Annals of Achievement

Annals of Achievement

Southwest High School boasts many famous graduates; from Rhodes Scholars, to best-selling authors, to Emmy Award-winning actors and NFL football greats.

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	Annals of Achievement
	Science & Academic
	Meyer Friedman, 27 Director, Brunn Cardiovascular Institute
	Lawrence Kimpton '27 Chancellor, Univ. of Chicago
	Carl Allendorfer '29 Rhodes Scholar
	Fowler Hamilton Rhodes Scholar, Dir. American lnt'1 Develop.
	David W. Robinson '31 Founder, KUMC Bum Center
	Eldon Newcomb, Professor, University of Wisconsin
	Arthur W. Robinson, M.D., St. Luke's Foundation
	Verne E. Chaney, Jr. '41 President, Thos. A. Dooley Foundation
	Laurence Miller '42 Rhodes Scholar
	Martin Dickinson. Dean, University of Kansas School of Law
	Michael C. Brown Headmaster, Wheeler's School
	Eldon Newcomb, Univ. of Wisconsin
	Richard Smalley '61 Nobel Prize Chemistry
	Thomas Reefer, School and Industrial Educator
	Ann Rubenstein Tish, Founder, Charter School - N.Y. & Chicago
	Government Service
	James A. Moore, Judge, Missouri Circuit Court
	James Green '28 Geneva Disarm. Conf.
	William K. Jones '33 General, USMC
	Frederick H. Michaels '35 Vice Admiral, 1 nuclear carrier
	Charles E. Curry, Presiding Judge, Jackson County Court
	Larry Winn, Jr. '37 U.S. Congress
	Charles Blackmer Chief Justice, Missouri Supreme Court
	Edmond Suor, Public Affairs
	Dale D. Meyers '39 NASA
	Delia Ann Taylor Sinkov, Cryptographer (war decoder)
	George Berry, County Probate Judge
	Frank McMullen, Admiral
	Howard Sachs '42 US District Court
	Richard P. Sprinkle '42 Judge 16 Circuit Court
	Hans Tuch '42 U.S. Diplomat
	Frank P. Sebree '45 City Councilman, KCMO
	Joseph Stevens '45 U.S. District Court
	Robert W. Berrey '46 Judge, Missouri 16 District
	Chuck Eddy, City of KCMO Councilman
	Sandy Aguirre Mayer, '70 Former Member, KCMSD
	John Tvedten, KCFD Battalion Chief
	National Awards
	Elliot Norquist' 28 National Orator
	Benjamin W Swafford '29 National Orator
	John Phillips '33 National Orator
	Art
	Frederick James '32 Painter
	Jack O'Hara '38 Watercolorist
	Arthur Kraft, Muralist
	Voluntarism
	Helen Delano Sutherland '31
	Gertrude Field Oliver '33
	Charline Bush Schmelzer
	Pat Busier Jones
	Marion Engass Kraemer '42
	Marjorie Powell Alien
	Linda Bloch Lyon
	Business
	William D. Deramus, III '30 KC Southern Railroad
	Lester Milgram '33
	Thomas B. Robinson
	Kenneth Krakauer
	Doyle Patterson
	Herbert Valentine
	Earl Radford
	Harold Tivol '40
	Fred Merrill
	Richard C. Green
	Joe Jack Merriman '43
	James B. Nutter '44
	Phil Kirk, President DST
	Dennis Hudson
	Entertainment/Media/Journalists
	Burton Rouche, Author
	David Douglas Duncan '33 Photojoumalist
	Avis Green Tucker, Newspaper Publisher
	Sandra Warfield '39 Opera
	Ruth Warrick, Actress
	Hughes Rudd, Broadcaster
	Edward T. Matheny, Jr. '40 Historical Author
	Evan Connell, Jr. '41 Author/Winner, Lannan Lifetime
	Achievement Award
	Robert Altman '42 Movie Producer
	Betty Ann Lynn '43 Actress (Thelma Lou on Andy Griffith)
	George Hawley, Humorous author
	Thomas D. Leathers '44 Editor, Publisher
	Richard Vrooman '50 Opera
	Calvin Trillin '53 Author, Columnist New Yorker, Time Magazine
	Elaine Kagan Goren '60 Actress and Author
	Scott Simon '66 Musician, Sha Na Na
	Chris Cooper '69 Actor/Winner, Screen Actors Guild Award
	David Parsons '77 Dance Troop Director
	Elliott Threatt '80 Comedian
	Sports
	Wilbur F. Cohen, Jr. '28 Davis Cup
	Ray Watson, Golf
	Michael A. Jones '87 NFL Football Player
	Philanthropy
	John B. Francis '35
	William D. Grant '35
	Richard Shower
	Henry Bloch '30
	Marion Helzberg Bloch '47
	Richard Bloch '42
	Marylou Schroeder Whitney Hendrickson '42
	Morton Sosland
	George E. Powell '43
	Crosby Kemper '44
	Bebe Stripp Kemper '55
	Tom Scott
	Stowers Family