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

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SCIENCE cgmmtncf SX THE WINDOES REPORT Scientific Behavior in the New Trier Student ' The importance of science in everyday life is becoming more and more evident. The modern New Trier student realizes this fact and often takes more than the one required year of science. Even those who take only one year serve their term cheerfully. Mr. Windoes, as head of the Science Department, has done extensive research on the behavior of science students and has this to report: l. New Trier chemistry students break, blow up, or in any other way demolish more apparatus than the students of any other school. 2. New Trier biology students know more about the love life of a moth than the moths themselves. 3, New Trier physics students spend at least 75? of their time in the physics lab trying to grasp the principles of simple machines. By the end of the year a few students can actually work their yo-yos. Mr. Windoes concludes that such scientific skill is largely responsible for the high percentage of students who are accept- ed by colleges. Science IV Attracts Students Science IV, youngest of the science courses, continues to attract a great proportion of the seniors. Mr. Hoyt and Mrs. Stewart predict that every one of the students who gets mar- ried will have a successful marriage and at least five children. COMMERCE COURSES REALLY PAY Up-to-date New Trier students have found that the Com- merce Department courses pay real dividends in college and career life. Alumni of these courses will vouch for their useful- ness. This reporter got the following responses from interviews with former students. Tallulah Schwartz fclass of BIMI said, The typing and shorthand training I received at New Trier was directly re- sponsible for my becoming secretary to the president of the Nabisco Shredded Meat Company. Clarence V. Poconoh Y fclass of thirty-'levenl answered. Thanks to the typing courses I took under the Commerce De- partment, my instructors were able to read what I had written for the first time in my life. Mr. Rau says his department will continue to offer such chances for success to all ambitious New Trier students. RAU I DOCKSTADER ' GRINNELL HADDEN ' HERRON REINHARDT J. R. SMITH Page 16

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SUBIAL STUDIES MUSIBULUGY CAUSE OF FAILURE TO GRADUATE DISCLOSED! Long term students here today presented a reason for their prolonged education. It's the Social Studies Department, complained a panicky overadue graduate. 'Tve been in here eight years, and still haven't taken all their courses! Others supported his complaint. One student, en- countered on the steps of the high school, advanced the theory that some pupils stayed on because they couldn't make up their minds which courses out of the many to take, This particular student added, as he wandered off into the shrubbery, that he was one 'of these and he should know. In defense of the Social Studies Department, it must be said that they insist on only two social studies courses-U. S. History and one other-for each stu- dent. But all other history courses are made so inter- esting by current events discussions, talks by mem- bers of the faculty, and such devices, that students cannot resist them. Although no new courses have been added this year, the wide selection has certainly not been lessened, and if anything, the desirability has increased. Page 15 STIEARER COBURN C'RITC'lIETT FLEMINGTON V FRISBIE GANNAVVAY HENDERSON IIURST M. A NAY SIMONDS TATHAM VVALTZ XVEIIR XVEILER KIDD HINES Interviews with the people responsible, especially Mr, Shearer, their head, disclosed that they had no sympathy with this problem, and furthermore, they were hoping to make it even harder to solve. FLASH! -DEWEY WINS! The results of the New Trier Presidential Election were overwhelmingly in favor of New Yorks Gover- nor Dewey. Unfortunately, the country at large seems to disagree with New Trier's staunch Republi- cans. However, the mock election gave the students a practical taste of voting, and in 1952 they will be well prepared to exert their influence in a real national election, MUSICOLOGY DEPARTMENT CONTINUES WORK The Musicology Department is still going strong in its campaign to join the cultural and academic aspects of various courses. The students all look forward to the periods devoted to this break in the class rountine. Mrs. Kidd, head of the department, has a large col- lection of musical instruments. This department also sponsors the Concert Series,

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coTToN ANDERSON! HRADBURN LAVERY Mfxons ' REAM' A BH'RPHFY CASELLA FEARIHHLEY HOLLAND D.SMlTH STENVALL MUSIC and ART MASS ESCAPE MOVEMENT Friday, December 15, 1948-Nearly a thousand students escaped school today. The mass hookey movement was perpetuated by a teacher, one Marian Cotton, assisted by five others determined to lead the innocents away from their studies. After evading the classrooms, the group gathered in the gymnasium and was reported to have spent the time in singing. They were accompanied by another delinquent group, an orchestra. The gathering even boasted of plan- ning another such occasion in the spring. Probing into the leaders' past records, it was dis- covered that they have also been responsible for the taking of the Boys' and Girls' Ensembles and the Choir as far away as Orchestra Hall. lt was found that Mr. S. Mages, leader of a Concert Band, has not only carried on his activities at assemblies and concerts, but has openly flaunted his work at football games. ART DEPARTMENT CELEBRATES The most gala evening of the season was held last Saturday night. The event was the New Trier Art Page 17 Department Party. The occasion celebrated the com- pletion of another successful art year. Miss Catherine M. Murphy, head of the depart- ment, told your reporter that the art exhibits in the front hall had continued to present fine examples of contemporary art. These exhibits are popular with the students and also instructive. There has been an increased desire on the part of the students to learn more about art, as witness the information desk boys and Stuart Davis' painting. The party also celebrated the growing enrollment in art courses. Members of the department said that they were overjoyed to see so many young people taking advantage of the fine equipment of the depart- ment. f'The long arm of the Art Department has reached out to non-art courses, too, one merrymaker said. 'fMr. Holland has been able to reach those students not taking part through his 'parallel-art' lectures. The year in art was best summed up in a toast given at the party by some unidentified guest: To Art in all its forms, to more exhibits, and to a com- pletely successful Art Department!