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More than 100 Years at Gads Hill Center

1927: The Department of Music was reorganized as a Music School, and from 1930 the Mu Phi Epsilon Sorority, a national honorary musical society, staffed and supported the school. In 1941, the school had a monthly attendance of 204 pupils in piano, violin, voice, and chorus.

1928: Formal Nursery School opened at Gads Hill Center, including in its services a daily nursery school program for 40 children, weekly classes in parent education, and the training of young women as mothers' helpers and nursery workers.

1931: North Shore Auxiliaries organized in Winnetka and Evanston to make and distribute clothing to neighborhood children. Thousands of garments were made or collected for neighborhood distribution. The two organizations sponsored an Annual Benefit Dance and similar social events, the proceeds of which have gone to the maintenance fund of the Center.

1940: Leslie C. Harbison Memorial Endowment established by Frank Brookes Hubachek and Mrs. Harbison for the purpose of securing financial security for Gads Hill Center.

1941: The Arden Shores organization is recipient of the Gads Hill lakefront encampment in Glencoe and becomes the site for a new organization serving children and families in the developing northern suburbs.

1942: Fourth floor added to accommodate expanded child care services at the Center, serving mothers who are working in support of the war effort.

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