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

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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

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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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Muss Charlotte Root would be a top competuor for laurels un the ad dutuon process uf ever she competed wuth the math teachers Many Vuk ungs wush they could add wuth uch ease However uts all part of the days work wuth Muss Root who keeps students and faculty mem bers supplued wuth everythung from pen pounts to book covers Her uob un the bookroom uncludes mendung and ussuung textbooks a well torung those whuch have strayed from the hands of theur owners Muss Root takes a very actuve un terest un church work and enuoys readung un her luttle extra leusure Mrs Seely' rungs through the gym more often durung the day than any other cry Thus us understand able for gurls un the physucal edu catuon department un tunctuvely turn to her for help un dancung tennus rufle archery baskebtall volleyball oftball and soccer Besudes teach ung these varuous skulls Mrs Ruth B Seely also guves a helpung hand to the Mulutary Ball the Aurora committee and the Athletuc and Health boards She also sponsors posed of Polars Cubs Teddy Bears Pep Leaders and Cheerleaders A gentle and kundly smule has be come the students mental assocua tuon wuth Charles E Severyn math unstructor It us a smule of encour agement when he explauns to the confused algebra or geometry stu dent that mathematucs us a chal lengung and not a dusta teful sub uect The understandung smule that l e flashes as he makes hus duty tour through the halls before and after school can only mean I dont want to break up your fun but you really must leave M Severyn serves on the Scholarshup and Hon ors and Usherung commuttees A newcomer to North Hugh school thus year us Mrs Goldue G Sulver mon She teaches both freshman and sophomore Englush Pert vuva cuous and young lookung enough to be a student Mrs Sulverman has already carved her partucular nuche un the affectuons of her student and colleagues A Central Hugh school graduate she attended Smuth college and the Unuversuty of Ne braska A large collectuon of classu cal records testufues to her fondness for good musuc She admuts that uf she cant travel shed rather read than do anythung else durung her free tume Could you sugget an unterestung book for a report un Englush? Thus sort of questuon often confronts Mrs Elma Sumpson because as head lubraruan her ab us to promote lu brary effucuency and to operate the lubrary accordung to the students needs Her delughtful sense of hu mor and her dustunct personaluty have greatly unfluenced the students who are un need of her help One of her buggest prolects thus year was the very successful promotuon f Natuonau Book Week Mrs Sumpson has a wude varuety of unterests but her favorute ones are drama read ung and musuc A fruendly nudge and a quuck come back for any uoke are characterus tucs of Harvey A Smuth commercual aruthmetuc teacher He occupues an unusual and responsuble posutuon at North, for as chool treasurer he controls the purse strungs of all ac tuvuty funds He attended hugh school un Beemer and West Pount Nebraska and receuved hus A B degree at Nebraska Wesleyan um versuty He holds a master's degree from the Unuversuty of Nebraska Hus career has uncluded some ath letuc coachung as well At Southern Calufomua, he has studued the tech nuques of Vusual Aud unstructuon 2 -sw Mil' ,nn twin' Muss Fay Southwell us well known for her subtle sense of humor and ablluty to straught face ut She us spoken of respectfully and affec tuonately by tudents who have been un her Englush classes for she weaves unto her courses many of her fascunatung experuences and guves her students an untroductuon to varued forms of culture She has much to tell of her trup to Mexuco thus past summer and her excutung adventures un Europe two years ago In her classes no holuday goes un observed she has a story or trup memento for every occasuon All Vukung camera enthusuasts have undoubtedly come under the scrut uny of Edward H Stech unstructor of hustory and world geography Asude from hus teachung Mr Stech serves as sponsor for the Shutter bugs club and durector of the STS hustory club Mr Stechs mann un terests outsude of school unclude hus fraternuty Alpha Phu Omega f whuch he us presudent and the con structuon of model raulroad trauns Mr Stech us a graduate of the ceuved a bachelor of arts degree un hustory Keuth Stewart always addresses be fuddled students wuth What can l o for you? Yet nune tumes out en he already knows for he he padlock man From the very furst day of school Mr Stewart us busy handung out padlocks to more than fufteen hundred students and ut s a uob that contunues throughout the school year He us counse or of the eleventh grade boys Board of Control repre entatuve of the Oma ha Educatuon as ocuatuon and teach er of world geography and hustory Mr Stewart receuved hus master of arts degree from the Unuversuty of Nebraska Como esta Vd 9 whuch means How are you? us one of the furst thungs Mrs Louuse Sutton teache her begunnung Spanush classes From that but of knowledge she unstulls such a love for that language her students that they converse un ut as much outsude as unsude class M Sutton sponsors El Polo del Norte and ands uts members un put tung out the club paper Headung the Aurora comrnuttee un the sprung keeps Mrs Sutton so occupued that she us almost obluvuous to the toys of the season She has been sopho more gurls counselor thus year Sponsorung the STS hustory club and servung an the Patruotuc commuttee are only two of the many actuvutues to whuch Mrs Catherune Thomas de votes her tume Durung the school day she teaches a heavy load of fuve classes of Amerucan hustory and one of world hustory Outsude of chool Mrs Thomas enuoys read ung storues about the arts and socual scuences She readuly admuts how ever that she loves to get lost occasuona ly un a detectuve thru ler Her educatuon degrees unclude a bachelors and masters degree un educatuon and sacuology from ln duana State Teachers college For the past 20 years Vukung mu sucuans have performed under the baton of unstrumental musuc unstruc tor Samuel F Thomas He teaches not only the famuluar marchung band and concert orchestra but be gunnung and uunuor band and a class un harmony He also umparts hus vast store of musucal knowledge to specual groups such as strung en sembles, the pep band and dance band Durung the summer Mr Thomas spends hus leusure tume fushrng Durung the wunter, he reads sports magazunes to learn how to catch more fush un the summer' 4413 . - Z 5. ---- I ' A A fr - r rr - ' V ' 5 ,V I: E s f . 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