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!

By Sonia Bhati ‘14, Contributor. Have you walked by the rock wall recently and noticed a growing vegetable garden next to several big concrete blocks? These concrete blocks will be the base of CCDS’s Pizza Oven. Funded by the Environmental Council, the oven will be ready for use by next March.

By Caroline Gentile ‘13, News Section Editor. At precisely 6:30pm on Wednesday October 5th, the doors of Cincinnati Country Day were opened, and in rushed a crowd of high school students with parents in tow, marking the beginning of CCDS’ 9th annual College Fair. However, if one was looking to talk to representatives from an Ivy League School, they would have little luck.

By Sally Portman ’13, Contributor. This year Martha Lamotte ’13, Julien Courriol ’14, and Jiayi Wu ’15, have jumped “across the pond” to discover what life in America is truly like, and so far they are enjoying their experience, discovering major differences from their schools back home.

By Catherine Smith ‘12, Contributor. Despite the fact that Cincinnati is way off Broadway, it has a very prominent theater scene. Auditions are everywhere and there are always shows going on every weekend.

By Elizabeth Miller ‘15, contributor. Mr. Jimmy Gardner is one of the newest additions to the Cincinnati Country Day School faculty. However, he is no stranger to Country Day. An alumnus of the class of 2005, Gardner attended Thomas More College in Kentucky, where he majored in physics and math. Last year, Gardner returned to Country Day to teach a few classes. During that time, he was better known as “Jimmy” by students, who sincerely enjoyed his youthful presence in the school.

By: Sophie Weinstein ‘13, Life & Style Editor. The sixties made a triumphant return for fall fashions with the use of mod shapes and retro prints to evoke a vintage tone.

By Isabelle McAlevey ’13, Contributor. The four new teachers in the Upper School have driven race cars, created e-books, studied paleontology, and done mission work in Haiti. Here’s a quick look at the new additions:

By Haleigh Miller ‘12, Editor in Chief. Relatively late in this past summer, it became apparent that drastic changes were going to be made to the administration of the Cincinnati Country Day School Middle School. Mr. John Polasko is not returning as Middle School Head, and Ms. Teresa Hirschauer has taken his place for the year as the interim Head until a replacement can be found.

By Caroline Gentile ‘13, News Section Editor. As of this school year, the Upper School’s 9th grade Humanities program is no more; in its place are five sections each of independent 9th grade English and History classes. “It just wasn’t Humanities anymore,” said Upper School Hear Mrs. Stephanie Luebbers.

By Sophie Weinstein ‘13, LifeStyle Editor
Couple Mr. Sam Tumolo, longtime head of the math department, and Mrs. Jean Corbus, longtime Kindergarten teacher, will both be retiring at the end of the year.
Since he began working at CCDS in 1973, Mr. Tumolo has been a part of many aspects of the school’s curriculum.  He coached football, [...]

By Victoria Mairal-Cruz ‘12, Lens Editor. This time next year, Country Day math teacher John Carriero will be living in San Francisco, California, where he may be doing anything from helping the Department of Defense write cryptography algorithms to working on developing the latest software.