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

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4, R Q 4. H . feng? T 'WP' ,f .. Q V ,Q M SP., c SOME OF THE RAZING WAS EASY lConTinued from page 51 crews, This year Tor The mosT parT was spenT disenTangling ourselves Trom The TraTTic snarls and Trying To iam Two people inTo each loclcer. CongesTion was worsT in The ME. corridor, which was The only rouTe Trom The Main Building To The ln- dusTrial ArTs and Music secTionS. Various suggesTions were proposed and puT inTo eTTecT Tor lessening The crowded halls. Une pracTice which was begun in January was The change in direcTions Tor sTairways, Those in The cenTer oT The norTh corridor Tor down TraTlic and Those aT The end Tor up TraTlic. AnoTher move was made successTul aTTer we all Tinally could geT accusTomed To driving on The wrong side oT The sTreeTsi': ThaT was walking on The leTT-hand side oT The M.E. corridor insTead OT The righT. Cne more change was made in view oT The more crowded hall condiTions-This was The adopTion oT The pracTice of ringing The beTween-period passing bells in The easT wing and Music Building one minuTe sooner Than The bells in The cenTral parT oT The school, and ringing The Tardy bells one minuTe laTer. While all This readiusTing was going on in The school, The Board oT EducaTion and archiTecTural advisers were busy reviewing plans Tor The new buildings. During The summer and Tall They compleTed The blueprinTs and prepared specifi- caTions Tor bidders. A dealine oT January l5 was announced Tor qualified consTrucTion Tirms To apply wiTh Their Tinal sealed bids due by March I5. lConTinuecl on Page 7l UMA? A new MAreRiALs couro ae sALvAeeo women view or THE ow wesr wine ' '1'1 1F,f F: -T --f T, iw 'wf f we 'Q' 'f W.1,.? g TM-igyx if - T n ,Th 9-3. rg. If vw i'Jl'g -Vw ,Q gf' , qi V ,gt 'hw Tim L n .' Q 'iff A ef' 2.5-31 QTQR ,.g,g.sg'ra sf' , ' ' -K, Q l,.i..m,1' ' 4,1-' :V T- A' M' ff - . F - fiiswwsexsfw 47 ir gf fu -A 1-,U si' . s Higgs' NH' ilw.. x gu ,..,.Ks-9 -,ff5fsf2.: T 1 T. 1135? T, a ni.. , ifiirarsfvhas Q ' ' ,Q ': Ti '1 V' ff, yi i 4 5 T f, W 6 Y 'ff tk

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is ' ' h , fi fs Nr-xx' WINGS GONE. THE TOWER STANDS ALONE REMEMBER THE ous aicYcLE courm 6, . . lConTinued from page 4, which began almosT TwenTy years ago buT which was halTed during The depression years. ln order To handle some OT The overTlow oT classes This year, Temporary parTiTions were puT in The rooms and The space used Tor regular classrooms. ParTiTions were also employed in The Tri-Ship room, which was converTed To classrooms. OTher smaller consTrucTion iobs were compleTed eiTher during The summer or early in The Tall. New roll-away bleachers were insTalled in The main gymnasium To malqe ThaT place more adapTable Tor various condiTions, in view oT The TacT ThaT The school no longer had any regular audiTorium. These bleachers will accommodaTe up To one Thousand peo- ple aT a Time, raising The seaTing capaciTy oT The main Tloor To 2300. NeverTheless iT was sTill Tound necessary To cuT down on The number oT assemblies held and The amounT oT people aTTending Them, Tor Room I82, The small audiTorium, ap- peared Too Tiny and The gym Too large Tor many acTiviTies. A new enclosed passageway on The easT wing oT The school was compleTed, leading Trom The library To The main gym. AlThough noT used exTensively aT The beginning oT This year, This new corridor saw much more TraTTic when ouTside walks on The wesT side oT The wing and The ramp connecTing The 191450 Jw wing wiTh The norTh corridor were closed up by consTrucTion worlc. Une Tinal iob oT consTrucTion was The erecTion oT Two rooT shelTers over The wallcs Trom The ME. hall To The Music Build- ing, To permiT saTe passing beTween Those poinTs in bad weaTher. These shelTers connecT wiTh eiTher side oT The load- ing doclcs. The disappearance oT The Tower Building broughT along many changes in rooms. Two rooms in The Music Building were converTed To sTudy halls, buT There was sTill one less sTudy hall Than in pasT years. Due To lack oT space, Tri-Ship and Girls' Club sTudy halls were disconTinued Temporarily. lSecond semesTer, however, saw Girls Club sTudy hall res- umed.l The book sTore was moved To The basemenT oT The Music Building, The healTh oTTice was relocaTed in The ln- dusTrial ArTs secTion, and The Echoes oTTice Tound iTselT in a corner oT The Tield house, proving ThaT every spare inch oT space was uTilized ThroughouT The schooll The main norTh corridor soon became The social cenTeriT oT New Trier. BulleTin boards were moved There, and phone booThs esTablished in The ends. yvhereas lazT year we hao TO accusTom ourselves To perpeTual noises Trom The razing lConTinued on page bl

