Western Hills High School - Annual Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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MHIUWUQ Allele AMHHUETW088 THE IMPORTANCE OF THE music, art, and physical education departments of the school has, until recently, been much underestimated. The public has continually stressed their frivolity and has called them the most useless adorn- ments of the modem educational sys- tem. During the last few years, however, many adults have come to realize the desirability of possessing a cultural background to supplement their academic or vocational training. We students, though we have not yet had a chance to experience that need, know that we shall feel it in years to come and, through out work in these three departments, have already devel- oped a love for music, att, and danc- ing. Our orchestra has played works that the Cincinnati Symphony Orches- tra plays; our Choral Club has given an opera the Zoo Company presents; our gym department has put on a revue similar to a professional production; cut art department has illustrated a newspaper, a magazine, and a year- book. Our work along these lines cannot compare with that of master musicians, artists, dancers, at athletes, but in attempting what the artists achieve, wevhave discovered for our- selves the beauty and richness of a cultural life. Romznm ENDEBROCK, '34. Left to rigfal. my to bottom: Burk, Strikes, DnutericlL Dmlmn. Kellen MC- Cmrtncy, Nohr. Wine, Blasch. Davis.

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iiEFNT Qimigs'ir'Hii Sure. H e flan; made 215 with .rm'ly large dimming Looking before and afle. gape NJ not That 6410:1521in amt gad-lilzie reamn To flat in m illiilJ'Ed.U AND WHAT STUDY GIVES GREATER OPPORTUNITY for exercising that god- like reasoning power than does English? In reading the thoughts and deductions 0f the greatest minds of all time, we ourselves experience a menrai stimulus. Learning the attitudes other human beings have taken toward mans origin, earthly struggles, and destiny helps us to develop a phiiosophy of life. Studying all types of characrers and their reactions to various experi- ences broadens our knowledge of hm man nature. Worth- while literature, which is beautiful in itself, continu- ally transforms from commonplace to beautiful, things we have always be- fore regarded as uninteresting. A knowledge of English provides a means of intercourse with other people; half the joy of living is. that which accom- panies the expression of individual opinions, whether in spoken or in writ- ten words. English is perhaps the most important of all academic subjects be- cause a thorough understanding of it assures one of having ideas worth communicating, and of knowing how to express those thoughts to others. ROBERTA ENDEBROCK, '34. Lef! m rigbli top to bottom: Harper, O'Neal. Winspear, Watson, Brown, McKinley, Holden, Rieckelman.

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llllllSQllllDlQXY ALTHOUGH DIM, FADING HISTORY and active, happy-godlucky youth at first thought seem incompatible ideas, youth in its task of propelling the world forWard will find history, with its wealth of knowledge and experi- ence, indispensable, Youth will be comforted in its slow climb upward by a knowledge of the past history of the world a history of long years of labor .and suffering that passed before results of lasting beneht were felt, and a history of periods when the wheels of hard-won Civiliza- tion were haltedtin their progress, to be set revolving again centuries later only by tremendous eHort. An under- standing of mankind, gained by a study of his march through the centuries. will give youth faith in'the eventual victory of the laudable ideals of his fellow-men. History, with all its broadening and cultural advantages for youth, has yet a deeper benelit. It is the study that opens the way for world-brother- hood and peace, for it is through knowledge and understanding of the rest of the world that youth is able to attain an unselflsh, sympathetic 11t- titude toward other nations. With a perspective changed by history from a a pin-point width to a seatch-light horizon, youth can meet the future with conlidence in the ultimate good of his efforts to advance, and in the value of the history he will leave behind. DOROTHY FAY FOSTER, '34. Left to right, top to bottom: Long, Mouk, Schiel, Fouch, Poe.