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

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Cash, Careers Lure Redskins to Jobs in Community All learning is not in books, nor in school. Vitalizing this time-proven belief, many students sought work experi- ences, for experience and cash, outside of school. Volunteer problems at the city ' s hospitals yielded experi- ence in a medical atmosphere. Through a similar program at the Fort Wayne State School, Redskins wrapped gifts and performed other services according to their talents. Of course, there were paid jobs. With an answer to the business world riddle of How-can-you-get-a-job-without-ex- perience-and-how-can-you-get-experience-without-a-job, the Junior Achievement companies attracted a substantial sprinkling of North Siders. By responding to calls from employers to the Guidance Office, Redskins baby-sat, wrote letters for a new citizen who needed help with the lan- guage, and read to a handicapped youngster. Other people got jobs through their own leg work or through help from the Youth Employment Service in the summer. Whatever the job, experience was its own reward. Laurie Popp, Joan Yoder, and Becky Lotz fold instrument tray towels in their work as Nursettes at Parkview Hospital. 11

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Administration Finds Welcome Aid in Student Help Efficiency and office skills were sharpened when stu- dents assisted in offices and classrooms around the school. The guidance offices employed clerical crews who helped say a cheerful good morning to those who call the school, search the files for the exact spot for a student folder, mimeograph files of announcements, and take messages. In study hall an army of girls exercised their best pen- manship in taking attendance while boys exercised their walking apparatus in picking up absence slips. Other boys worked in the athletic office watching over the valuables of pupils in gym classes. Days running from seven to four o ' clock made student graders necessary in some classes. Students filling this capacity gained new appreciation of their teachers ' work and found that principles of grammar and physics are long remembered after a person corrects them two-hundred times on a theme or physics test. North Side would have been a harder place to keep running without help. Rather than feeling that they were purely charitable, students had to admit that the jobs were valu able to them also. 10

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Individual Hobbies, Varsity Varieties Boasting acts that ranged from an old-fashioned minstrel show to a harrassed husband fearfully trying to teach his wife the fundamentals of driving, the Dixiebelle Show- boat flashed past the North Side landing midst a shim- mering spectacle of lights and colors. Presented in two acts, the show opened wtih the entire company vocalizing Swanee, and Alabamy Bound. Highlights were two modern dance numbers, Danger Man and Steam Heat; a song-and-dance number called Mississippi Mud; an unusual treat from Scotland featur- ing a bag-pipe solo; and a humorous, yet effective-sounding boys ' quartet in Tropic Tropics. As the curtain rose on the second act, the audience found some gals from the hills trying to convince the bearded gents that it was Sugartime. An atempt at magic followed, and ended with the magician knotted in a strait- jacket. An unusual dance number, spotlighted by clever lighting techniques then demonstrated the dancing talents of several Redskins. The predicaments facing those who travel by air was satirized in the skit, The High and the Flighty. The second half was a singing one as vocal solos enthrawled those watching, while the climax was reached in the unique finale, Dream Fantasy. Roper Haverfield puts the finishing touches of makeup on Jay Feichter. 2