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

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Athletically, 1965 was an outstanding year with an undefeated football season. The only disappointment of the season was the scratching of rival Indian Hill from the schedule. With such a promising team, attendance was greatly in- creased but still lacked the maiority of the student body. The victorious season culminated with the. football dinner on November 19 when a record number of letters and numerals were awarded. The obscure Cross Country team was hidden behind the veils of football but emerged with an undefeated season. Coach Bud Weiser attri- buted the success to hard training and dedication. Under the leadership of Mr. Brush and his call of the wiid, O.K. group, X-squad stumbled through another year with the questionable aid of the Royal Canadian exercises. Although planning to divide soccer into two sections of the different caliber players. soccer had to continue to play in one league because of too few boys to form the needed eight teams. The play of the six teams was aggressive but sometimes hampered by the lack of seniors who were tutoring at Lyons, SinCe all other Cincinnati schools had dropped their soccer program, hopes for a varsity team were dim. Varsity basketball got under way lacking experience and victory was hard to come by. Hopes for a spectacular finale before adiourn- men-t for Christmas were advanced by the genius of Phil Lucht and Dave Rice as they presented Mr. Brush 5 time bomb which exploded on scheduie. As the Dayites exited for Christmas vacation and the halls became empty, the only sound was a celestiai voice vaguely resembling Jack Miliel singing Na, Na Na Na ... Mrs. Pierce enlightens parents on the art

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This Open House drew more than 500 X-squad Though rather skeptical of their newly ac- quired privileges, the seniors proved more re- ceptive to their added responsibiiities. The seniors decided on originating a big brother program whereby Middle Schoolers and new students were assigned to seniors who advised them in their problems and helped them improve their studies. Another important step was the tutoring program, organized to aid seventh graders at Lyons Junior High School in their studies. All these Lyons boys were students at the special camp last summer at the Day School and had shown an interest to continue their sessions. Most seniors volunteered to tutor in either the morning or afternoon during the week or on Saturdays. Another shift in the changing responsibilities of the senior class was the DAM program, Daily Aid in Mathematics. in this, certain seniors with above average aptitude in math gave their time to aid younger students in their math difficulties. The annual candy monopoly was once again operated by the senior class with 15m profits often eaten up by non-paying seniors, The class stiil managed to fill the treasury with a tidy profit. The only nest the seniors could find!

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Mr. Laird conducts over 100 students in a sound wave demonstration