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

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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

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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. WATERHOUSES world history and American his- tory courses give his students a perspective of our historical back- ground and a knowledge neces- sary to good citizenship. The language of France is taught in the French classes of MISS ELIZABETH WELLS, and that of numbers and symbols in her algebra class. In his :ivics classes, GORDON E. WESNER'S pupils learn how to be good citizens of our own country, and in his Latin-Ameri- can relations class how to be g od neighbors. A study of the science of life is made in MR. ALLEN T. WHIS- AMORE'S biology classes, and the students discover what an interesting world this is in which We live. MISS FRANCES WHITMIRE divides her time between instruc- tion about the complicated func- tions of the human body, in physiology, and the bewildering zig-zags of the needle, in clothing. In MR. CHANEY O. WIL- LIAMS' junior English classes good reading enlarges the stu- dentls knowledge of life and helps ' to meet lif 's 0 s. - I MISS FLORA WRIGHT in her art classes supervises the South- west Indian's artistic endeavors with pen and crayon, palette and brush. At athletic events, military drills, festivals, and plays, LOGAN ZAHN,S band and orchestra add a colorful and harmonious note. Page 24