| Date | Title | Summary | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 June 1976 | Rod Lewis | ![]() |
Article about Rod Lewis, Superintendent of Sunset Ridge following Harry Collins in fall, 1974. Article June 10, 1976 |
| 1930 | Sunset Ridge 1st Graders | ![]() |
Sunset Ridge 1st graders holding blackboards. Lucy Becker, Robby Burmeister, Ronnie Dow, Benny Purtell |
| 1930 | William Cray students | ![]() |
Sunset Ridge students with William Cray the first year the school opened |
| 1930 approx | Betty Heffner | ![]() |
Betty Heffner, first Sunset Ridge teacher, as a young woman; glamour photo |
| 1930s | Snake Dance | ![]() |
Betty Heffner, first teacher at SRS watches Snake Dance for rain on Navaho Reservation where she spent her summers |
| 1930s | Snake Dance | ![]() |
Souvenir of Betty Heffner; photo of Snake dance, live snakes were then released into the desert at the conclusion of the dance to produce rain |
| 1931 | William Cray, Betty Heffner, Julia Cray | ![]() |
SRS Students withi William Cray, first district Superindentent, and Betty Heffner, first hird teacher; Cray's daughter Julia is in center row, far left. |
| 1936 | Sunset Ridge Graduation | ![]() |
8th grade graduating class of 1937, with William Cray and Betty Heffner; this was the last eigth grade class until 1956 |
| 1936 | SRS Students | ![]() |
Students, names on back of photo |
| 1936 | SRS Students | ![]() |
Students, names on back of photo |
| 1936 | SRS Students | ![]() |
Students with model village and mural (in art room?) |
| 1939 | SRS Students | SRS when it was only serving grades 1-5. Teachers - William Cray (also Superindentent) and Betty Heffner | |
| 1939 | Harry Collins, Superintendent | ![]() |
Harry Collins, Sunset Ridge Superintendent from 1942-1970 as a young man |
| 1940 | Dorothy Clark | ![]() |
Series of head shots of Dorothy Clark, the driving force behind creation of Sunset Ridge School. She moved here in 1922 from the East Coast |
| 1940 | Dorothy Clark | ![]() |
Series of head shots of Dorothy Clark, the driving force behind creation of Sunset Ridge School. She moved here in 1922 from the East Coast |
| 1940 | Dorothy Clark | ![]() |
Series of head shots of Dorothy Clark, the driving force behind creation of Sunset Ridge School. She moved here in 1922 from the East Coast |
| 1940 | Dorothy Clark | ![]() |
Series of head shots of Dorothy Clark, the driving force behind creation of Sunset Ridge School. She moved here in 1922 from the East Coast |
| 1940 | Dorothy Clark | ![]() |
Series of head shots of Dorothy Clark, the driving force behind creation of Sunset Ridge School. She moved here in 1922 from the East Coast |
| 1940 | Dorothy Clark | ![]() |
Series of head shots of Dorothy Clark, the driving force behind creation of Sunset Ridge School. She moved here in 1922 from the East Coast |
| 1940 | Dorothy Clark | ![]() |
Series of head shots of Dorothy Clark, the driving force behind creation of Sunset Ridge School. She moved here in 1922 from the East Coast |
| 1940s | Louise Cray | ![]() |
Louise Cray, wife of first SRS District Superintendent, at about 45 yrs. "Studio of Lords, Evanston, Illinois" on back of photo |
| 1943 | SRS Students | ![]() |
Sunset Ridge third graders in 1942-43 - the first year after the departure of William Cray. Bob McClellan, Bety Jean Happ, Alice Schmidt, Lois Goldsbury, John McNear, Irwin Ahrens and Mary Ellen Anderson |
| 1943-1944 | SRS Students | ![]() |
4th and 5th graders the year before Harry Collins cames to Sunset Ridge - 1943-1944. The school was being run without a principal. William Cray retired in 1942 after suffering a stroke |
| 1943-44 | SRS Students | ![]() |
Sunset Ridge students (girls) on playground in back of school |
| 1943-44 | SRS Students | ![]() |
Third and fourth graders at Sunset Ridge School in the forties |
| 1943-44 | SRS Students | ![]() |
Sunset Ridge School picture 1943-44 with Harry Collins as Superintendent; his first year |
| 1948 | Harry Collins on car | ![]() |
Young Harry Collins leaning on car; He used to drive to Naperville and back every week |
| 1950 | Jim Clarkson | ![]() |
Jim Clarkson, hired in 1949 to teach Physical Education and art, starts by teaching 5th grade at Sunset Ridge; Scouts in class; student Jeff Collins |
| 1956 | Harry Collins | ![]() |
Harry Collins giving commencement address; just two years earlier, the school got its first gym and stage with curtains and also retrieved its junior high students from Winnetka, where they had been bused to Skokie School since 1937. |
| 1957 | Snowman play | ![]() |
Kids on stage at Sunset Ridge after new stage was built in 1957 |
| 1960 c | SRS Students | ![]() |
Photo of SRS students visit to Art Institute (includes Mary Wampler and Susan Pettibone) |
| 1967 | Harrison Collins, Dadie Wampler | ![]() |
Article on approval of bond to expand school with photo of Collins and Wampler, School Board members |
| 1974 | Harry Collins | ![]() |
Superintendent Harry Collins the year of his retirement |
| 1976 | SRS Model | ![]() |
Scale mode of SRS as it was in 1930 built by students in 1976 |
| 1997 | Howard Bultnick, Denny Morys, John Ratacjek | ![]() |
Assistant Principal Denny Morys shakes hands with Howard Bultnick as John Ratacjek looks on |
| 1999 | Hillary Clinton, Howard Bultnick | ![]() |
First Lady Hillary Clinton and SRS Superintendent, Howard Bultnick chat as EagleSong travels to the White House for their Christmas pageant |
| 3 April 1947 | Sunset Ridge Annexed to New Trier | ![]() |
Vote to annex Sunset Ridge to New Trier District |