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

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A Look Back CContinued from Page 41 camaraderie which large numbers render impossible today. just as the administrative system of the old New Trier would seem quaint to the student of the present, so would the modest physical set-up. In 1915 the old tower building, recently torn down, was the only school building. At the top of this tower was a tiny room with a peaked roof where English classes met, a far cry from the modern tower room which now serves pre- cisely the same purpose. VVhere students now use functional and spacious facilities, earlier students did research in a library no larger than the attendance office. lluch later, in 1951, New Trier-ites used the old auditorium where the seats faced each other and not the stage. And the huge front lawn, now restricted to students, was the site for boy 'scout camp-outs and later a special gathering place for seniors. VVhile actual distances within the town- ship have not changed, the student of an earlier era managed to make the long trelc to school without benefit of automobile transportation. Those who did not live in the more remote suburbs walked to school in all weather. Others, whose homes were Drzxs Rexmrml o I he Kingfs I rf'r,l'le, 1928. 1 1 .wr Ji xi - 1 NDI I

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