Glencoe News

Fleet Street comes to the New Trier stage

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:38:00 -0500

WINNETKA — Last week the student-actor of New Trier High School’s production of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” took their first looks at the impressive set built by their peers as they work toward opening night.

New Trier marketing students order up a tasty lesson

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 06:09:22 -0500

WINNETKA — A friendly New Trier High School competition, an hour off of school and plenty of free food and drinks led many excited students last week to Capt’n Nemo’s on Green Bay Road.

New Trier Robotics Club hits the pool

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:44:00 -0500

GLENVIEW — The group of New Trier High School students meeting at the Glenview Park District pool isn’t the Trevian swim team.

Bonnie Stern Miller to join husband in New Trier H.S. Hall of Honor

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:06:01 -0500

WINNETKA — Bonnie Stern Miller returned to New Trier High School last year to accompany her husband, Tom, who was selected to join the school’s Alumni Hall of Honor. Thanks to her New Trier friends’ nomination, including her old neighbor from Glencoe, Gail Gumbiner, Miller will join her husband Tom in New Trier’s Hall of Honor Mar. 14. The duo will again speak with the students to share their experiences. “(The New Trier) students are really enthusiastic and I’m excited to come back,” Miller said. “(The honor) is very meaningful to me and I appreciate it.” Bonnie and Tom, who …

New Trier principal leaves Winnetka campus for position at Northwestern

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:28:04 -0500

WINNETKA — Timothy Dohrer, principal at New Trier High School’s Winnetka campus, has tendered his resignation and accepted a position at Northwestern University, a new release from District 203 stated. Dohrer, a 23-year veteran of New Trier, has served as Winnetka campus principal since 2009. He will leave the school at the end of June and his appointment at Northwestern becomes effective July 1. “It’s been an incredibly tough decision and one that’s not being taken lightly,” Dohrer said. “I have grown up here at New Trier High School. My entire professional career as an educator has been affiliated with …

Festival puts music in the spotlight

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 14:10:01 -0500

WINNETKA After 95 years, the New Trier Winter Music Festival continues going strong, “Fruitcake” and all. Shortly before the Dec. 16 performance, senior Rachel Jones and sophomore Solena Rizzato, both of whom perform in the choir and symphony orchestra, were preparing for the show as the Gates Gymnasium slowly filled. Rizzato has attended the festival since before she became a New Trier student and enjoys having the music department in the spotlight. “We want to get people in the holiday spirit,” Rizzato said. “It’s just fun and spontaneous. Every year it is so, so amazing.” This show would be the …

NT partnership guides budding engineers

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:02:01 -0500

WINNETKA — With American schools placing a greater emphasis on science, technology, engineering and mathematics courses, New Trier High School looked to working professionals from the local community to help guide their students.

Becker contemplates Roycemore farewell

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 06:18:09 -0500

EVANSTON — When Joseph Becker first thought about retiring as headmaster of Roycemore School, he couldn’t. He simply didn’t have the time.

Smith heads to Roycemore

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 06:18:23 -0500

Roycemore School’s new head of school Kevin Smith grew up in Cleveland. He was inspired to become a teacher by some of his University of Dayton professors. For 26 years he has taught science, health, reading and physical education, and coached numerous sports at independent schools in Ohio and Colorado. He said last week that his five years as Head of Denver Academy in some ways mirrors his new mission; in Denver he succeeded a headmaster with 36 years’ tenure, at a school that had, like Roycemore, recently moved. “It was a similar environment, where kids achieve at a very …

Teacher’s travels add global perspective

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:56:00 -0500

WINNETKA — When Camille Dominguez was first presented with the opportunity to travel abroad and experience the education systems of European countries she wasted no time applying.

Glencoe schools to vote on geothermal

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:52:44 -0500

GLENCOE — A school board vote Dec. 10 may propel Central School toward becoming the first Chicago-area public school heated and cooled with geothermal energy. It may not, however, change the school’s big assembly hall’s status as a place to dress lightly in spring and warmly in winter. “I’m really worried about the asbestos in Misner, (and whether) there are going to be some hidden costs there,” Superintendent Cathlene Crawford fretted at a recent board session. Board members are likely to decide Dec. 10 whether to leave the majestic old Misner Auditorium out of the plans, which, by latest estimate, …

Glencoe slates District 35 board

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 06:20:22 -0500

GLENCOE — It’s been almost 20 years, and Eddie Chez is still in grammar school. And there’s no sign of graduation anytime soon.

Students gain real-world experience

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 06:06:19 -0500

NORTHBROOK — The upper school at North Shore Country Day School in Winnetka was quiet last week while a majority of students stepped outside the classroom for real-world experience.

New Trier students deck the mall

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 06:10:24 -0500

WINNETKA — Holiday displays soon will be popping up around Westfield Old Orchard Mall in Skokie, and students at New Trier High School can say they had a hand in creating the visuals that shoppers will experience.

Edison, education connect at Regina

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 09:30:01 -0500

WILMETTE — Combining compassion, innovation and leadership, as Regina Dominican educators are doing with the Wilmette high school’s Vision 20/20 program, is something inventor Thomas Edison would have understood and applauded, one of Edison’s family members told school supporters last week.

Glencoe schools to vote on geothermal

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 12:16:39 -0500

GLENCOE — Glencoe’s School Board will vote Nov. 12 on whether Central School should be heated and cooled with geothermal energy.