Old Trail School - Vestigia Yearbook (Akron, OH)

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FIFTH GRADE Fronl Row: Stephen Steinreich, Emery Leuchtag. Middle Row: Tom Roush, Blake McDowell, Jackie Griffiths, Sherry Reiss, Jack Davenport, Tom Wagner. Bock Row: Mike Hall, Fred Haake, Joseph Cirielle, Arthur Smith, Douglas Jennings. Absent: Bill Botzow. With picnic baskets packed full and two school station wagons loaded to the top, the fifth grade started their annual trip to Schoenbrunn in October to begin their study of pioneers around which their year's work centers in geography, history, reading, and art. Other highlights of fifth grade life were their swimming program for both boys and girls at the Y.W.C.A.g their Art Museum trip and Seiberling Rubber Company visit to study their own city, their outstanding performance of the play, The Proud Princess, which was performed for both Upper School and Lower School Assemblies and parents to earn money for the Assembly Room drapes. Near the end of the year fifth and sixth grades always take a three-day train trip together to some outstand- ing place of interest as the Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to see an industrial city. All such trips add much to the experience of living together in fifth grade. 54

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SIXTH GRADE Seated- Marjoric llorpham, Both Wt-instvin, llarilcv Moore, Elaim- Sugar, Nlatlvlint- llanvsis, Sandra O'Brodo, Carol Smith, Standing' Dick Clvmmcr, Pat Walter, Liz Vinobcrg, Lyntla K1-itzt-r, Vit-ki Waters, Stuart Root, Kenneth Drcsslcr, Nick Pavkan. Varol Smith and Stuart Hoot. joined our group in Scptcmbcr and in llvcumlwr Bcth VVvinstt-in made our numlwr liftcvn. llntlt-r Miss MCKQ-an wo have boon studying thu hvginnings of our Wvstcrn Civilization in bavc- usvd our information for mate-rial in oral and written rt-ports,lcarning to usc i'L-fc-i'0n1'c notvs. Formal grammar was studivd, too, in the sixth grade. Growing mort- skillful in using numbers and solving problems was anothvr important task Planning and managing tho we-ckly assembly is our responsibility and by thc ond of thc at. lm-:ist ont- vhanvu to lt-ad one assvmbly. Taking part in tht- Cancllvlight Scrvicc, managing the Spclling Boo and Song Contvst, the wcrc highlights of this yuar. 53 the Old VVorld. W0 books and to take in thc- Sixth Gradf-. yoar cvvryonc had Spring Field Trips

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5 5 Ax, ms.. FOURTH GRADE Front Row: llicky Shulrnan, Pam Riggs, Buddy Loomis, Middle Row: Cheyrle Belancy, Evon Snow, Victoria Reiter. Buck Row: Gail Schulman, Elizabeth Caldwell, Dick Hanson, Charlie Riehl, Edwin Morgan. Absent: Ann Poole. New experiences for our fourth grade this year include learning cursive writing and writing in ink, taking part in our first Candlelight Service, and attending our first Childrenls Concert. In the fall, we each made a science notebook. We drew pictures of different classes of animals and gave a description of their structure. For the all-school Thanksgiving Assembly, we each told part of the story of the first Thanksgiving. At Christmas time, we made all the ornaments for our tree as well as painting a plate as a gift for our parents. In February, we planned an assembly program Celebrating Lincoln's birthday. We told about his life and acted out stories about him. During the year, we drew several maps which showed the early we were studying. In the spring we presented a play which we had written ourselves. 55