Brownell Talbot School - Triangle Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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V- SPECIAL EVENTS

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Mr. Bruce takes notes on the Second- ary School Admittance Tests Testing Each year the students of Brownell-Talbot take tests to measure their educational ability and achievement. Even the Lower School students are given a variety of tests. During the Spring, kindergarten children take the Reading Readiness Test, and the first and second grade children take the Stanford Achievement Test. The third, fourth, and fifth grades are given the Lorge-Thorndike Intelligence Test during November and the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills in March. The seventh and eighth grades are given the Lorge- Thorndike Tests in November also, and the entire Middle School is tested twice each year -- once by means of the Secondary Schools Admissions Tests, and again in April by the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills. The entire Upper School is required to take the Iowa Tests of Educational Development during the first week of November. These tests are designed to measure information acquired by each student in general fields of knowledge. Several times during the school year Juniors and Seniors take the College Boards or Scholastic Aptit' de Tests which are re quired for entrance into most colleges and universities. The Achievement Tests and The Writing Samples are given throughout the year. The National Merit Qualifying Exams are given in March. The results of these tests determine National Merit Semi-Finalists and, subsequently National Merit Scholarship Winners. Iowa tests are given to the entire upper school Freshmen and Sophomores are given National Educational Development Tests in preparation for the National Merit Test.

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Mr. Johnson and freshman boys discuss plans for the coming year Orientation and Open House The 1963-1964 academic year at Brownell-Talbot commenced with a two and a half day orientation period, an innovation to the curriculum. Talbot freshmen camped at classmate Lee Seemann's lake at La Shera. While the boys bucked nature's elements sleeping under the stars, it is rumored that, Frontiersmen Smithson, Larsen, and Martin slept in the trailer. Meanwhile the entire Brownell Upper School moved into the dormitory where Miss Hansen and Miss Morgan were in charge. Mr. Bruce, our revered headmaster, led campus tours, shimmied up poles, and told 88 ghost stories. Bleary-eyed girls started each day with Father Borg's sure-cure calisthenics. Mr. Bruce and Student Council officers Kathy Green and Joan Bowie gavevorientation lec- tures which were the basis for a grueling exam which everyone except the seniors, who were exempted, flunked. The school year started with a bang, and the orientation generated school spirit. A hockey game climaxes the day of open house Mr. and Mrs. Bruce greet seniors at the annual welcom- ing tea !B On October 25, the Student Council spon- sored the annual Open House. Students brought friends from other schools that they might visit classes and, for a climax, witness a traditionally gory hockey game.