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

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Bus ness Education Helps Build Career Foundation Courses in business education are helpful in laying a foundation for a business career, and they also provide useful information for personal life. There are many careers open to students of business education. Some require further training, others do not. ln preparation for careers in business, two-year courses in typing, shorthand and bookkeeping are offered. Of- fice practice and distributive education are one-year courses. Typing is open to all stu- dentsg bookkeeping to sophomores, juniors and seniorsg shorthand to juniors and seniors, and office practice and distributive education to seniors only. Commercial courses are among the most immediately useful subjects offered in high school. James Griggs Norman Erickson Mary York Department Head 'OV' A. A. Manfred Helen Stockdale Blair Glover Annette Mead and Sandra Deseve, seniors, work with the adding machines in office practice. James Griggs, shorthand teacher, points out the correct foim for shorthand characters.

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Mildred Glidden Sandra McGee Marjorie Jennings Georgiana Backenstoe Sylvia Meuller Helen Wayland Bookroom Mrs. Glidden and Mrs. McGee help keep the public office running smoothly. I2 Tickets Sold at Business Officeg Nurse Keeps Health Records The efficiency of North Central's business office may be credited to the fine office staff. The student office takes care of guidance, counseling, disciplinary problems and records student attendance. The public office handles school business and receives visitors. Here teachers check in and out each day, collect their mail and attend to other business. Tickets are sold through the business office and a record of all school clubs is kept there. Students may buy school supplies in the book- room at a reduced rate. All school books are dis- tributed and mended through the bookroom. The school's lost-and-found department is also located here. The school nurse keeps a health record of all students attending North Central. Mrs. Nygaard, from Public Health, gives Nancy Baum, junior, a hearing test.

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, f , , b 3 .1-iiigu, L J Rf Q' in .gy r X an 'els , 1 6 -.r .H ff W P. Drama is also offered to students as an English course. Practicing for a play in Dramatics are, left to right: Peggy Smith, juniorg Kelly Davis, seniorg Doug Films on The Humanities for Secondary Scl English 1-6 are basic courses offered for the first three years of high school and are required of all students. In these courses em- phasis is placed on spelling, vocabulary, fundamentals of correct speech and written composition, and instruction in techniques of reading and interpretation. Seniors have a choice of literature, composition and vocabulary if they plan to attend college. English 7a and 8a are offered to those who do not plan to go to college. Vocabulary is open to juniors and seniors as an additional-credit course. In senior literature classes films distributed by the Council for a Television Course in the Humanities for Secondary Schools were viewed. These films, new this year, gave students a background knowledge of the humanities, showing excerpts from Our Town, from Oedipus the King, from Hamlet, and from the novel Great Expectations. The books were read along with the films. The scenes from the plays were performed by the Stratford Shakes- pearian Festival Foundation of Canada. From top to bottom: L Mabel S. McLaughlin, Department Head, Lois Neswick, Lorraine McNew, Margaret Nistad, ,V Sharon Nustad, Tammy Reid, Russell Meyer