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

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0 Ancient on ue evere S l SEATED: Mrs. Madge Galbreath, Mrs. Laura Renfrow, and Miss Laura Riffe STANDING: Miss Rosemary Hope and Mr. Arthur T. Condit At Walnut Hills thorough familiarity with Latin ies are studied in the seventh and eighth grades. is as evident as the knowledge pupils have of In the freshman year students read about Cae- Shakespeare. Many students take advantage of sar's campaigns. Stories of the lives of famous the full six-year course. Syntax and short stor- men and the orations of Cicero for the Manilian Law are subjects of study in Latin 10-IV. In the eleventh grade the students with deep interest in class- ics read Cicero's orations against Cataline and selections from the works of Ovid. This year they learn to scan Latin poetry and become familiar with poetic terms. The climax of the study of high school Latin comes in the senior year when Virgil 7 s The Aeneid is studied. This year the faculty of the Latin department was changed by the ad- dition of Miss Bernice Bartlett, Mrs. Dixie Campbell, and Miss Rosemary Hope. As in the past, Mrs. Marie-Louise Creelman, Mrs. Madge Galbreath, Mrs. Laura Ren- frow, and Miss Laura Riffe guided pupils in their study of Latin. 12

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Mr. Harold Inskeep, Miss Mary Louise Schroth, Miss Mabel Schweikert, and Miss Anne Sutherland The English student's horizon widens in the junior year as Miss Wilma Hutchison introduces him to the haunting beauty of Green Mansions and the compelling tragedy of vaulting ambition, Macbeth , Also in this year, the pupils develop their narrative talents by writing their auto- biographies. The senior year is indeed a climax of the achievements in English, with, perchance, Miss Beulah Purington or Miss Vivian Ross guiding the study of the Forsythes in Man of Propertyj' and of the unending complexities of the greatest of great, Hamlet . The senior also learns to search out and organize reference ma- EIS Made til'1C terial as he compiles the traditional source theme. In addition to the formal English course, Miss Mary Louise Schroth's journalism classes learn techniques of journalistic writing and standards for judging newspapers. And through the speech courses offered by Miss Frieda Lotze and Mr. Wayne Gregory, the student develops ability to face an audience and present his views in a coherent and convincing manner. Also in this department Walnut Hills' famous Shakespear- ean players and debaters are trained. , , 99 IIISS OKC 1C Miss Frieda Lotze and Mr. Wayne Gregory 11

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east of anguages Mrs. Marie-Louise Creelman, Mrs. Henrietta Ashbrook, and Miss Irene Steinau Mrs. Henriette Ashbrook, who has been the French teacher at Walnut Hills for many years, also sponsors the French Club along with her teaching of French I, II, III, and IV. She ex- plains that her aim is to teach the students how to read, write, and speak the modern languages as the natives do. Students read about the coun- Spanish, one of the most popular of thc elective subjects at Walnut Hills, is taught by Miss Irene Steinau and Mrs. Marie-Louise Creelman. This year Miss Steinau, who is teaching Spanish I and II, is also the adviser of the Y-Teens. In the first few years of Spanish the students learn grammar and read about the country. Mrs. Creel- man teaches Spanish II, III, and IV. The last two years of Spanish in- clude many Spanish stories. Al- though many students of these modern languages may never use them in the countries in which they originated, they will find that their studies have enabled them to un- derstand the cultures of Spain, France, and Germany more fully. Many pupils become so interested in modern languages that they con- tinue to study them after they have left Walnut Hills. try, the artists, and the poets. Advanced stu- dents read a variety of French novels which give them a working mastery of the language. Both Mrs. Ashbrook and Miss Norma Strate- meyer teach German I-IV. Knowledge of this language is important for students who wish to enter the scientific fields. 13