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fconiinued Trom page bl During This Time The adminisTraTion announced ThaT iT con- sTrucTion proceeded aT The expecTed raTe, The new building mighT be compleTed up To six monThs ahead OT Time. ln TacT, iT was sTressed ThaT one impOrTanT consideraTiOn in awarding cOnTracTs would be The abiliTy OT The conTracTor To proceed aT Once and plan cOnsTrucTion so ThaT The period OT building and inconvenience shall be shorTer Than originally planned. Once The Tinal dealine appeared, The board losT liTTle Time in awarding conTracTs. The bids were opened lvlarch l9, and by March 25 The board and iTs advisers had come To a de- cision. The main conTracT was awarded To The John W. GriT- TiThs and Son ConsTrucTion CO., wiTh smaller iobs being han- dled by various oTher Tirms. The company esTimaTed ThaT The enTire consTrucTiOn OT The new buildings would be com- pleTed by AugusT l5, i956-which is over six monThs ahead OT The Board OT EducaTiOn's original esTimaTe. IT The con- sTrucTiOn goes according To schedule, iT will be possible To move inTo The new building The TirsT semesTer OT I956, wiTh The pOssibiliTy OT uTilizing some OT The rooms even beTore ThaT daTe. Ground-breaking Tor The new addiTiOns occurred The week OT spring vacaTion, and by now The work is well under way. This main cOnsTrucTion work will cosT abOuT Three million dol- lars, wiTh all oTher auxiliary work, such as elecTriciTy, plumb- ing, heaTing, decoraTion and Turnishing cosTing anoTher Two WHIIK million. ParT OT This laTTer cOsT includes The enTire changing OT New Trier elecTrical and heaTing sysTems and some boiler- room addiTions, all OT which were cOmpleTed during April aT a cOsT OT S400,000. IT was necessary TO Tinish The iob OT remodeling These sysTems prior To The acTual building OT The new buiding, so ThaT elecTriciTy and heaT will be available Tor The new pOrTions OT The school when These are compleTed. ln The heaTing secTion, a more modern boiler was insTalled, which is raTed aT 45,000 pounds an hour. In coniuncTiOn wiTh The new boiler is a more eTTicienT coal handler To help in- crease The eTTiciency OT New Trier's heaTing planT. An im- porTanT change in The boiler roOm's waTer supply was The inclusion OT a new waTer-sOTTening uniT. Une more proiecT in This program was The enTire change OT elecTrical circuiTs Trom a Two-phase To a Three-phase sysTem. The enTire new building program will bring TO New Trier l-ligh School some OT The TinesT TaciliTies in The counTry. Our new audiTOrium will seaT almOsT Twice as many people as our Old one. The new memorial library will OTTer eguipmenT and space unequaled by any oTher library in The area. The new addiTiOn To The caTeTeria will seaT 400 more people Than does The lunch hall This year. The new Main Building will boasT OT ThirTy-Tive new class- rooms and eighT sTudy halls. ln addiTiOn, iT will house com- pleTe adminisTraTive, deparTmenTal, and business OTTices, plus lConTinued on page 81