Northside High School - Bruin Yearbook (Fort Smith, AR)

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3 :L 10 Academic program l lLeftl Data Bear is interviewed by Lucia Hawkins and Janet Davis. lLower leftl Margie Howe dis- cusses Snoopy with Data Bear. lBelowl Data Bear holds open house at Westark. lRightl Data Bear left his Bear track in his scheduling cards, observ- ed by Diana Go- forth and San- dra Gwaltney.

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UJHHT IF... ou found ourself? Books are numbers. ln the 202 book, there are 878 pages. Think of all the letters there are on a page. P108 has 202 1,2,3,4,5 and 903 is 6. History is numbers. How else do you count time-in years. 1 cup + 174 cup equals 5X4 cups in the home ec program. Gym is physical fitness in numbers of how fast you run, jump, throw or sit up. Don't sit, stand up and be counted, that's government in school. Where are you in school? Now it's 1973. What will it be like in 1984 or 2001? Will you be here? Your time span will last only as long as your education in school. How are you making it? Will you make it? Find yourself in academics. ,E+ .QWAWS ill 'fV lT'v 'X-7 VS'l'i if-iyf i '11 xTN f11Tr'y 4lXQr4,!29v3'X53 21.-,l it ' will Vi! Wil '5'l ll, flilli'XN lb Y LFWV-.1 Y W wfflh rl. 'l' Qffl YU, aewwssts 5 in-.l'1' ll 1:3 fSfV!.?f'?l. W1 QWYYN, Ili?-4'lx's's'i9 MP5, W A if i'l'l EL 5' '71 fgffil ll, fW2K.ANSi'XfS i i V if 1 1l ll! 3l,, will SMI H, :X??l'f'VXl953 ffl lg, W il 141'-Ml, 1' El S '2Ill'!, 1'X?3.li4VX5 xS li-5 'Y fi 15 12 Vlflil, VFW T V417 , fX'?i4'l .318 fi'?'i 'lf f'l 'rl 'X ll- il V11 1S'A'ITl-4, ' .fwigflg C . 1-573 .nf 072 1 1 43 ?m 'Wig .-, 1 73 IW 1 VW' YC l 'v UNT' . H15 1 75 35?i4l2!fW ll, 2' 1 N1.if'slH HG ter Q uf it um 1973 N' WU! lu ' Ni ' IW il. lf? NWT4 l'l PI, ' 5 'XilJ'f:MI'3 119 swim :U rr 4 .

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I Q What is ci Data Bear. The newest riddle of '72-'73 circulating around the halls at Northside was What's red and white and gray all over ? And if you're the average, overweight, undernourished, complacent Grizzly, you'll reply, Why, Data Bear, of course! And if your best friend happens to be the everyday, run-of-the-mill dimwit, he will brightly reply, Duh, what's a Date-A-Bear?! Well, Dimwit, only all NHS knows that Data Bear is the affectionate nickname with which the Publications Department dubbed the computer. Which computer, you say? THE computer. The heavenly Messenger sent to us, courtesy of the great IBM in the sky. The computer that scheduled all Northside High, Southside High and Westark Community College students for the first time all by himself. The Computer that has been housed at Westark since last year. The Computer that has one of the guidance counselors so in awe of HIM that she refuses to Iook HIM straight in the eye. The all-knowing, all-seeing, all-hearing, all-everything Computer! The Age of Aquarius land Data Beari just came in on the last train... lt was a new thing. Northside students this year sunned themselves in the light of the computer's glory, knowing that they were the first NHS classes ever to have been scheduled by a computer. Yet because so much manual labor is required of the guidance counselors to make the job of scheduling easier for the computer lwho in turn is supposed to make the job easier for the guidance counselorsl, it consequently took much longer to make the students' schedules available to them before school started in the fall. As a guidance counselor describes the spring of '72: Twenty-three hundred hours of our manual labor was required to allow the computer to finish scheduling all 1,630 NHS students in merely 23 minutes. In spite of all the unstinted praise of Data Bear, unconfirmed sources report that he can even make mistakes along with his other multifarious talents. One student is said to have been scheduled for three gym classes, while another had gym and five study halls. Academic program 11