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

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CONTENTS FACULTY CLASSES Senior Class Junior Class Sophomore Class Freshman Class ORGANIZATIONS FINE ARTS ATHLETICS Boys' Athletics Girls' Athletics SCHOOL LIFE As ll fluff fl jf ark auizm U11 2 1 ff J sfrong bl1lllI'S I f I bl I Ii 1 P t1Z!'K T011 X, rl fogcfbvr fo 17 Id ly from II wilrlf'

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MEMURHAM MATTHEW VICTOR SKUBE 1914-1932 I found Him in the shining of the stars, I markid Him in the flowering of the flelds, I waged His wars, and now I pass and die. Nay-God my Christ-I pass but shall not die. -Tw Passing of AY'fbIllA.-TENNYSON. The Sfary of fbr' Toifm -The l7i0lI!'t'l'S Inf! iheir home: fo LYIIIIZ' fo a new land 'lL'l7t'I'f' ibry XIll7tI1lI'tl the Indians and hcfzwd ibrir bomvs from Ibe Vir- gin forvxlx.

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g EAQLUMY The earliest faculty consisted of only one teacher, Mrs. Blaine, who was employed soon after her arrival in Seattle because of her capa- bility and fine education. The school began in January in the year 1854, using McGuffy's reader, M itchell's geography, and Davis' arithmetic as texts, books which still bring back to our parents happy recollections of their own school days. It was not by accident that the school week began on Tuesday, since Monday was wash day and school teaching, cooking, and housework were all tasks which had to be accomplished in one room. In spite of these handicaps, S eattle's pioneer school teacher was gratified by the improvement noted in her scholars at the termination of the frst semester. It was largely through the efforts of such splendid teaching that new customs and advanced ideas were introduced into the West, for the early teachers did much to raise to a higher level the culture of the pioneers. The settlers began an agitation for the location of the University in Seattle, feeling that this addition would regain for the city much of the prestige that had been lost through the selection of Olympia as the state capital. As time passed and no action was taken, it grew to be a joke among the people, but it took a man of Clarence Bagley's calibre to turn the joke into a reality, for it was his perseverance that finally won the University for Seattle. Asa Mercer became the first professor, acting as faculty, principal, and janitor, although in the beginning his knowledge was imparted to an enrollment consisting of grammar school students, there being no pupils of high school and University age. Mrs. Blaine and those teachers who followed soon after her exem- plify the fine courageous type of pioneers who held such responsible positions in the community. It was to them that folks looked for guidance and leadership. Today they are respected as greatly as they were in those history-making times by all who honor and hold in esteem the memory of our own pioneers.