Cincinnati Country Day School - Archive Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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Watson cleans up in math class. son ended, as custom otdains, with the fall sports din- ner. This gathering of the clan was again maIked by the now oh-so-familiar thanks, and the renewed as- surance that the football field would be without lights for at least another year. Autumn, slowly and rather uneventfully,tumed into winter. The last days of October were distinguished by an effort on the part of the senior class to construct a retreat which could somehow take the place of the old senior Shack. The Stage in the gym sufficed for about six weeks-esix weeksof poker, guitars, and cigaIettes. But with the basketball season imminent, the shack was removed, and once more the senior class returned to the library study hall for thrills. Early November saw the Mothers' Association Christmas Sale, 2 scream- ing success again, the only minus side to the affair being the senior'ssandwich booth. Commonly regarded as a financially able group, the seniors slipped up this time, for when it was all over, they found they had spent as much for supplies as they had made on the sale. Another way to raise funds for the senior gift ob- viously had to be discovered. The result was the many Indian Hill game THE MALE ANIMAL sock hops which did so little to break up a monotonous basketball season. The Squad won only four games all year, and as a player remarked, One of those was against a team of eighth-graders. Soccer had a better year, although the weather tried its hardest to oblige us by killing the sport once and for all. Afternoon ale ternated between rain and Snow, and accordingly there were many days when only two or three reluctant die- haxds staggered outside for each team. If the winter athletics program was not everything Country Day would have it be, other events compene sated. During the Thanksgiving recess, a group of stue dents put on the first school play ever done without afficial initiative. THE MALE ANIMAL, by James Thurber, was a strictly student production with the aim of furthering dramatic interest at the school. Another innovation, or possibly reincarnation, was the forma- tion of a Double Quartet after a year's absence. Evi- dently MI. Brush felt he had a group capable of un- usual harmony, or perhaps he felt the Gamboliers weren't the same without a quartet. For whatever rea- son, he started it again. And so, with the year well Fall Sports Dinner

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class began, complying with the needs of a mathe- matical brain trust that had exhausted the courses that the school offered. Finally, a Chemistry-physics course was added for sophomores who want to get a science credit out of the way. Physically, the school had changed considerably. The library, which had long served as a study hall, at last was relieved. Replacing it was a new auditorium with a stage and a seating capacity large enough for the entire School. Of course, nothing ever runs like clockwork, and the new desk chairs did not arrive un- til some time in November, but the study halls oper- ated anyway. Once organized, however, they lacked the student council monitors of past years. Evidently Palmer greets a customer at the Senior booth. Mr. McClarey considers a pur- chase. Flag raising oveI CD. BEAT 1H! Makes one love coats and ties. GO C.D. the faculty felt that a little show of authority was to be golden, and they accordingly took over. Some of the changes brought ptoblems--the seventh graders couldn't find study hall--but in general the first weeks were routine. The Madeira game and C.C.D.S. lunches were depressing, but no more nor less than usual. September passed into October with nothing except a small outbreak of car hot-wiring to pass the time. More important than this intramural happenstance, however, is the fact that the football team picked up seven wins which culminated only in the first loss to Indian Hill in six seasons. The defeat itself was unfortunate, but it undoubtedly left a com- placent ice for the game next year. The football sea-

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. . . a few rules we didn't know we had to make. under way, Chxistmas vacation began at last, thank God, for ten days. Midyear exams were thrust upon the unsuspecting student body just two weeks after vacation was over. Of course no one had anyway of knowing that study time would be greatly increased when bad weather caused two free days. The snow came unexpectedly, in the middle of exams and upset the schedules com- pletely. But it has been said that if you don't like the weather, wait five minutes, and it will change. And so it did. To everyone's disappointment, there were no more free days because of snow. The winter dragged on. It was apparent, by this time, that certain aspects of school life were not as the older students remembered Senior sponsored sock hop Idle ead sles in studio art room. Student gallery