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...architects who care to tackle such specifications have sprouted some of the most eye-catching buildings in the nation (see color pages). Architect Richard J. Neutra's pioneering (1940) Crow Island Elementary School in Winnetka, 111. did away with fixed seats and high ceilings. Architect Mario J. Ciampi's prizewinning Westmoor High School (1958) in Daly City near San Francisco is big, stunning architecture: shimmering glass, enamel murals, barrel-vaulted roof. Grabbing whatever space is left to schools, other designs march ingeniously up and down hillsides. New hexagonal and pentagonal structures reach out for sun and air, proclaiming...
...five discussion sessions of the Conference will begin this afternoon at 2:15 p.m. in Baker 100, located at the Business School. "The Junior High School in Transition" will be debated by Matthew P. Gaffney, former superintendent of New Trier High School, Winnetka, III, Sidney P. Marland, Jr., superintendent of schools, Winnetka, and William T. Grubn, professor of Education at the University of Connecticut...
...Trier Township High School in Winnetka, Ill., a pretty, blue-eyed young woman, who might be mistaken for a home economics teacher, instead makes an unusual approach to the teaching of high school English. Karin De Long spiritedly guides her students through challenging books, then has them find and lift out techniques to use in their own writing. Any kind of writing-mostly good, but sometimes bad-is fair game for Teacher De Long. One week she may give her class Chaucer, another week Thomas Hardy, another a collection of Japanese Haiku (17-syllable poems). "I want to see both...
Barr's transformation has also wrought changes in his personal life. He has less time to spend with his wife and four children, putter in his rose garden. He spends evenings poring over work in the library of his twelve-room house in suburban Winnetka, Ill. His life has become almost as self-centered as Avery's on the contents of a secret closet in his Chicago office. The closet contains charts of the company and the U.S. economy. In Avery's time the projections all went down; now all the lines go sharply...
...Brookline; Alison M. Keith '59, of Barnard Hall and Rochester, Minn.; Anne H. Layzer '59, of Cambridge and Chestnut Hill; Alice C. Pepper '59, of Moors Hall and New York City; Nancy L. Proger '59, of Comstock Hall and Brookline; and Nancy C. Stein '59, of Whitman Hall and Winnetka...