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

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ENELISH DRAMA . ,--. y -- MAREA E. VLASTO 1894-1948 All those who knew Miss Vlasto felt her loss deeply. She was greatly interested in her students and her work. As an advisor she made every effort to help her advisees in whatever they did. In memory of her kindness and devotion, a scholarship fund was estab- lished by her adviser-room, to be given to some mem- ber of the 1949 graduating class. GRISLY CLASS ROOM MURDER! The King's English was found dead this morning in room 231, shot through the predicate. Suspicion immediately ,fell on English students at New Trier. Inspector Hutchens reports that the murder weapon may have been a split infinitive or a double negative. I Members of the investigating squad are greatly distressed. It was felt that all was well between the victim and the suspects. Witnesses affirm that shortly before the murder, the suspects had actually begun to do their homework. Even the followers of the Great Books Course were thought to harbor no rebellious tendencies. They still opened the books every weekaend and stared at the pages. Nevertheless, witnesses had to concede that the presence of the corpse proved these assumptions false. The only plausible motive for the crime was that progress in English this year had been so great that the students couldn't bear the pressure. ACTING PROVES PRACTICAL Faculty members have recently noted the increased ingenuity of unprepared students who are bluffing their way through class, Even the students who merely say I don't know say it with such force, style, and faultless diction that their teachers give them A for the day, The Drama Department takes credit for this work. The department has brought about this strange behavior through speech classes and the study of the theater. One new course has been added, a combination of English and Drama. Mr, Coburn and company, often aided by members of the English Department, direct the extra-curricular plays. These part time assistants are Mr. Lehman, Mr. McKinney, Mr. Hol- land, Mr, Iones, Mr. Harper, Miss Lighter, Miss Deames, and Mrs. Davis. I ' Page 12

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MURPHY RAI7 IIUTCHENS SMALL SCHOENENBERGER LIGHTER BIESEMEIER Art Commerce English Foreign Language Health Home Economics Industrial Arts LIBBEY SNYDER COTTON CHILDS BOULTON YVINDOES SHEARER Library Mathematics Music Boys' Physical Girls' Physical Science Social Studies Education Education KAHLER MALONEY VVEHR BREDIN CARPENTER IIKTRST REAM HAMILTOIN Supervisor, and Mr. Biesemeier, Superinten- dent of Building and Grounds. Also listed were Mr. Lundquist, of the Guidance Test- ing Department, and Mr. Frisbie, Associate Dean of Boys. The results of the poll also show that the students are well aware that there exisits a Board of Education, which attempts to cem- ent relationships between New Trier and the villages of the Township. Few students, however, know the names of the members of this Board. About half of those polled knew that the president is Christian E. Iarchow. The other members are Paul W. Cutler, Ralph G, Hinners, Bert M. Kohler, and Mrs. Harry Williams. ' Page 11 KAHLER MALONEY BROVVN HERRON BIESEMEIER LUNDQUIST

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MATH DEPARTMENT SURGES FORWARD The Math Campaign is still going forwardg all rea sistance is fast crumbling. Although the battle has been going almost a year, it is expected that the stu- dents will have complete control of the situation by spring. Report from Front General Snyder reported early this morning that he believes such successes are due to attention and real thinking on the part of the students. Even the tough- est problems can be conquered with these weapons, supplemented by some good licks at home, he ob- served. In View of the repeated victories of the stu- dents, semester tests, once a much-feared factor in the battle, can probably be overcome without the use of heavy artillery. Personnel on Toes The staff members under General Snyder have been doing their usual fine jobs. Leading the students on against all opposition, they deserve special credit for helping to make possible the recent defeat of the S.A.T.'s. One staff attache, interviewed by this re- porter, said, No wonder New Trier students have no trouble conquering mathematics in college. They're all seasoned veterans by that time, MATHEMATICS SNYDER ASCHENBACH CATON V EVANS HARPER JONES KELSO SLEIGHT A Page 13 MQW SVVAIN UDE YVATERS VVEINCARTNER