Holton Arms School - Scribe Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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The whole school is talking about amazing Ellen Tan, who has astounded all of us by her scholastic record and school spirit. Iowa sent us our lone boarder, Jackie Herring, and we say many thanks. Her room is a haven for Second Formers. Two newcomers are Rita Murray, the girl who's always smiling, and Mary Louise Snyder, who can hardly wait each week for the Tuesday and Thursday jaunts to the big gym. Mary Alice Stoddard takes apart insects and frogs in biology with a courage none of us can equal. Joan Briggs is our serious threat to Bette Davis. Remem- ber her as the terrified pickaninny in the Dra- matic Club plays? Jean Hudson, with her charming friendliness, is always pleasant to be around. She never utters a sentence which doesn't contain the beloved word Florida Everyone was envious of Cadzie Reed for the A she got in Latin the very first month. She combines efficient studying with active play. A bright red head flying upstairs in 1119 every morning about one minute to nine is attractive Cornelia Langer. She can settle any argument with a quiet but determined stamp of her foot. Better late than never is how we feel about the long-awaited Sarel Gillespie. Jean Allwine and Sally Patterson are our stalwart captains, and by means of those nasty little blue books and assorted Veni, vidi, vicif frowns they manage to keep us in line most of the time. You can readily see from this account that the Second Form room is just one big nineteen-ring circus. X Ca 1 lnomlnlnuw

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Second Form Peace AND QUIET are completely hanished at the lunch hour in Miss Ethel's room, for it is at this time that we, the Second Form, are turned loose to catch up on the latest events ofthe day. Over in a corner in the midst of all this turmoil you might iind somebody actually studying. Looking over the shoul- der of this phenomenon, you wonder how long screwy has been spelled with a Upon closer inspection you might tind the explanationffHelen Parker Willard writing a composition. In another corner you would find a group discussing the latest Bob Hope show. Barbara Heine is having laughing-Fits over a joke that Jerry Colonna put over last night, while Juan Williamson is calling Brenda with startling accuracy. One, two, three, kick! And we lind Anna-Marie Zoller leading a vigorous conga line to the terror of innocent hystanders who are in con- stant danger of being completely swept away in the shullle. Although we are a fun-loving group we can also see the serious side of school life. Among us are high scholastic leaders. We can always count on Betty King, our competent president and French expert, to make honor rank. Jeannette Palmer purrs contentedly over a good mark, and tres petite Marjorie Rhodes can show the older girls a thing or two in algebra class, Susie Greene is kept very busy taking care of and telling about her new halwy sister, but she always has time to be inter- ested in everyone else.

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Lower School MEET Miss FRANCES RONALDSON and her Lower School! We of the Upper School probably know the Lower School best in the role of those little whirlwinds who march through Holton's halls ringing bells and bearing signs which are to lure us to that famed rummage sale held annually for the benefit of the Community Chest. Once they get us inside the library, where literally everything from soup to nuts is arranged on the tables, they hold us en- tranced until they send us out with rings on our lingers and bells on our toes, but not one cent in our pockets. Even the ones of us with the strongest will power cannot resist the professional sales talk. We can easily foresee Miss Fran is going to turn out a class well qualihed to be Fuller brush women. The First Form's many new girls have helped to make the class one of the most en- thusiastic and enterprising Miss Fran has ever had. The girls have been vitally inter- ested in everything, but they especially enjoy going on civics trips and collecting pictures of current events which they plan to keep 'til they are grown up. My turn next? The sixth graders, who have come early every day to work and have stayed until late in the afternoon to play, have certainly proved their school spirit. A major interest in ice-skating was revealed when, after Christmas, every girl blossomed forth in a gay and colorful skating costume. The residential section of Kenwood has been well represented in the fifth grade. Al- though these small girls have been a little bewildered at moving from the Primary to the new and complicated scenery of our build- ing, they have entered spiritedly and con- fidently into the responsible task of being fifth graders, and we feel sure that they will carry on next year. Among the more outstanding students scholastically in the First Form are Elizabeth Henry, Priscilla Marbury, and Amie Willard, Florence Keys' daughter, No less outstand- ing in other fields are Anne Barber, Averill Borden, Alice Cleland, Pam Daly, Lester Dessez, Alice Diggs, sister of Helen Diggs, Patty Emery, Phyllis Evans, daughter of Elizabeth Potter, Betty Halley, Joan Huse, Peedy Marthinson, Anne Mearns, Maria