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

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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.