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

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contents INTRODUCTION .................................................................................. PAGE 1 DEDICATION ...................................................................................... PAGE 6 THE CLASS OF 1971 .......................................................................... PAGE 9 THE UNDERCLASSMEN ...................................................................... PAGE 51 EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES ...................................................... PAGE 75 SPORTS .............................................................................................. PAGE 89 FACULTY AND STAFF ........................................................................ PAGE 109 PATRONS AND CONTRIBUTORS ........................................................ PAGE 125 ADVERTISERS .................................................................................... PAGE 126

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20M EXPLORATION AND lQXDLORINGr WILL BE TO . i ll; QTEDr AND KNOW THE T. S. Eliot: IT IS WlTl-l A GREAT SENSE OE RESPECT THAT WE DEDlCATE THE ARCHIVE: IQ7I TO DAVlD LAll-QD. There are two extraordinary qualities which all great teachers possess. One is an unending drive to explore for knowledge and the second-even more ,importanteis the ability to endow others with the same drive. Without a doubt the most dedicated explorer now at Country Day is David Ernest Laird. A brief glimpse at his life serves as the most convincing evidence of these qualities. Mr. Laird, a German major in college, found his interest in science sparked after two years in the military. He proceeded, with little formal training, to learn physics, chemistry and astronomy. As any of his students can attest, he now commands an intimate knowledge of these subjects, not only of their technical aspects but of their histories, philosophies, and interrelationships with man and the universe. Mr. Laird once remarked after having given a slide show lecture on Johannes Kepler, the early seventeenth century astronomer, that he felt an irresistible urge to get out his oil lamp, eye shade, and quill pen to hand calculate a planetary orbit. Perhaps unfortunately he was forced to yield his time to several other pressing projects. Taking a look around Country Day, one notices two conspicuous physical results of Mr. Lairdis desire to explore. First is Dickinson Observatory,built in 1967, which houses a twelve-inch reflecting telescope donated to the school by the father of one of Mr. Lairdis students to observe grazing occultations. The results of these observations are reported to the Government, and students are able to feel, maybe for the first time, that they have made a valid contribution to scientific exploration. Mr. Laird can often be seen on a bitterly cold winter night twith one or two hardy studentst, stopwatch in hand and eye glued to his telescope, observing an occultation. Once asked how he could stand the cold, he replied that at least there were no mosquitos. Mr. Laird's other significant contribution has been Country Dayis computer facility. in 1967, after Mr. Laird had taught himself computer programming, he