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

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ECHOES Mr. GaTTney EsTes Student Council O Prior To The presenT school year There had noT exisTed whaT many considered adequaTe sTudenT represenTaTion. ln an aTTempT To solve This siTuaTion a sTudenT council was proposed. On December 6Th, Mr. GaTTney called +ogeTher a group com- posed oT one sTudenT Trom each advisor room. The new council was To acT as a means oT securing a closer relaTionship beTween The TaculTy and The sTudenT body as well as To acT as a represenTaTive group where maTTers concerning The sTudenT body were To be discussed or a decision rendered. The new council selecTed Jack Byrne as iTs presidenT and Brenna Hawley as iTs secreTary. The members oT The inner council were Jack Byrne, James Donahue. Brenna l-lawley, Mildred Waugh, Roy Demmon, James Donovan. JudiTh Cun- ningham, Mary Ella Waidner, Bill Snyder, Arend Knoop, and Jean O'Brien. The Booz inner council immediaTely seT abouT The Task oT drawing up a consTiTuTion and seT of by-laws: To acT as chairman oT This commiTTee The inner council appoinTed FosTer Gilgis. The rnaioriTy oT The Time oT The council The TirsT semesTer was occupied wiTh The proposal and raTiTicaTion oT The consTi- TuTion and by-laws and The soluTion oT ThaT siTuaTion which has always caused considerable uproar beTween The TaculTy and The sTudenTs-ThaT oT The conducT on The Trippers. The council, Through lvir. GaTTney appoinTed a sTudenT commiTTee To aid in enTorcing The rules and also made several suggesTions To The railroad. The suggesTions were carried ouT and To daTe no TurTher Trouble has been reporTed. Near The close oT The TirsT semesTer The school decided by a decisive voTe To re- Tain The council and To supporT any and all acTions iT mighT see TiT To enTorce. The nexT quesTion ThaT arose was ThaT OT The limiTaTions oT The council as com- pared wiTh Those oT The Tri-Ship and Girls' Clubs. lT was Tinally decided ThaT The council should handle all maTTers oT dis- INNER COUNCIL FirsT Row: B.l-lawley, M.Waugh A. Booz, E.Williams, B. Bryson Second Row: D.Miller, W.Snycler F.6ilgis, J.Donovan.

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These members oT The Honor SocieTy are Honor Sociei' Girls RuTh Andersor' ElizabeTh Barden Caroline Calloway RuTh Coale Alice Ebeling Alice Freeman EsTher Hearne Alice Holloway KaThlyn I-lolwa-1 Jeanne Jacobs EsTherJansson Ursula Kellner BeaTrice Levinson June Mauland DoroThy McCoy EThel Jane Moe Ann Mosser Virginia MunsTer Boys Vlfilliam Bowen John Conrad Perry CrawTord ErnesT FsTes Howard Fogg PeTer GilberT John GriTTiTh Richard Hall Gardner Johnson William KaTz Louis Klein Jack Long Cyrus MacKinnon John MaThison George Maxwell Harry Minor Richard Olson Locke Rogers HONOR SOCIETY Rufh Saqef- Vernon Ruqen Marian SchauTTler GTOSS Williams Eleanor Shapiro Harry Woldenberg Helen Sherburne RuTh Williams Q Less Than Three semesTers in aTTendance: Rosemary Turner John Cordell Gerald Seng I The sTudenT who is a member oT The Honor SocieTy has aTTained The highesT scholasTic recogniTion To be won aT New Trier. Membership in This organizaTion means ThaT The person has mainTained a very high scholasTic average Tor all oT his or her semesTers aT This high school. Only sTudenTs who rank in The upper TenTh or Ten FirsT Row: R.Coale, B. Levinson D.McCoy, J.Mauland, R.Williams, E.Shapiro, A.Holloway, 'W.Kell ner, E.Barden, V.MunsTer, R.An derson, E.Hearne, A.Ebeling. H Sherburne, R.Sager. Second Row P.CrawTord, J.Conrad, H.Fogg P.GilberT, L.Rogers, G.Maxwell R.Hall, C.MacKinnon. J.MaThie son, W. Bowen, J.Long. B. KaTz, J.GriTTiTh, H.Minor. Third Row M.SchauTTler, D.Jacobs. E.Janns son, E.J.Moe, G.Williams, E.EsTes l..Klein, R.Olson, G.Johnson, V Rugen, H.Woldenberg. C.Callo- way, K.Holway, A.Mosser, A Freeman. I7 ECHOES per cenT oT The senior class, and who have been in aTTendance aT New Trier Tor Three semesTers or more, are eligibleTormember- ship in This socieTy. Also To be added is The TacT ThaT anyone who has had an average oT 3.2, regardless oT where ThaT person ranks in The class, auTomaTically becomes a member. An average oT less Than 3.00 ex- cludes a sTudenT Trom Honor SocieTy. Members oT The senior class only can be selecTed Tor Honor SocieTy. The boys and girls oT The oTher Three classes who are oT marlced scholasTic abiliTy are included in The Honor Groups each school year. This year TwenTy-one senior boys ouT oT a group OT Two hundred nine made The Honor SocieTy7 TwenTy-Three girls Trom a group OT Two hundred TwenTy-Tive were selecTed Tor This organizaTion. The ones To whom we loolc To carry on The high scholasTic name oT New Trier in The colleges and universiTies To which They go in Tollowing years. They have seT enviable records Tor Themselves, one which any oT New Trier's sTudenTs may be proud To Tollow. The purpose oT This organizaTion is To award Those sTudenTs who have made ouT- sTanding records scholasTically some recog- niTion, and Through ThaT recogniTion To spur oThers on To scholasTic achievemenT. As such, iT has served New Trier TaiThTully and well.

