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

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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

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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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Deep sympathy f a tudents problem rs the only emotron that mrght keep Mrss Gertrude Mohrs delrghtful smrle from flashrng t the surface It IS thrs smrle that greets a grrl returnrng to school after an absence for Mrss Mohrs dutres Include the rs uance of ab sence checks each mornrng before school Mrss Mohr IS a graduate of Drake unrversrty and recerved her masters degree from Northwestern unrversrfy Among her many Inter ests travelrng rates hrghest Thrs IS the tenth year that Mrss Mohr has presrded over Vrkrng math classes A newcomer to the staff the se ond semester thrs year Mrss Marran Nelson has brought the practrcal vrewpornt of the busrne s world to her freshman and senror Englrh classes After ten years spent teach Ing In Blarr and Ashland Nebraska schools Mrss Nelson turned her at tentron to the problems and Intrr cate detarls of busrne s untrl Iorn Ing the Vrkrng faculty Wrth her offrce experrence she had no drf frculty In masterrng the procedures Involved rn a routrne day at North Mrss Nelson recerved her teachers trarnrng at Dana college In Blarr and the Unrversrty of Nebraska When the whr tle blows for a trme out rn any of Norths ba ketball games the players cluster around Wrllram C lSper:l Nel on for a de tarled drscourse on how to wrn t e qame Mr Nelson IS the frery coach of the caoe squad and al o tutor of the bockfreld durrng the football season Mr Nelson teaches Industrral arts and oym clas es before assum rng hrs after school coachrng chores He IS a graduate of MIdlan college rn Fremont where he a oresl In physrcal educatron and eclrpsed hrs rrvals on the ath etrc fled One of hrs currcnt pastrmes IS experrment Ing wrth hrs new 3 D ccmcra Mrss Margaret A Nrelsen IS proof that every teacher IS a good actress She has delrghted many of her tu dents wrth her portrayals of Julret a glamour arrl or a count y bump krn The hrstory of the theater the art of stage make up the tech nraucs of good actrng and the frne pornts of publrc speakrng are ID cluded In the work of her dramat cs and speech classes She encourage further Interest In dramatrcs spon or of Norths Natronal Thes prans troup An excrtrng European tour last summer resulted In two new rnterests for Mrss Nrelsen arr travel and photography Mrs Agnes Nrlsson lS happy In her chosen vocatron for In It her hobby and work complement one another Her posrtron as lrbrarran In O30 brrngs her rnto close contact wrth what IS dearest to her heart books and young people Workrng on the Courtesy and the Crtrzenshrp and Patrrotrc commrttees IS proof of Mrs Nrlssons wrllrngness to par trcrpate rn chool actrvrtres She alo assrsts wrth the Senror Hrgh School Lrbrary Book Selectron com mrtte of the Omaha publrc schools Mrs Nrlsson was graduated from the Unrversrty of Nebraska A former Vrkrng has Iornecl the staff' Mrs Phyllrs Nortgren who attended North a few years ago has returned to teach correctrve speech The most frequent questron Mrs Nordgren hears IS Who IS she? because she IS on the campus only Monday Wednesday and Frrday mornrngs Mrs Norddrerr was grad uated from the Unrver Ity of Ne braska Lrke many teachers she has two full trrre obs keepno house for her husband and lrttle qrrl and teachrna Her morn crea tlve Interest IS rnterror decorotrng and she has attractrvely decorated her apartment IZ: For 3l years North students enter Ing the morn offrce have been greeted by the frrendly smrle of Mrss Rose Ostronrc Her keystone pos tron as school secretary brrngs her INTO every phase of school lrfe New students and faculty mem bers alrke soon reolrze her help fulness and srncere Interest as she assrsts them rn adru trng to the rou Ine of North Hrgh She rs stumpable for she has a good so lutron for every problem be t how to check out of school or where to frnd a teacher When her work at school and home IS frnrshed she enroys readrng a good book Prca em delete and font may be untamrlrar words to some but to Mrs Ellen Pearey North Star and Norseman advrsor they are only part of the darly routrne Though most often assocrated wrth Iournal Ism Mrs Pearey has also taught socrol studres for the past ten years She recerved her master s de gree In hrstory from Crerghton unr versrty Berng treasurer of the Ne braska Hrgh School Press assocra tron vrce presrdent of her sororrt alumnae c h a p t e r Homecomrng charrman and program charrman for the P TA are but a few of her extra currrcular dutres Servrce to others IS the keynote of Mrs Arlene Petersens work as she fulfrlls her dutres as a spon or of the Junror Red Cross and Greg grtes and a teacher of busrness edu catron classes Her vrgrlance In frnd rng erasures and errors In her stu dents papers reflects the effrcrency wrth whrch Mrs Petersen performs her own assrgnments A member of the Vrkrng staff for four years she ho ds both a bachelor s and master s degree from the Unrversrty of Ne braska A love of travel has car rred her from coast to coast and rnto Canada A man who has the Interest of the boys of North Hrgh at heart IS Da vrd K Petersen He drrects the ac trvrtres of a large group of gunror and senror boys belongrng to HI Y He also sponsors the Castle club an organrzatron composed of mas culrne che s enthusrasts Mr Peter en IS an Instructor of mathematrcs and recerved hrs degree from the Unrver Ity of Omaha Many students not famrlrar wrth the routrne of hrs math classes are well acquarnt ed wrth hrs offrce nrnth hour ses srons after school ln hrs off hours Mr Petersen apprecrates a serrous and well played game of brrdge Englrsh teacher Mrs Helen Plomon don has a drstrnctrve phrlosophy and comprehensrve understandrng of stu dents that rate her hrgh on the students lrst of favorrtes Her vr brant personalrty and ready smrle are magnetrc In attractrng frrend She IS very patrratrc and IS devoted to prornotrng the democratrc Ideals of Amerrca Her educatron and trarnrng are as broad as her marn rnterest travelrng She mrssed her usual vacatron tour last summer In order to care for her son whrle he completed hrs work for a masters degree at the Unrversrty of Omaha Each year the graduate Iudged as havrng made the hrghest scholastrc achrevement In hrs class IS presented wrth the Herbert and Mabel Porter freld Memorral Award of S300 Mrss Alrce V Porterfreld lS responsrble for the establrshment of thrs scho larshrp honorrng her parents whrch has been awarded annually srnce 1947 Her marn lersure actrvrty IS typrcal of Englrsh teachers for she lrkes to read very much ln her classes she seeks to Insprre her students to marntarn contrnuously hrgh standards of scholarshrp serv Ice and character