North Dallas High School - Viking Yearbook (Dallas, TX)

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Viking Editors Editor-in-Chief ...... lohn Stone Features ....... Bobby Temple Activities . . . . . loan Russell losephine Grace Administration ..... Dianne Castle Snapshots ...... Charles lngram Senior Section . . Mary Margaret Biggs Virginia Perryman Athletics . . . . Charles Rymes Military . . Sophocles Pappas lolces . . Lady lane Gray Art . . . Betty Woods Nick Puspurica Billy Nobles ' leanne Babke Business . . . . Yvonne Armour lean Upshaw Typing Supervisor . . Mildred Alexander FACULTY SPONSORS Senior Pictures ..... Mary Bertrand Business . . . . . . l-l. C. Maiden Editorial . . . 'William T. Tardy l t

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KYN It E.. W ii'5,'f.'Q'f,Lle. . -S e G , Ax ti lt 'Q F -llllllt t --- xt X- lla il? 1, ll'-, . 'Mana -..L 25 Years in ln l922, at a cost of SS75U,UUU, the Board of Education opened the doors of North Dallas High School, the fourth nign school in tne city. ln this period of twenty-five years -from the day of the Mapper and the jelly bean to the present age of the bobby-soxer -North Dallas has grown from an enrollment of 794 to over l,4U0 students. ln l922 Warren Harding was president, and the country was in a state of deflation. The latest entertainment was vaudeville or a silent movie featuring the lt girl, Clara Bow, or the romantic lover, Rudolph Valentino. The song at the top of the hit parade was l'm Always Chasing Rainbows, and the new dance step, the Charleston, was becoming the rage. North Dallas of 1922 was considerably different, too, from the North Dallas of today. The building was situated in a cornfield, with one streetcar line within two blocks of the campus, and another running past the east side to S.M.U. The first student body was composed entirely of underclassmen, transfers from Bryan Street High School for the most part. Only half of the building was used during the first semester. At first there were no shades, chairs, or lockers, and classes were continually interrupted by the noise of workmen installing seats in the auditorium. Since Dallas had no summer school, students could repeat a course as many times as they felt that they or the teach- ers could stand it. Even then, lO3 was very popular with many students as an after-school activity. The school motif has always been some symbol per- taining to the North. A magazine no longer published was called The Norther: the Compass, which first appeared in l93O, is the name of the school paper, the annual was named The Viking. The school emblem is the North Star, whose points symbolize loyalty, ambition, courage, faith, and determination. lts presentation to each new senior class was established as a tradition by the first gradu- ating class.