Omaha North High School - Norseman Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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James P Fotuas work as art un structor requires an almost abnor mal amount of patience and expe ruence he has an abundance of both Hus schedule is filled to the brim yet he funds time to help each budding artist A large amount of outsude work may also be found un his schedule for he works three nights a week at the YMCA As might be expected Mr Fotuas un terests and hobbues include sculp ture and painting h s also sports fan having played top notch football un hugh school Mr Fotua us a graduate of the University of Minnesota Any boy who has participated in Vukung athletics has probably been under the supervision of Carol R Gust Coach Gast which us hus popular name around chool us head coach of varsity football and base ball as well as freshman basket ball Last summer turning his at tentuon to finance he served as business manager for the three Storz sponsored Legion teams Dur ung regular school hours Mr Gast may be found conducting phy ical education classes and teaching so cial scuence A graduate of Wayne State Teachers College he has an MA from Creighton unuversuty Though on the Vukuna taff for only two years Muss Marlene Gatz has unassumungly made her presence felt Her poised smile and friendly uggestuons are unducatuons of her nopularuty with both students and faculty Teaching freshman and sophomore English compru es her daily schedule and being faculty advisor to Glacuers gurls English dis cussuon group occupies many of her after school hours Other outsude time us spent un swummung readung and driving She also enioys watch ung almost any type of sport and collects jewelry of varied metals and designs An understanding smile a pleasant appearance and a thoughful word all describe attendance clerk Mrs Gladys Gues It us her voice also that has talked over the phone to most of the i850 students for whom she keeps attendance records Row upon row of fules are kept un her offuce where aside from her record keeping she handles most of the mumeographed material for both the Englu h and social scuence de partments Mrs Gues also serves on the Art commuttee Summer funds her and her husband traveling to various pounts on the North Ameru can continent Always ready wuth a word of friend ly advice and genuine unterest for students selectung books us Mrs Florence Hallgren clerk un the lu brarues Alma Kansas us her home town There she became unterested un lubrary work although originally he had made plans for the business world. For the past nune years she has been at North, assisting stu- dents in O30 and performing as- sorted library duties. Outside of school Mrs. Hallgren enjoys doing handwork and related crafts. She regrets that she does not have more time to devote to her favorite pas- times cooking and sewing. The force behind the debate squad is without a doubt Miss Mary Elix- abeth Hamilton. The proposition, Resolved: That debators at North High could continue to receive high honors without Miss Hamilton is hardly debatable. In ad-lition to coaching the team Miss Hamilton sponsors the National Forensic League chapter accompanies stu- dents to debate and speech tourna- ments and teaches English and de- bate classes. As versatile in her leisure activities as in her regular school duties, Miss Hamilton loves to travel, read and swim. lOn Being chaurman of the Mulutary Ball commuttee says Muss Lucy Harte, u a very time consuming uob but ut us one which l enuoy very much Miss Harte always seems to be involved un bug uobs for her efficiency and wude experience are well known and appreciated Most of her chool time us devoted to be ung head of the homemakung de partment She us also a great favor ite among the seniors in her per sonal problems cla ses Freshman gurls have become especially well acquainted with Muss Harte for she has served thus year as ninth grade gurls counselor A new face un the mathematics de partment us that of Miss Marion S Heiser A graduate of Benson hugh she received her bachelors degree from the Unuversuty of Omaha and her masters degree from North western University at Evanston ll Iunous Although she teaches general math and alaebra Miss Heuser ma uored un Englu h un college Thus us her fourth year un the teaching pro fessuon before coming to North she taught at Alexandria Nebras ka lnstructung hugh school students seems to run un hcr family for her mother often substitutes at North Boys in the industrial arts depart ment classify E E Hellugso as a great teacher Head of the de partment since September 1953 Mr Hellugso has been a member of the faculty 30 years Recognuz ung the need for fire protection at North with the pruncupals OK Mr Hellugso founded the Fire Pa trol which he now helps to lead During the summer he combines business wuth pleasure by doing ,obs he considers as habbue