Holton Arms School - Scribe Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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girl at Bancroft uses his ingenuity in hand- work classes. Here everything from book- cases to scrap baskets is sawed and hammered into shape. If you think these girls and boys are un- aware ofthe world in which they live, go to see some of their group undertakings. We know you'll change your mind! Each grade has its own special projectganything from collecting pictures about transportation to making dolls in foreign costumes. In addition there are Brownie meetings with Miss Rogers, a Christmas pageant for the parents, a doll show for the Community Chest, as well as the spring program arranged each year. The Primary certainly shows promise of becoming an Upper School of which Holton can well be proud. The fourth graders are M'Lee Catledge, Margot Eddy, Virginia Ford, Jean King, Carola Day Clarkson, an English friend, Anne Mary Showell, Charlotte Smith, Sally Thom, Sally Zantzinger, Phyllis Hiser, and two daughters of Holton alumnae, Sally Streett, and Olga Sturtevant. In the third grade are Jane Logan Bentley, Katzy Henderson, Eugenie Hess, Mary Mar- What goey up muft com: dawn. .L U l I ' j 4 .Ji tin, Betsy Miller fanother granddaughterj, Jacquy Sommerville, Louise Cochran, Anne Bisland-Frederick, and Betty Anne Driver. The second graders boast several English girls-Jane Clarkson, Tessa Franklin, and Sally Brown, who is also a granddaughter. With them are Anne Coe, Nancy Fleming, Mary Bridget Irwin, Dorothy Patterson, Stuart Hill Smith, Mitzi Somerville, Garnett Williams, Ellen Cochran, and three other alumnae daughters-Sherry Biays, Catherine Goodrich, and Mimi Mackall. In the first grade are Dorothea Bradley, Katherine Coe, Betty Davidson, Flaminia Della Chiesa, Barbara Denton, Kathleen Gal- vin, Florence Hiser, Mary Patterson Howell, and Barbara Hunter, both alumnae daughters, Pippa Simpson, Elizabeth Stirling, Dorothy Vivian-Clark, Rosalind Williams CEnglandD, and Maria Ceci Pittaluga CEcuadorD. Not to be overlooked are the small but mighty members of the kindergarten. They are: Ellen Douglas Catledge, Guy Conrad, Teresa Crossley CEnglishD, Laine Dowling, Marcelle Eyler, Anne Henderson, Roberta Henry, Iver Iverson, Edward Marsh, Jr., Mary Hanna Parker, Alice Pittaluga QEcua- dorD, Norman Prince, Jr., Marie Shippen Snyder, Patricia Sullivan, Armando Valle QBrazilD, and Anne Lord,

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. Primary School WE or THE UPPER SCHOOL envy not only the early lunch hour of the girls and boys of the Primary, but also their rosy cheeks and care- free smiles. Make a visit to Bancroft at recess and you will see these young 'uns wending their diverse ways through the jungle gym or following the leader in miraculous acro- batic feats. The playground presents a truly gay and merry picture! However, even the members of the Primary must Work as Well as play, and a visitor may find curly heads bent over arithmetic or spell- ing books. They are already on the road to becoming the good spellers which Mrs. Hol- ton hopes to turn out in the later years. In charge of the important duties of training the mind as Well as the body is Mrs. Macfarlane, the Primary Department's active and popular director. Her assistants are Miss Myers, who has charge of the fourth grade, Mrs. Mor- rison, ruler of the first grade, Miss Rogers, the kindergarten teacher, and Miss Lemoine, who teaches French. Miss Fran conducts the fourth grade social studies, Miss Feiker physical education, and Mrs. Banes art. Frances Cox Cremember her from last year?D is Miss Rogers' right-hand man in the kin- dergarten, while Elivira Cheatham, a Hol- tonite, helps take care of the playground situ- ation. So you see what a well-rounded pro- gram has been arranged for the Primary children. In addition to frolicking on the playground and learning their A.B.C.'s, every boy and

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Freedom of the Press GNE or THE Mosr 1MPoR'rANT freedoms guaranteed to us in the Bill of Rights is Freedom of the Press. This is the right to publish with- out restraint any newspaper, book, play, or operetta, which will be enjoyed by the American people. It is this freedom that is responsible for the very existence of THE SCRIBE. As you turn the next few pages you will read about the different clubs and organizations which give our life at Holton so much mean- ing. You will learn that THE SCRIBE is not just thrown together in an off-momentg you will discover what goes on in a Scroll meeting, if you are not brilliant enough to be one of its exalted members. You will be told of the wailing and gnashing of teeth that precedes every Dramatic Club and Glee Club performance. The mysteries of the terrifying Student Government will be explained to you in detail. 56