West Seattle High School - Kimtah Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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BLUE AND GQLD 1922 VOLUME Ill PUBLISHED BY Seniors of West Seattle High School Seattle, Washington june, Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-two .

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H5251 Svvattlr High Svrhnnl lqtatnrg 1902 - 1922 Twenty years ago West Seattle organized its first high school in what was then known as School District No. 73. The building con- sisted of eight rooms and an auditorium and was located at California Avenue and Lander Street. This school was considered ample for the district, in fact, a few years after it was erected some of the citizens advocated selling the building on the grounds that it was too large for the use of the community. At that time the West Side was not thickly populated and the street to the school was a boardwalk from Walker to Lander Street through the woods. Mr. W. T. Campbell, now in business on the West Side, was the first principal, Mrs. Black and Miss Shaefer his able assistants. The students of that time were very young, the average age about twelve years. As only a few subjects were taught, pupils were ad- vanced rather rapidly. The school's aotfivities were mostly confined to Dramatics, several plays being given with success. A few years later, when Mr. Bailey was principal, West Seattle placed her first basketball team in the Held. Under Mr. Knight, lVlr. Flemming and Mr. Rogers other depart- ments of education were added to the school, and sports began to take their places in the activity list. In 1910 Mr. F. L. Cassidy came to West Seattle as Grammar School and High School principal. As the community grew, additions were added to the original building from time to time until in 1915 the school grounds was dotted with portable buildings. Conditions demanded a larger and better equipped school, and in September, 1917, the students entered their new quarters, the present school. The West Seattle High School of today with its well lighted rooms, inclines instead of stairways, Library, Gymnasium, Assembly, Labora- tories, Machine Shop, Drawing and Art rooms and modern equipment, far excells the little school of 1902. Activities have developed to such a degree that Ice Hockey, Swimming teams, and Crews are about the only sports not represented. Radio Clubs, Debating Clubs, Girls' and Boys, Associations and NWN Club are only a few of the organizations promoting school spirit and progress in the school. The Chinook, the school paper having its own business oliice in the school, strives to bring the students together and to deliver all the news on the various happenings in the school. The present High School staff consists of thirty-eight teachers gnd it must soon be increased to aid the growing population of West eattle. e Page F