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

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7 eine Z EQOTPRINTS-GN-Ti-IE-SANDS-OE TIME NOTE '-Evanston Township l-ligh School Flung open its doors for the sixty-fourth annual time, on September 9, 1946. Well, it had to happen. As well then as any other time. ANOTHER FOOTPRINT -Simultaneously with the opening oi school, E.T.i-l.S. students Filled out red cards, white cards, green cards, yellow cards, paid English, science, MTC., or- chestra, and budget iees, bought tex- bool4s, and met instructors. They really had us now. AND ANQTI-IER -E.T.I-i.S. opened with an enrollment oi Q,443, slightly less than the previous year. But the 324 wing, long held in reserve, was again bursting with excite- ment. Qne hundred and thirty-iour stu- dents, eighty percent oi them boys and sixty percent veterans, put their names on the dotted line and enrolled themselves in the brand new Evanston Community College. With Dr. William R. Wood as director, the college began instruction on September 16. A major purpose of the college, according to the prospectus, was to engage all Evanstonians in 'ia United Nations movement to improve the lot oi man. Eranltly, we seniors were more im- pressed by the way college students transformed Room 319 into a smolcing lounge. Wi-TAT DO YOU REMEMBER about the beginning of school? Seniors, on

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whom presumably the First days of the last year would make the most impres- sion, could only dream up visions of harassed home room directors, eager budgeteers, and bewildered freshmen who went around trying to pronounce Ell-lS, wondering if it were not some trick Latin verb. TIME SAVER. The new south diagonal sidewalk, gift of the class of 1946, was a pleasant surprise. The long desired short-cut matched the north diagonal walk installed earlier, and enabled south Evanston students to cut two minutes from the time from bus stop to building. CEditor's note: Blessing or curse'?D It also atlorded a close-up view of Campus Village-the prelabs where four teachers and their families had already set up housekeeping and four more were soon to come. l-leading thirteen teachers new to the school was genial Miss Lake, the ex- change teacher from England, who had traded places with Mrs. Miller. The list included Mr. Fred, band director, whose speeded-up marches soon became pro- verbial on Beardsley Field. EMCEEING the First assembly, Mr. Bacon introduced student leaders and Freshmen to each other. Qlfditofs note? We don't know who was more surprisedj Cn the platform were Martha Rice, pres- ident of Pentangle, Bill l-lodge, president ol Quadrangle, Mary Billett, chairman of the Girls' Activities Committee, Bates Thomas, Cadet Commander of the Mili- tary -lraining Corps, Dick Dawson, editor of the Evanstonian newspaper, Marilyn Bowen, manager of the magazine cam- paign, Chuck Marck, chairman ol the social committee, and Barbara Manthei, editor of the Yearbook. To a man, each leader was less con- cerned with explaining his duties and in- viting participation in school activities than with convincing everyone how difficult it was to make a speech and how desper- ately each one wanted Hto be down there with you. Tiny l-lelen Poeppel, president of the Girls' Athletic Associa- tion, stole the show when she brought out her own special soapbox and mounted iii.