Wyandotte High School - Quiverian Yearbook (Kansas City, KS)

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' .7Ae .Q-Jgrfif ibecacle of the life of Wyandotte High School in her new home has been completed. For eleven years these massive red brick towers have been outlined against the Kansas sky, their sturdy stability symbolic of the soundness and worth of American education. Stu- dents have entered here, have passed through these halls day by day, and from their numbers ten classes of seniors have been graduated. And so today, on the decennial anniversary of our school we dedicate the Quiverian to that first decade, but also to the next decade and all those to follow. We have tried to picture that building for you, first conceived in the minds of architects Joseph W. Radotinsky and john I.. Hamilton, constructed in three years by an army of workmen, it has been described as a tribute to modern school architecture, embodying as it does the facilities for the most com- plete secondary education possible. Those years the building was under construction the students had had no school building at all, taking their classes at odd hours of the day in various other schools of the city. Many had never been in a high Page Two , E, f S R Zig , Qi xx, I tml! 'Z f P i fa I wffvf,-1 '., x' - 1 1 1 'gg -' ,Z Q, 'rw ni 'fe z A f- X Q vi . t 1 if U-fi A ' v Tr Lf r ll l l - .Qs-' N, I W l if . l l ill l i il I fl - 4' all 4.4 1+ - I 1' 1--I ,ig Q1 ,Q N . 1 N. i 'gb' i N iiriifi Xtib. I l l if 'c Q52 Q .- s. ' .. 5 int - , K ii 's M l i t .9 x All y1R.,,,, . Il , . V l :EW . i gn' V1 : flaw 1 - 1 nest ' f it w h , -1' ml A il ,., pl f M y 1, W 1 ' H . 4 ' vl I y 1 school building, and those who had could only re- member the old building, ancient in structure, small, crowded, and located in a noisy downtown district. And so it was with enthusiasm that students and townspeople read the reports: the largest high school building west of the Mississippi, capable of handling 3,000 students, the most complete library possible in a high school building, the most up-to-date gym- nasiums, huge cafeterias and kitchen, 60 foot swim- ming pool, well equipped shops and laboratories, a large auditorium designed for artistic as well as acoustic value, a twenty-eight acre beautifully land-

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