Walnut Hills High School - Remembrancer Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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HE Senior Class met for organization on Thursday, January 2, in the Study Hall. Mr. Henshaw presided over the election. The officers chosen were: Forman White, president; Helen Reif, vice-president; Ruth White, secre- tary; Ruth Herancourt, treasurer, Room 1; Helen Diers, treasurer, Room 6; Howard Wig- ger, treasurer, Room 3. On Thursday, January 9, the class held its second meeting. Each oflicer gave a short address in appreciation of his election, after which a motion was made and carried that committees be appointed to develop plans for an A-B Dance and for a Senior Boat-Ride, and to consider the question of The Remembrancer. The next meeting was held J anuary 16, in the Study Hall. The president named committees on the A-B Dance, the Senior Boat-Ride, The Remembrancer, the class flower and colors, and class activities. The treasurers of the three A-grade class rooms were appointed as a com- mittee to take charge of the money paid for the Class rings and pins. On J anuary 23, Mr. Pichel, the Vice-president of the Walnut Hills High School Alumnal Asso- ciation gave the Senior Class an address on School Spirit.H He urged that the graduates of 1919 co-operate with the association. The class held its next meeting on February 20. The chairman of the committee on Class Flower and Colors submitted his report. After much discussion, the sweet-pea was chosen as the flower, and the colors purple and gold were selected. The chairman of the committee on the A-B Dance gave a report. Then the elec- tion of the staff for The Remembrancer was held. At a meeting held March 27, in Room 1, Mr. Henshaw gave the Class 2. short talk on gradua- tion regulations and restrictions. He also stated that the Boat-Ride would have to be given up. The next meeting was held on April 3. Reports were submitted to the class by the chairmen of the committees on the A-B Dance and Class Activities. Several members of The Remembrancer staff gave reports. At this meeting the motto, ttSemper Fidelis CtAlways FaithfultU, was unanimously adopted by the Class. RUTH WHITE, Secretary, Class of 719.

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I ORE timid Freshmen never were enrolled at ttWalnut Hills than we, when in the fall Of nineteen-flfteen we assembled there. We soon began to study hard and strive To master subjects difhcult to us, And thought, ere long, our knowledge was suk- preme. Examinations proved to us our fault; Though disappointed, we survived their shock, And studied on until the sun of J une Beat warm upon our heads, and we all sought Escape from the cityts heat and school bths clang. 11 Vacation slipped by quickly, and we soon Were back at school once more-had started in GLASS HIETDRY To work, light-hearted, as young people should. Examinations, after Christmas, came, Nor did they frighten us so much that year, For had we not lived through them once before? Then, after weeks of patient tolerance, The message sped throughout the land, one day, That war had been declared to rid the world Of Prussiats autocratic government. A thrill went through the nation; manly hearts Awake and soon responded to the call To help their country fight and Win the war. All through the summer months, the busy hands Of women, old and young, their needles plied, Equipping men for service at the front. III When school was opened, all the girls had learned