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

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Fine Arts classes Using imported bells for better tone quality, senior Jim Mac- Mullin practices his part for a Bell Choir presentation. Perfection is the goal of band students who show their stuff at many exciting performances. Frank Bodwell and Donna Agnew kibitz on Carolyn Cassada ' s tie straightening act when she gives Dan Duncan a last minute (heck before they leave for a Counterpoint program. 2H

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Three countries sent representative students Danielle Bernard, Belgium; Jahil Rashti, India; and Olaf Leimar, Sweden, to get acquainted with American teenagers at North Central. foreign languages As a continuation of their efforts to make many language levels available to Central ites, the Lan- guage Department added two new courses. French was extended to include a fifth year. Eleven people elected it and enjoyed reporting on the politics, literature, and art of France. Since German may now be taken by junior high school students, a fourth year German class was initiated for advanced stu- dents. The already established fifth year Spanish class read and studied novels in that language. Many students worked toward the Advanced Placement courses of the College Entrance Examination Board. North Central once again entered the largest number of applicants in the state in the Indiana University Honors Program. Nearly nine hundred students throughout the state entered the competi- tion in French, German, and Spanish. Forty-three of these were Central ites. Of this, Indiana chose four students to spend the summer in France and two to live in Mexico. Karen Cure, Gail Eger, Dale Fink, and Georgie Miner will study in St. Brieuc, France, while Linda Roth and Susan Williams will be in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. American Field Service exchange student, Danielle Bernard, corrects Peggy Patterson ' s work in the language lab. 27

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teach theory, appreciation of beauty Although many North Centralites are talented in art and music, it isn ' t necessary to have extraordinary ability to be allowed to enroll in the classes in this department. In fact the goal of the Fine Arts Depart- ment is to help all Centralites gain appreciation of beauty in various forms of art. This paid off when North Central students won thirty Gold Key Awards in the National Scholastic Art Contest, and all seven of the choral groups took first place in the state music contest. Aside from the awards coming to talented students, novice artists were also rewarded by the progress they made in their work. Very gratifying also are the facts that the Counterpoints presented over fifty private performances this year, that for the first time North Central presented an Evening of Concerto featuring talented Centralites, and that this year ' s Student Art Show was the biggest ever! With the use of charcoal, Carolyn Wilson creates interesting shadings throughout her art class picture. Wet clay takes the form of a gracefully shaped bowl as Diane Hunter works with the pottery wheel in the well-equipped Arts and Crafts Department. 29