Walnut Hills High School - Remembrancer Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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worcfa writlen and Jpoken a.44ume Today, as in times past, man's chief means of communication is the spoken and the written word, Success in business and cultural growth de- pend an our ability to transmit our own thoughts and ideas and to under- stand those of others. ln seeking to develop this faculty in its students, Walnut Hills offers several courses in speech and iournalism. Capable speakers are in constant demand in the classroom, on the stage, in radio, and on the debator's platform. The assurance and poise gained in such public appearances is invaluable. Classes in oral expression prepare us to accept such opportunities as they arise. Newspapers and magazines wield tremendous influence in our modern world in supplying information and shaping public opinion. Those of us who take iournalism realize that a free press with full coverage of current events is necessary in a democracy. Factual reporting, concise wording, and technical data required in making an attractive page are studied in this course. School publications put the knowledge thus gained to practical use. Then we more fully realize the practical sides of iournalism-deadlines, responsibility, and hard work. 1 -f LEFT: Miss Wilma Hutchison, English, Mrs. Katherine Lappa, English, Miss Etta O'Hara, English. BELOW, ROW T: Miss Mary Louise Schroth, English, Journalism, Miss Mabel Schweikert, English. ROW 2: Miss Anne Suther- land, English, Journalism, Mrs. Ber- nice Wolf, English. BOTTOM, LEFT: Freshmen characterize Uriah Heep.

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Riel: an uarie are the meanings English, of all The subiecfs offered in a high school course, is perhaps The mosT expansive and varigafed. lT is The purpose of This course noT only To Teach The sTudenT To organize his ThoughTs and handle his language forcefully, buT also To gain a basic appreciafion of The greaT fund of Eng- lish liTeraTure. For in The sfudy of liferafure are revealed nof only The var- ious ouThors, and The immorTal characfers of The greaT works, buT also loasic rnaferial of Thaf wonderful and vasf field of sfudy, The humanities. Thus aT Walnuf Hills, vvhose curriculum keeps college work ever in mind, The emphasis on English is prominent. The course is designed To afford a broad sampling of all The various forms of English liferafure. Each year represenfafive selecfions of poefry, The novel, The drama, and various new fictional forms are considered, vviTh The sfudy reaching culminaTion in such works as HarnleT, The poefry of Browning, or The novels of Hardy and Gals- vvorThy, To say nofhing of various readings from confemporary dramaTic works. RIGHT: Miss Esther Cahill, English, Miss Helen Carson, Librarian, Mr. Wayne Gregory, Speech. BELOW, ROW 'l: Mr. Harold Inskeep, English, Miss Eleanor McDevitt, English. ROW 'K 2: Miss Vivian Ross, English, Miss Hel- en Wilkinson, Librarian. BELOW RIGHT: Miss Frieda Lotze gives indivi- dual insTrucTion in speech.

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ABOVE: Mrs. Marie-Louise Creelman, Spanish, Mrs. Julia Suid, Spanish, Mathematics. RIGHT: Miss Bernice Bartlett, Latin, Mrs. Dixie Campbell, Latin, Mr. Arthur Condit, Latin. ABOVE, RIGHT: Effies, in addition to grammar, learn how Latin and its culture spread throughout the Roman Empire. .language id the lcey to the treaaury It was Cicero who said that all the studies of the humanities have a common bond between themselves. Then Latin and its great literature offer an insight into the vast panorama of classical civilization and its profound influence on the lives of us all. Our stress on this rich, traditional language is one of the features which distinguished us from other high schools. The students are initiated into the mysteries of Latin while still effies and E- flats . The lower school Latin course teaches the basic grammar and voca- bulary so necessary for advanced work. Daily drills in sum-es-est develop the all important foundation. But in the freshman year begins the real en- joyment of Latin, with the reading of Caesar's exciting narrative of strategy and conquest. The tenth grade course features the biographies of Cornelius Nepos and Cicero's oration for the lvlanilian Law. The fifth year course con- tinues with Cicero and begins a new experience, reading the Latin poetry of Ovid. Difficult though the work may be at first in the senior course, the early labor was soon repaid. For Virgil's beautiful Aeneid proves itself the culmination of the whole six-year course. This comprehensive course will found a background of lasting influence throughout our lives.