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

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Page 15 MATHEMATICS O This year. The MaThemaTics DeparTmenT. under The compe- TenT leadership of Mr. Snyder. has again upheld The high sTand- ards which Tormer years oT excellenT work have seT Tor iT. The sTaTT members have been a greaT aid To The school in many ways. Examples of This are: Mr. Aschenbach. Mr. CaTon. and Mr. Funclchauser. all oT whom are TooTball coaches: Miss Gallie who is sponsor oT The KniTTing Club: Miss SleighT, head oT MaTh Club: Mr. Ude, head of TheoreTical Science Club: and Mr. WaTers, one oT ECHOES' sponsors. The deparTmenT deeply regreTs The loss oT Mr. Hoskins, who moved To CaliTornia lasT OcTober wiTh his wiTe, who was Taken ill. He will noT resume his Teaching There, buT will go inTo busi- ness. The place leTT by The resignaTion of Mr. Hoskins is being Taken by Mr. Erwin WeingarTner. He is a graduaTe oT NorTh- wesTern UniversiTy, and is worlcing Tor his MasTer's Degree There. Mr. WeingarTner also was a help as coach during The TooTball season. AnoTher addiTion To The deparTmenT is Mr. Richard Gadslce. He reTurned To The TaculTy lasT Fall aTTer serving as a Commander in The Navy Tor Tour years. Before being called To acTive duTy, he had been conferred The DocTor oT Philosophy degree Trom NorThwesTern UniversiTy and was Teaching There. No new courses have been oTFered This year. buT all of The old ones have been conTinued. They are: General MaTh and Algebra, which are offered To Freshmen: Plane GeomeTry Tor Sophomores: lnTermediaTe Algebra Tor Juniors. which, iT de- sired. can be Taken in one semesTer: and Then Tollowing This, The more advanced courses oT TrigonomeTry, Solid GeomeTry, Slide Rule, and College Algebra. all oT which are one semesTer courses. More and more sTudenTs are realizing The imporTance oT having a good background in MaThemaTics, which is proven by The large enrollmenT This year. Also, The veTerans who are re- Turning To New Trier seem especially eager To Take as much MaTh as possible, having found ouT 'from experience how useful iT is in a greaT many fields. 49 l cm' SNYDER ASCHENBACH CATON ' EVANS FUNKHOUSER GADSKE GALLIE GRATER HARPER JONES KELSO' SLEIGHT D. SMITH SWAIN UDE T .- gui. . li PN W .Zi..,. V... WATERS WEINGARTNER

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HUTCHENS H CARPENTER COOK DEAMES DURGIN H HAMILTON LEHMAN LIGHTNER MeeLEAN McKINNIEs g PETERSON PIPER K. SMITH VAN KIRK A VLASTO WALKUP WHITE WHITFIELD V WILSON WRIGHT , 'STANWOOD VCAVANAUGH ,GAHAGAN GRIMES ENGLISH DEPARTMENT O Under +he able direc+ion of Mr. Huichens. The English Deparimenf has kepf up Hs high sfandards Ihis year. A new Ieacher and reiurned veleran. Mr. McKinnie, was added Io +he depariment Also, a new course, Journalism. was added. This class may replace +hird-year English. wiih +he aim of giving sfudenis knowledge and praclice in Ihis kind of wriling. which knowledge could be puf To use on 'rhe New Trier News . I+ is hoped +ha+ evenlually all of +he News slaff will have had 'rhe Journalism course. Wi+h +ha+ addiiion, Ihe deparlmeni' con+inued all Hs former ac'rivi+ies in English preparaiion. The Greal' Books course, subsfifuled for 'lourih-year English, is s1'ill very popular wiI'h 'Ihe Seniors. The cuslomary depar+men+ Jresis were held. and 'rhe Juniors siruggled wifh Their Junior Jrhemes. The regular curriculum of +he English Depar+men+ is designed Io give us 'rraining and inslrucfion, which will form a firm foundafion in liieralure, oral and wriH'en expression. and college preparalrion. The impor- +ance of such a loundaiion is obvious when if is realized 'rhaf if musi' be used in all olher subiecis and in mosl' careers. We Ihank 'rhe English Deparfmenf for i+s valuable service. . DRAMA Slanwood. The Dramaric Deparimenl' has had a busy and profilable year. The sorry Io have losi' Mrs. Thurman, buf equally glad +o welcome Mrs. Grimes as leader of Ihe Choir a'nd lhe Tall Talkers. Olher courses offered are Dramalics, +he ever popu- Voice and Dicfion, and Choric Verse Speaking. Our Dramalic Deparimenl has been The of New Trier's fine dramalic producfions and will confinue 'ro inspire many EITHEI

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fcuerr ' comm QFLEMINGIQN. ' FRISBIE- T, 4 Y Heuosnson HURSTI I NAY GANNAWA SHEARER- V WALIZ wuens ' wen-in SOCIAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT O The Social STudies DeparTmenT, under The direcTion oT Miss Ullrick, has conTinued This year To Teach a wide varieTy oT subiecTs: Medieval l'lisTory, Geography, Eng- lish l'lisTory. AncienT l'lisTory, Civics, Economics. LaTin American HisTory, Modern l'lisTory, Sociology. and UniTed STaTes HisTory. One new course, Far EasTern His- Tory, has been added To The curriculum. Far EasTern His- Tory is TaughT by Miss WalTz, who has reTurned To New Trier afTer a year's leave of absence spenT in sTudying ThaT subiecT aT The UniversiTy of California. M.osT oT The Y 5... WEILER ULLRICK SIMONDS TATHAM hisTory sTudenTs parTicipaTed, as in previous years, in The Time CurrenT ATTairs TesT, and The Simpson Award dis- cussions oT modern world problems were again an impor- TanT iTem in The year's work. The HisTory Museum, which conTains many inTeresTing collecTions, and The ArT and Music lnTegraTion DeparTmenTs conTinued To give Their valuable aid To The sTudenTs. This deparTmenT sTrives, in every way, To esfablish a beTTer undersTanding on The parT of New Trier's sTudenTs of The economic, social, and poliTical problems ThaT conTronT The world Today. 019 f unix T Page 16