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

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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.

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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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T I s. .7 I' . lfjrom ofa .SIQHCECI jirrif .asia .Umm faaion pulling Mrs. Estelle Behan answered early morning calls concerning abscntees and spent the rest of a busy day operating the trunk switchboard. In her spare time she performed clerical tasks. Office equipment was as modern as that in the classrooms. Books at the school are distributed on a rental basis. Pupils pay four dollars a semester and are furnished whatever they need. The bookstore was located in temporary quarters during the first semester but finally moved into an excellent location in the center of the building, at che start of the second semester. Mrs. Taylor stocks an unusual variety of supplies in the room serving as a store, and keeps rental books in an adjoining one. A beautiful library, just off the main entrance, is the dream come true for every school librarian. Fifty- two counseling rooms throughout the building pro- vide space for conferences and guidance work. The theater invariably arouses a gasp of surprise from visitors. Colors range from the coral red of foam rubber upholstered seats to the gray-blue of the velvet curtains. Professional type equipment includes a prop room, two spotlight booths and a projection booth, an electrically operated switchboard, arc lights, and a counter-balance system that makes it possible to suspend sets of scenery high in the air, to be lowered into place when needed. fzllvouz-Q Dean Wfert was one of the technicians who manned the public address system, sending programs and announcements all over the school. fBcIowj Ruthie Adams, Bev Cummins, and Mrs. Mary Frances Taylor admired merchandise sold in the bookstore.