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

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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

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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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The student who has had an average amount of Instructlon In the busIness depart ment can be assured ofa good Iob upon grad uatlon A total of sux teachers Includung a new type teacher MISS PhyllIs Parrlott offer Instruc tIon In nIne dIfferent buslness courses rangmg from type and shorthand to bookkeepung and busIness law Because of the Increased demand for fnle clerks and machIne operators In the busuness world students In Offlce PractIce I and ll de vote the maloruty of theur tume to masterIng the fIle cabunet and OffICe machInes Phonograph records add varIety to the memorIzatIon of shorthand brlef forms ana also help the begnnnung typsst to gaIn speed and rhythm through musIc Book club meetung d aws e thus astc g oup Aurora Fall FolIIes Thespuan conference senuor play These are only a few of the many productlons In whlch the members of the speech department partIcIpate eIther on stage or behund the scenes ln November the North HIgh ThespIan Troupe No 950 played host to approxImateIy IOO people at the fIrst RegIonal Thespuan conference In February the Troupe celebrated the sev enth annlversary of IfS CharterIng The Aurora would not be complete If there were not some dramatIc Sklf Included and those who do not perform on stage are behnnd the scenes servIng as members of the Aurora make up commIttee Speech students also have the opportunIty durIng the year to partuclpate In flve speech contests IncIudIng the sprung Fme Arts Fes tlval In Llncoln ',,,.o-4' M s Pete se super ses beg nn ng typ sts Chnstmas Presents for the Llbrary was the theme of Book Week at North thus year As a result of the SlOl student contrIbutIon 45 new books aImed for pleasure readung were purchased for the lIbrary The O30 lIbrary serves freshmen and soph mores whIle 220 contaIns books keyed to gun or and nIor Interests The total number of A eldom publIcIzed servIce of the llbrary Is the collectlon of audIo vIsual aIds These frm and frlm strups are catalogued and are a th dI posal of all teachers Newly formed IS the Student Book club Its prlmary functIons are to offer guldance for students who wIsh to purchase books for theIr own lIbrarIes and to share personal readIng experIences wIth one cnother Old fash oned elod ama f ds place In speech class ll . I . . I I - I T . . I . r, r n vi I I I . . . . , . . . . H I . H ' r n I i r . ' ' l I 2 se ' ' . 5 books is estimated at over l0,000. C - . . . . ' it 3 . . ' t 3 's . I l I . I I I . I , , - I m r IH , I - I C