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

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Q ffice His training is a lesson valuable not only here in high school but later in life. As for his extra-curricular activities, Dr. Senger's favorite pastime is reading, which he says is his besetting sin. His time is not all spent in reading, how- ever, for he likes fishing and other sports. That he played a good game was proved by his winning the conso- lation event in the Tri-State Tennis Tournament during his first year here at VValnut Hills. Around school Dr. Senger finds time to act as faculty adviser to the Student Court, the Gleam, and the traffic squad. Besides- supervising these important school activities, Dr. Senger has built up the Hi-Y Club from one organiza- tion to three separate ones, the Senior, junior, and Sophomore Hi-Y's. He ' has made himself not only a necessary but an integral part of our school, and VValnut Hills would not be the same without his cheery smile and his philosophical remarks. MISS CLARKE HARMING and capable, always gracious and friendly to those who seek her guidance, Miss Olive Clarke, Dean of Girls, is loved and admired by all. Red Cross activities, Student Aid, ushers for school activities, Girls, League, and Big Sisters are a few of the student organizations which come under her inspiring leadership. An invaluable aid to seniors is her remark- able wealth of information about colleges and universities in all sections of the country. She seems to know instinctively which schools to suggest for each senior girl who asks help in planning her higher education. With equal skill she handles the role of disciplinarian or solves the problems of any of uher girls who need sympathy and understanding. Thus Miss Clarke unobtrusively and competently carries on the many roles required of the Dean of Girls at Wal- nut Hills. MISS SHIGLEY HEN AN effie, lost and bewildered, by chance wanders into Mr. Stewart,s outer sanctum, he I can always find aid in the MISS RUSCHER person of Miss Marguerite MISS SHIGLEY ana ement Shigley, monarch of the main office. Although many may think them mono- tonous, Miss Shigley enjoys her various and sundry tasks at Walnut Hills. Her jobs range from getting out records of graduates to writing reports and taking care of complaints of the par- ents. She also works all summer on the long and tedious task of making out programs for the seventeen hundred pupils, while constantly being inter- rupted by pupils who desire to change theirs at the last minute. A graduate of Walnut Hills, herself, and a graduate of the University of Cincinnati, Miss Shigley has lived in Cincinnati all her life, but has traveled from New York to California and from New Orleans to Nova Scotia. In what spare time she has, Miss Shigley likes to work for the Red Cross, and also enjoys gardening. MISS RUSCHER ISS ELLEN RUSCH- ER, the competent assistant in the main office, is a native Cincinnatian. A graduate of Withrow High School, she came to Walnut Hills after working a short time in a doctor's office. A s p o r t s enthusiast, Miss Ruscher enjoys swimming and tennis particularly. A1- though this is only her second year in VValnut Hills, Miss Ruscher has proved an able and impor- tant part of the office force. MISS MEER MISS MEER HE CHARMING and attractive young lady that is found in Dr. Sengeris office is none other than Miss Leonore Meer. Her hobby is at the moment the Navv, but we don't know whether she means this in a general or specific sense although we have our ideas. She also likes amusements of all kinds, swimming, and dancing. Miss Meer, the Doctor's 'LGirl Friday, attended VVithrow. NVhile performing her duties, be they stenographic or disciplinary, she is capable, interesting, and friendly.

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FACULTY and CLASS He Clzhzhs Hzghest Who Helps Another Up. -George Matthew Adams URPRISINGLY enough, teachers are people-flesh- and-blood folks like those you have always known. Our teachers here at XValnut Hills are more than just people. They are friends, advisers, beacons on the dark road that leads to the future. Every graduate of our school can be sure when he leaves that there is some teacher who will have had a part in guiding him. Nor does the teacher forget the pupil. For all through the years his progress in the world will be observed with interest by some one whom he has not even seen in many years. The standards at VValnut Hills are remarkably high. This is mainly because of our outstanding faculty, whose interests lie HCI only in academic work, but also in extra- curricular activity. Many pupils have found their future occupation because of the varied opportunities offered here after the day is officially over. Others have learned things that have been of eternal value, while still others have discovered things they ujust liked to do. The edu- cators at school have taught students not particular courses alone, but have also taught them how to organize their studying, something that is invaluable to the col- lege student. Then, too, their courses are so interestingly taught that they stick after the credit is finally won. For all these things enumerated above we may thank our teachers. VVhen We have blindly groped for support in our days of adolescence, innumerable times have the next rungs on the ladder to adulthood been placed in our path by a teacher. A teacherls helping hand has brought all of us a little nearer to our goal in life. Some teachers wield tremendous influence over their The edelweiss flower is a small, furry, white shrub, whose native habitat is the Swiss Alps. The most abundant growth of this flower is found on rocky slopes, secluded crevices, and barren crags, where most flowers could not survive because of the adverse growing condi- tions. VVe have chosen the edelweiss as our theme flower because it has a special meaning for us as a symbol of encourage- ment and the embodiment of our high students, even over those who don7t care greatly about the subject. There are things that may help to ex- plain this. Qne is their enormous respect, not merely a liking, for their subject matter. john Erskine, a great teacher and author of the early zo's reverenced and respected himself for being a teacher. The result of this all-important quality was a good moral relationship between himself and his work. lt is not high-flown to say that this moral relationship is a vital aid in the production of good teaching. Erskine could teach his students to read because he had a large and lofty attitude toward what they were reading. But if, at the same time, Erskine had only been able to inculcate this attitude, he would not have been the great teacher he was. He went farther: he challenged the students to understand what they were reading. He called upon them for a kind of mental exercise. Erskine made them work, and the more they understood, the more they liked the particular work they were reading. At Walnut Hills we are indeed fortunate in having on our faculty the type of teachers who endeavor to follow the pattern of john Erskine. Goethe, the great German writer and thinker, said, A teacher who can rouse a feeling for a single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memories with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and formf' And so we can rejoice that our teachers, taking pride in their subjects bestow upon us a deep understanding and love for the work to which they have devoted their lives. purposes. The name, L'edelweiss,', sug- gests noble purity. Because the flower is star-shaped, we can see in it a symbol of the heavenliness or loftiness of our life V purpose. This is particularly analogous to our lives, for just as the edelweiss produces a fine, noble flower under ad- verse conditions, so we shall strive to attain the highest goals despite the many difficulties we face. Thus the edelweiss is an appropriate symbol of the goals and purposes to which we aspire.