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Background: A report card from the girls school. girls school also started the Annual Dog Show (which continued into the late '60s), held a formal commencement at The Casino (a private club that still exists today), planted an ivy and sang the Ivy Song at Class Day, and held the annual senior tea. Class of 1940 Alumna Harriet Dawes Wilson provided this detailed accounting of life at the girls school: "I was living at 1430 Lake Shore Drive during the '30s and it was a long walk south to the school on Scott Street. On a Chicago winter day with a wind off the lake, I would start off down Michigan Avenue the several blocks to school, head down, wearing a knit hat, a wool scarf, mittens, a heavy jacket and ski pants with my galoshes flopping. We walked into the school's entry hall and faced a flight of stairs leading up to the classrooms. By high school, we had to climb four flights of stairs passing floors with grades first through eighth to our floor. Backpacks had not been created then so we balanced notebooks and text books in our arms as we climbed. At the top we turned right to a large study hall for freshmen to seniors. The desks, lined-up two by two, started at the south end with the freshmen first, then the sophomores, next the juniors and finally the seniors. Our desks were plain four-legged tables with a drawer for pencils and papers. Our books held together by bookends formed a protective wall in front of us for whispering and passing notes. We were surrounded by Girls School badge. "Miss Schill started the Walking Club. We had to do a certain number of miles a year to go on a weekend trip to [Oconomowoc, WI]. We made our mileage walking from school on Scott Street to the far end of Navy Pier. The pier is one mile long. The highlight of that [Oconomowoc] trip was to sneak food for a midnight get-together, or before if Miss Vickery went to her room. We said (or hoped, I guess) that she was deaf in one ear, and she slept on the good ear. We never got caught." — Catherine Patrick Hazlett '17 Three photos of the Walking Club. LATI N SCHOOL OF CHI CA GO 43