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

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Editors ' Comment • The past year has been one of changes — in our school, in our nation, in the world. Most significant to us are those we have watched take place in our fellow students through their hopes, their disappointments, and their victories. We have illustrated on the following pages the activities through which these changes took place — in the class room, on the field of sports, behind the footlights, at play ... a book of re- minders for the class of 1939, a record for the whole school, a tribute to New Trier. Edwin S. McKeown — Editor Patty Harshaw — Associate Editor h

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In Honor oi R. H. Carpenter A Brief History of New Trier Publications • No history of New Trier publications from 1926 on could be written without being virtually a diary of R. H. Carpenter for that period. His unfailing efforts in this field will never be forgotten by those who had the privilege of working with him before he retired this year from active work in publications. In 1907 there issued from New Trier a publication called the Trievian, which was a combination of a college entrance catalog and the modern New Trier handbook, and served as a L.ild sort of advertise- ment for the school. At that time the Echoes was a literary magazine, similar to today ' s Inklings. Later the handbook was started and the Trievian, no longer needed, disappeared. In 1912 Duke Childs, in an attempt to interest the grade schools in athletics at New Trier, started publication of a small sheet which he called the New Trier News, for the grade schools only, which contained nothing but athletic news. Its weekly appearance was stopped by the World War, and when it reappeared in 1919 it was distributed to N. T. students for five cents a copy. Mainly because it was so well handled, the paper for these first years was tremendously successful, and four times a year it contained a supplement called the Echoes, which was still a literary magazine con- taining stories, poems, cartoons and N. T. songs. Soon the Echoes outgrew its container and instead of the seasonal issues, a boys ' issue was started ragging the girls and vice-versa. The possibilities there soon became exhausted, and an interclass feud was carried on instead, with the seniors heckling the juniors, the juniors, the sophomores. Out of this finally grew a fairly dignified Echoes which con- sisted of an issue by each class, with a slightly larger senior issue coming last. After a few issues the senior one became virtually a yearbook, and the