North Side High School - Legend Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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THE LEGEND V ol Top Row: English teachers: lNlr. Loy Laney, Mrs. Edith Vlfinslow, Nliss Mary Howard, Miss Julia Storr. Miss Mildred Huffman, hfliss Rowena Plarveyg social science instructors: lxflr. Rollo Mosher, Mr, Robert Sinks, lVlr. Merton Kimes, Miss Katherine Rothenbcrger. Bottom Row: English teachers: Nliss Geneva Burwell, Mrs. James Smith, Mr. Charles Dickinson, Miss Mabel Gf99I1.k'3lf1 social science teachers: Miss Marian Bash, Nliss Hazel Plummer, Mr. Dave Hartley. WE HAVE A FACULTY FUR TEACHING By CORNELIUS RYAN Qur country is a big place, yet one may travel the length and breadth of that big place and hnd few high schools the superior of North Side of Fort Wayne. Checking point for point, one will hnd this to be true. In point of beauty of architecture, the Big Red need bow to nonefwhich same may be said of landscaping and location. North Side is as modern as today's newspaper. Every department is equipped with the best and lates-' of apparatus. The scientihc laboratory is fully stocked for every possible experiment-sand judging from the varied and pungent odors, some impossible ones as well. The athletic department possesses a iine Football held, one of Indiana's best gyms, and good equipment. 12 Proceeding to the arts, one finds in North Side a stage and equipment tar superior to many col- lege dramatic facilities. The art division is well furnished with rainbow hues and whatnot for the creation ol beauty. In the well-stocked library, supplementary reading to classroom texts in every class may be found, as well as pleasure books by the best authors. The spacious, well-lighted publications room is perhaps the best in these United States. A mod- ern, sanitary, and, most important, an economic- ally priced cafeteria feeds hundreds of hungry students daily. This spacious cafeteria doubles as a dance floor for all dances except the Prom and Commencement. Best facilities for movie and slide projection aid in visual supplement to the

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THE LEGEND DIRECTOR OF PERSONNEL Wise and capable, and ever eager to exercise that wisdom to help a student who is finding the road a rocky one, our Dean, Victoria Gross, re- mains one of North Sides best-loved faculty members. Her office serves as a clearing house for the tangles in which an active pupil can become enmeshed. And you may be sure there is plenty of business in the clearing house, for our com- munity of 1500 can get plenty tangled. But Chief Clearing Clerlc Gross calmly unravels each slcein. and that student's life from then on is happier and more successful for the kind inter- vention and interest talcen by Miss Gross. So it goes with her whose title is Dean. but whose business is Friend. North Side is a better place because there is a little door to the right of the main entrance, mod- estly labeled Dean,s Office. Miss Gross serves also as helper of the various clubs and organizations in their social activities. Dances, skating parties, potluclcs. all are arranged under the supervision of the Dean, and thereby success-or at least great chances of success-is assured. Added to her social aids are the physical aids which she and her office provide. A completely equipped dispensary and a doctor who makes reg- ular daily calls make her kingdom the haven of the ill. l-lere again her sympathy-and sometimes her car-comes into play. And the sufferer is made more comfortable till he is again fit and ready. Our dean, Miss Victoria Gross, at her task of acl vising the chairmen of the social councils of the four classes. Those chairmen are Betty Boone, Richard Thieme, Helen Lee Pletcher, James Bixby. 11

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TI-IE LEGEND +--- if-... fs- -i , --. v 'rw Esc Top Row: Art teachers: lVliss Gertrude Zook, lxfliss Bernice Sinclalrg music. hlr. Varner Chance: dramatics. lVliss Marjorie Suter: language instructors: lVliss Bertha Nelson. lxfliss Lorraine Foster. hliss Judith Bowen, lxfliss Nlarie Ehle. Bottom Row: Science teachers: lVlr. Fred Breeze. bliss Vesta Thompson. lxliss Julia Alexander. lNlr, Rolla Chambers, Mr. Harold Thomas: commerce teachers: Mr. Elvin Eyster. Miss Oral Furst. Klr. john hlertes. Miss Nlaryann Roller. subjects. ' Another big factor in the maintenance of a fine school is the number of students, which. though threatening someday to outgrow present capacity. is now not too large to receive fully the benefits of the school. The other two city high schools are woefully crowded, so North Side may count itself lucky. And its very newness is an asset, for students in a new, clean, and invigorating building, are stim- ulated to finer and better work. Physically, North Side High School is in the select circle of American high schools. A capable faculty, added to these natural ad- vantages, makes North Side-our school-what it is-a pacemaker among schools. Added to these factors is an extra-curricular set-up which is as fine as may be found in this broad nation. Every student will find a club or activity dedicated to his special interest, whether that interest be toads or turquoises. stamps or stones. I-leaded by student officers, the clubs are student activities, wisely and discreetly guided by a faculty adviser. Finances of the clubs are oper- ated through the school treasury. thus providing a check on unwise expenditures. Each club in school may have at least one big social event. that is, a dance or skating party, and numerous of the smaller ones-club parties and porlucks. Dates for these events are chosen by the dean, thus insuring no clashing of dates. Clubs which have no other way of raising money are al- lotted the plums in the way of dates for their activities. while those clubs. such as Booster and Northerner, which have a steady income. must take the poorer dates. Each club and activity has at least one faculty adviser, who assists in supervising the programs at meetings and social affairs in addi- tion to her work as a classroom teacher. The faculty also provides two advisers for each 13