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

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R, Muss Gatz and cxpcr mental Englu h class pose for thc camera The approval of the school bond ussue whuch uncludes the buuldung ofthe North Junuor Hugh brought new hope for a face luftung to the homemakung department Over 300 students both boys and gurls are enrolled un the department whuch uncludes Personal Problems un uts curruculum Thus course teaches personaluty development luvung wuth the famuly gettung along wuth people and adjustment for marruage Although the enture department us handu capped by the lack of up to date equupment the gurl enrolled un I-lomemakung I through VI us taught to handle money matters and man age a home untellugently and eftucuently Puanta party hughlughts Chrustmas actuvutues The unnovatuon un the Englush department that most students wull readuly remember us the Iowa Sulent Readung test whuch each ot th m was requured to take un December AI though the test had no durect bearung on the student s funal grade ut was helpful un many r sp cts to the I6 teachers un the department A new duplucatung machune serves to sup plement the mumeographed rnaterual whuch us used prumaruly durung the study of grammar A record player adds varuety to Shakespeare and other po ts and playwrughts A class of freshmen has served as guunea pugs forthe d partment thus year Thus class meets for two peruods each day and prepara tuon of advance assugnments us done durung that tume At the end of the year through tests and comparusons the advantages of thus plan wull be determuned Work st ll goes on desp te crowded quarters Muca muca parva stella muror quaenam sustam bella The above us a foreugn language but not Greek as many would guess It merely the furst Iune of the chuldrens song Twunkle Twunkle Luttle Star Thus us the fur t thung that Latun I students learn upon enter ng Mrs Ruth Forbes class Four women teachers team up to unstruct students un the fundamentals of Spanush Fr nch and Latun In addutuon to regular class work the Latun and Spanush classes publush a quarterly news pap r wrutten and prunted un the respectuve for ugn language Agaun thus year the language department uouned forces to sell Chrustmas stuckers whuch carrued greetungs un the varuous tongues C Q A . . - , . . I - - ' I 'rr .. 9 9 ' get , I T e ' , jul xgfly 11 - wi , . ,, . . e I S . ' I I Il ' 4 Il I I I 4 I , . s - - I . , . . . . . . , ,, . . . I I l . ,, . . . . . , . . . . . . I - ,, . . . ,, . . e , , . 3 . ' I Y I . . I O . I Q . . . . Q. ,

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B ds cyc c of E shaped No th H gh School North Hugh the E shaped buuldung on the hull has become a tamuluar sught to North Omaha resudents whose chuldren and fruends make theur way toward ITS doors each school GY Through the maun entrance wuth ITS beau tutul stauned glass wundows came 776 students ID l Z4 Today In l956 l894 students enter the some doors tor the same purpose to gaun knowledge but they do It on a much larger scale Many changes have taken place sunce l924 Not only un the outward appearance but In sude Not only In the physucal appearance but IH the curruculum and admunustratuon The swummung pool whuch was Included un the orugunal plans has never been realuzed Today the pool houses O30 lubrary and study a ln l94-l the campus was completely land 8 D scoped and deducated to the alumnu who had guven theur luves In World War ll The pucture ofthe lulac hedges encurclung the whole buuld Ing In the early sprung IS Indeed beaututul Later on the spurea mock orange and snow ball add to the beauty As the number ot students Increased dud the need for books The shelves of 220 and O30 lubrarues now house over IOOOO books In these lubrarues students obtaun mate rual for hustory and Englush assugnments as well as for pleasure readung In the munds of people acquaunted wuth North Hugh school the E shaped buuldung stands for excellence IH th 90 puece band athletuc standung and general reputatuon of North Hugh and Its students One of the busuest but least publucuzed parts of North Hugh school IS the west entrance Through these doors come the maul hundreds of pounds of food for hungry Vukungs lunches and many other deluverues ot books supplues and equupment ur' viw f r I . I - . I . . , . d ' I I I ' - ' 9 , - I I I . D I ' T Q I . . . . I . . - . I - . . . . - . D -. I I N' 7 ' I . -I ., , II Il. 1 A 4 I

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Physucs experuments are many and varued The socual studues courses are a vutal part of the curruculum of the North student The freshman us furst untroduced to the school through th freshman oruentatuon course un World Geography l World Hustorv Amerucan I-lustory and Am rucan Government follow that order Thus us the only department whuch requures four full years of study Because of actuon taken last year senuors took Amerucan Government for the furst tume was requured durung th uunuor year and sen uors were enrolled un Amerucan Hustory In addutuon to the regular textbooks ussued students also make use of the lubrary and un addutuon subscrube to current news maga zines Beverly attempts to prove that BD ? lOn Ca lOl-ll JV CO -9 7 Ju- CaCO, Calculate th densuty of alumunum How are food and oxygen dustrubuted to muscle cells? These questuons mught tend to leave some people un a quandary but students enrolled un the science department face these and sumu lar querues each day Among the subjects offered by the sux teachers un the department are General Scu ence Physucal Scuence Biology Physics and Chemustry Other features well known to any science student are Bonaparte the buology skeleton, Miss Crocker stackung vertebrae on a pencul and the aroma of rotten eggs emergung from the chemustry lab Nt' Mr Stech locates countrues for World Geography students Learnung enough un two years of mathe matucs to admut a student to a unuversuty us the ultumate purpose of the Functuonal Math ematucs course whuch was offered for the furst tume thus year Thus course whuch has been added on an exp rumental basus us composed enturely of freshmen Over a peruod of two years, aruth metuc algebra geometry and even a luttle trugonometry wull be taught The department whuch consists of seven teachers headed by Muss Pearl McCray boasts an enrollment of lO38 students well over half the enrollment of North Hugh Two extracurrucular clubs the Diguts for upperclassmen and the Fractions for fresh men and sophomores also are a part of the varied actuvutues of the department 5 ' .L I 2 2 - ,, 3 S u ' . I I , . I . I . . . H I . ' I 2 , y , ,msg , A ' l' ,I l 'Ext na , e un , . . ' ' ' .R ,Q . I . this year. Previously, American Government f , . . 2. - - 2. , ' I I - li-co. , , I , . I Q u u u - ' I - Q I I I I I I I , - I