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Southwest1963.com
Kansas City, Missouri
Message from
classmate Cam Schutte about this Website
New Postings in late 2018 and 2019
| * The complete 1963 Sachem yearbook * Complete set of Southwest Trail issues from school year * Redesigned & expandedd reunion photo collections * Three new classmates added to Authors section * Authors section includes works of prolific Doug Price |
Will there be
a Future Reunion ?
ARCHIVES INDEX
with more to be added
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SW Trail student paper - 13 issues |
| News of Southwest's future: Sadly but not surprisingly, the school's final graduation and closing has occurred (again). The last school day was May 17, 2016, and the future remains in limbo. See recent news-media links below: |
| May
4, 2018 , YouTube School District to consider plan
to re-open SW March 23, 2017, KC Star Group wants SW to open as innovative school March 22, 2017, TV41 Includes link to "United at Southwest" Group May 17, 2016, KC Star Southwest Closes Its Doors May 12, 2016, KCUR SW Grads Look Back On Storied Past May 18, 2016, YouTube Goodbye to Southwest - A Walk-Through |
Southwest "FOR LEASE" in 1998
(below). Again in 2019?
| Photo taken in the summer of 1998 during Southwest's 2-year closing of 1998-2000 when the School District was seriously considering the closing as forever permanent. However, it was re-opened in the fall of 2000 as the public Southwest Charter School, then later restored to Southwest H.S. (non-charter) until being closed again in 2016. The above pictured phone number was to the District office in charge of selling or leasing unused school properties. UMKC and neighboring St. Andrew's Church (with conversion to a parochial school in mind) expressed interest, as well as several unidentified real estate investment firms, but nothing developed. (Photo from Jim Ismert, SW Class of '75) |
| Class of '63 Archives Staff: Webmaster Vic Damon; Consultants & Researchers: Ron Bodinson, Jim McFerrin, George Cook, Martha Woodmansee, Bob Woodling (SW Class of '61), Howard Brown, and Webmaster Emeritus Cam Schutte. |