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

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vocal divisions more classes The Troubadours practice for coming concerts. Once the smallest group in the department, it has been divided into several smallergroups. Mike Folk, Byron Black, Larry Stacy, and Tim Mills comprise the color guard. They appear at football and basketball games. Because the Senior Play was can- celled, seniors instead attended the Senior Cabaret presented December 3 by the Music Department. Cabaret involved most of the 450 members of the vocal and instrumental sec- tions. Other concerts included a school as- sembly on December 23, and three public concerts: one in February and two in May. Because of the great number of singers, A Cappella was divided into Troubadours, the folk group, Madrigals, and girls ' ensemble. The instrumental groups played outside of the Fort Wayne area and for Indiana University Regional Campus. Involved in the schedule was a band trip after their annual candy sale and fish fry dinners in October, January, and May. During the football season, the group sold red and white cushions called swingers. The instrumental groups divided during the basketball season and formed the Pep Band, which attend- ed most of the games and helped bring out the North Side Redskin spirit. Music 25

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Music Department expands; more Nan McBride, a feature twirler, takes twirling at football and basketball games in stride. Diligence and long hours are necessary to present a concert, as the wind and string sections of the orchestra prove. Janet Bossard, Rae Doenges, Jimmy Schaeffer and Jane Collens make up one of Mr. Roderick Gerrard ' s several guitar classes. These classes offer availability of the Music Department to students not enrolled in it. Directing the band and sometimes the orchestra takes much of Mr. Barry Ashton ' s time. In addition he also coordinates the Arrowettes and twirlers with the band. 24 Music

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Social studies influenced lives of Skins as they Senior Jim Andrews explains a problem to his classmates in Mr. Certain ' s economics class. The Social Studies Department, headed by Mr. Cleon Fleck, offers history, government and economics, sociology, world affairs, and a com- munist seminar. They are designed to let each student know what has happened in the past and what is going on today. Because it was an election year, classes had a special project; they discussed the candidates the week preceding the elections and also studied Indiana government. Then they voted for their choices. Sociology centered around people and their problems. Economics classes studied democracy as a structure, while the communist Seminar studied the threats of com- munism — past, present, and future. World affairs compared other parts of the world and their problems to the United States. Government present principles about the func- tions of our government and devel- opments for the future. In the regular Friday current events discus- sion in Mr. Waveland Snider ' s world histo- ry class, Diane Stetler discusses a timely topic from the newspaper. 26 Social Studies These United States history students get together to discuss the upcoming election of the state and local government. These students, along with other social studies students, were able to vote in the classroom for their favorite candidates.