Humboldt High School - Nokomis Yearbook (Humboldt, IA)

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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.

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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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WWW The girls work off their old figures for the new look. Miss Sfriclelamf kept one eye on the auditorium check-out list, and the other on students enrolled in sophomore and junior English classes. She spon- sored the assembly committee and, with the help of its members, managed the pay assemblies and planned and produced some very interesting school talent programs. She directed the D. of D. play. Miss Strickland helped supervise the noon play and entertainment .... Mr. Szmwall administered to the needs of the history students in a room border- ing on the south campus. He combined efforts with Mr. Carter in developing the skills of the junior The science class visits the city water plant high athletics. Mr. Sunwall is a sort of Hrst-rate but second-hand farmer. His hobbies are horseshoe pitching and fishing, and he solemnly declares he really likes to hoe weeds .... Mr. Tale, a good- natured man measuring six feet, met all the seniors by way of classes in economics and Civics. The greater part of his time, however, was devoted to the field of physical education. Mr. Tate coached the first-team football men, the IIS. basketball fellows, and the track squad. There were P.T. classes, too. And --Mr. Tate dropped out of bachclorhood. ANNE STRICKLAND, B.A. KALEB SUNWALL, B.A. ROBERT TATE, B.A English History Athletics