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

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them. The most prominent of these changes was the decline of interest in fraternities. These organizau'ons, long the staff of brotherhood at Country Day, did little this yeeu'once the half-hearted pledgeseason was over, for there were few parties and only spurious attempts at charity work. As MI. Yeiser would have it, the duration of fraternities at Country Day is now uncer- tain at best. But if fraternities were on their way out,

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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

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Study hall in the auditorium there were other things to take their place. The newly formedService Club,1;he school'sPeace Corps, aroused student interest in community work projects, and Saturday mornings found many boys off to an old people's home or Allen House for children. As with anything new anduntried, there is question whether the Service Club always accomplished what it set out to do. However, it is certain that the time spent at the Mrs. Schmidt borrows the gym for her art show. Indian Hill artists' show