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

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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

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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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FGREIGN LANGUAGE LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT EXPOSE! A diabolical plot has been uncovered by the authorities. Ap- parently the plot originates from the desire of certain dangerous foreign agents to convert as many New Trier students as pos- sible into foreigners, The countries which the agents represent are Old Rome, Spain, France, and Germany, Reluctantly Dr. C. Russell Small confessed to the leadership of this group. Dr. Small answered the accusations by flauting the fact that much progress had already been made, notably this year. He ex- plained, under pressure, the plans for action employed by the mob, Lists Plan of Attack The general plan of attack was to begin with concentrated grammar drills, followed up by reading and conversation prac- tice. To keep the victims from becoming suspicious, the leaders plied them with occasional movies and folk songs, Throughout the operations, they carried on mass infiltration of culture. Discovery Accidental The first signs of the gang's success came when intimates of the victims noticed that their friends were speaking with a strange accent. Alarm grew as it became apparent that the students' mannerisms had a definite foreign flavor. Finally the victims' friends took the matter to the authorities, who began in- vestigation. Investigators shrewdly traced the affair back to the Language Office. When the detectives burst into the room they found the teachers complacently enjoying tea and triscuits. Except for one attempt on the part of Dr. Small to escape by leaping from the window, the group surrendered quietly. SMALL BRADY , BREDIN BREIDENBACH COLLINS DONHAM EISLER , FLENTYE JOHNSON g E. KAHLER LOVVREY McDOVVEI.L ' MOELLER MORRIS MUDGETT PAVL SIIAXV ,rm Page 14