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

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AROUND THE SCHOOL — Upper Left: Mr. Fred Draper giving a few oi his visual aids students pointers on pro- jection. Mrs. Virginia Duncan (Center Left) helps two ambitious speech students, Phyllis Punt and C. L. Johnson. Lower Leit: Mr. Lynn Fitzgerald, with a few violent gestures here and there, manages to extract tuneful notes from the band. Upper Right we find Jean Garden and Jimmy V right practising speeches. Lower Right: Mrs. Shelley directs the choir. On The Lighter Side Lights! Action! Camera! Bet you didn ' t know about the movies at North High. Direc- tor of productions is Mr. Fred Draper. Well, maybe our pictures don ' t always star Clark Gable or Lana Turner, but they ' re mighty interesting anyway. Each picture is designed to supplement a course. Therefore you can not only learn to speak Spanish but also to under- stand the customs of the people. If you take dramatics it is possible to hear one of your most ardent admirers: YOU. With the recording apparatus sending back your honied voice, who wouldn ' t love dramatics? Strike up the band, here comes Mr. Fitzgerald. A wave of his baton and we shall have music. Countless are the football games, assemblies, and parades his magic wand has brightened. Say, if you should happen to see the whole student body swaying back and forth in syncopated swing time, come on in and join the fun. It means the swing band is in session. Swing high, swing low. If you like music you ' ll be heading in the right direction it you make tracks for the Glee Club. Almost any hour of the day songs float by on the breeze. Spirituals, popular, or folk tunes, as varied as the rainbow. So drop by and join in. 29)

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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.

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GLANCING THROUGH a new book (Upper Left) with two interested students is Librarian Miss Clare Yotter. Keeping the Freshmen ud on their P ' s and O ' s (Lower Leil) is Miss Mildred Jacks. Upper Right: Shop teacher Mr. Fred Schade watches Tom Porter and Jimmy Siken working on a lArheel hub. All ' s not work at North High. The girls (Lower Left) are determined to get that basket. Determination The library has always been a frisnd in need. There ' s quite a bit of planning and work con- nected with running this department, and those behind it are due a note of praise. Miss Clare Yotter is new this year and, according to all reports, has been indispensible as Mr. William Bartels ' able assistant. Shop is a mysterious place where all sorts of queer objects are used to manufacture all sorts of things. We might also mention that for one who plans to become a carpenter, cabi- net maker, a book shelf builder, or just plain handy man around the house — this course pro- vides valuable training. (30)