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

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DEPARTMENT HEAD MR. LEE PATT!SON Amherst A.B., Harvard M.A., University of Cincinnati M.Ed. HISTORY History at Country Day, headed by Mr. Lee S. Pattison, offers -a wide selection of fields from which students may choose. The main purpose of such courses is to try to get the individual thinking on his own and to give him the tools to work with. Knowing and thinking about man's experiences in the past may guide him in the present and give him a sense of direction that would point out the future. Through the motives and emotions of individuals in the past, the student can guide his individual actions. As we see man struggling for self impmvement in the past, we can have some compassion for those who are struggling today and possibly adopt some incentive for struggling ourselves. The various courses offered ranging from study in the Far East to our own country are taught by the competent three man depart- ment consisting of Mr. Pattison, Mr. Strauss, and Mr. Reid. The goal of this department as stated by Mr. Pattison is not to form the opin- ions of people but to let them form their own. MR. GEORGE REID, JR. Oberlin A.B. MR. CARL A. STRAUSS Williams A.B., Harvard MA. in Ed.

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ENGLISH It is hoped that English students have been doing the nine basic actions of schooling for years in the past and will for years to come. These actions include such processes as read- ing, writing, talking, spelling, thinking, and correcting. Students must also analyze, synthe- size, and take tests. We want to be able to understand great writing as well as to communicate our feel- ings to others through speech and writing. To make students desirous and capable of communicating, reading, and thinking in a ma- ture and effective manner is the obiective of MR. CHARLES F. YEISER Williams A.B., Xavier M.A. MR. THOMAS G. EBERHARD Maryville A.B, DEPARTMENT HEAD MR. HAMILTON M. BRUSH Yale A.B., Yale M.A., University of Cincinnati M.Ed. English teachers. These teachers divide The large topic of English down into the many individual parts and use these smaller pieces as aids to analysis of a subiect. Literature, grammer, vo- cabulary, composition, and their alm05t innum- erable subdivisions must be practical so that all work together freely and effectively in their continual use. All parts must be interconnected and useful in the study of another. Throughout the upper school years, some- times an individual topic is studied-asuch as poems or essays while other years a mixture of all the parts is studied-as in the study of Amer- ican literature. All however, are essential in the growth of knowledge through the study of English. MR. GEORGE M. McCLAREY Hobart A.B.

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LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT HEAD MR. LESLIE G. IRWIN University of Cincinnati A.B., M.A. MR. PETER MACHEN University of Durham BA, MR. JOSEPH P. THESING Ohio State A.B, Throughout the years the objectives of the language department have remained the same but the methods have been changing. In order to further the ends of being able to read, write, comprehend, and speak the language, the prac- tice has been to use increasingly the spoken language even in explaining grammar. The same basic things are, therefore, taught in each successive year a student takes a language course but with a continual broadening and ex- panding of the scope of these methods. Reading, for example, goes from short stories on up to Fong novels. With the emphasis towards spoken languages, the language tab, records, and lec- tures are becoming increasingly useful in the attempt to get the student to write and speak extemporaneously while thinking directly in terms of the lauguage. In order to improve the department this year two new teachers were added to the faculty. Mr. Joseph Theusing teaches the Latin courses, and Mr. Thomas Coates has been added to help in the instruction of the French language. Mr. Leslie Irwin, head of the department, and Mr. Peter Wachen, both French teachers, and Mr..McClarey, who instructs an interested few in German, round out the rest of the department. MR. THOMAS R. COATES Princeton A.B.