Downers Grove North High School - Cauldron Yearbook (Downers Grove, IL)

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 Fingers on home keys? Then begin. Click, click, click, click, click . . . (time out for erasing). The commercial department prepares pupils for busi- ness careers. Freshmen and sophomores may enroll in general business or personal typing. Juniors and seniors may specialize in typing, stenography, office practice, accounting, commercial law, and or economics. Office practice students help the school by typing tests, class lists, and organization ballots. French, Latin, Spanish, and German are the second tongues of many lingusitic students. It was the foreign language teachers who guided many through the perils and pitfalls of subjunctives, verbals, and conditionals. Their endless patience must have been often tried with very un-French-like pronunciations and the forgetful- ness of the most elementary vocabulary. Languages, however, gave more than grammar and foreign phrases. They indoctrinated students with the culture and history of people of other civilizations and coun- tries. Mr. Harry W. Paulin. M.A., 2: Mrs. Helen G. Cleveland. B.S.. 15. Counselor: Miss Betty Lee Chessman. M.A.. 13. English; Mr. Maynard L. Saxhy. B.S. in Ed. in Spanish. 1: Miss Marion Free- man. B.S.. 1: Miss K. Blanche Howland. M.A.. 31

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natural In a land where physics experiments are more apt to fail than succeed, where distilled water is often basic or acidic instead of neutral, and where frogs become mangled and disjointed, students combine laboratory and lecture techniques in learning scientific principles. Freshmen may take general science or biology. To upperclassmen belong the privilege of enrolling in the physical science courses-physical science, chemistry, or physics. Under Mr. Everett Holt, department head, students learn the practicality of science, basic precepts for pro- fessional and college training, and the scientific method of reasoning. Mr. I.arrv leathers. B.S.. 1: Mr. Everett E. Holt. M.S.. 26. Head of Department; Mr. James I,ind. B.S.. 2: Mr. Merlin Schult . M.A., 3; Mr. Eugene Itegal. M.A.. 3; Miss l.ouise Killie. M.A.. 14: Mrs. Jan Saville Pipkin. B.S., 1

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 Mi»- LoRcna Schorman. M.A.. in Library Science. 5. Librarian; Mrs. Marguerite Bohrnstedt. 13. Library Assistant; Mrs. True Peterson. B.A.. 10. Study Hall Supervisor: Miss Celia Natzke. B.A.. in Library Science. 29. Head Librarian: Miss Patricia Collins. B.A.. 1. Speech Correctionis!. Mr. Kalpli Cressey. M.A., 27. Driver Education; Mrs. Mary K. Rogers. School Treasurer and Secre- tary to Director of Guidance and Testing; Mrs. Alina Pence. 5. Secretary to Principal: Mrs. Margaret Lake. I. Secretary to Dean of Boys; Mrs. Doris F.lv, 2. Secretarv to Dean of Girls; Mrs. Geraldine Thomson. 4. Secretarv to Principal: i i J-r -fr No- P « lured is Mrs. Margaret K. Pros. Secretary to Dean of Girls. ' ' £ •' „ 94V. special services Every day, every hour, and every minute, the myriad of details and duties that crop up at DGHS are exe- cuted by the members of the special service depart- ment. Always busy, the secretaries in the principal's and counselors' offices find both correspondence and public 24 “It All Depends On You” relations work a part of their jobs. The librarians efficiently offer many research and recreational facilities including reference books, back issues of magazines, fiction and non-fiction books, and records.