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

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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

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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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xfxiw AFTISYS turn out projects wth sk ll and speed wIll not be buyIng do It yourself kIts for hcr husband because she was th only gIrl enrolled In mechanlcal drawIng thIs year FIrst on the lust of the lndustrlal Arts de partment s projects thIs year was compIlIng a schedule of classes and teachers whIch was then mad Into photostatIc CODIGS and posted tor the InformatIon of students and teachers The shop department also acts as the schools handyman by repaIrInq broken charrs table legs and other casualtIes ot over enthusIastIc VIkIngs In Apnl advanced students entered a va rlety of thelr own work In the lndustrIal Art contest sponsored by the Omaha BuIlders as SOCIOTIOH Ott ce staff beams I2 2: A peek In Room I48 wIll certaInIy prove hat OFTISTS have In'IagInCItIon plus talent There are always varIed and Interestmg dIs plays In the art room rangIng from paper sculpture to copper work All ot the publIcIty for the VOFIOUS dances uch as Fun NIght HomecomIng Chrlstmas B lle and the MIlItary Ball IS handled by the students The same group IS also responsuble for the decoratIons that grace the halls at Chnstmas tIme VIkIng artIsts have a new Instructor thIs year In the person of MIss LorraIne Ohlson DurIng February and March each art stu dent s best work IS entered In a regIoncIl ex hIbItIon of ScholastIc Art Mr Matzke shows how It should be done The admInIstratIve offIce could be com pared to the hub of a wheel because all or ders for runnung the school are Issued from here ln addItIon to the offIce staff the bookroom and the attendance othce are also Included In the admInIstratIon The three departments have a full tIme Iob keepIng track of all the books Issued to stu dents the number of absences each pupul has throughout the years that he IS In school and keepIng track of each person's grade and con duct record besIdes the other thousand and one thrngs they have to do I C . . . ' I I A 3 . . . ' I I , l . U - l - , . . . There is at least one tuture homemaker who ' ' II - II 4 e . , . . . . 2 . . . I II II ' ' I - I - I . - r ' ' I I