f ' -. MISS KATHARINE M. MOR- Spanish, the colorful language of I I 0 'f' KGAN. . -' ' '0 .. I' ff Page 21 n J WV 1 LW1 lf -fn 27,4-.f Ll. Jlfliyryvyw-,6x!g,AlA1. fit' 7'y7.A,V1,6gb.

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New and varied experiences in English await the students of MRS. ALICIA SEIFRIT. In 402, under the direction of MISS ELIZABETH SHEA, study is the rule of the hour. Vigorous, healthy women of tomorrow are developed in MRS. HELEN E. SHULER'S physical eduration classes. After a year's study of MISS NAOMI C. SIMPSON'S Ameri- can history course, students appre- ciate the heritage which we are fighting to protect today. Being actor, i ctor, critic, and instr or is part of a day's wor n spee and public :peak- i r HO ER S. SMITH. 1 c From the commercial law, typ- ing, and business organization courses taught by MISS MERLE E. SMITH, students gain prac- tical knowledge and skills for both present and future use. Turning out an honor battalion each year has become a habit with SERGEANT WILLIAM A. STORY. In MISS SARA VAN METRE'S English literature classes, pupils acquire the love of the best that has been said and done, and the ability to express their thoughts clearly in oral recitation and in paraphrase, precis, and essay writ- ing. Page 23