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

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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!

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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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STUDENTS TI-IREATEN ESTAB- LISHED COMPANIES! Letters of complaint have just been made public by Mr, Biesemeier, head of the Industrial Arts Depart- ment. The letters, which come from the American Manufacturers' Association, protest the large quan- tity and excellent quality of the products being turned out by this department. Une letter stated, Such competition is unfair to organized labor in that the students who are producing these commodities are under the legal working age. Mr. Biesemeier coun- ters this by saying that the real product of his depart- ment is not wood or metal but rather the development of the student. Department Head Replies The Home Economics Department has several comments on similar letters received from Betty Crocker and Christian Dior. Mrs, Lighter, director of the Department, says that Miss Crocker has no need to worry, since students of Home Economics courses have little professional ambition. To Mr. Dior she replies. Your anxieties' are no concern of ours. It is impossible to suppress such natural talent ffhu-Fr:.-'...' 5352251-ii: -- - :. A8512 YIM Sz .f - z 'eil--f ,' e:iisg,If.af f f 'K' - 7 Sf'III'lWACIIIiR RECKITT LIGIITER ISUND ISORIIEK LIBBEY FLOOD NIPIIOLSEN as these students possess. We make, and will con- tinue to make, every effort to develop it, Q LATE BULLETIN Faculty members have just issued this new statement: The hope on the part of the complain- ants that production will slow down is unfounded. We are free from labor difficulties here. There have been no strikes for better conditions. Certainly no other institution can boast higher standards than are found in our cafeteria, Mrs. Reckitt, originator of the sale of malts at lunch, can vouch for the students' unbridled enthusiasm for New Trier lunches. Moreover, New Trier offers other features which make us quite certain that our students cannot be en- ticed to any other manufacturing institution. Qur library, for example, run by Miss Libby, provides a place where the students can work off their intellec- tual energy among the 14,500 books which it con- tains. There are extra features in the form of college catalogues, books written in foreign languages, and magazines, With such equipment, we have nothing to fear from other concerns. IIIIFETERIII HIIME ECUNIIMICS LIBRARY INDUSTRIAL ARTS BIILSIEMEIER ARAM FLANINGAM LANDXVER OAKS Page 1 8