Norwalk High School - Signal Yearbook (Norwalk, OH)

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i fm Miss Car-01 Embjck Mr. Kendall Falke Mr. Maurice Fowler MISS CAROL EMBICK ggpafateg typihg exer- TWO TECHNICALITIES of poetry found in VERlFYING CHARLES' LAW requires careful cigeg which will be handed back to Bohhie the works of Edgar Allan Poe are explained by measurement, says Mr. Maurice Fowler to Wells and thg gthgg fh-51-year students, Mr. Kendall Falke to his junior English class. Gary Cleland during a physics experiment Student Interest: it provides him the opportunity to help teen-agers form right opinions . Today, in this age of Sputniks and explorers, Norwalk's mathematics and science instructors are keeping pace with high schools of the nation in their presentation of subjects which are being highlighted more and more. Norwalk faculty members hold thirty-two bachelor's de- grees and twelve master's. This evidences their efforts to give the student the best education possible and to make themselves the best teachers possible. No1wa1k's teachers know the deeper meaning of teacher and they live it daily. about the effects of heat. -L Mr. P. J. Garcia AS SPANISH STUDENT, Judy Linder, reads the day's lesson for an A, Mr. P. J. Garcia listens attentively for any mistakes. A MASTER OF ARTS Degree in Educa- tion, received last summer from Bowling Green State University, provides Mr. T. R. Storer with satisfaction in a job well done. For his master's thesis Mr. Storer wrote about the history of Norwalk schools dur- ing the depression years.

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,,,...-.-1 ...e-'- ,,,.--sink ,,.,-Q Mrs. BLENDING HIGH production, Mrs. sopranos the note TENTATIVE PLANS for the production of a class play are made by Mrs. Martha McConaha and Mr. James Ross. 11533255 Carol Albright Miss Ruth Bell Mr. Burton Chandler AND LOW VOICES in one HARD AND SOFT SPONGES and other marine DALE MEYER receives assistance from Mr. Carol Albright plays for the life are discussed by Miss Ruth Bell and John Bruton Chandler on how to work a difficult which they must sing. Bush in one of her biology classes. problem involving the addition of polynomials. Faculty Promoter One who teaches, or instructs, especially one whose occupation is to instruct is the dictionary's definition of a teacher. But embodied in the word teacher is a much deeper meaning. To the thirty-two members of Norwalk High's faculty, teaching is much more than assigning work, giving tests, and marking grades. It is an honored profession in which these teachers work as ateam to improve and enrich the lives of the young people with whom they associate. Mr. P. I. Garcia, who has been Spanish and social stud- ies instructor at Norwalk for thirty-seven years, has said that the reason he likes high school teaching so well is that If CONFERRING with Mr. Lowell Ruggles qrightj is Mr. Roy G. Crissman who filled the position vacated by Mrs. Mary Preston as teacher of mathematics. Mr. Ruggles ' outlines the work to be studied by seventh graders while Mr. Crissman listens. S: if ,,', .5 E,

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2 Q 35? i Q 5 xg 0 1: is if l We . . , Mrs. Margaret Hambleton Mrs. Eva Harkness Mr. Howard Hershey MRS. MARGARET HAMBLETON, who also WORKING ON A TRACK POSTER in art class BY USING his new Flanna-board, Mr. Howard teaches home economics, prepares work in requires all the attention of Jim Smith and Hershey explains the rules of traffic safety to long division for her seventh grade mathemat- Mrs. Eva Harkness. his driver training class. ics classes. Mrs. Ethel Green TESTING HER STUDENTS' KNOWLEDGE of parts of speech, Mrs. Ethel Green distributes test booklets to Billy Knoll and the rest of the class. Teacher! Sponsor Faculty members often take time from their regular duties to supervise extra-curricular activities of students. To enrich the students' lives both socially and academically, teachers find time and energy to meet with members of the clubs they sponsor. Mr. C. N. Stevenson, sponsor of Hi-Y, was assisted this year by Mr. Carl Schraibman in encouraging the boys to raise money and to plan better programs . Tri-I-Ii-Y girls sought advice from Miss june Wilchek as they planned their annual dinner dance and sold salt-water taffy. Activity keynoted meetings of the Future Teachers of America, sponsored by Miss Madge Mossman, who culti- 10 AN AUTOGRAPHED COPY of Ro- bert Frost's book of poems, which Mr. Kendall Falke received when he attended Bread Loafwriter's con- ference at Middlebury College, Ver- mont, is being shown to two of his last year American literature stu- dents, Martha Carley and Barbara Wickert.