Welcome to the Southwest High School of Kansas City, Missouri Class Of 1969 web site! 

Sad news, Part 2:  Classmate Becky McCarty Fisk passed away peacefully 4/23/14 after a three year battle with brain cancer.  Becky will be remembered as a vivacious person with a ready smile!  She was living in St. Louis at the time of her death.  Her sister Francie Ferguson said Becky had been looking forward to continuing her work with Boy Scouts and "designing really cool houses" in her next life.  Francie can be reached at fran.ferguson@sbcglobal.net.  Our thoughts and prayers are with her and with the rest of Becky's family and friends.

Meg Sauer passed away 2/9/14 after fighting brain cancer.  You can read more about Margaret's distinguished career as a Jackson County Judge here. She will be greatly missed by family, friends, and colleagues.  Our thoughts are with her family at this time of loss. 

Important Notice!!  SAVE THE DATE!!!  A committee has begun to work on planning our 45th Reunion.  The date is Saturday, September 13th, 2014 for a casual dinner/dance and Friday, September 12th will be the venerable "pub crawl" in Brookside for those who are interested.  Saturday night's event will be at the Milburn Country Club in Overland Park featuring the KC band, Platinum Express, and sponsored by Classmate Paul Hulsey.  You won't want to miss this great entertainment and the opportunity to dance with the girl/guy of your teenaged dreams!  Paul himself plays drums and does vocals!

Platinum Express plays locally quite a bit.  Please check their website for future dates and locations. 

To get in the mood for our September reunion, play "See you in September"...by The Happenings, 1965.

Have fun with this performance of the iconic song by the Beatles in 1964:  "Kansas City!!!"  And be sure to come on back to Kansas City for our next reunion!

We want to know if you're coming!  Please answer our poll (for planning purposes only, you can still change your mind either way!)

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Please continue to submit “happenings” and “updates” through the link provided on the homepage of the website. 

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Our 40th Reunion was held in August, 2009.

It was a huge success!  More than 250 people gathered to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the day we graduated from SWHS!  Old friends reconnected and a lot of new friends were made. 

New Features on Website:  Both Instant Messaging and Live Chat are now available. You can Instant Message anyone who happens to be on the site when you are.  Just click to open the bar at the bottom right corner of your screen that shows other members online.  To go into the Chat Room, Click on the Live Chat tab on the left menu.  Maximum is 20 people at a time.  You can chat in real-time amongst the group, use web cams to see each other, upload pictures or video to share while you chat.  Check it out, it's awesome!  Let's try Live Chat Wednesdays from 9-10 p.m. CST, starting Dec. 8th. 

If you want to expand your connections to other SWHS grads, try these links:

Our class (1969) facebook page :

Southwest Gals:

a group of female grads who get together periodically to network and schmooze!

Southwest High School - KC: a fb site for all classes

Southwest High School KCMO 1970:  

Class of 1970 website on classcreator.com:

Slide Album: Previous Reunion

Watch our fabulously entertaining video from 2009 one more time just for fun!  It's priceless! 

 A million thanks to Molly Magilow Proffer and her team at Proffer Productions for producing this awesome video! 

YEA!  WE NOW HAVE MORE THAN HALF OF OUR CLASSMATES SIGNED UP!  There is a tab on the left called "Missing Classmates."  Check it out and see what you can do to help contact anyone you know who hasn't signed up. 

Music:  Take a time travel trip backwards by viewing our collection of youtube video clips of favorites from the 60's.  Go to 60's Music:  Soul or 60's Music: Pop/Rock for your viewing pleasure.  As far as music while you surf the site, time for something new (or old, as the case may be...):  Classical.

If you want to hear the music as you surf the site, click "pop-out player" and it will continue.  If you want to turn it off so you can watch the video, click on the "ll" button just above "Title."