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June 12, 1926 WINNETKA TALK 23 NEW TRIER FACULTY | GROWS FROM 7 TO 76 Meager Staff Twenty-five Years | Ago Grows Apace with Mar- | velous Student Growth In a quarter of a century, New Trier High school's faculty has grown in number from 7 to 76. An av- erage 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, Elizabeth Packer, dean of girls, and Alice Burchard, English teacher. In 1902, Olive L. Grover was added to the staff, and in 1908, Eliza- beth Casey and George A. Harper, present dean of boys. Back in 1901, the duties of a prin- cipal were not enough to take all of a man's time, so the first principal taught two academic subjects. Most of the instructors taught two sub- jects also. The girls did not have a gym teacher until 1908, when a phys- ical director was added, but their bas- ketball team was ably coached by a man. Lunch in Basement There is a Mess hall at New Trier now, and the students eat on the main floor, while the faculty occupies the balcony known as the teachers' bal- cony. In the early days of New Trier, there was no Mess hall, and students and teachers together used a basement room for a lunch room. One of Miss Packer's comments in The Trevian, which was the 1909 school annual, was: "The Board of Education had not then laid plans for hot dishes to be served at noon. Cold lunches were the order of the day except as one wise virgin teacher produced an alcohol lamp and had soft boiled eggs on occasion." When New Trier opened in 1901, of the seven teachers enrolled six were teaching academic subjects and one a special subiect. The special subject, or "extra," was freehand drawing. Later, physical training, domestic economy, manual training, music and the commercial subjects became a part of the curriculum. Last year two ex- tras, Dramatics and Journalism, were added in the way of experiment. Keep Pace With Growth The teaching staff had to be en- larged because the number of students increased so rapidly. While the num- ber of students increased from 76 to about 1400, the faculty grew from 7 to 76, thus keeping the propor- tion practically the same. There are 1s many people in the faculty now as there were students in 1901! N. T. Girls' Club Aids Students and Charities The Girls' club of New Trier high school, which is composed of all the girls in the school, has just finished its most successful year. It has made more money than ever before, and has a special attempt to help and encour- age incoming students. Each year, in addition to the work accomplished in the school, the club has given aid to charity organizations, and has under- taken all the philanthropic activities of the season at Christmas and Thanks- giving. Besides, the Girls' club has sponsored many interesting and novel social events, among which were the Fathers' and Daughters' banquet, the Art tea, and the Bazaar. The opening and final numbers of "Enlightenment," New Trier anni- versary pageant, are described as a hlending of school songs. The com- nositions were prepared by Miss Susannah Armstrong, instructor in Harmony at the school. SALE LINOLEUM INLAID--~Regular Value $2.00 a square yard Special for One Week Only a square yard for HOMES OFFICES STORES Demand Made - Possible These 4 Prices-Quality .Created the Demand $1.17 >< L 4 0000000009009 (220d 294000000 CTA AZ 4 228% + Re a ty ceptional offer for ONE MORE WEEK ESTIMATES WITH- OUT OBLIGATION FLOOROLEUM 1007 Davis He EVANSTON Ph. Greenleaf 1941