planning ond erecting buuldunqs A graduate of Union college un Lincoln Mr Hellugso received his M A from the University of Michigan When Raymond E Henzluks time isnt occupied by school work from North his studies at the University of Nebra ka take precedence Mr l-lenzluk has mauored un biology at Lincoln and us currently working on his doctors degree there He us an un tructor un the scuence depart ment here at North teaching bu ology and general scuence besides servuna as co sponsor of the Sci ence Club Mr Henzluk also serves on the Audio visual and Honors committees to moke hu second year on the North Hugh faculty an especially busy one Headache stomach ache or ear ache whatever ut is Muss Helen Jelrnek has the magic touch I ten years as school nurse she has rnred for every tyoe of ailment real and IFTIOQIFIOYY Freshmen meet Miss Jelnek through their health examination cards and the T B test ung program A arartuate of St Josephs Hospital school of nursing and the University of Omaha, Miss Jelinek has also studied public health at three summer se-sions of the University of Michigan. This year Miss Jelinek was instrumental in the formation of cu club of Future Nurses of America at North. Grammar, punctuation rules, the stuily and appreciation of Shake- spearian plays and the history of Engli-h literature are the subjects which Miss Anna Jensen most en- 'oys teaching her Enalish students. For this, she has a wealth of per- sonal experience upon which to draw, she has visited manv place- associated with the world's most famous literary works. Her travels have le'1 to the European continent, the Scandinavian countries and Engf land, where she has visited the birthplaces of illustrious authors and poets. Miss Jensen is a graduate of the University of Nebraska.

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Mrs Cloyd lve got a problem' Thus us a famuluar phrase to Mrs Morulyn Cloyd senuor gurls counse lor Mrs Cloyd us a graduate of the Unuversuty of Nebraska and has been at North three and a half years Her classroom dutues unclude teachung world hustory and geog raphy Sunce her furst days on the Vukung campus she has been a fac ulty advusor to one of North s larg est organuzatuons Y Teens and thus year he also served as a Stu dent Councul advusor ln the very luttle spare tume she has Mrs Cloyd enuoys reodung and sewung Someday before l reture I hope to see one of my students return to North to teach shorthand Thus has always been the ambutuon of Mrs Mary Uhl Colluns durung her thurty years on the North staff I her opunuon energy expended teachung shorthand has repaud her twuce told un seeung her students become competent secretarues It has been her beluef that young adults shoud learn to plan for the future whule stull un hugh chool As head of the busuness eclucatuon de partment she takes advantage of every opportunuty to counsel stu dents preparung for busuness Posutuon beat and prouectuon are new terms sure to be added to the vocabulary of anyone entering 315 durung one of the sux vocal classes taught by Muss Twula Cowman The Aurora Fall Follues Chrustmas and Sprung concerts as well as other specual programs keep her busy throughout the year Muss Cowman ponsors the Bel Canto club a vo cal musuc group deducated to fur therung unterest un and apprecuatuon of fune musuc Muss Cowmans mu sucal educatuon began at the Unu versuty of South Dakota and later she attended Northwestern unuver suty Muss Amy P Crobbe unstulls a luttle one of her French and Latun stu dents Thu us the key to the suc cess of her students for each one seems to have an understandung of people and an apprecuatron of cul ture far beyond hus years She passes on to her classes and Le Cercle Francaus whuch she sponsor her experuences un France whule studyrng for a duploma un the Sor bonne and the lnstutut de Pho netuque un Parus Thus year Muss Crabbe has been presudent of the Alluance de Francaus un Omaha Curly hour and a wonderful sense of humor only partuolly descrube Muss Aluce B Crocker for she us a person of duversufued unterests and abulutues Her pruncupal uob outsude of teachung Physuology and Health to 280 students us to rouse S10 OOO a year for the school budget un her role as Actuvutues Durector In thus capacuty she does the prelumunary plannung for the after school dances Thus year Muss Crocker became a co sponsor for Muruervettcs Obtaun ung her bachelor of arts degree from the Unuversuty of Nebraska she went to the Unuversuty of Chucago to receuve her masters degree Whenever anyone around school has a scuentufuc questuon such as what makes the world go around or how deep the ocean us or how many molecules there are un the planet Mercury the man they go to s Harold L Dolly A teacher of phys ucs and general scuence Mr Dolly us well unformed on sub ects such as these He also co sponsors the Fare Patrol the large organuzatuan that organuzes and durects