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

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C who could do anything from rowing boats To racing The New York CenTra,l'? and can you recall whaT makes a Triangle similar To another one? WiTh all our complaining we did realize that we were being TaughT well The various laws and Tor- mulae so essenTial To TuTure collegiaTe years. NOT only did we learn To use our minds, buT we learned practical problems adaptable To our experience and Tuture needs. AT Walnut Hills we sTick To The idea ThaT maThemaTics should not be overempha- sized. IT is TaughT Trom The sTandpoinT of The acTual benefit which iT may bring To The laTer life of The pupils raTher Than as an end in itself, Thus occupying a sane proportion of The curriculum. We are Truly TorTunaTe To have such a splendid maTh deparTmenT in These days when maThemaTics and science, which go hand in hand down The road oT progress, are so imporTanT To The well- being oT our counTry and our world. Mr. Harry W. Gassman Washington and Lee University Mr. D. B. Carpenter Georgetown University, University of Kentucky, University of Cincinnati Mr. Howard Luedeke Miami University, University of Cincinnati 25

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atlmematics .... HE MaThemaTics DeparTmenT, remembering The sTress on maTh and science during war Time, has noT leT up in iTs iob of efficienTly Teaching WalnuT Hills pupils The arT of finding x and his friends. Under The excellenT direcTion of Miss KersTing, This division Teaches effies The funda- rnenfals of ariThmeTic and, in ensuing years, Teaches our advancing sTudenTs The ways of plane and sol- id geomefry, algebra, and TrigonomeTry. Alfhough some of our sevenTh graders begin Their Trip Through The pages of maThemaTics counfing on Their fingers, many of our seniors graduafe wifh more Than compeTenT knowledge of The use of logs. How could anyone who has been in a senior Trig class forgeT WhaT The raTher elaTed air of having com- pleTed one of Miss Becl4er's shorTer nighTly as- signmenTs'? or The delighTful Three demensional figures ThaT haunTed us even in our dreams. Do you remember Those iack-of-all-Trades A, B, and WFT 1? V x W Miss Emma Kersfing UniversiTy of Cincinnafi, Columbia University, UniversiTy of Chicago

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Miss Elda M. Baechle Universify of Cincinnati Miss Margaret Schwenker University of Wisconsin Miss DoroThy Levensohn UniversiTy of CincinaTi, Yale University 26 istor Miss Helen Sanford Miami University Say, do you remember how you changed your mind abouT hisTory? You used To Think iT was some- Thing old, dead, and useless, buT you Tound, aTTer being careiully guided by WalnuT I-lill's eTTicienT social sTudies Teachers, ThaT hisTory is someThing alive and viTal To our everyday living. You learned ThaT some oi The rivalries exisTing beTWeen naTions Today began years ago as counTries grew in size, power, and ambiTion. Many of you were sur- prised To learn ThaT people faced The some fun- damenTal problems in ancienT days as we face Today.