Sunset Hill High School - Sundial Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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LOCATION, GROUNDS AND BUILDING The school is located on the northwest corner of Wornall Road and 51st Street and is accessible from the Country Club car. The grounds, beautified with line old forest trees and shrub- be-ry, cover nearly eight acres, giving ample space for playgrounds, hockey and baseball fields, basket ball courts, the school gardens and lawns for out-of-door dramatics and pageants. The three buildings of practically fire-proof construction, in Tudor Gothic stone architecture, are placed on a high elevation, insuring pure, fresh air and perfect drainage. These buildings, used for school purposes only, contain thirty rooms, for class and special recitation purposes, two laboratories, art room, workshop and kitchen, an auditorium with complete stage facilities. The auditorium serves in double capacity as the school dining hall at present. The rooms are well lighted and ventilated and all rooms used for classrooms rec-eive sunshine during the school day. Fire es- capes have been installed from the second and third floors of the main building and also the second floor room of the wing of the auditorium. Other appliances for safety are at hand. A CALENDAR 1924-1925 School Year begins 9:00 A. M., Tuesday, September 16th, 1924. Thanksgiving Holidays November 27th and 28th. A Christmas vacation begins at noon Friday, December 19th. School re-assesmbles 9:00 A. M., Wednesday, january Sth, 1925. Spring vacation begins at the close of the -session, Thursday, April 9th, School re-assetmbles Monday, April 20th. School Year ends Friday, june 6th. Special Days. Days commemorated by special patriotic exercises: Armistice Day, Washington's, Lincoln's and Roosevelt's anniversaries and Memorial Day. Days celebrated for their universal signitlcancei Thanksgiving Harvest Festival, Christmas, Easter, and May Day. Annual School Field Day. Class and Commencement Day. CDate-s to be announced laterg -.-.4-... Mr Pa' loc Mi gr: ers at 192 of th: its lar Pr' by 19 ha We pu to: th bs ha he of cl. be gi F '. - .,.. .... ,. .A W H. ,-V IV I , A f A A V I A V M -1- in-is-W i AV . . .- -,..,-,.., ,,.. ,jg-L '--5-gf - 4. . -- A - - 1.1: nf, --g 2 - -f a.,..,Qm '-gj,1... ',,,:'. : f'.1 '? fQ ' ff ' E .. V

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9'QF3'r'3H-' - e i ' I it 9 9 it I .- -' 31 A - ' -- liaise -1'f f- Q - ,...,f Jrnall J car. hrub- unds, rdens an, in ation, thirty zories, aplete ls the L used re es- af the af the 924. ZS. rsday, 2 Day, 5 and giving A HISTORY THE SCHOOL The Sunset Hill School was established in the fall of 1913 by Mrs. Justin B. Bowersock, Mrs. A. Ross Hill and Mrs. William F. Patton, and was named for the section of the city in which it was located A 4 For the first year and a half the classes met in the home of Mrs. Hill. The six classes from the kindergarten through the fifth grade, numbered twenty children, under the direction of five teach- ers. In the spring of 1915 the school moved into larger quarters at 420 West 57th Street and remained there until the spring of 1919. The membership of the school then included an enrollment of ninety pupils and twelve teachers. It had become imperative that the school should have a larger home and it was decided that its continuous growth warranted the -securing of a permanent site, large enough to permit its future development. p Through a bond issue taken by parents and friends the present property was purchased at 51st and Wornall Road. A board of trustees selected from the parents was appointed by the founders and the school was incorporated by the State in 1919, as a non-profit making educational institution. The property purchased at that time consisted of six and one- half acres of land with a fine stone building and garage which were adapted for school needs. Two years later, more land was purchased and another building constructed to serve as an audi- torium, dining hall with a kitchen, and three additional classrooms. Since its third year the school has been self-sus-taining, through the income obtained from tuitions. The initial deficit was shared by the founders. In addition to be-ing self-sustaining, the school has met its obligations of the yearly interest due on the bonds and has placed a considerable amount in a sinking fund. The first class graduated from the high school in 1920, and of the nine graduates, four were of the original school group. A class has graduated each year since, the total number of graduates being forty-one. In 1923 the largest class, numbering fourteen girls, was graduated. ....5...