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

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atin.... Hic, haec, hoc-how well I remember Those di- verse declensions, Those voluminous vocobularies and Teeling oT reol occomplishmenT or deep relief when o possoge was well done. I remember The many doubTsI had os on I eTTie and an E-TloT wondering wheTher I would ever mosTer This longuoge, or why The Board of Educa- Tion mode me sTudy o TorgoTTen Tongue which nobody used in The modern world. AT IosT I wos o freshman, ond very impressive indeed was The TiTle LoTin III. IvIighTy Caesar, on- cienT Gaul, all very romanTic To heor and reod abouT in English, succumbed To drudgery of look- ing up vocobulories which seemed To Take oiwoy much of The pleosureiin reading LoTin. TenTh grade LaTin seemed To be The downing ol o new IighT of undersTonding Tor me. The wide vocabulary of Nepos ond Cicero helped To enrich my own use of words in English ond also To make Tor a clearer comprehension of mony of The words olreody in use. As I read Cicero oind,Ovid, TronsIoTions were no longer o Tedious Task, buT an oppreciaTion of Tine wriTi.ng, coherenT Thinking, ond good'sTories. C BuT noT unTiI reading Virgil did I begin To see The True rewards ond value of moking I.oTin on inTegral porT oT my high school course. Through TomiIi riTy wiTh The greoT civilizoTions remoTe from The presenT I received oi wider view of life, a reol- izoTion of The Tremendous conTribuTion The oncienT civilizoTions modeTowo1rd modern cuITure, andfrhe resemblance beTween Tendencies of human naTure Then and now. A . Indeed, I remember my LoTin sTudies wiTh Tond opprecioTion Tor The new beauTy They broughT. inTo my life. V Miss Alice E. Wilson UniversiTy of CincinnaTi I Mrs. Madge W. GaIbreaTh Miami UniversiTy Mrs. Laura Renfrow Hendrix College, UniversiTy of CincinnaTi Mr. ArThur CondiT . Wabash College, UniversiTy of CincinnaTi 512. Miss Minnie Wilson UniversiTy of CincinnaTi I9

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Mrs. Henriette Ashbrook University of Cincinnati Miss Irene A. Steinau University of Cincinnati Mrs. Marie-Louise Creelman Ohio State University, University of Chicago Miss Norma Stratemeyer University of Cincinnati 20 EIIISUEISCS French l The French course offered at Walnut Hills is nationally known to be outstanding and thorough. But the best part of our French class was the good times we had. Greeting our teacher with a daily Bon jour, Madame Ashbrook , we received a hearty Asseyez-vous, mes enfants, -and the period had begun. After two hard years of clam- bering over grammar, we reached French Ill only to be informed at unbelievably frequent intervals that, You learned that in French ll Of course, the members of French Il were subjugated by, Oh, ye gods, won't you ever learn! and the novices were terrified by an icy stare. But 'never will anyone forget those wondrous days when Ivlrs. Ashbrook reigned supreme in 217. Spazmsb Some of our students will be able to look back at their thorough study of Spanish as an important bit of their education, especially if their future businesses demand letters and transactions with Spanish-speaking customers. Because of the swift advancement of the airplane, countries heretofore thought of as being remote and unimportant have suddenly become valuable locations for trade and travel. lvlany of us are interested in our South American neighbors, our curiosity in them has led us to study and to visit them, that explains the tremendous undertaking of our Spanish Depart- ment in cultivating this interest. Most of us, however, will iust want to know why we didn't take more of it since its study promotes a more cosmopolitan and cultured background. After a year of this course one can tune in on short-wave broadcasts and grasp complete ideas from fast conversational Spanish. He also gets a thrill from this modern language by actually using what he has learned, for example, they talk in el espagnol to their friends in order to keep certain matters strictly confidential. German ' The cheerful Guten Morgen of the Frau , the daily answering of the Fragen, the teacher's theme song- So dumm, so dumm , the fluent speaking of German by the teacher while you stared at her with a bewildered look-do you remember? Remember all the long hours spent trying to master all the irregular verb forms, at least until you came to the conclusion that you might as well make up your own irregularities. Will you ever forget all the fables that iust had to be read and their contents remembered? Perhaps you can even recall the meanings of a few German words. 9 O l I