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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 11 Jun 1926, p. 21

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June 11, 1926 WILMETTE LIFE 21 NEW TRIER FACULTY ... -. · ~~ l ··· , . I ,.. GROWS FROM 7 TO 76 Meager Staff Twenty-five Years Ago Grows Apace with Marvelous Student Growth ln a quarter of a centurv, New Trier Hig-h school's faculty h~s grown in number from 7 to 76. An average of about three teachers has been added each year, and it is certain that the teaching- staff will be larger next year. Of the seven who composed the first faculty, two are now teaching at New Trier, ~lizaheth Packer. dean of g-irls, and Alice Burchard, English teacher. In 1902, Olive L. Grover was added to the str1 ff; and in 190ft Elizaheth Casey and George A. Harper, present dean of boys. Bark in 1901, the duties of a principal were not enough to take all of a man's time, so the first principal taug-ht two academic subject:-;. Most of the instructors taug-ht two suhjccts also. The girls did not ha\·e a 11 SALE INLAJD, ,Regular Value . $2.00 I ) '. a square J'ard .. ~(':~~-all Spe..la . I. Ior One fc~ ; d~~~~~~err '~~:ilaJ~~·. ~~,t;h:irp~~~~: ~ team wa~ ably coached hy a Lunch in Basement $I -I ' · w· eek OD Iv . " 8 : .. · There is a Mess halt at New Trier now, and the students rat on the main floor. while the f acuity orcupir" the halconv known as the teacher:;· halron~·. ·Tn the early days of Nrw Trirr. there was no Mess hall. and students and teacher. toQ'dher used a ha. ement room for a ltmch room. One of ~fi~~ Parker\ comments in The TreYian, which \\'as ti1e 1909 school annual. wa:;: "The Board of Ecluration had not then laid plans for hot dishes to he scrn:-d at noon . Cold lunches were the order of the day rxcent as onr wise virgin teacher produced an alcohol lamp and had ·soft hoiled eggs on occasion." \~' hen Nrw Trier opened in 1901. of the seven teachers enrolled six were teaching- academic subjects and on.e a special suhi ect. The special subject, or "extra." was freehand drawing. Later. physical training, domestic economy, manual training, . music and the rommercial subjects became a part of the curriculum. Last year t\\·o extras. Dramatics and Journalism. were added in the way of experiment. Keep P ace W ith Gro wth Square J'&rd lor HOMES OFFICES STORES Demand Made Possible These Priees·QualitJ' Created the Demand Our buying power:_ ena.bles us to make this exceptional offer for The teaching- staff had to he enlarged heca use the numher of students increased so rapidly. \Vhile the number of students increased from 76 to ahout 1.400. the faculty grew from .7 to 76, thus keeping the proportion practicalbr the same. There arc as many people in the farulty now as there were students in 1901 ! N. T. Girls' Club Aids Students and Charities The Girls' rluh of New Trier high school. which is composed of all the girls in the school. has just finishe-d its most successful vear. It has made more moneY than· ever before, and has a special attempt to help and encourage incoming stu(lcnts. Each Year, in addition to the work accompli~hed in the school, the cluh has given aid to charitv org-aniz<t tions, and has undrrtaken ·all the philanthropic activities of the season at Christmas and Thanksgrvmg-. Besides, the Girls' club has sponsored many interesting and novel social events, among- which were the Fathers' and Daug-hter.' banquet. the Art tea, and the Bazaar. The opening and final numhcrs of "Enlightenment." New Trier annivf·rsary pag-eant, are descrihed as a hlenrling- of ~chool songs. 'The compositions were prepared hy Miss Susannah Armstrong-, instructor 111 Harmony at the school. ON£ MOR£ , . WEEK ..... ESTIMATES WITH~ OUT OBLIGATION ~ .. 1001 DaVIS · St· EVANSTON Ph· GreenJea. 1.! 1941 ft

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