North High School - Polaris Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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■ A principal is a busy man, and North's is no exception. The responsibilities of his job often draw him from behind closed office doors into a hectic schedule of meetings and conferences all over the city. He devotes all his time and effort to maintaining an efficiently run school, for the major difficulties of administration are his to solve. It is through Mr. Johnson's hand that North operates end to him that Polars owe their thanks and cooperation. Mr. Sonnenberg and Mr. Nichols, as assistants to Mr Johnson, have slightly different responsibilities. They deal more directly with the students and their activities and sometimes find the unpleasant task of discipline a necessity. Mr. Sonnenberg is concerned mainly with seniors, Mr. Nichols with sophomores and juniors. Both fill busy days with their best efforts to coordinate diversified Polar life. Kathy Tripp knows Mr. Johnson is always ready to lend an understanding ear. Mr. Nichols looks up from the ever-present paper work to help a troubled Polar. 9

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Administrators Shape the Whole Mr. Chester Johnson (veiled) end Mr. Chef lev Nicholv end Mr. Glen Sonnenberg (vtending) cofuider one of the many problems that bevetv the administration of North daily. Was there anyone who truly saw North, the whole of North? Perhaps only Mr. Chester Johnson as principal, and his assistants, Mr. Glen Sonenberg and Mr. Charles Nichols, could make such a claim. If is the duty of these men to coordinate Polar life, to fit the parts together into one, smooth-running whole.

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English Presenting Today’s Key to Awareness JAMES ANDERSON JAMES ANOERSON: English. Newswriling. Merit Bi-Weekly Advisor, Clou Elections. MRS. KIRSTEN OTTO Engliih, Faculty Social Committee. FRANK JOHNSON: Engliih. MRS. KIRSTEN OTTO There'! always the contract plan for book reports. NORMAN MOEN: Engliih, Commencement Advisor. MRS. MARY GEROING: English FRANK JOHNSON JOHN McDONAlD: Engliih MRS. RUTH HEDIUND: (not pictured) Engliih. Student Council Advisor. Senior Banquet Few facets of American life hold more significance than the ability to understand, as well as to use, the English language. Often simply taken for granted, the ability to communicate ideas, ar.d to communicate them well, is the basis of society. Without a workable language system, a community has no real foundation. Thus, the English department is a major part of the whole of education, for it is from this one that the rest stem. As a sophomore, a student is exposed primarily to the appreciation of literary types. He may, as a junior, elect to take newswriting which includes the fundamentals of journalism in addition to the regular junior curriculum of American literature. World and English literature are offered to the senior; abler students may select the faster paced college-bound course. 'What do you moan, this class is an illusion?'' SEYMOUR YESNER: English. English Department Chairman.