Classic photos: New Trier Township High School

Sept., 1953: A shot of New Trier’s offensive line.

Aug., 1954: The tower of New Trier, a replica of the one at Trier’s town hall in Germany, gets razed.

May, 1957: New Trier’s boys’ golf team.

March,1958: New Trier students washing cars to raise money for their various after-school clubs’ charity funds.

May, 1958: Seniors delve deep into causes and results of American historical events in an advanced placement class called Advanced American History.

April, 1959: Anne Beckett (left), head of the New Trier Township High School’s honor committee, and Stephen Doughty, student council president, discuss the problem of a student who has cheated on an exam with Norman Ude, algebra instructor.

Aug., 1963: Harold Schad, of Cary, washes windows on one of six new mobile classrooms added to New Trier. Eight more are used to keep up with enrollment, which shot up to 4,700.

Nov., 1963: Freshman take a math exam on the honor system at New Trier. The teacher has left the classroom and is sometimes away during the entire exam period.

1965: New Trier’s senior choir, class of 1965.  (Tribune Archive Photo / Chicago Tribune)

Oct., 1966: Students walk through a courtyard in between class periods.

Jan., 1972: New Trier East students watch as Darlena, a professional belly dancer, gives a class on Middle Eastern dancing.

Jan., 1973: Swimmers get ready to race in the varsity 200-yard freestyle.

May, 1973: Students at New Trier West sit amid entries by teens during preliminary judging of projects which will be shown at the Illinois State Fair.

Oct., 1973: New Trier East’s Tom Vignola uses his head in a match against Niles West.

March, 1974: Jim Furham (15) and Chris Wall (45) of New Trier East battle Waukegan’s Jerome Whitehead (54) for the ball in a sectional game at Waukegan.

Nov., 1975: Diane Cole, New Trier East goalie, stops a shot from a Galesburg High School player in the Illinois Girls’ State Field Hockey Championship quarter finals at New Trier West. Galesburg claimed a 2-1 victory.

Jan., 1977: Mrs. Sylvia Kahn demonstrates the art of cake decorating to some New Trier West students.

Dec., 1978: A look inside the WNTH radio station located in New Trier East. At the mike is Hal Burnstein, 14, behind him is John Sabard, 15, and on the phone is Steve Minn, the 17-year-old station manager.

Dec., 1978: Students relax in a hallway during a passing period at New Trier.

Oct., 1983: New Tier’s Tim Hall kicks a 25-yard field goal for the only points of the game as the Trevians beat Evanston in a battle of undefeated teams.

April, 1984: Head chef Juana Wong stirs up a boiling cauldron of soup for New Trier students.

April, 1984: Students line up in the cafeteria, awaiting another day’s delicacies.