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

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LANGUAGE sees the word Math written all over the being of a Math teacher. He pictures a History teacher's entertainment as drinking Coke while smug-Iy reciting to himself the causes of the War of 1812. He pictures an English teacher spending a wild evening brewing tea and trying to recite as many poems as he can remember. Too often the student forgets that teachers are people, are human beings who have chosen to teach, iust as others have chosen to make spaghetti gand the student doesn't picture a spaghetti maker as making spaghetti all day long! The faculty at Country Day do many things unrelated to their field of study. Some of our teachers are excellent craftsmen. The assembly rostrum was built and piay tickets printed by one Country Day teacher. One teacher has built the whole floor to his attic. Some play musical instrumenTSethe piano, the clarinet, the trumpet. Many of our teachers enioy singing, some in church choirs. One faculty member is an expert pilot --- another is a skydiver iprobabiy the most daring of faculty featsi. Photography is great interest to some of our teachers. Some of the LATIN MR. THOMAS McEVvl-L'LEY University of Cincinnati, A.B. HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT MR. LESLIE G. IRWIN University of Cincinnati A.B., M.A. FRENCH MR. PETER MAOH'EN University of Durham, B.A,

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HISTORY With the freedom afforded by a private school, class-room work, discussion, and testing is out- standing. The faculty is weltl educated and re- lates its subject well to the students Each teacher makes his subiect reEevant to modern times, makes his subiect a part of the world, rather than apart from the world. But sometimes this excelilence seems to erase the fact that the faculty is simply a group of vigorous, well rounded individuals. Sometimes when a student thinks of a faculty, he pictures same strange group of people huddled together, eagerly and fiendishly waiting to prey upon the student body. The student sees the faculty as representing 500-page books, MR. CARL A. STRAUSS hours of torment, and endless red pencils which Wil'l-iams A.B., Harvard MA. in Ed. rarely leave the Virgina! 100 mark in tact. He ' MR. GEORGE REID, JR. Oberlin A.B, HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT MR. LEE 8. PATFISON Amherst A. 3., Harvard M. A. University of Cincinnati M. Ed. 2.1

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MATHEMATICS photographs in the SCROLL are their accomplish- ments. There are teachers who manage a sum- mer camp every year, and teachers who take students on skiing expeditions. Country Day has faculty members who are regularly symphony goers, and baseBall game at- tenders. There are those who like to play bridge, and those who enjoy tennis and sailing. Some teachers are involved in church work. One faculty member belongs to the Opera Association. An- other is an avid hunter. Some of the faculty are involved with counselingeotc teeneage-rs, of young married couples. Oftentimes it becomes obvious, even to the dullest student, that the faculty is really iust a group ot human beings. For instance, one day a teacher twho will remain eternally anonymousl Jammed his hand through a classroom window. Then there were the many heated political dis- cussions at the faculty lunch table tend in the classroom on occasionl. HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT MR. WILLIAM R. DEANE University of Indiana A.Bl, Columlbia MtA. MR1 MARK A. SPIKELL Miami University A.B, MR, ZEID C, LAYSON, JR. Duke B.S., Washington M.A.