Norfolk High School - Milestone Yearbook (Norfolk, NE)

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All French students dream of the day they can visit L’Arc de Triomphe in Paris and put the language they've learned Into practice. But how did i ever miss that one! Chris Ballant looks puzzled over the corrections of his papers in Spanish class and wants to make sure no extra ones are marked wrong. Le Fran ais, I’Espanol Romanus, What to Take? Je ne sals pas Is the most frequently used phrase in all three years of French. The fundamentals of the language are stressed in the first two years, while conversation is stressed for the more advanced third year students. C Hable Vd espanol? for some NHS students, the answer to this is ves. Interpreting the language and working with grammar is part of this two-year course. Conversation soon dominates the classroom scene. Latin students learn of the ancient writings by translating the works of great men. In their two years, students first learn the vocabulary and then go on to read about the ancient history. Studied in the course are mythology, Roman and Greek civilization, and a version of the Caesar's Gallic Wars. Mrs. Marguerite Hoffman Paul D. Peister Spanish I and II French I, II, and III Miss A. Blanche Collins Latin I and II Sophomore English 26

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Busy Hand, Active Mind, Required for Success Type classes offer students a chance to Erepare for earning a livelihood in the usiness world, while other students take them for their own pleasure. Daily time tests help to achieve the two main goals of this course, speed and accuracy, while students get other helpful hints for typing business letters or class themes. Practice makes perfect—or almost perfect, as shorthand students discover through their daily assignments. Being able to take a dictation with speed and to transcribe shorthand notes with accuracy are valuable aids to help in the business world of the future. Keeping accurate and orderly records is the main objective of bookkeeping. Working with actual accounts and practicing daily will be of use to these business majors. All these courses are offered to NHS students who plan to go into the business-world. They are designed to prepare them with the basic skills that will be necessary for any business associated occupation. Mrs. loan Reber Shorthand Type Mrs. Barbara Rakowski Bookkeeping Type Will you finish filling this out and then type it and take it to Mr. Medow, please? Carol Benish, student helper in the office, practices office procedures. Think the word not the letter. Keep your eyes on the copy. Those are some of the rules beginning typists try to remember. Just one day's notes-and you wouldn't believe what this shorthand notebook said! It tells of hours of labor spent improving speed and accuracy. 25

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Creative Minds and Hands Make Creative Work Strike a pose Mr. Broz instructs his student model Candy Wade, as her fellow classmates draw her In art, striving for facial features. A swish of a brush, an impression from a pencil, and the art student finally has his finished piece. One day he may be posing, while the next he may be drawing a classmate. One six weeks it may be a pencil in his hand and the next six weeks it may be a brush or a knife. He is a student who looks for art in everything and finds it in almost everything. If this door opens this way, then this one must open that way. Students of industrial arts learn to look for the minor details in their drawings. All angles of buildings are covered; front, back, sides, roofs, and floors with special attention given to the insides. Whoops! who could get through a three inch door? Crafts give the students a chance to go further into construction by working with numerous types of material and using different methods for finishing articles. An eighth of an Inch here a perpendicular line, dam It, I wish that circle would look like I used a compass—Dale Childs comes to another perplexing form In mechanical drawing. 27