Evanston Township High School - Key Yearbook (Evanston, IL)

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ll rails By This February Evanston High School pupils saw the culmination of an undertaking, unusual and highly successful. It was the transformation of the room adjoining the library into a typical medieval reading room, reminiscent of the spirit of learning characteristic of the period of the Renaissance. The reformation has been effected by a talented Russian artist, Mr. Nicholas Kaissaroff. From the four murals on the Walls to the light-switch, artfully concealed by a Wood carving of a monk twist- ing the devil's tail, there are few anachronisms. Undoubtedly, the most im- portant features contributing to the ''back-through-the-centuries'' look of the room are the mural paintings, portraying the romance of book-making. They are painted in soft, reddish-brown al fresco tones which convey a still har- mony to the small room. The subjects of the murals are The Scribes, monks copying books. The Illuminating of Manuscripts, The Gutenberg Press portraying Gutenberg and his partner, Fustp and the last, The Bookbinderf'

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CHANNING RICHARDSON President of Forensic Club FRANCIS ROY Colonel M.T.C. ROBERT SENNOTT President of Safety' Council MURIEL SHERER Honor Student WARREN SNYDER President 124, Honor Student FRANK VANCE Basketball, Golf, Honor Student IAMES VAN DOREN President of Drama Club ROBERT VOIGTS All-state Football, Basketball, Baseball PHELPS WALKER Honor Student, Captain M.T.C. ROBERT WELLS Honor Student, Track DOROTHY WHITLEY Council 124 PHILLIPS WHITTEMORE Major M.T.C. DOROTHY WILLIAMS Honor Student HENRY Wooo Football ELAINE NOLAN President of Library Club VIRGINIA NOYES Pentanqle HOWARD PALMER Honor Student, Music ROBERT PALMER Drama, Council 164 ROBERT PIERCE Oratory, Music IILL PRICE Pentanqle, Council 164 GLORIA RENSCH Magazine Editor

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Around the walls over the book- cases are twenty monks' heads, all different in expression, carved in Wood by Mr. Kaissaroff. The artists' ingenuity has also changed the regu- lar plate-glass of the Windows to reproductions of a Gothic type, with leaded panes and stained-glass medallions. These Windows are symbolic of the sciences, and, con- sequently, the figures shown are those of Amen famous in those fields. The northeast Window shows Pythag- 1 T oras and Archirnides, and two Women who symbolize geometry and mechanics. The middle Window depicts Phidias, Appeles, Socrates, and Sophocles and corresponding shields of navigation. In the place of honor, the center, is the tree of knowledge. The southeast window contains geographical and astro- nomical trnedallions.' Herodotus, Ptolemy, and two more women symbolizing travel, are also depicted. Interspersed among the murals are trademarks of old printers. The radiator, too, has had its ugliness covered by a series of panels, carved with the seal of the city of Evanston. Even the doors of this room are true wooden ones with iron latches and hinges on the inside. Certainly this is one of the places of beauty of our school, a real representation of the culture and refinements brought from the Renaissance. Kaissaroff