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

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Cheerers in the stands watch Country Day defeat New Richmond. Going to school for the first day of an academe ic year is like revisiting a museum. Some of the pictures have been moved or retriaimed. There are new pictures and missing ones. But basically it's still the same museum with the same pictures and- the same petrified fossils. Last September, as the new and old Country Dayites glirded themselves for the start of a new schooi year, they had quite an interesting mu- seum visit ahead, Although the outside of the school had not , undergone any major surgery, several changes were immediately noticeable. The venerable wooden athletic shack was now armored with concrete and the tennis courts had a new nan- SI-ip green coavtinge Because of the decrease in number of non-driving students and teachers, the parking iot was now much iarger. After a glance at the outside of the school, the record enrollment of 221 students entered the hallowed halls of glass and concrete blocks to see if the fates had breathed new life into the heart of academica. At first glance, the smiles of teachers were disarming. But Mr. Deane, now the Assistant Headmaster, proved to be as al- truistic as ever with pinkies and detentions, and, Mr. McClarey conducts the English Literature Class.

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Year In Review

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no, Mr. Pattison had not made The Term papers opTional. There were Three new Teachers in The facUETy roll back: Mr. SpieTkel TMaThL Mr. MdEviley TLaTinL and Mr. Laird Gciencel As The firsT few weeks of school progressed, Mr. Laird became one of The mosT popular Teachers. First of all, he was The firsT physics Teacher found by CounTry Day who was able To give consisTemly high grades. And secondly, he was responsible for The school's firsT grazing occulTaTion. One Oc- Tober nighT, he led 60 sTudenTs and Teachers To Brown CounTy Ohio, and seT up 25 observaTion posTs in order To waTch sTars. All They saw were cloudse Nevertheless, The ad-vemure received frontpage coverage ih The CincinnaTi Post and T-imes-Sfar, ArT at Country Day was finally made an ac- crediTed course. Mrs. Pierce proved a very de- manding insTrucTor, and as a result, many ex- cellenT creations oozed OUT of The basemenT sTudio, from pseudOdRodlin scui-pTures To ink sketches. The SCROLL reTurned To The Country Day scene alm-osT like a premaTurre baby with a firsT week issue. The SCROLL-aponsored phoTo conTeST was held, wiTh Bill Messer winning firsT prize for