Humboldt High School - Nokomis Yearbook (Humboldt, IA)

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Advanced math, slips into an answer with the slide rule. Misx Iolmxmz came to school early enough each day to get into her room before the dozens of fresh- men and other math students arrived and choked up the entrance to the crowded quarters. She pilot- ed the sophomores through their picnic squalls and magazine sales. l.ast summer Miss Johnson strug- gled with the heat, read her 1946-1947 supply of magazines and walked her two little pals. . . . . Mr. lfll 'Qf'lll'Iltl taught lfnglish in junior high but stepped across the corridor to room 4 one period each day to wrestle with it group of Latin students. Last summer he divided his time between reading fb Circles and their tangents are being constructed and the big out-of-doorsg but he has promised to rush himself off to a summer school during the 1948 interim. Mr. Jorgenrud likes to write yarns about interest people .... Mixx Kimfzrall, who had been ill during the fall, hurried in at the beginning of the second semester to take over the problems of the commercial department. Mrs. Dilly had cared for these during the first half of the school year. Miss Kindwall has a different hobby. She has a scrap book of all the activities she has experienced since she started to grade school .... ALMA JOHNSON, B.A. JAMES JORGENRUD BARBARA KINDWALL, BA Mathematics Junior High English - Latin Business X, -M -ag 5 if

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..1i The artists pack the pictures for the Scholastic Contest. Mrs. Dilly, who had been in charge of the com- mercial courses for two years, came out of the kitchenn last fall to keep the department going at its usual lively pace until Miss Kindwall was able to take over and carry on. At the end of a very busy first semester, Mrs. Dilly hurried back to her home to play with her hobbyg namely, cooking .... Mr. Dilly kept himself busy during the summer of 1947 by keeping the young fry of Humboldt systematically at play. The summer of 1948 may find him brushing up at summer school. Mr. Dilly worked with football second-stringers, the -in ' . - J T 4. he barb.-,S,,0D,, q to Ulirt harmvnizguet '9Dares Varsity basketball men, and the baseball fellows. There were classes in P.T.', and in business. And -when bigger fish are caught, Mr. Dilly will catch them .... Miss Hull! was the only instructor who had no young men in her classes. Nuff said! She was the home management instructor. In addi- tion to the daily chores of teaching cooking and sewing, she had the worries of the hot lunch pro- gram and the co-sponsorship of the juniors. I,ast summer Miss Held attended school at Ames. The vacation period of 1948 may see her traveling around in the East. GENEVIEVE DILLY, B.A. KENNETH DILLY, B.A. SHIRLEY HELD, B.S. Business Athletics Homemaking

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'X 8 The boys in shop class ooze out a bit of elbow grease. Miss Osborne may not have been able to coax her young artists to admire modern art fnot that she wished toj, but she did have a way of getting them to do sketches that talked artistically about all seasonal events. Last summer Miss Osborne busied herself in an art school in Estes Park, Colo- rado. During the coming summer she will probably continue her study in another center .... Mrx. Smifb shooed her senior English pupils into the bookkeeping room as Mrs. Dilly or Miss Kindwall coaxed their students across the threshold into the typing department. Three study halls demanded GRAYCE OSBORN, B.A. BERNICE SMITH, B.A. Art English, Speech drag s-.-...:3- . wx nt. F1-es hfllan 'mils ' check zine su subseripusflfglanagers watching and careful checking. When work was to be done with a speech student or a play cast needed practice, Mrs. Smith had the right to exclaim, My kingdom for an empty cubby holeln .... Miss RH: came to school bright and early each morning to begin to work with vocal music people. Little people wanted snappy songs, pretty songs, and an operetta. Big people wanted all that and more, too. Six hundred people wanted to sing, and that was enough to keep Miss Ritz very busy. She expects to continue her own study of music at Cedar Falls during the summer months. BARBARA RITZ, B.A. Vocal Music 4.