New Trier Township High School - Echoes Yearbook (Winnetka, IL)

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i ! , Tri-Ship Room with and a reorganization in the Tri- Ship eilected so that student problems could better be decided. The! oflicers of both the Girl's Club and the Tri- Ship Club formed an Inter-Club Board to settle any all-school prob- lems. llfleetings were held bi-Tnonthly on the Mondays when there iwas no representative's meeting. This new plan has worked well. i One of the best assets of the club is its club-room. While only a com- paratively few used the room last year it now has become a regular Qmeeting place during lunch periods and after school. On account of its sizeljuniors and Seniors only are allowed there at lunch time. During the last tlwo peri- ods ten honor students are Nselected to use the club room as a study place for a term of two weeks, at which time a new group takes their place. Two students for each period act as hosts. This last football season with the co-operation of the Tri-Ship, the Girl's Club and the Athletic Dept., the visiting teams were served refresh- ments just before they left for home after their games here. There were two all-school Tri-Ship dances. The first was held in the fall. lt was called the Hangar Dance. With an immense aviation beacon re- volving slowly on a pilon in the cen- ter of the hall and spot lighting from various other places, the dance was most originally illuminated and was Twenty Seven

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L Twenty-Sir Colin Finlayson Dorranlcc Nygaard Fred Lind Tom Sineling Roy West Tl-IE TRI-SHIP CLUB JOHN BARDEN .. President GEORGE QUINLAN . . . Vice-President WILLIAM SUNDLOE .. Secretary GEORGE BOYLSTON Treasurer Rov WEST ............. Chairman of Cluhroorn FRED LIND ..................... Chairman of Inter-Selzolaxtic Rela- tions DORRANCE N YGAARD .... Chairman of Charities COLIN FINLAYSON ...... Chairman of Dinners TOM SINDING .......... Chairman of Publicity The word Tri-Ship Fellowship, Sportsmanship, and Citi- stands for zenship. Since iits inception five years ago, the club has been increasingly successful in the promotion of its ideals among the boys of the school. Every boy at New Trier is a mem- ber. A representative from each boy's advisor room attends the meetings of the Club on every alternate Nlonday morning. Here student questions and problems are discussed and, un- less of too serious nature, voted on. In this way the club becomes a medi- um for the expression of the student feeling. Typical of the problems be- fore the representatives of the Tri- Ship this year was a signed petition asking for a change in the smoking rule. p Because in the student Council and the Tri-Ship there was a duplication of eifort, the council was done away l

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X iff P , fogw A Group of Tri-Ship Represcntati'iies one of the best dances, ever held at New Trier. The other dance which came early in the spring was held so that with the money made theband could be taken on trips with the teams. In the spring the club sponsored a boxing tournament in which over 60 boys participated. The first dinner of the year was the Freshman Reception. lVIajor John Griffiths, secretary of the Big Ten conference, talked about collegiate athletics. The second dinner was the Fathers' and Sons' banquet. About four hundred fathers and sons present enjoyed a good dinner and were then entertained by students representing some of the leading clubs and outside activities who explained to the fathers their particular interest. lVIr. Paul Fu enfy Erqht K. Leach, feature writer of the Chi- cago Daily News, talked about poli- tics and discussed the plan of a city manager. At Christmas quite a lot of money was donated by the advisor rooms for those families in the township which were in want. This money instead of being spent all at Christmas time was given out only when the need be- came apparent. This type of charity work seems the best method of using the Tri-Ship charity fund. But certainly the most outstanding event of the year was on the evening following Thanksgiving when Com- mander Richard E. Byrd, recently back from a south polar expedition, lectured and showed his motion pic- tures here at New Trier. Before a