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

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Do you remember the faculty crowding into the teachers' work- room in the morning to punch the clock and to stand around for at least two or three minutes talking to their friends? 15

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acult D O YCDU remember our TaculTy, who, alThough good sporTs when They pass us and cruel despoTs when They don'T, are a group oT Tine and sympaTheTic individuals? They crowd inTo The Teachers' workroom in The morn- ing To punch The clock and To sTand around Tor aT leasT Two or Three minuTes Talking To Their Triends and caTch- ing up on The gossip oT The preceding day. On arriving in class They become The TuTor of all subiecTs. NOT only do They have To help wiTh moTh and LaTin problems, buT They become salesman Tor whaTever TickeT musT be sold and Tor every projecT ThaT musT be puT over. They counT money Tor sTamp sales, induce everyone To buy Shakepearean TickeTs, and assure you of The magnifi- cenT show ThaT you'll miss iT you don'T send in your subscripTions soon Tor The WalnuTs. They busTle up and down The lunch-line, keeping you in order, Thus forcing Themselves To hurry Through Their meal so ThaT They can arrive in class on Time. They siT all day pumping knowledge inTo your heads and aT Three o'clock remain To help sponsor This club and ThaT, plan a program here, and wriTe a consTiTuTion There. Going home To The pleasure of reading sevenTy composiTions on WhaT I did This Summer and grading a hundred moTh papers, They have The privilege of re- Turning To school ThaT evening To Take TickeTs Tor The Spring ConcerT or Junior Play. SomeTimes during The middle of Their hecTic day They are given whaT is commonly called a Tree period, which consisTs oT reassuring agiTaTed parenTs, giving TesTs To Those who were absenT, and being general Jack-oT- All-Trades as They help diTTerenT pupils wiTh Their l-lisTory and Science. They are your general morale boosTers when VValnuT Hills is Terrifying in iTs size and sTrangeness, when you don'T gain admiTTance To ThaT TavoriTe college. They never hesiTaTe To give good, sound advice, To offer soluTions To your problems-soluTions based on years oT Teaching experience and conTacTs wiTh every Type of boy and girl. They siT in The audiTorium on Class Day and lisTen To Themselves mimicked by Their pupils, knowing if They would ever have a chance To reverse The siTuaTion The show would be much Tunnier. SupporTing every performance and every show, oTTer- ing much more Than a liTTle help To The ediTors anal sTaTT of our school papers and annual, They are indispensable. They sTand behind you, giving everyone Their much needed Tree Time, knowing ThaT everyone would be losT wiThouT Them. They also Tind Themselves receiving children in The privacy of Their homes. Always willing To do anyThing To help a sTudenT who is Truly inTeresTed in learning, Their reward is ThaT The boys and girls will grow up To be beTTer and Tiner individuals, TorTiTied by knowledge and undersTanding. Teachers have more To do Than iusT To pound book learning inTo our heads. They have To Teach us abouT liTe, how To make adiusTmenTs To diTTiculTies, how To live wiTh one anoTher. They have To Teach us discipline and selT-conTrol as well as many oTher Things which are unTorTunaTely noT in books. The VValnuT Hills Teachers have as high a sTandard To live up To as we do. Years oT excellenT Teaching are behind Them, and They inTend To uphold This high sTan- dard inTo The TuTure. Do you remember ThaT Triendly Tace, Those helping hands ThaT led you Through Those diTTiculT years of high school? Can you recall Them smiling encouragingly up aT you as you saT wiTh your classmaTes on gradua- Tion? Do you remember Their years of service and experT guidance? Can you ever TorgeT your Teachers? We don'T Think so.

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Miss Anne Sutherland nghsh . . . . Western College Miss Esther Marie Cahill Columbia University Mrs. Katherine Lappa Colorado' Teachers' College Miss Vivian Ross University of Cincinnati 16 Miss Beulah Purington Colby College WHO could forget the first years of English at Walnut Hills High School? The aching void of grammar unlearned in grade school, the new ideas offered in more advanced literature, the new words never to be spelled correctly, these were only a few of the things hurled at an effie's head during his first year, E-flat English seemed much easier or even just a continuation of the previous year's work. More books were added to our re- quired reading list. Poetry became a definite, clearly-cut pattern, not just a jumble of words with the final syllables rhyming. The terms: meter, foot, dactyl, spondee, and others were added to our vocabulary. Poets such as Whittier, Longfellow, and Riley became known to us through their works. Then we entered high school English and had our first introduction to Shakespeare. To some people, A Midsummer Night's Dream was a nightmare, but to others it was a revelation of the power to be found in reading. Through Ivanhoe we met Sir Walter Scott. For weeks nightly jousts were held-pupils battling with the language forms of a master writer unknown to them before. Then for a change in climate the class work swung down from the dour land of England to the sunny swamp land of southern Florida. Here the imagination