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

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Page 4 New Trier Township, served by our high school, takes its name from the ancient Ger- man city of Treves, or Trier, from which the first North Shore settlers emigrated. Situ- ated on the Moselle River in the Rhine Prov- ince of Prussia, Trier boasts more Roman antiquities than any other city, among them the famed Porta Nigra ate, which now appears on the seal of Nlew Trier High School. Originally, the township consisted of the present villages of Glencoe, Winnetka, Kenilworth, and Wilmette, as well as such smaller sections as Waubun fnow North- field J , Taylorsport, the original southern part of Glencoe, Llewellyn Park, a section of east- ern Wilmette, and a few other similar now extinct communities. At present the high school serves students from Glencoe, Win- netka, Kenilworth, Wilmette. and parts of Glenview, Northfield, and Northbrook. In recent years the school has so much over- shadowed the township that when New Trier is mentioned, most people think im- mediately of the former, and not of the latter. From a technical standpoint, New Trier Township is Township '12 North, Range 13 East of the 3rd principal meridian, and the high school is Cook County School District 203. The standard township is six miles square, but in Illinois the state-wide average is 35.3 square miles. Because Lake Michi- gan cuts sharply into New Trier Township, however, it has only 17.32 square miles. Our township has always provided its own relief funds, either by direct taxation or from ex- cess real estate commissions and from per- sonal property taxes. It has never had to rely on the State of Illinois for funds. Chicago newspapers nicknamed New Trier High School the polar bear school when it opened even on a day of a huge snowstorm, and closed after only one class period. These first students were soon im- pressed with the motto we now all know so well, New Trier never closes! This was on February 4, 1901, the day on which school first opened, The need for a high school had become increasingly evident since 1889 when township residents observed that something would have to be done about the problem of education for the rapidly-growing villages. Finding that Illinois law authorizes township high schools, New Trier Township organized itself into School District 203, and in 1889 elected a board of trustees. The taxpayers authorized by their vote the issuance of bonds to the extent of flS60,000. Norman S. Patten was selected to be the architect, and C. E. Carson appointed to direct the construction. While the high school was being built, the township paid the students' tuition to schools in Chicago, Evanston, and Winnetka. All the activities for the original 72 stu- dents and 7 teachers were housed in what is