fure drulls Gentle and quuet he funds enuoy ment un hus pare tume by engaauna un outdoor recreatuon He holds a degree from the Unuversuty of Ne braska Any student who thunks he us one uump ahead of hus teachers certaunly changes hus attutude after havung been under the unstructuon of James H Dorsey for a short whule Mr Dorsey can match wuts wuth any wuse guy that comes along and guve hum a very thor ough course un chemustry or physucal scuence at the same tume Through hus encouragement many Vukung graduates have found successful careers un the fueld of scuence Mr Dorsey has been head of the scuence department at North sunce the school opened uts doors for the furst tume un l924 Now draw an arc connectuna those two parallel lanes Thus us o famuluar puece of advuce ussued by Roger B Dubler un euther hus archutecturol drawung or undustrual arts classes Mr Dubler has attended Nebras ka Wesleyan Colorado A and M the Unuversuty of Nebraska the Unuversuty of Omaha and Creuahton Unuversuty and h mauored chemustry zooloqy undustrual arts and educatuon He tauaht at Tech hugh school before uounung the North staff two years aqo Hus summer work us closely related to the subuects he teaches for he con structs homes The Do ut Yourself udea whuch has uust recently wept the country nothung new to M J Ekberg Wood workung has long been hus favorute hobby and he has made several pueces of furnuture for hus home Readung also occupues much of Mr Ekberas tume Duruno vacatuons he lukes to travel occasuonally to do some fushung He receuved both hus bachelor and masters degrees at the Unuversuty of Nebra ka ma uoruna un school admunustratuon and psychology Here at North Mr Ek berg us currently teachunq casses un senuor aruthmetuc and g neral busune s traunung brought unto a conversatuon wrest lunq and baseball are also more than lukely to be mentuoned M E' felt s head wrestlunq coach and head coach of the Vukes Leguon teams as well as tutor for the golf team A prevuous wrestluna champuon for the Unuversuty of lowa ut us small wonder that he turns out only the best wrestlung teams Mr Ekfelt al so teaches buology and us consud ere tops by hus tudents Hus personaluty and scuentufuc knowl flne are further shown by hus co spon sorshup of the Scuence Club Any student can verufy that E E Erwun us exceptuonally actuve un hus work at North and that most of hus efforts are for tl-e gnu dance and counsel of teenagers One of the orugunators of the F ll Folues h has used hus producuno experuence to lcelp the stage crew and baton twurlers become acauaunted wuth producunq a good show In the sprung Mr Erwun us part of he Aurora commuttee He also sponsors the balon club Durung chool hours Mr Erwun who has been on the faculty sunce l924 devotes hus en ergy to teachung bookkeepung and busuness law Mrs Ruth G Forbes maanufucent obsessuon us Latun Sunce l935 her tume has been consumed by Latun both as a vocatuon and o hobby She us the actuve sponsor of the Junuor Classucal League an-1 the Latun pa per the Aqurla Aaurlonrs Televusuon hustorucal and buoqraphucal novels hughlughted wuth mystery storues and Latun are the elements that lead toward her goal an ever un creasung dynarnuc vocabulary study of semantucs or etymology us another step on her way Mrs Forbe also teaches German and sponsors the Am Besten club She us the uunuor grrls sponsor I uf , H . . . . 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It is an increasing source of won- der around school how Thomas Johnson retains his equilibrium, for he teaches the driver training course from year to year. However, his bi- ology students know that he is an authority on the nervous system. Other than teaching, he assists the school as a co-sponsor of Fire Pa- trol. Sports occupy his leisure timeg he participates in eveything from duck hunting to water skiing. Mr. Johnson, who has attended Kearney State Teachers' College and the University of Nebraska, needs to complete only six more hours work for his master's degree. North high school and Europe the link between these two points was connected by Miss Anne Keenan this pat summer To those wlso have heard her speak her reminisc ing has brought travel to life She has assimilated culture understand ing and an appreciation of fine things al' of which she passes on to her English students She uses her M A degree from Columbia Univer sity to good advantage by encour aging self expression in theme and essay writing This year she helped in the preparation of a skit about the English and commercial depart ments which was given for P TA Only part of Ray Kennedys popu lority with his students comes from his white buck shoes and crew cut The rest is from his teaching meth ods gleaned from his work at Southwest Missouri State College and the University of South Dakota During two years in the social sci ence department Mr Kennedy has brouaht hns knowledge of geography and history