Beatrice High School - Homesteader Yearbook (Beatrice, NE)

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'-Ju. Betty Meyer and Ruby Shottenkirk are putting their books away utter a tedious day ot school. while Leonard Willey prepares the next day's lesson. Only students who do not mind the extra grind, major in mathematics. Plane geom- etry, a headache to many college prep majors, is only the beginning. Next comes advanced algebra, trigonometry and solid geometry. Trig and solid geometry are for those who plan on a future in engineering or chemical research. A few brave girls take this subject simply because they like math and it is a wonderful way to learn to reason. BHS' linguists have no selection of the language they want to study. Starting this year Latin I and II are the only foreign lan- guage courses offered. Commercial courses, the favorite of girls, offer a variety of subjects for a girl with future in the business world. Secretarial practice, a two hour course for senior girls, consists of two years of typing and shorthand. Commer- cial arithmetic, general business, machine training, bookkeeping and commercial law supplement this course. Hdvanced art students. Lawrence Williams, Patty Cox. Christa Popp. and Meredith Weber apply the finishing touches to their third quarter projects. HICHRRD STHHTFOHD, who has majored in English, math and science, has taken the college prep course throughout high school. Dick as he is commonly called, played the trumpet in band HU-113 and was on the junior class play committee flll. Flfter graduation he plans on going to the University of Nebraska. BOBBIE SWOBODR liked shop the best of all his subjects. Bob took a general course and thinks he will enter the armed forces after graduation. BOB WEHVER enjoyed driver's education most in his high school years. Ears, as he is called by his friends, took a general course. He plans on joining the armed forces like many of his friends. BEN WIEBKE. majoring in the college prep course, lists modern Droblems and physics as his favcrite subjects. Ben played the tuba in the band tlll and sang bass in choir Ill- l2l. He was a member of the track squad C103 and worked or: the stage crews of the junior and senior class plays. Rfter graduation, Ben plans on entering college. Taking the industrial course throughout high school, LOHIN WOLTEMQTH enjoyed shop more than the rest of his sub- jects Lorin served as electrician for the i.unior class play. He has hopes of working as a mechanic following commencement. Known to all her friends as Dart, DOROTHY WOOD served as a librarian HOD and as a monitor flO-lll. Dort enjoyed watching football more than any other sport. She took the commercial course in high school and hopes for an office job after graduation Af x fe, 41 Shqtfgrd Swoboda Weaver Wxebke Whltemaih Wqgd Page 20

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x Controlling the flying pencils while Miss Sawyer reads are left row, Marily Haellele. Erma Overbeck. and Barbara Wiegand, right row, Dorothy Wood, Merrily Moore, Betty Hnn Epp. Darlene Hoelis and Barbara Morris. BHS Qmerican and World History instructor was ESTELL9 REID. CR B. Nebraska Vfesleyan University, HM, University of Mich, business College, Quincy, lll.l Her home town is Edgar, Nebraska. Before taking her position at Beatrice she taught at Chinook, Montana She acted as junior class spon- sor this year. ROBERT W. SEVEHNS, who received his Bachelor of Sci- ence in chemistry, physics, and biology at Kearney State Teachers College and earned a Master ot F-Irts degree at the University of Nebraska, instructed the driver education classes at Beatrice senior h1gh. Rn active hobbyist, his out- side interests include photcgraphy, flying, and amateur radio. One ol solid gecmetry's two girls is Ioan Tart Here she is surrounded by Kenneth Zimmerman. Iohn Fike Marvin Rickard. Don Beach and Bob Bevington. Bob is holding a geometrical figure. B t , r , ,,,. f ry f-0 i Reid Severn: English C and English D instructor was GRHCE SOU- THER CM.R., University of Nebraskal Her p r e v 1 o u s teaching experience was at McCook, and her home town is Lincoln. In the past school year she was a sophomore sponsor. Her interests and H native of Beatrice is BERTHR STHRN CR N, Clark- son Memorial Hospxtal, Oma- ha, graduate work, Uni. of Nebr, Uni. of Calif.l She acted as health nurse in ten schools Her previous ex- perience includes administra- tive work at Clarkson, pri- Boy's gym may harbor future basketball stars Pic tured here are Richard Berg. Roy Parde Paul Reedy and Kirk Woodward practicing in the rumor high gym Paul Reedy is trying a tree throw hobbies include such activi- ties as travel, reading and hand crafts, Souther vate duty nursing, YWCQ health work, schoci health work Outside interests were sponsoring Boy Scout health work and music. Sta rn

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Most boys flock into the industrial courses, W- Reviewing a case for commercial law between classes are Larry Rrnold. Hay Bratt. Ruth Shottenkirk. Lucille Iones, Marjorie Hoh- bein and Donna Turnbull. a three hour course either in Woodworking or machine shop. Fundamentals in both types of shops are taught with the idea that boys taking these courses will enter a trade upon graduation. Other subjects in the industrial shops are drawing, general, advanced, archi- tectural, cabinet making, and machine trades. Girls that read their blue prints and see marriage as their future, major in home eco- nomics. This course deals With home man- agement, personality, foods and clothing. One of the outstanding subjects taught is family relationships, a course that discusses prob- lems oi marriage and parenthood. Miss Starn demonstrates some of the new equip- ment in the health department to Esther Sandersield, Maxine Schenck. Norma McNarnee and Don Schank. 5' t ,E swf g , Rf 'V' Sturmer Winsor MISS MHRY STURMER. biology teacher, received her Bach- elor of Qrts at the University of Nebraska and her Master of Flrts at the University of Chicago, Before coming to Beatrice, her home town, she taught in a college in Mississippi. Out- side of school her main interest is ornithology. She is a senior class sponsor. Music, reading, sports and travel are the hobbies of MISS HLICE WINSOR CFLB., University of Nebraska! who, besides being a junior class sponsor has the tedious task of finance secretary of the Homesteader. She teaches typing one and two and first and second year short hand. Miss Winsor calls Beatrice her home but she was originally from Beaver Crossing Don Cummins. Lloyd Knoche. Kevin Whigeside, Roy Peckman and Vernon Lindhorst. show interest in the work Wayne Houseman is demonstrating. ,Z Y -,-4 'I-x l W., ...... X 47 f i 1 it