North Central High School - Northerner Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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fLeffj Judy Martin studied her experiment in Mr. Prettyman's unus- ually attractive biology room, one of five composing the Science Wocfern, an 2460110- North Central recognized the need for a Develop- mental Reading program that would reach all of its pupils. One room is already equipped with 30 indi- vidual booths, 265 reading books, 240 special reading skill books, 30 reading skill films, and such machine aids as shadowscopes, accelerators, and tachitron tachistoscopes. Expansion is planned. Art students have all sorts of equipment to use in painting, drawing, sculpturing and making ceramics. An unusually large electric kiln, special combination seats and easels, large work tables, individual sculp- turing stands, and many other items make the three- room Art Department one of the finest of its kind in the state. Musicians are conveniently placed in a secluded area where they can practice to their heart's content Without disturbing anyone. Private rooms off each classroom provide still further facilities. Instruments provided by the school include oboes, bassoons, bari- tone saxes, clarinets, horns, percussion drums, and a complete dance drum outht, plus four glockenspiels. Tremendous windows that form the outer walls of the buildings fill the classrooms with light. Recessed fluorescent lights in the ceiling, and over the chalk- boards, make the gloomiest day seem bright. Department. fliigbtj Karen Roessler and Bill Buehler were interested in a realistic model of the heart. uerage in .90 .N cope A serve-self elevator, installed near the entrance of B-wing, is an extra convenience for deliveries, or for students who might End it dilhcult to climb stairs. Steve Striebeck played elevator operator as -lack Pigg, Linda Brown, Judy Davis, and Lynne Umpllrey waited for the signal to enter. 3

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Musicians in the school were the first to use the new equipment. Nancy House played the piano, one of 6 small ones purchased for the school, while Jim Harris beat a complicated rhythm on a set of drums painted in the school colors of black, red, and white. ciuqomenf in flue Weuf Developmental reading facilities were rated among the best in the state. Mrs. North assisted Bill Iles with the accelerator to increase his reading speed while Pat Rardon used a tachitron tachistoscope without assistance. Elton! id geaufi u , North Central parents and visitors inspecting the school expressed amazement when they saw the above-average equipment provided. They also were impressed with the use of color in the building, for nearly every hue in the rainbow is utilized in the walls, ceilings, floors, peg boards, and other furnish- ings. The plus equipment includes closed television circuits in each classroom, connected with aerials on the roof so that outside programs as well as those in the school can be televised, a private elevator and phone booths, a public address system that can reach every room, a switchboard for phones, and drive-in delivery entrances for transferring equipment and furnishings to the stage. Science rooms provide better facilities than those found in many colleges. Microscopes, test tubes, spe- cially equipped tables, burners, charts of all kinds, plaster models, chemicals, and many other items are used in providing a five-year science course in four years. Art students were especially fortunate in being able to use the most modern type of equipment. Becky Teague found modeling a clay dog easy, when her work was placed on an artist's turn-table.

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ur gjvcefgenf jacigfiefi Pupil health is well-guarded in a four-room Health Center Where Miss Mary Doyle checks temperatures and contacts parents to call for ailing persons. Besides teaching home nursing, Miss Doyle supervised attend- ance records. Industrial Arts Wing includes shops Where boys can get experience in Woodworking, metal work of all types, printing, and drafting. The print shop con- tains two presses, eight families of type in 104 cases, binding equipment and paper drills. Boys enrolled in the course handle all printed matter for the school. Draftsmen in the making, Work at comfortable desks, in a room provided for them. Equipment provided for feeding North Central pupils, faculty, and guests is definitely above average. Mrs. Louise Herrington and her assistants work in a kitchen that has such facilities as electric mixers, food choppers, grinders, and potato peelers. Also, it has steam cabinets, automatic dish Washers, and a garbage disposal. Food is well preserved in a deep freeze, and in separate refrigerators for meat, vegetables, salads, and dairy products. Warming ovens keep food hot until it is sent on a dumbwaiter to the cafeteria steam tables above. Well-balanced meals with a large variety of choices were planned and served each day in three lunch shifts. Top luciurej Miss Mary Doyle school nurse examined Suzanne fLef1fQ Well-balanced meals were served daily to a stream of visitors Gaunts sort arm Below An unidentified boy Mike Gilliam and and students, eating in three shifts. fRiglJU Mrs. Gladys Welchel uses Larry Barrett worked on individual projects in the shop the huge potato-mashing machine.