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---- Ello June 19, 1926 WINNETKA TALK MODEST BEGINNING FOR GREAT MODERN SCHOOL It Was a Cold Day, too, Says Miss Packer, When First Stu- dents Answered Call By ELIZABETH E. PACKER (Reprinted from The Trevian, New Trier Annual of 1909.) It was a cold and snowy reception that New Trier gave her pupils and teachers that first day, February 4, 1901. Some 76 boys and girls and 7 teachers plowed through the drifts that stormy morning. Of the 76 pupils, 40 were girls and 36 boys. They gathered in an assembly room on the first floor--the space now being occupied by Miss Burchard's class- room, Mr. Sims' office and the teach- ers' office. Mr. Smart was our dignified and ef- ficient principal. Except for those who worked in daily contact with him there are few, probably, who realize how much the school owes to Mr. Smart's energy and his interest in its develop- ment. He lost no time in organizing the work. By the second day many of the classes were under way. The writer has a happy remembrance of that first class that met her the first hour, holding its recitation in the as- sembly room, as someone was needed in attendance there and this Ceasar class was small--four members, Ella Greenbaum, Charles Eastman, Louis Uhe and Roland Hurford. Day of Small Things That surely was the day of small things. New Trier indulged in few frills those five remaining months of the school year. The wood-working shop was not fitted out until the fol- lowing fall. All the science work that was done had quarters in the present biological rooms and was under the charge of Mr. Sharpe. His depart- ment was enlarged the next year by the addition of the suite now occupied by the Chemistry and Physics depart- ments. The equipment of that depart- ment is due largely to Mr. Sharpe's earnest efforts. The second and third stories were not then finished off--no Domestic Science, no Commercial de- partment. The huge space on the second floor intended for the regular assembly room was used for indoor baseball--the small but enthusiastic be- ginnings of our glorious future in athletics. Mr. Powell bore a willing hand in these early atempts. When our present assembly room was finish- ed, athletics was relegated to the attic but still throve upon that higher plane. Luncheon! We were like one big family and held forth in the light base- ment room where some of the girls now try a Baltimore lunch in the reci- tation benches of the physiology classes. 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 alchohol lamp and had soft boiled eggs on occasion. In those early days we opened school FOR DISTINCTIVE PERMANENT WAVING (Negrescou's Pure Steam Process) As Low as $15.00 Also HAIR GOODS For discriminate requirements con- sult Mr. John Negrescou, 30 years on State Street. Expert Beauty Parlor Service and Artistic Hair Cutting THE WIGGERY SUITE 1314 STEVENS BLDG. 17 N. State Street Tel. Randolph 1035 two or three times in the week by singing--Miss Burchard at the piano and the Latin teacher as leader. The present large and well-equipped chorus might well smile with superiority at our simple and rather primitive at- tempts. Somewhere, in some dusty corner of a cupboard, must still be re- posing those thin, blue-papered song books. Our favorites were "Integer Vitae" and "Nancy Lee." Of that original faculty, Mr. Smart has gone to a large field as superin- tendent of schools at Davenport, Ia.; ' Miss Eddy, our mathematics teacher, married and is now living in Bakewell, England; Mr. Powell acts as secretary to President James of our State uni- versity; Mr. Sharpe is still doing work in science in Brooklyn, N. Y.; Miss Burchard and Miss Packer are the only "Ancient and Honorables" left. Thirty Classes Daily Life was a simple matter with about thirty classes a day--a marked con- trast to the busy, complex organism that we know today, with its 111 classes daily, its orchestra, Glee club, Athletics, Debating societies, Com- mercial, Science and Mechanical clubs not to mention the class organizations, and lastly the Echoes. In the spring of 1901 nothing about school seemed finished except the beautiful grounds with the well-graded lawns and the shrubbery effectively ar- ranged, much as we still see it; but the spirit of earnest endeavor and the ideals giving promise of its larger sub- sequent growth, were present from the first. : IN W. W. G. A. PLAY Three local golf clubs had entrants listed in the first round of the W. W. G. A. medal championship play at Midlothian club Tuesday, June 15. Mrs. John Arends was the player from the Wilmette Golf club, Mrs. C. A. Klotz from Indian Hill, and Mrs. B. G. 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