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

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Teach logical approach To problems The Technical developmenfs of The world of Today hove broughT wonder- Tul beneTiTs To all of us. Science, The heorT of This ATomic Age in which we live, Therefore forms cm imporTonT port of our curriculum GT WalnuT Hills. The ouTsTonding guidance of our insTrucTors plus excellenT equipe I menT offers us The opporTuniTy for a broad development of our sciene g Tific InTeresTs. For more imporTcmT Then The mere acquisiTion of knowl- edge is on undersTending 0nd epprecieTion of The scienTiTic meThod of I observing, comparing, and drawing conclusions. Science has made greoT progress in 1T5 knowledge of diseases by sTudying The microscopic creoTures ThoT we can observe in our zoology classes. From The basic Jews and principles ThoT ore sTudied in physics men has creeTed The machines and insTrumenTs TheT seT The poTTern of our lives. The sTUdenT who Turns up his nose 0T The H28 odors drifTing from The chemisfry lob should remember ThoT from such vile smelling concocTions scienTisTs often discover wonderful new medical aids. In The science leboreTories lies The key To The world of Tomorrow. LEFT: Mr. Kenneth Scheurer, MaThe- medics; Miss ETTa Elberg, Science; Mr. Howard Fletcher, Biology. BELOW, ROW 1: Miss ChrisTine Heis, Science; Dr. Raymond Lambert, Physics. ROW 2: Mr. Jacob Skilken, Chemistry, Math- ematics; Mr. Thomas E. Welsh, Chem- isTry. BELOW, LEFT: Botany students learn by observing an experiment. 19

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MaThemaTics and science courses The moThemoTics course 0T WolnuT Hills rewards hard work and sincere inTeresT wiTh powers of obiecTive reasoning, onolyTic Thinking, and a disciplined mind. The extensive program, beginning wiTh The mastering 0T TundomenTcls in The sevenTh 0nd eighTh grades, goes on To include The beginnings of The COmprehensive courses OT oigebro 0nd plane geo- meTry offered in The freshmen and sophomore years respecTiveiy. Following These basic: courses, sTudenTs may conTinue wiTh one year of oigebro 0nd 0 year of TrigonomeTry, advanced algebra, and solid geo- meTry, which Teach The advanced skills as well 05 precise colcuioTEOn 0nd accuraTe organionion applicable To every phase lof IiTe. HobiTs cmd knowiedge gained frorn The moThemoTics curricula as a resulT of conscienTious sTudy 0nd epplicoTion comprise only 0 perT of The impor- Tonce of This subiecf. MGThemCiTics makes possible brillicmT discoveries in such Tields OS medicine, chemisTry, physics! and osTronomy. The Trained mind, which Ci sTudy of such exocTness produces, aids any en- deavor we may underTer. .aoclcttli' BELOW, ROW '1: Mrs. Fannie BarneTT, MaThemaTics; Miss Marie Becker, Mathematics. ROW 2: Mr. Howard Black, Muihemafics; Mr. Richard Bourn, Mathematics. RIGHT: Mr. Den- zil Carpenter, Mathematics; Miss Janet Kemme, Moihematics, Spanish; Mr. Stanley Leeds, Mathematics. BELOW, RIGHT: A proposition of solid geom- etry is discussed by Math IV sTudenTs. 18

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History broadens undersTanding In The sTudy of hisTory our undersTending of people, places, and evenTs is broadened To 0 wide scale. From Egypt The cradle of civilizeTion, Through The UniTed STeTes, wiTh The highesT living sTcmdord ever known, we Trace The rise and fall of noTTons and The developmenT of poliTicczl beliefs, soc'rel sTonderds, economic Theories, and philosophies. As a background for high school courses in hisTory, The sevenTh end eighTh grades sTUdy worfd geography and American hisTory. The mysTeries of Greek, Roman, and EgypTien civilionions are revealed To older sTudenTs in cmcienT and medieval hisTory. This, followed by modern hisTory and American hisTory, Terms The foundeTion for The sTudy of Today's world- wide problems. In economics and sociology Through The sTUdy of The causes of infloTion, depressions, labor difficulties, we gain boTh cm insighT end an awareness of TodoyTs corTTroversiol issues. The ToTol of all These values is 0 penetreTIng, InTregreTed undersTanding of human evenTs, which can be The key To free ourselves from misTekes of The posT and advance individually and collecTively in solving problems. BELOW, ROW 1: Mr. Dean GiacomeTTi, History; Miss Dorothy Levensohn, Economics and Sociology; Miss Helen Sanford, HisTory; Miss Margaret Schwenker, HisTory. ROW 2: Miss Elda Boechle, History,- Mr. Horo!d BuxTon, Hisfory. ROW 3: Miss MorgareT Dunphy, History; Mr. Raymond Furnhom, History. BELOW, RIGHT: Mop work provides opportuniTy To history studenTs for greater understanding of world affairs. 20