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

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thletic activities var our studies ABOVE: Mr. Willard Bass, Mr. Harry Hannum, Mr. Carl Varrel- mann, Miss Helen Hutchison, Miss Mary V. Sellers, Miss Roberta Staggc, Miss Ella Cheeseman, Miss Evelyn Lipsky. RIGHT: Gym students use some of the apparatus of our well-equipped gym. INSERT: Miss Myranda Grad- olf, head of the gym department. The cooperative spirit of fair play and teamwork gained by participating in athletics has never been duplicated. The physical education department at Walnut Hills seeks to develop this spirit as well as strong, healthy bodies. A bal- anced program of games, calisthenics, and apparatus work occupied the bi- weekly gym periods, while two fine tile pools were in regular use for swim- ming classes. Under capable instructors the students learned to put the spirit of fair play and cooperation above win- ning. Walnut Hills has enjoyed one of the most complete physical educa- tion plants in the city. A large gym, spacious fields, and two swimming pools have proved adaptable to in- creased school enrollment. Recent- ly there have been experiments in co-educational gym. Another in- novation was the making of swim- ming optional. During the war years athletics proved their worth by developing fitness, timing, and self-reliance in young people.

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Classes kf Have you ever seen Walnut Hills on a holiday with the corridors empty and dark, and the rooms deserted? The school seems literally dead, de- prived of all motion and vigor with the absence of its students. One al- ways pictures the halls crowded with hurrying figures and the classes alive with thought and discussion. The high school certainly exists only for the pupils and it is their standands, interests, and abilities which form the school character. Year after year, entering effies have absorbed the Walnut Hills tradition and graduating seniors have gone out backed by a reputation for scholarship and leadership. Through depression, war, and uneasy peace, some of Cincinnati's finest youth have prepared them- selves at Walnut Hills for the places of honor and responsibility in life. And so, studying, making friends, growing mentally and physically, the classes pass beneath the dome. With their continued vitality and spirit, Walnut Hills lives on.