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

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Curricular Opportunitie lConTinued Trom page I9'l graduaTion and college enTrance. Some oT The unusual oTTerings are in The so- cial-sTudies Tield-geography, LaTin American hisTory, Far EasTern hisTory, BriTish hisTory, and sociology. ln maTh- ernaTics There are exTra classes in slide rule, an elecTive subiecT, besides courses in advanced rnaThemaTics. ln The indusTrial arTs curriculum, worlc experience oTTers crediT Tor successTul compleTion oT on-Thesiob Training. This is Tor sTudenTs noT planning To go To college immediaTely Tollowing gradua- Tion. The home economics curriculum includes courses in inTerior decoraTion and consumer educaTion, while in arT, pracTice in craTTs is available Tor The hobby-minded and The sTudy oT greaT arTisTs Tor sTudenTs oT The humaniTies. In English classes There have been in- Troduced special speech uniTs and also Training in reading improvemenT. Four years oT English has been made a re- guiremenT Tor graduaTion, wiTh waivers granTed only in The case oT Three-year graduaTes. When one considers The va- rieTy oT courses in The dramaTics and speech deparTmenTs, courses such as voice and dicTion, speech correcTion and lip reading, radio acTing and an- nouncing, as well as verse-speaking Training, iT appears ThaT The varieTy oT subiecT maTTer oTTered aT New Trier is .-'s. ii ggi '-. f SHADES OF CAESAR-A SMALL ILATINJ WONDER BE-MUSED: STUDY OF THE ENGLISH CLASSICS GEOGRAPHY STUDENTS KNOW WHERE THEY'RE GOING THEY SEE THE WOODS INSTEAD OF THE TREES

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of Classes Show Growth CEREMONIAL FISH FROM JAPAN IN FAR EASTERN HISTORY CLASS SOMEHOW THINGS GET ALL MIXED UP ETERNAL QUESTION: CAN SHE TOR HEJ COOK? we , I . lConTinued from page I2l TaculTy members or oTher personnel re- quiremenTs. Mr. R. E. Wilson Took over Mr, R, BowermasTer's senior boys' groupf Mrs. Eisler replaced Mrs. Cor- nell as an adviser oT senior girls: Mrs. M. James replaced Mrs. Krieg in a iun- ior girls' group: Mrs. Bishop assumed leadership oT Mrs. Elrhel TaTham's soph- omore girlsf and Mr, Jack Bird Tools over Mr. R. B, SweeT's sophomore boys' group. The I:aculTy Council, a legisIaTive body oT represenTaTives whose TuncTion iT is To recommend changes in a school policy on any maTTers perTaining To The TuncTions and procedures oT The school, is somewhaT The same Type oT organiza- Tion To The TaculTy as The STudenT Coun- cil is To The sTudenTs. This year iT was composed oT Dr. William Cornog, su- perinTendenT7 Miss Frances Bredin, iun- ior girls' adviser chairman: Mr. Richard Gadslce, maTh deparTmenT heady Mr. William Gannaway, senior boys' adviser chairmany Mr. Lyle I-Ienderson, social sTudies7 Mr. RoberT Larsen, indusTrial arTs7 Mr. Lionel LighTner, English: Mr. DeI3orresT Showley, boys' physical edu- caTion deparTmenT head: Miss Norma SleighT, maTh7 Mrs. Anne STewarT, sci- ence, and Mr. C. O. WaTers, maTh. OTTicers were Mr. Jerry Kelley, visiTing adiusTmenT counselor, presidenT7 Mr. Carl Clader, science, vice president and Mrs. Karol Greeson, business, sec- reTary. New Trier has Tor many years oTTered a wide selecTion oT courses To rneeT The inTeresTs and The abiliTies oT iTs sTu- denTs, as well as The requiremenTs Tor lConTinued on page 201 IT'S WHAT'S UNDERNEATH THAT COUNTS s,,mvm,,,,,.. .,... 1 - , lin X i l lg. ,l E'

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almosf wiIhouI peer. BUI Ihe course of sIudy, wiIh all Hs variefy, iusI doesn'I slrand sIiII. Innovafions in Ihe curricuIurn Ihis year appeared as Ihe sfudy of logic: was in- Iroduced in some English, mafh, and science Classes, IouI even more noIe- worrhy was Ihe creaIion oi Iwo invifa- IionaI courses, one in advanced maIhef mahcs Ior sophomores who had done ouIsIanding work in Ihe freshman year and Ihe ofher Ior juniors and seniors who showed uncommon aIoiIiIy in Creae Iive wririnq. The Iorrner course sIarIed in Sepwhernber and Ihe IaIIer in Febru- ary, Iaughr by Mr. Swain and Mr. IConIinued on page 22I CERAMICS BRINGS OUT THE CREATIVE ggi: I I ,Q X Wiz I W xx., ADVANCED CLASS FOR MATHEMATICS WHIZ KIDS sfql ,4Qf5I4gIsQziiw!!llu TECHNICAL DRAWING TAKES TANGIBLE FORM BY ISLIDEI RULE OF THUMB, FOR FUTURE ENGINEERS ONCE A DAY FOR FOUR YEARS STRAIGHT