St Louis Country Day School - Codasco Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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Alumni Room Track B' Baseball C Baseball Golf PS 4 Pg 6 ps 8 pg 10 pg 11 pg 12 Varsity Baseball At the games, Werremeyer and Taylor discuss hand signals and signs. Observing a natural phenomenon. Chris Bitting makes the realization that he will have to wait until the year 2017 for the total eclipse of the sun. Varsity Tennis B 6 C Tennis Lawn QQ Tennis Thespians Fine Arts Talent Show PS 14 pg 15 pg 16 P8 18 D8 20 pg 22 Prom pg 24 Prize Day pg 28 Cum Laude pg 30 COl77lT16'I7C'0I77 CUZ pg 32 Seniors in College pg 34 Ta ble of Con ten ts Table Of Contents 3

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What a Stud! Lamont Greer proves to all that he is the greatest during Field Day. I don 't believe this! exclaims a Lower Schooler as he discovers the true mean- ing of life in his little black box. Leaping into the air, an upperclassman shows that he is well coordinated in the game 'ultimate frisbeef 2 !Candids

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Blanke Alumni Reading Room put to good use There is now a new sense of tradition and a subtle touch of class at Country Day. With the completion of the gorgeous Alumni Room, CDS has a new asset to proudly share with the surrounding communities. The room itself has gone through tremendous changes. During the late fifties and early sixties, it was, oddly enough, used as the library. From the sixties until two years ago, the room was used as a teachers' lounge. Last year, the room was planned to be used by stu- dents as a study area. However, the wretched architecture and the deplorable furniture gave the room an informal atmo- sphere which caused the stu- dents to misuse it as a gather- ing place. Unfortunately, the room took considerable abuse from the students, and changes were needed desperately. These changes came during the 83-84 school year. The school decided to do extensive remodeling of the room. The Director of Alumni Af- fairs, Mr. Henry, describes the changes that took place. The workers removed the balcony to open up the room. The walls were insulated and dry-walled to get rid of the God-awful cin- der block, and a 'screen' was built near the library entrance to not make the room appear as a long corridor. On this screen will appear names of distin- guished alumni. I would rather put up a mahogany Country Day seal. Of course, the room 4 fAlumni Room was carpeted, better quality furniture was put in, and the first class gift, a lectern from the Class of 1922, was installed. And beautiful chandeliers re- placed the 'Howard Johnson's' light fixtures. However, the best part of the room is the cor- nice that is used to cover those terrible little slices of window at the top. All in all, the Alum- ni Room is spectacular because of the beautiful job the in-house maintenance at CDS did. Mr. Henry further reiterated the uses of the Alumni Room. The room is going to be used as a place where Alumni can gath- er. Mr. Henry said that students could also reserve the room as a meeting place. Of course, the Alumni Room will also be used as a formal reception area to meet with important visitors to the school. The room will also be used to house' the CDS ar- chives and memorabilia. In that sense, the Alumni Room will be used as a,Country Day museum. Mr. Henry says the room is not going to be cluttered and should not be used as a study area because I can see books being pounded on the table, and binders scratching up the furni- ture, and if I found scratches, I would become very hyper. But for now, Mr. Henry says the room turned out very posh. by P. C. Dressel ' Finishing the product, The Alumni Room has to endure massive changes to achieve its elegance.