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

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Many former pupils are now on the faculty and staff of New Trier. Faculty members are: Miss Frances Anderson: Mrs. Elizabeth Cavanaugh, V103 Miner Coburn: Miss Laura Durgin, '22: Mrs. Helen Eislerg Miss Frances Flentye, '13: Charles Gibsong Robert A. Harper, '28: Edward Kahler: 'Miss Iean KixMi1ler, V133 Charles Lauer, '26g Iames McFad- zean, '39s Miss Gertrude Moeller: Miss Catherine Murphy: David H. Robertson, VH: Arthur W. Van Deursen, '28: Miss Emelyn Waltz, '2O. Members of the office staff who are former stu- dents include Harold Burmiesterg Mrs. Violet W. Eggert: Miss Louise Holzingerg Miss Betty Lindg Miss Vivian Lindeen: Miss Rosmarie Meyer: Miss Helen Parker: Miss Audrey Purse: and Miss Marie Schmidt. Data recently gathered revealed that about one- fourth of the teachers at New Trier High School have served continuously for twenty-five years or more. l - FACULTY The teachers who served a quarter of a century or more and the dates they first joined the staff include: 1909 1912 1913 1914 1916 1918 1919 1920 1921 1923 1924: 1925 1926: W. L. Childs Frederick A. Kahler, Catherine Murphy C. Russell Small Frederick C. Windoes, William A. Snyder Harry Aram, Miss Winifred Wilson Edgar B. Iackson, Mrs. Marion Cotton L. A. Hutchens, Ioseph C. Schumacher George D. Edwards, Orville A. Oaks, Miss Lulu Wright Grover H, Flaningan, Ioseph Schmitt, Harry Piler, Miss Helen Walkup Wesley L. Brown, Miss Frances Flentye, Miss Alma E. Hurst, C. Herbert Iones. Chester E. MacLean, Miss Mary Helen Paul, Samuel S. Vernon, Harry Herron Robert Carpenter F. Donald Frisbie, Iohn Nay, Walter Aschenbach Ir., Mrs. lane W. Lighter Roland Wehr, Iris Bolton, Harold D. Ca- ton, Mrs. Adelaide Bradburn, Norman Christensen, Clyde O. Grater, DeForest Showley Page I 3

