Greenhill School - Cavalcade Yearbook (Addison, TX)

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Board Policies, 1976-77 The Board of Trustees at Greenhill has three important purposes. First, the Board establishes school policy. Second, the Board has the responsibility of finding a good headmaster for Greenhill, and of supporting the headmaster, the faculty, and the t .5 B it . . . . sg if ,saggy .. 5 administration. Third, the Board sets fs, .. 5 fsdaew . T financial policies and raises money towards the operating and other costs of Executive Committee of the Board Greenhill- ix, Qs. The trustees of Greenhill are busy men. Mr. Robert Rogers, the new chairman of the Board, takes the time to be a trustee because he finds the job enjoyable, because he believes that each person should contribute in some way to his or her society, and because he believes that the schools are a most important part of our society. He says that, in essence, the Board is dedicated to have Greenhill be the best primary and secondary school in the country. To this end, the Board chooses the headmaster of the school. The relationship between the Board and headmaster is, according to Mr. Rogers, analogous to that between the owners of a company and the captain of their ship: the owners of the ship make general, outlining rules for the conduct of ship and captain, but the captain is responsible for the everyday maintenance of the ship on voyage. As the leader, Mr. Foote is responsible for the running of the school, even to the hiring of all teachers and other personnel at Greenhill. This function of the headmaster is indeed important: it is a key concern of the Board to attract and retain outstanding faculty members, in order to create an open, warm family schoolv with an even higher academic reputation in the surrounding community, and in the colleges where Greenhill's graduates go, than it already has. The Board's main method for fostering this reputation is through word of mouth, by what is said about the school's graduates. As part of its responsibility in the area of school finance, the Board will launch Phase Two of the Capital campaign next fall. The object of the fund-raising drive will be to collect three million dollars, which will be used to enlarge the school's scholarship capacities, to complete facilities such as the new lower school building, and to establish a minimal maintenance endowment, which will be used to take care of the buildings. It is the responsibility of every person concerned with Greenhill to help it become the best institution it could possibly be, yet the Board of Trustees, and the headmaster, are perhaps the most important: the Board, because it introduces its ideals to the students through the faculty, the headmaster because he is the focal point of the area where the ideals are carried out. This year's Board feels that Greenhill, although it has come a long way toward realizing its goals, still has a distance to go. It is confident that Greenhill will soon realize its dreams as practical reality.

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English Department Changes The basic purpose of language has always been communication, the exchange of ideas among various persons, One of the purposes of the English department has been to give students the chance to enjoy written communications, or English literature. In order to do this, the English department, under the direction of Mrs. Christine Eastus, has modified its courses and added new teachers. This last year, the emphasis in ninth grade English shifted to classical literature. Students in the course read AGAMEMNON, METAMORPHOSES, and the ODYSSEY, as well as modern literature. The drama course narrowed its scope, and became interested solely in tragedy. In 1977-78, Mrs. Eastus hopes to add a comedy course for the seniors. The poetry elective used a new text, concerned mainly with American poetry. This year, Warren Foxworth, teaching Enrichment Through Readingf' joined Mrs. Gonzales as an eighth grade English teacher. julian Smith began teaching in the seventh grade with Elaine Lambright, who is a Wilson scholar, Leah Waldorf and Peyton Davis, who is also a part-time reporter, taught courses in the Upper School. Peyton Davis Christine Eastus Barbara Erwin 'ttf Q- si Y as 4 ,