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

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communication skills in English classes Bob Smith and Barbara Fiesel feel like language detectives as they check on Latin and Greek roots from which English words have been derived. 21

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Students develop Novice forensic participants Bob Rothbaum and John Duvall admire the sweepstake trophy awarded at the first North Cen- tral Invitational speech meet held February 19. Since true education requires the ability to com- prehend other people ' s ideas and to clearly express one ' s own, nearly every Centralite enrolled in at least one course in the English Department. Sopho- mores and juniors took required classes in grammar, literature and developmental reading. Many seniors elected to continue developing their communica- tions skills with courses in composition and English and world literature. Through a program of indi- vidual library work and conferences, a special Inde- pendent Study Group made it possible for fourteen talented seniors to research philosophies and literary figures, and to concentrate on creative writing proj- ects. Seniors Dick Babayan, Dave Martin, Valeska Short, and Marguerite Waller edited the 1966 issue of the annual literary magazine Etchings in Thought. The forensic and debate teams opened another opportunity for Centralites to excel in com- munications. The Craig Reader, a new machine in the Reading Lab, develops speed and comprehension in English (lasses which spend from three to six weeks a semester practicing. 20

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Math and science classes keep pace A skate, an unusual freshwater fish comes under the scientific observation of Rick Denner- line, Rick McComb and Kathy Lehr during a six-week research project in Zoology II. Sensitive equipment makes ii possible for advanced chemistry students Mike Wright and Steve Springer to determine the radioactivity of specially prepared elemental isotopes.