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

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v I x-..- A , ' ,---w , 'X ti The next day, and the next. Opening day merged into next day, and next day became every day as Northsiders settled in- to daily schedules. Sixteen hundred thirty in all, 611 sopho- mores, 503 juniors and 516 seniors practiced the classroom ritual at Northside. The Year, 1972-'73, proved to be the Year One in the young life of Data Bear, Northside's own, personalized computer. The Year proved to be the Year Last in the long service of R. Earl Farnsworth, Northside's own, personalized principal. The Careers Program, a first for this year, included the offering of secretarial sciences and vocational exploration to high school stu- Everyuday dents. Students enrolled in this program left the Northside campus at noon every day, accom- panited by Miss Juanita Hinkle, Mrs. Elveda Ku- tait and Mrs. Helen McCarty, and went to Wes- tark Community College, where the girls received instruction in business procedures and boys studied mechanical skills. The principal purpose of the careers pro- gram, Mr. Farnsworth explained, is to acquaint the student with skills that might interest him and encourage him to continue in that spe- cific job training. Besides the careers program, sociology, psychology, hispanic culture and projects phy- sics were new courses. Every day 15

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5? 9' Five clciys hath ca week. Black Monday. Black and moody, angry. Headaches Sight of classroom objectives are lost in the fog of dreams. Rain and snow in May on a Monday. Typewriters break, splinters pop up, Bic pens fail to write and Bears are beaten. All typical on the first day of the week. Mondays ought to be outlawed. But then we wouIdn't have had Christmas or New Year's. Gray Tuesday. A day when a body needs to be with friends. Tuesday is no day to be alone. The company of pencils, pens and people is kept. A bad time to brood, is Tuesday. Thanksgiving. A sort-of, half-way day. Headaches are becoming less noticeable, and anticipation is becoming evident. A time to watch and to be watched lest we loose the ties that bind, and forget where and who we are. The turning point. Wednesday. Thursday has arrived, but people are oblivious of this fact. Teachers find it increasingly difficult to attract the attention of their students, though moments of seclusion and study are yet within grasp. But Friday draws ever nearer, and the task becomes ever difficult. The world knows not that today is Thursday, but that tomorrow is Friday, last day of the week. Crystal magic, sunshine. Work is absent on this day lat least in the greatful minds of those who attendl . Secret whispers and bad jokes, the world is laughing. Even the Friday Fish are grinning. What more need one say, than THANK GOODN ESS, lT'S FRIDAY. The moods of the week are, in truth, the moods of the people. And the moods of the people are, in truth, the moods of Northside. In knowing and feeling this truth, the people, and Northside, survive. 4- can wiksrrom. A Teresa Smith and Cecilia Spradlin. Opposite page: lUpperl Mrs. June Stanberry, 4- Junior English. lL0wer leftl Miss Dorothy Sevedge, Geometry. lRightl Sandra Arnold and Cathye Cooper. Academic program 17