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

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QjrcsQ HE NEWS was made public Q Q late this spring that this semes- 3 Jig? ter was to be Mr. Cassidy's last G QCD as the pilot of West Seattle's Q XM cours 6-NQ-,LLXQ ei This year has been Mr. Cas- sidy's sixteenth as principal of West Seattle High School. He came to this school in 1911 and has seen it grow from an enrollment of 110 students to the present total of 1550. Mr. Cassidy may be regarded as being the father of West Seattle High School. He fostered the institution through its most delicate years-its years of growth. During these years, more than during any others, is there need of understand- ing and sympathetic guidance. Need of a father who has the confidence, the trust, the implicit faith of his children. A companion in the high school careers of thousands of students, Mr. Cassidy has been sympathetic and understanding always, rejoicing with us in victory, downcast, too, when we have suffered defeat. It is only in our desire for the success and happiness of Mr. Cassidy that we feel resigned to our loss.

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Glrwaahing ' -M XOT WITHOUT appropriateness is the title HCrusader N chosen for this issue of West Seattle High School s Blue and Gold. This year, l927, completes the tenth year of the existence of West Seattle High School as a separate institution housed in its own building. The ten years of its history have been ten years of crusading. The building itself is a departure from the ordinary styles of school architecture-a departure made not for the sake of being different, but so that the building might serve the purpose for which a high school is intended,-to provide a home for young life in its process of community growth. That has been the spirit of the school: to solve the problems that arise as young people grow out of childhood into and through adolescence and make themselves ready to take the responsibilities of adult manhood and womanhood, The Crusades, in their time, constituted a devotion of the world's energies to an ideal-a devotion greater than the world had ever seen before. To be a Crusader is to be an idealist. West Seattle High School has had an ideal. And through problem and storm has held rather steadfast to that ideal-to make of every individual who came within its portals a square-thinking, up-standing citizen of the community-capable and eager to give service where service is needed. To that end the whole procedure of school has been directed to give to each individual student all the opportunities he can make use of and the conditions in which he can grow. Anything that is lasting must be built first within people's conscious thought. West Seattle High School has learned to recog- nize the significance and power of spirit, and her victories have been victories first in the realm of her own attitudes and thinking. Silent- ly, with progress changing course in minor things as necessity dic- tated, but unfalteringly, the school has grown steadily on to the realization in its own group consciousness of that sentiment which it has chosen for its motto: No one is truly great who does not realize that spiritual are greater than material forces.

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