Normandy High School - Saga Yearbook (Normandy, MO)

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TOP ROW: Trostel, Demetras, Zubiena, Grote, Simon, LaFord, Brennan, Capstick, Haynes, Brose, Aude, Stewart. MIDDLE ROW: Vol- qer, Revelle, Moore, Wood, Michel, Swett, Nelson, Ingalls, White, Mer- kle, Murphy, Rather. BOTTOM ROW: Valley, Parry, Schaifner, Kohler, Williams, Thomas, Plack, Harrington, Drey, Welle, Beemcm, Reppy. TOP ROW: Rockow, Ellerbrook, Angle, Shay, Laberer, Aberle, Ut- taut, Black, Ward, Burkholder, Nordman, Blair, Cox. MIDDLE ROW: Courtney, Iohnson, Zykan, Wodd, King, Kitzinger, Foote, Christy, Frerichs, Murphy, Dunn, Anderson, Aubuchon. BOTTOM ROW: Addison, Deuker, Iones, Bas- sett, Rayfield, Doerinq, Virgin Audrian, Dolan, Morakt, Keefe. TOP ROW: Wood, Melson, Weldy, Mclfnifjhf, Vtfriqht, I-Icinsohn, Ot tensmeyer, Francis, Haynes, Iacob, Storey, Moore, Studt, Kolkmeyer. MIDDLE ROW: Smith, Damerval, lard, Campbell, Sachs, Lane, Tibbs, TOM ROW: Whitney, Gerdes, merhott, Johnston, Mosher, Graves, Carter, Mueller, Westenberq, Davis. Preparing for the Tug Ahead prose and poetry, which gives us a useful back- ground in literature. One important activity in this class is the learning of English construction and word usage, basis for our future writing and speaking. Continuing in our day we stroll over to art class. Happily engrossed in painting and designing, we find ourselves enjoying the work while learning it. Posters, menus, nut cups and various drawings emerge from our daily class work. Page Twenty-One Franklin, Eikelmann, Ferguson, Hol- Lapp, Max, Overbeck, Staple. BOT- Humm, Rumley, Corinqton, Som- TOP ROW: Schneider, Noltinq, Hayes, Scheltnect, Gilbert, Hoeiel- mann, Klingbeil, Iohnson, Woerner, Stemmermen, Rolbfell, Bostin, Cup- ples. MIDDLE ROW: Nichols, Schneider, Kelly, McCourt, Ran- dazzo, Kaufmann, Wood, Simmons, Carlson, Poulton, Daugherty, Krebs, Schene. BOTTOM ROW: Ballinq, Warfield, Niehotf, Platt, Ennert, Bone, Riebel, Difani, Ligenfelter, Volmar, Reifsteck, Boqqs, Hellweq.

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1 Touching up the wheels so they look ready to roll, three seventh grade .students finish a mural depicting transportation. development. Beginning at the Bottom Normandy is a wonderful placef a sev- enth grade pupil recently said. The teachers and students are all swell. Orientation Day last year really helped me get acquainted. Let's travel around with a seventh grader and see how these youngsters spend their day. For our first class we'll have mathematics. Here we find ourselves struggling with proli- lems which at times seem very much over our heads as we concentrate on learning per- centages and interest, preparing for higher studies in math. Leaving our feverish calculations, we travel to English class, where we enjoy reading 1 il 1 1 I had an exaltant sense of being bound for mysterious lands and distant climes which I have never felt in so uplifting a degree since. HM ark Twain. Page Twenty

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Next we shall go to our science class. Hwhat are ocean currents? Wlhat makes flowers growfw We pepper the teacher with questions and are calmly referred to our textbooks and encyclopedias for answers to the many perplexing questions that arise. Following science, letas go to social studies class, a very valuable seventh-grade subject. Not only do we learn about our own country, but also about the other countries of the world. For our next class the boys and girls separate -the girls go to sewing and the boys to mechanics. Gaily colored aprons, skirts, and blouses blos- som forth out of the sewing rooms, as the girls, many for the first time in their lives, learn the practical art of sewing. Vocational training is offered to the boys in the mechanics course. Sheet metal and wood-working prove fascinating to the boys as their clumsiness turns into dexterity. Girls and boys rejoin each other for penman- Young shop worker cmzcentrates on checking the temperature of his solder- ing 'iron by its color before using it on his Class project. ship classes. Our scrawls and scribbles are firmly disciplined into legible characters anyone can read, and high time, too, if the comments on our writ- ten work are any indication. And now for a workout in our fine junior high ...uhh Learning to sew a straight seam is one of the first skills acqinirefl in seventh-grarle home economics. Page Twenty-Two Read and Willing