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

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DEDIGATION General Custer - the hero of the Old West. From the Warner Brother's produc- tion, They Died With Their Boots On. New lands, new homes, new freedom: these the pioneers sought. The frontier of- fered excitement and danger to the adventurer, offered a new opportunity to the debt- ors from the Old World. People came on horseback, walking, on wagons, on rafts and ox carts. Single families braved the dangers of travel, climbed the mountains, trudged over trails, forded streams-to make a home in the wilderness. As the swarm of land- seekers pressed farther and farther West, the Indians fought, were defeated. Towns grew and villages sprang up overnight. Land speculators followed the pi- oneers. The frontier line changed to a region of extensive farms, well-built houses, factories, good schools-civilization. Where Lewis and Clark had stood long years before, cities were built-today's metropolitan areas. The pioneers of yesterday reached their goal. We, the pioneers of today, are striv- ing to reach ours. It is because we can learn so much from those great people, from their courage and foresight, that we dedicate the I942 Kimtah to the pioneers of the Old West.

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CONTENTS 1 ADMINISTRATION f CLASSES 1 PRODUCTIONS and CLUBS 1 SPORTS 1 SCHOOL LIFE T V w

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KEEP IT FLYING blue sky and billowy clouds the red white and blue our flag ripples and challenges the wind. The houses, the trees, the buildings, everything, gradual- ly fades into the distance. People move closer in, salute, and are warmed by the sig- nificance of the story interwoven with the stars and stripes, a story that becomes more cherished with the passing of each year. MERICA stands at attention. Americans salute the Hag. Silhouetted against ui I r 1 1 l lt began with the fight for supremacy. . . From the tangled struggles of the Ger- mans, the English, the French, the Spanish-all of them-came the American flag, designed as a symbol of freedom and liberty. The Declaration of Independence was signed. Washingtonis troops Wintered at Valley Forge. The Constitution was drawn up, our democracy established . . . The flag moved westward over the Alleghenies as the trail blazer went first, followed by the backwoodsman and his family. Courageous men like Lewis and Clark brought the Hag into the West . . . Immigrants came, came because they were hungry, hungry for more bread and for better bread. America of- fered that. Europe was old, America was young . . . The massacre of the garrison at the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas by the Mexicans made Americans more deter- mined to Remember the Alamo and win the war with Mexico . . . Gold in Califor- nia! The throng of settlers in search of gold assured the safety of Americais claim to this territory . . . General I..ee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox proved that our flag was to reign over a united nation. Slavery was abolished by Lincoln! Our flag was for all Americans, white and black. The Sioux war, the last one with the In- dians, made these redmen brothers, not enemies, under our Hag. Remember the Maine, our battle cry against Spain. Our Hag crossed waters into Cuba and the Phil- ippines . . . National security, threatened by World War I, was made secure again. Our flag continued to wave. Through past years, good and bad, peace and war, prosperity and depression, Amer- icans met danger and conquered it. But the tale interwoven with our banner cannot stop here. It must go on. America is still young. just as the second generation carried on where the first had left off, and the third where the second ceased to function, our generation will carry on the tradition. To all of us young Americans, destiny has hurled a supreme challenge. The years which lie ahead will bring us the summons. Sacrifices are being made and will continue to be made. The boys on Bataan peninsula are giving their lives that we in America may continue to live in a democracy. With leaders like General IVIacArthur and General Wainwright, who, with their men, risked their lives that the American flag still flies over Corregidor, we shall win the struggle. Men in defense plants, women in the homes, boys in the armed forces-all make sacrifices, forgetting themselves in the furthering of one great cause: democracy, the American way of life. The supreme effort of every American, young and old, small and great, will win the war and the peace to follow. We will Keep our Hag Hyingf'