North Central High School - Tamarack Yearbook (Spokane, WA)

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Using the Library card catalogue to find information for their term papers are seniors Bricker Cortner, De'edy Geri, and Madeline Riches. The English courses have been expanded to include every phase of language usage. Journalism offers the talented student the opportunity to express himself through Weekly publications and the yearbook. VVork in drama classes gives the student a study of the history, background and terminology of the theater as well as an opportunity to participate in acting or in producing one-act and longer plays. Debate teaches the student how to do research, to analyze his information and to present his conclusions forcefully. ENGLISH Top row: John Malterner, English: Russell Meyer: Arthur B. Miller, debate. Bottom row: Margaret Nistad, English: Genevieve Oppen, dramatics, Spanish: Margaret Rawlings, Englishg Joseph C. Tremblay, Englishg Virginia Wilcox, English.

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X6 OV ENGLISH Top row: Mabel S. McLaughlin, department head: Robert Bland, Eng- lishg Dorothy S. Chandler, Englishg Ruth E. Coon, English: Daniel C. Davis, English: Bottom row: Helen L. Haltom, Englishg Mary McKen- na, publications adviser: Lorraine McNew, English. To help students to use good English effectively in oral and written com- munication is the goal of the English department. The English courses I-VI pro- vide instruction in techniques of reading and interpretation, in fundamentals of correct speech and written composition, and hope to instill in each student an ap- preciation of his American literary heritage. Senior literature and composition provide experience in studying world literature and in writing the longer research- type theme. .News Editor, Kay Hutchinson seems to be enjoying her consultation with sports editors Gary Carpenter and Gary Kurtz slb

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Mr. Nygaard shows Carol McLellan and Tim Mayhew the intracacies of a trig problem. Over the door of his famous academy in Athens, Plato placed the inscription: Let no one destitute of geometry enter. One of the chief characteristics of the present time is that the human mind is asserting itself largely through the power of mathematics. Colleges are emulating Plato by raising the mathematical requirements in nearly all departments of in- struction. Students of mathematics in our schools should now be more vigorously Hdisposed to learn than ever before. MATHEMATICS Top row: P. H. Nygaard, department head: Robert F. Barnard, algebrag Dorothy Congdon, geometry, Bottom row: Burril Exley, algebrag Edwin Kretz, algebrag William Nye, algebrag Mack L. Saunders, algebra. I8