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

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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.

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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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J 7 7 .game cgfucdted, lf ffm any laeciaf .gudjecfg Industrial arts boys had their choice of woodworking, metal shop, modern machines in the metal shop and Richard Porter concentrated printing and drafting. KAIJUWQ james Sutphin worked at one of the on drafting, seated at a special table. SX 0 is sf S 5 1. H 0 KBCIOWJ Bob Grau, Jim Light, and Mike Vinz examined one of the If Q linotype machines in the print shop when it was finally set up. An unusual choice of classes in the new school's curriculum made it possible for both college-bound pupils and those who would finish their studies with a high school diploma, to get a good educational preparation for their futures. Besides the basic subjects of English, math, history, science and languages, courses in typing, business law, shorthand, foods and clothing, graphic arts, general shop, printing, drafting, band, orchestra, chorus, and home nursing were provided for pupil choice in mak- ing four-year plans. The curriculum set-up was on a temporary basis because when the second year in the new school opens, freshmen will be enrolled in the junior high school buildings and North Central will house only the three upper classes. This will involve eliminating some courses and adding others. The present freshmen are to be the only class to spend four years in the school.