By Holly Dayton ‘13, Lens Section Editor. With a fabulous record of 11-3, the CCDS Girls’ Varsity Golf team is prospering this year to the extent that in week 5, the team ranked #1 in the local coaches’ poll. Aside from solely talent, this team’s success is attributed to individual improvement.The camaraderie of the team is also a key factor behind their group success.

By Rachel Epstein ‘14, Contributor. This April, Ali Breneman will make her final appearance in the CCDS theatre department by directing her first musical, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.

By Sally Portman ’13, Contributor. The sophomore paper is looking a little different this year. The assignment will now be chaired by the History Department instead of the English Department, a move Mrs. Pat Dunn, English Department Chair, sees as “more sensible.”

By Annie Nesbitt ‘13, Contributor. This summer Mr. Howard Brownstein, Math teacher, and Mrs. Pat Dunn, English Department Chair, will be offering a PSAT/SAT prep course for rising CCDS juniors and seniors. The course, “Beat the SAT with Mrs. Dunn and Mr. Brownstein,” will take place over four Sundays – August 14, 21, 28 and September 4— from 1 to 3 pm.

By Hannah Stewart, ‘12, A&E Editor. Mrs. Dunn, the English Department Chair at Cincinnati Country Day School, is collaborating on a supernatural series with Stephenie Meyer, the famed author of the Twilight saga books. The pair met online at a Danielle Steel message board that celebrates the popular romance novelist.

By Cody Pomeranz ‘11, Co-Editor-in-Chief.
Ever wonder what it would be like if your favorite faculty members were all stuck in a cave together? Well, we can only use our imagination. Here’s what The Scroll pictures it would be like.

By Hannah Stewart ‘12, Co-Editor of A&E.
Do you want to read a good book this weekend? Here are some of the English Department’s favorites.

By Will Portman, ’10, Editor-in-Chief. With over a dozen events and initiatives designed to celebrate and reward seniors in their final year at Country Day, is it all just too much?

What are you doing over Spring Break? Click to view the latest video Scroll Poll and find out some teachers’ and students’ plans. Filmed by Sai Mangu, ‘13, and edited by Jordan Komnick, ‘11.

By Rebecca Miller, ’12, Contributor. For the next event in the popular Broadwell Series, Upper School teachers Pat and Tim Dunn will host a discussion of Too Late the Phalarope by Alan Paton, a book about apartheid in South Africa, on Jan. 24 at 2 p.m. in Broadwell House.

By Jayne Caron, ‘10, The Lens Section Editor

Mr. Howard Brownstein,  cookie monster and basketball coach extraordinaire, has a booming, distinctive voice that can be heard throughout the hallways as he cracks jokes, extols  the virtues of mathematics and basketball, and describes the physical similarity between Mrs. Dunn and senior Nick Bender to all [...]

Despite the recent economic downturn, many teachers enjoyed thrilling summer vacations in locales as exotic as Mexico or the Broadwell House. Some of you students may be wondering how teachers can afford to take a vacation in such difficult financial times, but when I talked to science teacher Brock Miller, he said, “How can we afford not to? You kids are terrors! I spend every single second counting down to the end of the bell, every bell counting down to the end of the day, and every day counting down to the end of the year when I can go on vacation and build sandcastles and never have to talk to students!” Then he chased me out of his office with a meter stick.