Holton Arms School - Scribe Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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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

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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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Sheerin, Sue Shulman, Sue Shuman, Joan Sleeper, Mary Wilcox, Lee Willoughby, and Delight Wood, Delight Arnold's daughter. In the sixth grade are Virginia Beck, Pearce Butler, Maureen Canning, Beverley Courts, Jane Eichenlaub, Doris Finney, Mar- jorie Ann Horning, Jacqueline Lee, Joanne O'Malley, Olga Pilson's daughter, who has attended school in Holland and in Germany, Muffin MacArthur, a grandniece of the Gen- eral, Virginia Patterson, Cary Sibert, Jac- queline Sleeper, and Harriet Summerlin. The fifth grade boasts two English girls, Jillian Burgess and Jennifer Franklin. Their classmates are Caro Butler, Carolyn Ander- son, Kit Graf, Gail McKenzie, Betty Jane Somerville, and Louisa Steck. L nmmun Wu Cl'1esT5nle x lx, l ' .X ' , K, , is X f J X . 5 A . . 4,6 nv Q rl J fr - an J .M V , ' f l!! V ! X