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From Tutoring Inmates and Successfully Starting a Business, to Working in Television: Seniors Receive Advice from CCDS Alumni at 2012 “Senior Seminars” Savor the gossipy drama of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Lexicon enhancers: good words to know, part 3 Sally Portman explores fun things to do in Cincinnati this winter Vaporizing pumpkins with the Sporting Clays Club
 
From Tutoring Inmates and Successfully Starting a Business, to Working in Television: Seniors Receive Advice from CCDS Alumni at 2012 “Senior Seminars”

From Tutoring Inmates and Successfully Starting a Business, to Working in Television: Seniors Receive Advice from CCDS Alumni at 2012 “Senior Seminars”

Country Day alumni give Seniors invaluable accounts of their experiences which range from running the world’s largest student-run nonprofit corporation and working in Research Laboratories at Yale University, to managing, editing, and printing a literary magazine. Read on for an inside scoop of each seminar, and get a glimpse of what your own future may hold!

Savor the gossipy drama of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills

Savor the gossipy drama of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills

By Audrey McCartney '12, Contributor. I’ve tested out all the Real Housewives series. Orange County. New York. New Jersey. DC (a flop). And even Atlanta. My absolute favorite? Beverly Hills. The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills are, simply put, fabulous.

Lexicon enhancers: good words to know, part 3

Lexicon enhancers: good words to know, part 3

This is the third series of ten words you can use in everyday life to properly express yourself (when you’re searching for the elusive word), to impress a teacher or to show your parents that that CCDS education is really going somewhere. The challenge is use every word during school in one week, and the ultimate challenge is to use all of them in one day! Good luck!

Sally Portman explores fun things to do in Cincinnati this winter

Sally Portman explores fun things to do in Cincinnati this winter

Sally Portman '13, Contributor. Looking to escape the winter blues? Here are some fun ideas to spice up your social life throughout the next few months, without even leaving Cincinnati!

Vaporizing pumpkins with the Sporting Clays Club

Vaporizing pumpkins with the Sporting Clays Club

By Josh Motley '12, Contributor. Give us an hour or two and we’ll show you what all the “bang bang” is about. We want to bring back one of the skills of our forefathers that has been long-forgotten in our modernized world, and perhaps demolish a few pumpkins along the way.

From Tutoring Inmates and Successfully Starting a Business, to Working in Television: Seniors Receive Advice from CCDS Alumni at 2012 “Senior Seminars”

From Tutoring Inmates and Successfully Starting a Business, to Working in Television: Seniors Receive Advice from CCDS Alumni at 2012 “Senior Seminars”

15 January 2012

Country Day alumni give Seniors invaluable accounts of their experiences which range from running the world’s largest student-run nonprofit corporation and working in Research Laboratories at Yale University, to managing, editing, and printing a literary magazine. Read on for an inside scoop of each seminar, and get a glimpse of what your own future may hold!

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HUMOR: The real lyrics to those songs you thought you knew

12 January 2012

By Caroline Gentile '13, News Section Editor, and Avery Maier '13, News Section Editor. Whether you're in the car by yourself or at a school dance, learning that the lyrics you'd been proudly belting out are wrong is flat out embarrassing. On the other hand, sometimes learning the right lyrics opens up a whole new level of understanding to the song. To save you from uncomfortable situations and to help you decode confusing lyrics, here is a list of a few songs whose lyrics are commonly—or not so commonly—misheard (real lyrics are included as well).

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Savor the gossipy drama of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills

Savor the gossipy drama of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills

12 January 2012

By Audrey McCartney '12, Contributor. I’ve tested out all the Real Housewives series. Orange County. New York. New Jersey. DC (a flop). And even Atlanta. My absolute favorite? Beverly Hills. The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills are, simply put, fabulous.

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Lexicon enhancers: good words to know, part 3

Lexicon enhancers: good words to know, part 3

12 January 2012

This is the third series of ten words you can use in everyday life to properly express yourself (when you’re searching for the elusive word), to impress a teacher or to show your parents that that CCDS education is really going somewhere. The challenge is use every word during school in one week, and the ultimate challenge is to use all of them in one day! Good luck!

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Sally Portman explores fun things to do in Cincinnati this winter

Sally Portman explores fun things to do in Cincinnati this winter

12 January 2012

Sally Portman '13, Contributor. Looking to escape the winter blues? Here are some fun ideas to spice up your social life throughout the next few months, without even leaving Cincinnati!

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Vaporizing pumpkins with the Sporting Clays Club

Vaporizing pumpkins with the Sporting Clays Club

10 January 2012

By Josh Motley '12, Contributor. Give us an hour or two and we’ll show you what all the “bang bang” is about. We want to bring back one of the skills of our forefathers that has been long-forgotten in our modernized world, and perhaps demolish a few pumpkins along the way.

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Boys prevail, Girls come close in thrilling basketball doubleheader

Boys prevail, Girls come close in thrilling basketball doubleheader

10 January 2012

By Edwin Sam ’13, Sports Section Editor. On a fateful night when pink attire covered the fans and players in support of breast cancer, Country Day and local high school Seven Hills battled for supremacy in the heated conference rivalry. Each school took a share of the spoils as the Lady Indians were defeated and the Boys’ Basketball team triumphed each in close, suspenseful affairs.

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Baking for beginners: styles and utensils to know

Baking for beginners: styles and utensils to know

26 November 2011

By Holly Dayton '13, Lens Section Editor. This little article is for those of you out there who can't tell the difference between a box grater and a whisk. A few basic kitchen terms and cooking styles will give you a baseline knowledge for any form of gastronomic adventure you may have down the road!

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A quest for the best… apple pie

A quest for the best… apple pie

26 November 2011

With you-know-what season approaching, it's time to break out the best of the pie recipes and roll up the sleeves in the kitchen. This weekend, I spent my Saturday baking off two varieties of one of the best forms of pie: apple. The two pies were identical in every aspect except for the type of apple; in the first I used half Granny Smiths, and half Fuji apples, and in the second I used half Granny Smiths and half Jonagold apples. On Sunday I had a tasting and the results are in, and they may surprise you!

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Experienced seniors and skillful freshmen rejuvenate Boys Soccer

Experienced seniors and skillful freshmen rejuvenate Boys Soccer

26 November 2011

By Edwin Sam '13, Sports Section Editor. Following a disappointing season last year, calling the Boys’ Soccer team’s season an improvement would be a grave understatement. By starting earlier in the year and taking a more serious, focused approach to soccer, the Indians molded into an intimidating squad feared across the city.

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Juniors Murphy and McAlevey are cooking for a cause

Juniors Murphy and McAlevey are cooking for a cause

26 November 2011

By Sophie Weinstein '13, LifeStyle Editor. What could be sweeter than cooking for a cause? Juniors Julia Murphy and Isabelle McAlevey couldn’t think of anything better and so they started Cincinnati Country Day Schools first Baking Club!

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Against the odds, Girls Soccer wins MVC and Sectional Titles

Against the odds, Girls Soccer wins MVC and Sectional Titles

13 November 2011

By Edwin Sam '13, Sports Section Editor. By setting their goals clearly and early, the Girls’ Soccer Team showed work ethic which paid dividends as they silenced the critics that believed the girls could not replace their three key graduated seniors. Winning both the MVC and Sectional titles, the ladies proved that it takes a balance of talented freshmen and experienced seniors to win big games.

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