to the classroom Trav eling being his main hobby he has visited 42 states and three foreign countries He is also sponsoring the freshman sophomore Hi Y group Company' At ten shun' Master Sergeant John E Kerner as he directs the companies in the Viking ROTC battalion Sergeant Kerner is a veteran of World War ll and Korea He has an active in terest in boys sports dating back to his high school days in Reading Pa when he played football and basketball He also piloted an Amer icon Legion team to a city title in Brockton Mass Though it is not a new experience to be working with young boys this year has marked his first attempt at drilling boys of high school age in military procedures and tactics Times up' These are in all prob ability the two most familiar words used by Miss Flossie Lyons during the school day A graduate of the University of Nebra ka Miss Lyons first came to North in l926 Since then she has devoted her school time to teaching type to students and her recreational time to en larging her classical music collec tion Traveling is another of her in terests she has visited Canada and almost every state in this country Students fondly rememb r her for her philosophical ideas and stiff ten minutes time tests Meeting the Public is the title olven to an evenina adult educa tion class being taught currently by a newcomer to the North staff Mrs Josephine Mattox lf her pupils do as well as she has done in meetinft her student public their evenings of work will be well repaid Mrs Mattox teaches English ancl speech two subiects which she also tauqlst at McCook Nebraska before com ing to North ln her free time she en oys working at the Omaha Com munity Playhouse where she has appeared in several productions and designed sets Orville R. Matzke is the new sheriff of third floor, a title bestowed upon him for his policing there during lunch. Aside from this, he is assis- tant freshman football coach and reserve basketball coach. During the school day he teaches industrial arts and algebra. At the University of Nebraska, Mr. Matzke concen- trated in math, industrial artsi and physical education before receiving his bachelor of arts degree. Outside of school, Mr, Matzke enioys watch- ing and participating in such sports events as track, football and bas- ketball. Thereoms postulates and equations are not all that occupy the time of Miss Pearl McCroy head of the mathematics department She cently realized a lifetime dream by building for herself a modernistic new home Beside teaching mathe matics Miss McCroy also sponsors the two math clubs Fractions for freshmen and sophomores and Digits for upperclassmen A graduate of Grinnell College she is active profes ional and church circles and has been a member of the North faculty since 1924 Any shade or tint of purple and lavendar lyrical poetry and a change of glasses bring out the charmina personality of Mrs Ar dith Miller Her sincerity and un Herstandinq ways have brought her close to her students This year she has centered her attention on the study of Spanish and is con templotina a trip to South America She already is a well traveled per son for much of her time is spent ooing and coming to school a three hour round trip The Enqlish d partment claims Mrs Miller who received her masters degree from the University of Nebraska Excuses gust dont net by Nathan R Mohar For the past four years he ha looked into the why angles of boys absence excuses each morn inn l-le has a wealth of experience upon which to draw for this respons I nity for in his career he as rlealt with boys as a coach of near I every sport and with the prob lems of being the parent of a teen age son and dauahter Mr Mohar a graduate of the University of llliwois heads the social science de partment Teaching history and modern problems completes his school activities Seek the person behind the flying pencil on the shorthand pad the aaile fingers on the typewriter or the click of the mimeoaraph and vou will find Mrs Darlene Mohlman Her efficiency as Princ pal Kenneth Burkholders secretary is surpassed only by her graciousness and friend liness to all who enter the office Mrs Mohlman s stenographic career beqan as an assistant to the prlnci pal of the high school in her home town Fairbury Nebraska ln her spare time after her duties t school and household tasks are com pleted Mrs Mohlman likes to read and square dance All efforts channeled to the bet terment and service of the students and the school could well be the code by which Robert Mohlman lives As faculty advisor of the Stu dent Council he works as hard harder than any student member Mr Mohlman devotes countless hours to counseling boys regardinq their problems and futures H sponsors Boys Student Opinion cl h and is a member of the Act-vitie committee and the Board of Con trol American history and world aeography classes are included in Mr Mohlmans teaching assignment all