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

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THE STORY OF THE YEAR

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The Archive would also like to rec- ognize two other members of Country Day who have retired this year after many years of faithful service. Mr. Leslie G. lrwin is retiring after having taught French at Country Day for twenty years. He also used to coach Middle School baseball and Fifth and Sixth grade basketball, as well as help with Middle School football. In re membrance of his baseball days at Country Day the Middle School dia- mond was dedicated Irwin Field. Perhaps Mr. lrwin will best be re membered by Country Day for his great love of boys and the way he takes so much ribbing and kidding from ev- eryone. One of the friendliest mem- bers of the faculty, he will be greatly missed by the school. Mr. lrwin formerly taught both French and Spanish at the University of Alabama, the University of Cincinnati, and Our Lady of Cincinnati before coming to Country Day. Having lived in Madisonville until 1952 and then in Kenwood, Mr. lrwin plans to move in a few years to Deming, New Mexico. Mr. Orian E. Gillespie, commonly known around Country Day as Slim , has retired this June after twenty-three years of service as maintenance man at the school. Slim intends to retire to a small town in the vicinity of Tampa, Florida, where he plans to take it easy and do what he wants - mainly hunt- ing and fishing and following sports.

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Summer ended te'o early, as usual, for Country my boys; and the: mefry bandI dragged itself back to the haIIOWed halls for ahpther f year. The wine,- women, and song cf the summer months IquickIy dis-: appeared and were replaced by? the 'fWork, onrry, IancII sweati'I pf education. The campus was much the same, aIthough there was now an urifi . ished and unfurnIshed science wihg to pIay. m, and. the 'aLIdIforium, had. begun to appear inadequate for the growing student body In - add, oh, aI new face was; seen -- Mr. Patrick Beardman; Sent by thk I ImeSSIbIe Missions Force, disguised as an rdinary 'teach'er, Ihetwa'ys I in i-eality spending one year as a headmastei sIvaIpprenticIe; nexIt-yeaIr I- heWiIItake the helm at Goun'try Day. II I II I Athletic? were soon underwayx CrOSEI Cohntr'y .was Introduced a5 a varsity sport, as we as an inframUI'IalI aetfvity, eplaeihg .toLIch. fdbta ' -ball The hackers spent their: a'fierhoph's seeing who- was the slow est on the obIsta'cIe ceuII-se, thIe the varaity ran up hi and down .I . IcIaIe, losing meets wIIIthI ISeIIveraI'I schools Im the raciass. The Iteam' did I, wished izo attend although Unfortunately many df the institutions of-- I higher Iearnmg hadI othIeIr- Ideas The Iannual struggle for seifqdentlty : - to make. a senior. lounge 'and a I ro'ohi-II, andI bubllcatIons room The . I d pla ef The s nio'rs, I'o'ce'ecIe play more cards, dII-InIk more coffee,I