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

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A thing of beauty is a joy foreverf The newly renovated art room is indeed a thing of beauty as well as a carefully pla11ned work room. New floors, an acoustical ceiling, modern- istic lights, Venetian blinds, and peach-colored walls are both practical and decorative. The new desks of blond wood, designed by Miss Ruth Beck, have adjustable tops and handy supply drawers. Bulletin boards have replaced blackboards and give ample room for display of art work. These l completely new features of decoration l provide a most attractive studio for young artists. Students learning the professional silk-sc'l'een process. Early to bed and early to rise Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. If this old saying is true. several students at Southwest should benefit by their rising early enough to attend 7:30 classes in chemistry, drafting, and art. It may be difficult to arrive at school almost before dawn, but it is pleasant to be dismissed an hour early in the afternoon. Next year the new junior high will relieve the overcrowded conditions which make such early classes necessary this year. Ola, lam' I hate to get up in the morning! Busy people 10 s

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Mastering the 33 character Cyrillic alphabet. Sprechen Sie? For several years Southwest has heen proud, and justly so, of its outstanding foreign lan- guage department. Offering a wider and more comprehensive selection of courses than any other Kansas City high school, our language department this year introduced into its curricu- lum a course in Russian. Even though the study of the difficult tongue proved hard work for twenty-seven Indians, the enthusiasm inspired by this rather unusual innovation remained undimmed. A new aid to learning German, as shown below, was the practice of recording passages and then replaying them to detect the mistakes in pronimciation and inflection. As usual, Caesar's campaigns and Cicero's oratory offered a challenge to the Latin classes, while contemporary literatu1'e captured the interest of French and Spanish students. Surely every Southwest student should take pride in the outstanding advances of our excellent language de- partmeut. The second-your German class c.rperin1z'nt.s' with new After all these years, Gaul is still dilIff1'l'li methods of study. into three parts.

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views. Several of Miss Guyer's American history students will have a decided advantage over other college freshmen next fall. The fortun- ate seniors who participated in Southwests first Advanced Placement class may receive up to five hours of college credit for success- ful completion of the enriched course. VVide reading, frequent discussion, and individual research into varied topics give the students in this class a more thorough understanding of the subject than they would receive in a regular high school course. This challenging type of work has proved to be not overly difficult: on the contrary, every student has thoroughly enjoyed a stimu- lating course taught by an excellent teacher. Doing college Work in high school is indeed a rare privilegeg it is hoped that in the future the program will be expanded at Southwest in order to give this valuable educational op- portunity to a greater number of students. are happy people A panel cliscussion on the American Revolution al- lows students to air their Wl1o's playing 'possumi' Family Living students use posters to aid Fusing metal with a their class discussions. 60000 F. arc