North Mecklenburg High School - Viking Yearbook (Huntersville, NC)

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Eddie Cobb does some welding while two members ot the class and Mr. Gabriel look on. Measure, pin and cut. Mary MacLain, Cynthia Ayers, and Joan Gant learn those things are required by Miss Ridge, the Home Ec. teacher. Erroll Mauldin gives an oral report in Distributive Education class. Miss Somers listens attentively. Jackie McGee works on his protect in lndustrial Arts. He must be right for Mr. Cochran smiles. Jimmy Brown has been working on a table. 1 t LEARNING T0 DO . . . DCI G TO LEAR Many classes at North are practical ones where the lesson is learned and put into practice at the same time. Vocational agriculture is a three year course and is elected by any boy interested in farming and related subiects. Here a boy learns about many things of value to him on the farm. He learns how to judge seeds, products, animals, and even the land. He learns how to take care of everything on the farm, how to repair machinery and farm buildings, and in some instances learns how to build the furniture, the cabinets, and other articles he might need. Shop provides much practical experience for the classes. lndustrial Arts affords an opportunity to learn by doing. Here the students learn to design and build. In Mechanical Drawing they learn to become draftsmen. They also learn many other principles involved in such work. Distributive Education deals with retailing, wholesaling, and ser- vices. Students study better methods of being successful in these fields and put into practice what they learn. They leave school each day to go to work, and on the job they are under the supervision of the DE teacher. They are graded on their work on the job just as they are graded on their work at school. Home Economics trains girls to be good homemakers. They learn to cook, sew, be gracious hostesses, develop pleasing personalities, and do other things. They learn proper relationships with other people, also. Much interest is taken in this course. I0

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Each year English classes are taught the use of the library. Good reading is stressed in each class, and good books are required to be read tor book reports. Students are encouraged to read good literature dur- ing their leisure time, so as to cultivate an appreciation of the best that has been written. But the greatest aim of the work in language is to equip students to think critically and to express ideas clearly and concretely, for to be successful requires the ability to do each of these equally well. vg3sQW:f G J. Auten, R. Mayhew, J. Knox, and L. Griffin work in we o Q o ' - s ' ' ' French was in the curriculum from the very begin- ning of the school. This language helps one to under- stand his own language better, for many of our words are derived from French words. Most colleges require two years of French or some other foreign language. Latin was added to the course of study in the second year of North's operation. The class was small, but it was library on an assignment in magazines. the forerunner of much larger classes and more interest in the subiect. Seventy-six per cent of English words come from Latin roots, therefore, a student who learns his Latin vocabulary can readily transfer meaning to the similar English word. The Latin classes are taught in consecutive years, Latin l during one year and Latin ll the next. Alain Boiton reads a French magazine to Joan Hicks, Judy Honeycutt, and Robert Simril. Mrs. Holbrook looks approy- ingly at the Latin bulletin board as Jimmy Woods, Diane Andrews, Linda Kerley, and Jerry Youngblood finish with it. AA if jg MW .,-sk-4 1

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Richard Boyles gives dictation for Jeanette Williams, Ann Young, and Betty .lean Eller to practice shorthand. is ' TRAINING FOR FUTURE OCCLIPATIONS Some of the students at North prepare for jobs im- mediately after graduation. The commercial department is geared to take care of the needs of those desiring to go into the commercial field as stenographers, secre- taries, bookkeepers, or typists. When North High opened, courses in typing and first year shorthand were offered the students. Soon after, second year shorthand, bookkeeping, and office prac- tice were offered to prepare the students for work. Typing and shorthand are required for many of the positions offered graduates. Constant practice in either of these subiects is essential for proficiency which as- sures trained students the best positions and eligibility for promotions. Filing is taught along with the other courses, for many students will have some filing duties along-with their other work. Office practice is iust what the name implies. The students are taught the use of electric typewriters, the Viorrow, J. McGraw, M. L. Fowler, S. Epperson, G. S. Wall, dictaphone, calculating machines, the mimeograph and other duplicating machines. They carry out various as- signments iust as if they were on the iob. This experience gives the student confidence when he actually begins work. Fundamentals in bookkeeping are taught, and actual practice in keeping books is given the student. Although almost every office has its own system of bookkeeping, the student can apply the principles he learns in this course to do the work required of him. None of these courses are required for graduation, and only those who are planning to go into the commer- cial field take any of them, except typing. When a student has taken these courses at North and applied himself to the task, he is capable of taking any position offered him without fear that he will fail on the iob. j 5, Eubgnkg gre in The Offiqe practice QIQ55, Mrs, Jones keeping. Harriett Drake and Charles Holland do their typing cks as Nancy Tilson and Dickie Delinger work on book- assignment.