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

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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

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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 Top Row. Nlanual training teachers: Mr. Leslie Reeves, lN'lr. Tourist Thompson, Nlr. Eldon Schellschmidt: girls' gym teachers: Miss Hilda Schwehn, Miss Carrie Snively: home economics instructors: Miss Agnes Pate, Miss Martha Beierlein, Miss Laurinda DeVilbiss. Bottom Row: hflathematics instructors: Nlr. Glen Gordy, Mr. Everett Pennington, Nliss Venette Sites, Nlrs, Ella B. Clark, Miss Marie Nlillerg library supervisor, Miss Ethel Shroyerg athletics board: Nlr. John DeLong, Nlr. Hyrle Ivy, Mr. Robert Nulf. of the four classes. The advisers, selected by the class oH'icers, oversee the class activities-such as the Commencement Dance, Junior Prom, Fresh- man Party, and other purely class functions. Meet- ings of the class oihcers and class advisers decide the course the class shall follow, and an energetic class adviser can make the success of a class. These club activities are not the only kind of work for playj indulged in at North Side. Whether it seems that way or not. students do attend class for seven periods a day for approxi- mately nine months. The curriculum is divided into three general courses, college preparatory for those who intend to enter a college or university at the end of their high school days, commercial for those who plan to enter the business world following graduation, and the general course for those whose plans for their future life are in- definite. Those courses are designed to benefit the in- 14 dividual student and are Hexible enough to suit each one's needs. Those who wish can combine courses. College prep pupils can do so by taking shorthand and typing as elective subjects during their last two years. Commercial students can achieve the same results by taking a language during their first two years and algebra and geom- etry during junior and senior years. During their final two years many of the commercial students take shorthand and typewriting. With the aid of these varied subjects, all North Side students are enabled to leave prepared for a well-balanced life. All this, extra-curricular activities in every line, methods for building the physical welfare of the students, instruction in every line of work, practice in social contacts, tend to give all North Side grad- uates well-rounded abilities in everything and to build good strong character and good strong bodies.