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OUTER COUNCIL FirsT Row: B.Bull, V.FIannery, K. STevenson, I.SmiTh, E.GilIeTTe, G. Kempnick, D.Mayhereg, A.Booz, B.GranT, R.Pavlicek, E.STeingraber, B.Levinson, I-I.Young, L.WoIT, D. Raggio. Second Row: P.I:rey, F. I-Iardin, P.Wilder, G.Clayball, D.FrankeI, P.Baker, R.I-Iall, J.I-Iar- rison, D.Jasper, B.Price, F.EbreT- harT, A.Dickerson, A.I-Iendrickson, D.MiIler, J.Donovan, R.Cordell. AbsenTees: E.EsTes, A.Knoop. M. Frank, A.WighT. cipline, enTorcemenT oT rules and regula- Tions, and maTTers ThaT concern The sTudenT body as a whole. All oTher problems will be handled by oTher organizaTions. ShorTly aTTer The opening oT The presenT semesTer The new council was eIecTed. The new inner council consisTed oT Twelve members: ErnesT EsTes, presidenT: Anna Marie Booz, secreTaryp Brenna I-Iawley, Mildred Waugh, FosTer Gilgis, Eleanor Williams, James Donovan, Dave Miller, BeTh Bryson, Bill Snyder, Jean O'Brien, and Arend Knoop. Among The problems ThaT were solved was ThaT OT The expansion oT The member- ship oT T. N.T. To TiT The need oT The growing enroIImenT aT New Trier. The council decided, aTTer considerable dis- cussion, To exTend The number oT seniors chosen so ThaT iT would vary Trom six To Twelve boys and six To Twelve girls in- sTead OT The usual six boys and six girls. The number OT iuniors chosen, however, will remain The same, six boys and six girls. AnoTher Task handled by The council This lasT semesTer was ThaT oT The Mess I-Iall. A special board was appoinTed and commiTTees Tor each lunch period were placed in operaTion. Through This arrange- menT The mess hall was greaTly improved. The council was asked To rewriTe The sTudenT handbook and a commiTTee was selecTed To underTake The Task. This iob proved To be a very large one, buT was successTulIy carried ouT Through The Tull cooperaTion oT -all The members OT The I9 STudenT Council. This handbook represenTs a real achievemenT Tor The STudenT Council. An InTer-Schools CommiTTee was Tormed during The year wiTh James Donahue as iTs Chairman. The commiTTee's duTy is To pro- moTe good will beTween New Trier and oTher high schools as well as To secure ideas on sTudenT governmenT Trom oTher schools and To aid in The esTablishing OT beTTer relaTions beTween The sTudenT bod- ies oT The respecTive schools. In The shorT Time since iTs TormaTion The commiTTee had already visiTed and reporTed on EvansTon, Proviso, and NorTh Park College. AT The Time oT wriTing, The council is seriously considering backing The budgeT plan Tor New Trier nexT year. This plan has been advocaTed Tor a number oT years buT has somehow Tailed To be puT inTo operaTion. IT is TeIT by many ThaT in years To come ThaT The STudenT Council will become a powerTul Torce in securing sTudenT govern- menT aT New Trier and in building up school spiriT and sTudenT morale as well as providing The necessary link beTween The TaculTy and The sTudenT body ThaT makes Tor a well run, uniTied school. New Trier has always clamored Tor a beTTer sTudenT represenTaTion and a hand in conTrolling iTselT. They have had The leadership necessary. They have had The cooperaTion and The iniTiaTive. All They lacked was The insTrumenT, and now wiTh ThaT available in The Torm oT a council They are headed Tor new heighTs oT sTu- denT governmenT. ECHOES