Norfolk High School - Milestone Yearbook (Norfolk, NE)

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Students Prepare for Jobs in Business 1-2-3-go! That was the signal for typing students to begin their speed tests. The tests helped the students achieve speed and accuracy which helped in typing business letters and class themes and prepared them for the business world. A student pored busily over a little green book and wrote figures on a chart while other students in study hall wondered what in the world he was doing. Actually he was a bookkeeping student tryingtokeeporderly and accurate records. To an ordinary person, shorthand seemed to be nothing but weird hieroglyphics, but to a shorthand student, it revealed many things. These courses were designed to prepare the students of NHS in basic business skills. LEFT: The type students seem calm to outsiders, but actually they are a mass of nerves as they struggle to keep up with their neighbors in a daily speed test. BELOW LEFT: Jean Reynolds, a struggling bookkeeping student, finds it hard to keep organized while attempting to do her next day's assignment. James Matthews Type Lonnie Behmer Bookkeeping Type 25

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NHS Students Study Fine, Practical Arts Golly, that's beautiful! exclaimed an admirer or perhaps even the creater of a finished product in one of the art classes. Look out for that tree, was a comment occasionally heard in one of the driver's education classes. In both cases, the students were exposed to at least one form of the fine or practical arts. RIGHT: A driver education student practices giving the hand signal for a right hand turn. BELOW: Dennis Weich gets a little help in drawing a straight line from his fellow art students. Wesley Thelander Drivers Education Psychology Ellwin G. Fletcher Drafting 24

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Physical Activity Stressed in PE Class Today's seated population, chained to office chairs eight hours a day, seems to be stressing physical fitness more than ever before, and the physical education classes are keeping right in step with this need. Starting with modern dance, the girls worked their way through tumbling, basketball, and volleybal I. The boys were engaged in basketball, indoor baseball, outdoor softball, tumbling and volleyball. Henry Hart Boys PE Carolyn Dietz Girls PE RIGHT: 28,29,30 , groans Randy Harp as he completes the day's requirement of sit-ups in boys P.E. BELOW: For girls in P E the warming up exercises are calisthenics. These exercises precede the other activities of tumbling, basketball and volleyball. 26