By Sophie Weinstein ‘13, Contributor. This fall, the CCDS administration has implemented some changes to the Student Handbook including the return of the “collar under sweater” rule.

By Haleigh Miller ‘12, News Section Editor. As they walk through the doors, their eyes tend to grow larger. Some suddenly begin to perspire, shake, or silently swear. For many students just coming into the ninth grade, high school can be something exciting, stressful, or just an abyss with a giant question mark hovering in front of the unknown.

By Avery Maier ‘13, News Editor. Many students can’t wait until the day when they can get their new computer. The excitement builds and finally they walk into the tech office and get that new machine. On August 17, when students eagerly walked into the tech office, their smiles slowly changed into frowns as they learned they wouldn’t be getting their new machines that day because Toshiba had messed up Country Day’s order.

By Sally Portman ’13, Contributor. This year, Audra Jenkins will join the CCDS Upper School Science Department as a chemistry teacher.

By Rebecca Miller, ‘12, A&E Section Editor. As the 2009-2010 school year ended, CCDS said good-bye to two teachers that have inspired countless students to reach higher and dream bigger than they thought they could. Together, Mrs. Marge Rockwell and Mrs. Bobbie Menter have taught a combined 46 years in CCDS’s Middle and Lower Schools. Mrs. Rockwell will be leaving the CCDS community to move to Atlanta with her husband, and Mrs. Menter will be retiring from teaching.

by Haleigh Miller, ‘12, News Section Editor. In the coming 2010-2011 school year, two new teachers will join the Upper School faculty, Mrs. Mary Zimmerman and Mr. John Graves. Both are CCDS alumni, and will be great additions to the community.

By The Scroll Staff. At this year’s Upper School Awards Ceremony on June 3, select students were recognized for their scholastic, artistic, extracurricular and athletic achievements.

By Amanda Young, ‘11, Co-Editor-in-Chief. As the 2009-2010 school year comes to an end, it is time for the class of 2010 to move on to the next stage in their life. However, they will be fondly remembered at CCDS.

By Victoria Mairal-Cruz, ‘12, Contributor. From April 16 to May 10, Mexican exchange students from the school Escuela Anexa de Atlacomulco in Atlacomulco, Mexico, visited Cincinnati and CCDS. Students throughout our school had the opportunity to mix with another culture, in addition to helping the exchange students practice their English.

By Adriana Ungerleider, ’12, Contributor. Clark Montessori, the nation’s first public Montessori high school, along with five other schools from around the nation, was nominated as a semi-finalist in the “Race to the Commencement Challenge,” a competition in which the winner earns a commencement speech at their graduation from President Barack Obama, but lost in the final round to Kalamazoo Central High School in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

By Adriana Ungerleider ‘12, Contributor. Named a “Cool School” by WLWT-TV due to its groundbreaking use of technology in the classroom in February 2008, in the past year, the school has earned status as a technologically advanced school in a new direction by using social networking to connect the student, faculty, and alumni communities.

By Victoria Mairal-Cruz, ‘12, Contributor. The Investment Club was created at the beginning of this year by freshmen Michael Barton, club President, and Jack Willingham, Vice President. When Barton began high school, he “convinced” Jack to help him start the club, and “the rest is history.”