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

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E D l E Tll Many years ago young Nathan Hale faced his execu- tioners with the proud words, 'fMy only regret is that I have but one life to give for my country. We have no doubt that the- boys who have gone forth from Southwest High School and have died as did Nathan Hale, for their country, did so in as generous and as gallant a spirit as he, although denied, perhaps, that final moment of glorious eloquence. In recogni- tion of their supreme gift to those of us who still live to enjoy the freedom they died to preserve, we humbly dedicate to them this Sachem of 1944. Q

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ah? ' ,, A my ...,, .,A4 , One day in February, Death came, as it comes to all, to our friend and teacher, . a :ip 1 ',5 Miss Ursula Ashe. In 1tS shadow, we pause f to pay homage to her, who lived rather briefly but with grace and gallantry. pp 533 V . , all , te'l' . . - -. - , e,lc.el it trll There is a juvenile pngle which runs, +5Q'!i!-1ff!!ig'j-A es.A p acea 1 If she had a broomstraw Stuck in her hat, You'd think 'twas a feather! She's like that. Well, Miss Ashe was like that. Only it wasn't her hat. It was something much more elusive. She was eager to see the world and she did see a lot of it-Mexico, Canada, Alaska, and, as an exchange teacher, Hawaii . . . but it didn't need these far-flung journeyings to spell adventure to Miss Ashe. .The shuttle of her imagination was ever busily at work upon the loom of the ordinary, weaving the incidents of every day into the shining fabric of adventure. She was always interested and interesting. Her friends were wont to say that every trip across the street was an adventure to her, and she had the knack of making others see it that way, too. Because she was a gifted conversationalist, she shared with her friends and her students an awareness of the dramatic element inherent in each little daily incident. Nothing was ever dull to her, or to others when she talked of it. l There was a lilt to her living that will always impart to our memory of Miss Ursula Ashe a certain poignancy not unlike that with which she herself savored life. A