Horace Mann School - Horace Mannikin Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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Gfadaicaf language LTHOUGH The Classical Language DeparTmenT is made up oT only Three persons, iT cerTainly is one oT The besT aT Horace Mann. The head and senior member oT This group, Mr. William J. Nagle, TirsT puT in his appearance in I9I I, aTTer Teach- ing in Brooklyn and aT Hackley and being HeadmasTer oT The Newman School, This Harvard man Teaches LaTin and Greek equally well, buT his greaTesT pride is The IO3 NeediesT Cases Drive, which he has engineered Tor 20 years. For many years Horace Mann's head linesrnan, Mr. Nagle Takes an acTive parT in aThleTics and serves also as chairman oT The TaculTy Club CommiTTee. The only woman insTrucTor aT Horace Mann is Miss A. Berdina MclnTosh. She primes The FirsT Formers in genTlemanliness, prepares Them Tor a sTudy oT Toreign languages, and acTs as Their class adviser, Une oT her greaTesT inTeresTs lies in The social Tield, where she capably conducTs all TuncTions on The hill. She mainTains corre- spondence wiTh The Horace Mann alumni and Takes an acTive parT in The P.T.fN. For The pasT 23 years, Mr. WalTer l. MeTcalT has made his presence TelT in school. As l.aTin insTrucTor, he keeps his classes in order wiTh The merciless aim oT his chalk and keeps Them in humor wiTh his puns. For many years he has coached J.V. base- ball and TooTball, Turning ouT some amazingly good Teams. He assisTed Mr. BaruTh in running Camp MacArThur during The pasT summer and has recenTly decided To Tound a camp oT his own. I 4

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H966 NE oT The largesT groups aT l-lorace Mann is The English DeparTmenT, which is headed by Dr. William l'l. Blalce, As senior adviser he spends a greaT deal oT his Time preparing The SixTh Eormers Tor college. When noT direcTing The Glee Club or cavorTing in Wednesday morn- ing assemblies, he designs haTs, wriTes poeTry, and pracTices panTomime. Mr. l-larold ChrisTie Clausen and The Dra- maTic Club are synonymous aT l-lorace Mann. l-lis main inTeresT sTill lies wiTh The EirsT and Second Eormers, To whom, ever since l923, he has im- parTed The arT oT cliagraming. The EiTTh Form adviser, and menTor oT all school publicaTions, is Mr. AlTred E. l3aruTh. Aside Trom Teaching EiTTh Eorm English, lvlr. B. runs a bus service, Camp MacArThur, and The Chess Club. l'le claims ThaT The only Thing he hasn'T done is murder a l'lorace Mann sTudenT l-lorace lvlann will sorely miss The presence oT Mr. Leese Tor one more year while he Teaches aT Alabama. ln Tive years aT HM. he has ably TaughT Third Eorm English and American l.iTera4 Ture. A disciple oT Edgar Allan Poe. Since l944, Mr. Donald l. CarTy has been nursing The budding TalenTs oT many sophomores. As EourTh Eorm English Teacher, he has ably insTrucTed in The inTricacies oT American l.iTera- Ture. l.enT To l-l.lvl. unTil The mid years by Man- haTTan Prep, he has done a man-sized iob. ATTer Tour years absence while serving in Uncle Sams Navy, Mr. John Reeves has reTurned To Till The spoT vacaTed by Mr. Leese. A graduaTe oT Horace lvlann in l932, he TaughT music and English beTore The war. Mr. Nisswender ioined The l-l.M. TaculTy early in January also To help Till The vacancy leTT by lvlr. l.eese. Mr. David TaTem, a graduaTe oT Randolph-Macon college in Virginia, came To The hill in February To Talce over lvlr. CarTy's worlc.

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A6 i0l'g HE size is no indicaTion oT The imporTance oT The HisTory DeparTmenT. AlThough There is no permanenT head oT This group, Mr. Charles D. Gerow acTs in ThaT capaciTy. Ever since I9l4, he has been a popular Teacher oT EirsT and Second Eormers. An ardenT Republican and a rabid World Series Tan, he keeps his classes busy wriTing l.iTe on a Medieval Barony and varied reporTs on Renaissance painTers. A sTricT disciplinarian, he always manages To make The punishmenT TiT The crime. ln Tormer days he ran Camp Moosilauke and Took an acTive inTeresT across The Tield. Yale's giTT To Horace Mann came in The Torm oT a remarkable Track sTar, Mr. AlberT M. Briggs. An experT in AncienT and Modern European HisTory, he devoTes much Time To poliTics and currenT evenTs. Besides advising The Speakers' Club Tor The pasT Tew years, he has been insTrumenTal in The Tlourishing oT all exTra-curricular acTiviTies aT Horace Mann. ATTer acTing as direcTor oT Camp Moosilauke Tor many seasons, he became direcTor oT his own camp, Camp WrighT. The newesT addiTion To The HisTory DeparTmenT is Mr, Philip LewerTh. A Track sTar and capTain oT The Lions' baseball Team, he came To The hill Tor his TirsT Teaching iob. Mr. LewerTh expounds The Theories OT American HisTory To The Seniors and somehow manages To concocT gruesome ouTlines. He helps wiTh baseball and J.V. TooTball. Besides These varied iruTeresTs across The Tield, he has Taken acTive inTeresT in exTra-curricular acTiviTies, advising The DebaTing SocieTy and The SporTs Club. He has done remarkably well in Tilling Mr. lVlarTin's shoes. I 5