Northeast High School - Rocket Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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Seniors Cooperate To Accomplish Some are going To be painTers: some are going To be secreTaries: many girls plan To be home makers: a Tew are going To be Teachers. The sen- iors have chosen Their vocaTions and have been Training Tor Them. Trained TypisTs, sTenographers, and clerks are graduaTed Trom The commercial deparTmenT every semesTer, buT noT enough To Till The demands ThaT come in almosT every day. ArT classes are Tilled To capaciTy every period oT The day. These sTudenTs serve The school as a pub- liciTy commiTTee Tor every acTiviTy. Besides The Tun oT doing and oT serving now, The pupils have de- veloped an appreciaTion and a skill Tor liTe-long enioymenT. Some will sTep inTo commercial arT iobs aT once. The seniors showed abiliTy in Their play Ever Since Eve given lasT semesTer. The dramaTic class has been sTudying The lives oT Tamous sTage acTors and have given several reporTs and Talks on Their lives. STudenTs are always busy in This class, re- hearsing a play, selling TickeTs, Tinding properTies, planning The adverTising. The senior play The Eve oT ST. Mark provided a TiTTing climax. Sewing is one oT The home making skills de- veloped in The home economics deparTmenT. Proi- ecTs have included making Red Cross Tlags Tor all May l have a pass To class? Isabell Bridge, Bernard Logan, Bill Boydsfon, and Phyllis Jones waif for Helen Grice To help Them. Jim Weber, MargareT WesT, Paul Bafeman, and KeiTh Royer lisTen wiTh inTeresT To Bill Powell's sTraTegy on win- ning The war. Working ouT The complicafed algebra problems are Dick HoTMann, Ronald Lux, Lowell Heiliger, Jim Barker, and Phil Brox. DrafTing plans Tor The homes and sky scrapers of The Tufure are Nadine Laws, Leslie Jenkins, John KnighT, Ivan Bainbridge, and Phil MuTchie. The laTesT gossip on cloThes, boys, and parTies are The Topics of Barbara McClure, Jean SumsTine, Blanche Forsf, Barbara Dickinson, and Helena HockensmiTh as They gafher aT The drinking TounTain before classes. 22

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Joyce WhiTney, BeHy Rock, Alice NeiTzel, and PaHy McKinney are all cuT for rhylhm in Their Typing exercises. lT isn'T Too early Tor sTudenTs To sTarT using Their newly acquired skills in a pracTical way. Many are already earning money in clerking, Typing, book- keeping iobs. Some work in sTores and shops? oThers, in privaTe homes. AgriculTure shop boys Tind a markeT Tor Their producTs, as special Teeders. Making money is noT a new experience Tor The ag boys. Their home proiecTs are proTiTable. The high school schedule provides a chance Tor individual inTeresT proiecTs, acTiviTies usually con- necTed wiTh some regular subiecT. The weaTher box, made by Two physics boys, Zane Fairchild and RoberT Gordon, conTains such insTrumenTs as a baromeTer and ThermomeTer. When This is all Tixed, physics sTudenTs may keep an accuraTe daily rec- ord oT humidiTy, high and low ThermomeTer record- ings, and oTher inTeresTing daTa. EveryThing is Tun Tor These juniors, even walking To school, long blocks, buT on sidewalks. They geT a real TasTe OT school Tun working on The paper as beginning iournalisTs. They were TavoriTes in The one-acT plays: They puT Them over wiTh a bang, using all Their imaginaTion and deTermina- Tion. All Tor Tun, Tun Tor alll Ready 'lor a Five minuTe speed Tesf are Typisls, Merle Vannoy, Lois Burgess, and Vivian Bailey. All righf, eyes on The copy. LaTe again! These NorTheas+ sTudenTs, Roy McKay, Del- mar Condon, Virginia Ulrich, Pagean Spencer, and Lucia Wills, iusT don'T walk TasT enough. Anofher muddy day, buf Billie Trombla, Peggy Weaver and Darlene Tracy don'T mind as They head for home. We're ready for our viclory gardens: how abouT you? ask Dale Kirkland, Jackie Roberfson, and Dale Wilson, now obfaining Their Training in The agricullure deparfmenf. How's The wealher up There? Zane Fairchild and Roberl' Gordon will be able To answer Thai quesfion as They record insTrumenT markings. 2I

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Congregale 'ro Play lhe cily schools and sewing shirls in regular laclory organizalion lor Red Cross relugees. We, loo, have served is lhe proud asserlion ol lhe home ec. girls. The lenseness ol a world al war is lound in lhe school rooms as well as in lhe camps and lac- lories. The seniors are seriously preparing lo lill lheir places in lhis world by lalcing advanlage ol every opporlunily lor service while lhey are slill sludenls. They lalqe advanlage, loo, ol every chance lor relaxalion and lun. A lwenly-live minule lunch period gives lime lor movies, amaleur shows, or dancing: a live-minule period, lime lor a chal wilh lriends. Sally Armslrong, Bob Mclnlosh, Frank Meyer, Ed Knape, and Ray Schaumberg are sludying lhe problems of aero- naulics. A+ lhe locker is where seniors Marion Cock, Eslher Bauer, Pal' Lang, Mariean Beers, and Mafrlha Panler exchange lhose Iiftle confidenlial secrels. Oh, a smear. These lalenled arf sludenfs carefully avoid such a calaslrophe-Merle While, Colleen Gallagher, Waller Johnslon, Don Hazelrigg, Phyllis Knuclson, Fred Olnes ,and Margarel Allen. Your lurn lo read now-and Bob Wilcox, Doris Barger, Jerry Garrell, Mavis Money, and Don Wiggans lry oul for lhe play. As Maeslro Logan gives oul wilh lhe iive Jeanne Ander- son, Maurice Carllon, Dorolhy McKay, and Pal Johns slip inlo lhe groove.