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

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Extra-curricular activities ne to visitors ,... 425 Terry.OiMalley willingly gives his time to serve at the Girls, Club Friendly Banquet. fNageIj The foreign visitors were amazed by the wide range of extracurricular activities sponsored by New Trier. Some of these outside interests such as Tri-Ship dances and student government exist strictly for the students, while others such as the dramatic productions, the charity drives, the radio station, and the swimming program for the township are for the beneht of both the studentry and the community. This dimension beyond, the purely academic was in varying measures a new concept to the visiting students, whose schools are institutions solely for academic learning. The Council-sponsored organizations and institutions which allow the student considerable freedom in governing his actions and expanding his interests particularly impressed them. None of them had ever participated in a student gov- ernment organization as we know it. Sefilc added that he was very much impressed by the prac- ticality of our 'student government and the idea of the stu- dent responsibility behind it, and he hopes to present the idea to his Turkish .school next year. Jose was critical of the New Trier Council, saying that it was a noble idea, but that in practice, it is a wall between the people in the organization who rule and the students at large. He was impressed by their method of election but felt that the people elected rep- resented only one type of NT student. The New Trier code of honor and the system behind it were the subject of much comment. Anne-Marie told ECHOES that such a thing would be impossible in German schools because the students and teachers would not work Lee Oliphant, Betsy Cohen, and Barbara Ruhe discuss an interesting topic with Mr. George Massey, a local resident, during the taping of a WNTH sponsored Foreign Affairs Forumfl fS!embergj

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'S 'Ms -- .5 ' , Q fag 4 N : 4' if 13 V722 X ' ,L a x 2? 4 2 4 , f Q 7 X I J 4 I .t X 2 zz, 6. 0 .... ,M ., . From the control room of WNTH, a director puts a show of com- mentary and recorded muslc on the air. fRubi11s0nj Study Hall General Supervisor Ellie Liebman waits to collect the seating chart of absentees from Sherry Sauser. fSchatzj together on it. The teachers would not be likely to agree not to proctor during an exam, and the students for their part would not be inclined to report cheating to the teacher. Several of the students confessed that an honor sy.stem would be too idealistic for European schools, because the final exam is so important that failing it often means the end of one's formal schooling. There is much cheating because so much of the student's future is at stake. Anne-lVIarie was at first amazed that it worked, Ida was unsure that it actually did work. Sefilc said that writing the pledge was unnecessary, since honor is something within oneself, while Jose felt that it was a great privilege to be able to write it and a wonder- ful way to show one's honesty. The three charity drives sponsored by New Trier's ser- vice organizations, the magazine subscription campaign, the clothing drive, and the United Fund drive, were also a nov- elty to the visitors. By then they were becoming almost as blase as the average New Trier student to the extracurricu- lar activities of their school, but nonetheless, there was still a glimmer of surprise. lllartine said that occasionally in France the students would be encouraged to do home-to- home canvassing for a certain charity, but nothing was done on the scale that it is here. 4 J f Kd