Hillsdale School - Telescope Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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Mrs. Erickson and a mamber of her sevenih grade English c1555. Knowledge of our language MLILoveM explains composition errcrs In a member of his senior English dose. Literacy and polished English have become The symbols of an educated and amibiTious person. IT is These educaTed people who are in such demand for The imporTanT iobs in our counTry and in the world Through Hillsdale's sTandard T English course, The school hopes To engender an inTeresT and Tiuency in our language. The younger classes compIeTe Their knowledge of grammar by The ninTh grade. As is required of every class in The schooi, The lower grades wriTe composiTions aT IeasT once a week. WriT- ing is an expression of inTenT or belief. By ex- pressing one's ThoughTs on paper, he can read- ily organize and clearly reITaTe his ideas. Eighth graders read Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and memorized a few of The famous passages. The Treshmen have finished A Midsummer N-ighT's Dream and MacbeTh. T-he nines have also sTudied poeTry, a varieTy 0T Tamed poems of oThe'r naTionaIiTies as well as American, The sophomores have spent a greaT pan of The year in creative wriTing. Vocabulary lisTs have grown for many sTUdenTs Thanks To an ex- Tensive sTudy of words. Juniors TranTically sTUdied paragraph mech- anics, dicTion, and vocabulary for The College Boards which They rook in May. The elevens also made an inTeresTing comparative sTudy of The CaTcher in The Rye and Huckleberry Finn, The Seniors have been deepiy involved in Greek Trilogies, The Iliad, and The Odessey. WiTh The fundamentals of English in The eari- ier years, older girls have Tackiled creaTive writ- ing and analogy, and shall move on Te greater heighTs 0T underS'Tanding and appreciaTion of This language which is ours T WED 81' rizum'I-mu K . :unwmh i .

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Miss Lucy Brokaw assistant head. The Board Of Trustees Members of 1M beard includetMr. Robert Hilton Jr., Mr. Guido Gores, Mrs. Morse Johnson, Mr, William T. Bahlman Jr., Mrs. Stanley Garber, Mr. Willis Gradison JrV, Mrs. Wickliffe Jones, Mrs. Robexf T. Keeler; Mr. RoberT F. Romell, Mr. Henry W. Sherm, Mrs. Hugo D. Smith, Mrs. Richard Robinson, Mrs. Edward Watson and Dr. Sam Trufan'r.

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' I r v i . ' if, r : i i E ' I , T . I S : P y 7'. I : '- s 1 ' - I l 5 ' 1 I . , I I F I I , I I . . I I. r I I I I U I I t ' - I . I I 1 I I - : v i ' F - : I . ' , t I l , I ' I 1 I , I - ... ' i ' I' ' ' i If r ' r ' II ' : I ll l' ' I . : , I . r- r. . L . I ' F, . ' II 2 L ... i I 1 II. . . l Miss Koeniner exprcsses her upinian n! ShakeSpeum's The Merchanl 5? Venice in her iunior English class. Mrs, Richardson discusses history with 1h; eigh! grad; Mr, Stanton prepares for Ohe invasion.