North Phoenix High School - Hoofbeats Yearbook (Phoenix, AZ)

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For Guidance It ' s a big jump from grammar school to high school. Every year from five to six hundred eighth grade graduates enter North High. They m.ust make a complete adjustment to the new pattern of life in high school. Smoothing the rough spots on the Freshman ' s path is the Freshman counselor. If your algebra isn ' t quite up to par, take your problems to the counselor. Things begin to !ook brighter as soon as you pour out your troubles into the sympathetic ear of the counselor. Many a patient teacher-stu- dent conference has set a boy or girl off on the right foot again. Don ' t think the Freshmen are the only ones v ho have this advantage of counselors. Sopho- mores also gain invaluable aid in planning their schedules and solving their difficulties with the Sophomore counselors. This course of Orientation for Freshmen and Sophomores is incorporated with their English class. Juniors and Seniors may count on their home room advisers for aid. We would like to do a little bragging. Our Freshman and Sophomore counselors are A-1. Two months after the Freshmen come to North High they are just as well acquainted with the school and its government as our upper class- men. The counselors do an excellent job as is evidenced by the extra super classes of Fresh- men and Sophomores at North Phoenix High School. RELAXING FOR A MOMENT from the busy pattern of the day we find (Top) Sophomore counselors Mr. Stanley P. Cordon, Mrs. Elizabeth M. Bluhm, Miss Marian Cox, and Mr. William D. Roche. Top Center: Freshman counselors Miss Gretchen E. Bock, Mr. Kenneth Lang, and Mrs. Jean Hansen. Lower Center: Mr. George A. Metier. Lower Leil: Always ready with a helping hand are Freshman counse- lors Mr. Orville Hamm, Mrs. Muriel K. Miller, and Mr. William J. Anderson. Lower Right: Mr. James Filson, Miss Mildred Jacks, and Mr. Carl Wagner. (27)

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MATHEMATICS — Here ' s a group of teachers who always know what the score is. Standing: Mr. Thomas Inman, Mr. Henry Schmidt, Mr. Arthur Hawk, Mr. Herbert Drinkwater, Mr. Fred J. McDonald, Mr. T. H. Utlaut, Mr. Harold R. Williams. Seated: Mr Walter J. Wooden and Mr. Henry Anderson. Emphasis On Efficiency Are all teachers human? Grand question. But our subject here is math teachers. As we said, good question. Seriously though, there ' s one thing certain, you either learn or flunk math. Oh— rather obvious, isn ' t it? What we ' re trying to say is we ' re truly grateful to you math teachers for passing us on even a 4 — with a circle around it. If you didn ' t see fit to pass us, then — oh — phooey. The English language, according to foreigners, is quite difficult to master, of that we have no doubts. According to some silly rule or other we hove to learn how t ' tear a sen- tence to pieces and then .tell why — so we might as well face it. It ' s gotta be done, so about all we can do is cooperate with our teachers. Nauseating thought! But it might help! Shop is an amazing contraption. It ' s exclusive to men at this writing — and if they never learn anything but how to fix window shades and screw door-knobs on, it ' ll come in handy in later life! Think of how happy the shop teachers ' wives must be — no rattling shutters or banging doors! It ' s a thought at that! ENGLISH TEACHERS — Seated: Miss Zula Stevens, Miss Sylvia Poling, Mrs. Fleda C. Kinneman. and Miss Miriam Gathings. Standing: Mr. John C. Raymond and Mr. Robert Frank. INDUSTRIAL ARTS — Mr. Vernon Hathcock, Mr. Fred Schade, Mr. Bert Belluzzi, Mr. Lawrence Chard. (26)

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Fit As A Fiddle The girls who work in the Health Center are usually pretty interested in some phase of a medical career or think so when they sign up. We ' ll wager they know pretty much of what •they were supposed to leam at the end of the year with Miss Potthoff to teach them. Ailing pupils seldom lecrve without a proper diagnosis of their innards. If they can be restored to form or mended sufficiently to struggle through the rest of their classes, it is done as quickly as possible so the poor unfortunate won ' t miss that exhilerating Latin class, or that long looked-forward-to physics test. Year after year sweet dispositioned teachers, such as Mrs. Ardith Shelley and Mr. Charles Coulter, labor daily at the task of teaching certain students to carry a tune without the aid of a bucket. Not too infrequently in their — uh — shall we say oyster hunting — they find the makings of a pearl — and now and then the real thing. Anybody who has attended a midwinter concert or a spring concert or any one of a number of other concerts, including assemblies, put on annually by the music department, will bear us out on that. Off to a good start! We hope! Anyway they have a chance if they faithfully practice all the muscle-rending exercises the heartless coaches make ' em do. It ' s always remained a mystery to us how often with all that jumping and twisting and various other things, these boys have the energy left to get out and win track meets, basketball games, football games, and other contests. The old saying goes that you can ' t expect to get more out of some- thing than you put into it, and our Boys ' P.E. department operates that way. What would our campus be like if there were no little girls clad in green shorts dashing over the sports field nearly every period? You might say the scene would be lifeless and dull because of the lack of said attractive props. INSPECTING AN EYE CHART in the Health Center (Upper LeJI) are Jimmy Grube, Miss Carolyn Lane, Miss Lydia Potthoff, Arlene Costanten, Jerry Coker, and Darlene Flickinger. Giving her class something to sing about (Upper Right) is Glee Club Director Mrs. Ardilh Shelky. Ready to get the boys of the Phvrical Ed Classes out to a fly- ing start (Lower Left) Coach Don Pace. Lower Right: Girls ' Physical Ed instructor Miss Catherine Wilkinson gives a few pointers on howr to make that evor-loving basketball go in the right d ' recticn.