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

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Top row: Elizabeth Killingsworth, Homemaking department head; Helen Beaver, clothing; Cleo Cllzer, foods; Mary Parry, clothing; George Theodorson, industrial arts department head. Middle row: Vern R. Broadwell, advanced wood: Leonard F. Graham, elec- tronics. Bottom row: Alvin T. Olson, auto shop. Industrial Arts, Homemaking Prepare Students for Future Roles Courses in industrial arts are excellent prevocational training for trades and also for college. Wood, metal, drafting, electronics and auto mechanics arc offered by the department. Architectural drawing teaches the component parts and con- struction of a house. A boy with superior drawing skill is selected each year from the department. Terry Houger, senior, has been doing the school service drawing [or North Central. Invaluable training to girls is offered through the homemaking department. Homemaking classes in foods, clothing, home fur- nishings, advanced homemaking, child development and social relations are offered to the girls. rothy Tourtellotte, Norma Bartelt and Marcia Dungan display the stuffed toys made by the Ch class as a philanthropic project. These toys are distributed among the various chidren ' s homes Id Development n Spokane. 15

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Top row: P. H. Nygaard. department head; Robert Barnard, geome- try; Dorothy Congdon, algebra; Burrill Exley, geometry; Edwin Kretz, algebra. Middle row; William Lowther, general mathematics; William Nye, general mathematics. Bottom row: Mack Saunders, algebra. Mathematics Undergoes Modernization By Introduction of ' New ' Terminology High school mathematics is undergoing extensive moderniza- tion. The teachers and students are finding it difficult to keep up with the changing terminology and methods. Here are some samples of the new mathematics: Can 1 + 1 be 10? Yes, il the numbers are binary. Can 1 + 1 be 1? Yes, in Boolean algebra. Can 7+8 be 3? Yes, if the modulus is twelve. When is y a function of x? When there is one, and only one, value of y for every x. What is a point? In plane analytical geometr) it is an •ordcrol pair of numbers. Left to right: Student Joe Duprie sharpens a pencil; Larry Baum works with the slide rule while Sharon Mathews assists him; David Christensen and Ernie Laitinen are working problems in Dorothy Congdon ' s algebra 3 class. 14

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What lies ahead in science for North Central students? Will a biology (lass dis- cover the cause of cancer and a way to control it? Will a class in geology succeed in drilling a Mohole through the earth ' s crust to reach the interior region? Will physics or chemist! y students succeed in de- signing and building a rocket that will put a man in space or find a way to obtain energy from controlled nuclear fission? Of course none of these things are possi- ble for high school students. But definite progress on all is being made by well- trained scientists. North Central science classes are giving capable students an opportunity to learn fundamental facts and theories thai will give them a good start toward a scientific career that offers almost unlimited pnssi bilities. The classes offer students who are not interested in a scientific career an op- portunity to gain some understanding of the constantly changing scientific work! in which they live. Walter Spangenberg, biology teacher, shows students left to right, Marline Miller, Dick Berg, Meg Stone and Dave Hyslop the parts of a dissected frog. 16