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

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games were played with out-of- town schools because we had not yet entered the city league. When Coach House realized the necessity of obtaining sweaters for the football team, he called a sporting goods store. Finding that orange sweaters were all that could be obtained in sufficient quantity, he ordered them, later, it was decided that black goes well with orange: thus the South- west colors were chosen. Since that first year, the lndians have distinguished themselves in 1n- terscholastic League competition by five championships and three co-championships in football, four championships and one co- championship in basketball, and seven championships in track. The Southwest R. O. T. C. battalion, first organized in 1925, has received honor ratings twenty-four years, and was espe- cially honored when it was cho- sen as the honor guard for Gen- eral Ionathan M. Wainwright upon his visit to Kansas City in 1945. The battalionis annual military ball, a high-light of the year for the cadets, was featured in a five-page article by Life Magazine in 1945. Some sorrow has come to Southwest during these twenty- five years. ln World War 11, Southwest contributed its share of its alumni to defend the cause of liberty, and eighy-seven of these young men gave their lives for that cause. Of its faculty, three members died while in act- ive service-in 1934, Miss Ada lonesg in 1944, Miss Ursula Ash, and last spring, Mr. George Peterson, vice-principal. All of these had contributed their best efforts to their country and to Southwest. C-O0 On looking hack, we realize that these first twenty-five years have heen, for the rnost part, glorious anal worthwhile ones, packed with achievement for Southwest. May we and those who will follow in our footsteps make the ensuing twenty-five years as successful as the first have heen, and may our school rise to even greater stature as the years go lay.

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The bare walls to the south await the south Wing, Which, with the steady growth of the district, may soon be needed and Will complete the original plan.

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