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She made learning exciting
Recently, when I asked our daughter if she could pinpoint where her interest in history began, she said without a moment’s hesitation, “Oh, yes! With "Mrs. Stanton in the eighth grade at Christ Episcopal.” And then I remembered how she had come home from school one day and had told us that Mrs. Stanton was the first teacher she had ever had who made her feel that learning was exciting.
“But why history?” I asked her, for she now has acquired a Ph.D in British history and is teaching it herself in a Carolina college.
“Well,” she said, “Mrs. Stanton made history a living thing. She taught us not only what happened but why. The people she talked about she knew intimately, and we felt as if they were just as real as we were. She would stand at the blackboard with a cup of coffee in one hand and a piece of chalk in the other, drawing the battle lines of Washington and Cornwallis, and we were there, eyewitnesses! If the bell rang before the battle ended, we could hardly bear the suspense. She’s a real scholar, and I've had few instructors since then who could even approach her ability to invest the , past with excitement.”.	.	.	' *
As a teacher/myself, I know that teachers touch the lives of their students, often in unsuspected ways. Mrs. Gertrude ''Stanton is one who unknowingly, but surely charted the direction of our child’s life, just as perhaps she is now doing for other students in her own turn.	\
r„ J A Bay St. Louis parent
Campbell in the Trent Lott Bicentennial Essay contest, and Sharon Anderson, third place, in the Keesler Credit Union's Our Democratic Heritage essay contest. Creative writing stu- ! dents have merited i publication in the Writer’s Workshop magazine and the Mississippi Arts Festival junior division for poetry.	,
Students belong to the Society of Distinguished American High School Students, are listed in ; Who’ Who Among American High School Students, and are members of the National Honor Society. There is a chapter of Thespians, the
National Speech and Drama Society.
Rho Sigma, school mathematics honor so-j city., is seeking affiliation1 with the national high school mathematics honor society.	I
Athletics include foot-j ball, soccer, basketball, and tennis. The tennisj team, playing in the B' division has won district and state places. A| sailing team, using Sun-fish, was formed this year.	1
Students enter into exchange programs and travel programs for foreign study, among them the American Institute for Foreign Study, the Foreign Study League, and the Youth. For Understanding program. In the past three years students from Columbia, Brazil, Chile, Germany, and Finland have attended Coast Episcopal. CEHS students have lived for the ’ summer and studied in France and Sweden. CEDS students have taken part in Children’s International Summer-Village programs.
Coast Episcopal students find acceptance at many out-of state coL-^ leges as well as the state i
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the University of ^^Brown* University, Tem-'arolinaal Chapel >*♦' pie, "Auburn and the ■wcomb.lTulane, ^.-University of the South lylor, Southern " at Sewanee are among t Universityth^rnT4^3