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Very shortly after New Trier opened its doors, the faculty members set aside a table under the front stairs where they could all assemble at lunchtime to eat the sandwiches they brought from home. One teacher soon made arrangements to have a hot bever- age served along with the sandwiches, prepared in the present site of the janitor's room. Boys soon seized this opportunity to make money, and enterprisingly sold such wares as coffee, soup, and cocoa to the fac- ulty at lunchtime. In 1912 a lunchroom was built, seat- ing about 300 people. Its kitchen was approximately one-third as wide as the serving room of our present cafeteria. These facilities were considered unusually good. Many of the school's activities met in the lunchroom, making it altogether a very busy place. 1916 brought the present system of double lunch pe- riods, when the student body's steady growth neces- sitated the change. In 1923 the lunchroom was found to be quite inadequate for this growing school, and was enlarged to accommodate 1,000. At this time the faculty dining room was also built. Unfortunately, this enlarging was not complete until the school opened in September, 1923, and so, for six weeks stu- dents and faculty alike reverted to the former lunch- time fare of sandwiches and milk. For daily use, about 800 chairs are needed, but on special occasions the lunch hall has seated up to 1,000 people. Among these memorable times are the occasions when Mad- ame Ernestine Schumann-Heink was a guest at the Mother-Son Banquet of 1936, and two years later when Madame Eduard Benes, whose husband, Czechoslovakia's former president, had just been ex- iled, was guest of honor at the same affair. Such parties as the Community Boy Scout Rally, and simi- lar banquets, have also brought capacity crowds to the lunch hall. In 1948 the room was again changed, to make adjustments for the Music Building. All the windows on the west side were blocked out, and a corridor cut off from the north. Several art students worked for a long time on the attractive and colorful murals which now brighten the west side of the room. New Trier's history has not been without its thrill- ing moments. People in high school in 1918 vow that they will never forget the Armistice Day Assembly in November, which was, in many cases, the outstand- ing event of World War I- Another exciting moment was when the student body purchased an ambulance to be used in the same war. Also very memorable was the school's 25th Anniversary Pageant in 1926. Among the guiding lights of New Trier in its very early days were two outstanding woman teachers, Miss Elizabeth E. Packer and Miss Olive Grover. Both were on the original faculty of seven, and both aided tremendously in forming the school's early ten- dencies which now, in its fiftieth year, make it so out- standing. Throughout her career at New Trier Miss Packer served at various times as Greek and Latin teacher, dean of girls, and acting superintendent. In 1942 she retired from the teaching profession, and is now a resident of Montclair, New jersey. Miss Packer still recalls that blizzardly first day of school when she led the students in singing. Miss Grover headed New Trier's Art Department from the Page I2 school's opening in 1901 until her decease in 1935. Both from artistic and personal standpoints, Miss Grover figured very prominently in the history of our school. One of New Trier's features so appreciated by township residents is its adviser system, which has existed in some form or other since the school's earli- est days. Superintendent Henry E. Brown instituted what he called the sponsor system, whereby each faculty member was assigned to twelve to fifteen stu- dents, selected from both sexes and all classes. These sponsors' duties consisted primarily of distrib- uting and collecting report cards. In 1912, when the home-room system was gaining popularity over all the United States, it was tried at New Trier. The teachers were now responsible for separate classes, and for checking attendance as well as the report cards. In this trial period, different methods of choos- ing the groups were used. At varying times they were selected on basis of athletic ability, scholastic standing, and other such groupings, but such meth- ods were abandoned for the present heterogeneous selection. Superintendent Frederick E- Clerk started the first real adviser system in 1922. Each adviser remained with a group of about thirty students for its entire high school career, and four years later would repeat the procedure with a new group. In due time the advisers took over the functions of guidance, and responsibility for each new advisee. Two important features of this program are the home visit system, whereby advisers visit the homes of all their charges shortly after their arrival at New Trier, and the in- tramural sports program, giving each student an op- portunity to participate in sports when the varstiy school teams might be too competitive to assure this widespread participation. The guidance testing department was added to New Trier in 1948, with the approval of the Board of Education. The testing program, under the direction of Mr. Carl Lundquist, involves testing for Q11 placement of freshmen and new students: Q21 school progress and adjustment: f3j personality adjust- ment, Q41 vocational planning: and Q51 college en- trance. Testing of incoming freshmen and new stu- dents is required so that the high school may have as accurate and complete a picture of each student's capacities and abilities as it is possible to obtain. These data are used to assign students to various classes at the subject-levels at which they are most likely to succeed. Through the guidance testing pro- gram, much information, mostly personal opinions and abilities, has been obtained about each student. One event which underscored the excellence of New Trier High School on a national basis was the feature story in the Education Edition of Life maga- zine, of October 16, 1950, which was entitled A Good High School, and, in its six pages, depicted many of New Trier's outstanding advantages. With such an illustrious beginning, we now look forward with proud anticipation to the great progress the future years will unfold for New Trier Township High School.

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ii 1 I I I I MR. JARCHOW MR. BELDING MR. CUTLER I M R. GAFFN EY ADMINISTRATIIIN The excellent reputation that New Trier has maintained for 50 years is greatly due to its fine administrations. Mr. Matthew P. Gaffney, who has been principal since 1931, has created a school that has developed citizen- ship, leadership, and character, as well as a high scholastic rating. Since Mr. Smart, the first principal, many new features have been added to the administrations activities. These additions establised a contact between the school and the township and often introduced improvements. Foremost among them is a general council, made up of adviser room parents. , Congratulations should also be extended to Mr. Wesley L. Brown. assistant superintendent, business manager, and secretary of the Board of Education, Mr, Harry H. Herron, Registrar, office manager, and purchas- MR. HALES Page I4 MRS. WILLIAMS