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

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r Mr. Michael Schnelker, an English teacher, checks to see if his students had read their daily assignments. Miss Norma Thiele. an English teacher, explains an assign- ment to Heather Holloway, a freshman. JO ENGLISH

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i John Cryer and Ray look at biology Science offered new option The Advanced Placement Program, a new addition to the science curriculum, was open to students of Advanced Chemistry, Advanced Biology and Physics. This optional course offered eligible students majoring in sciences to earn college credits. The students prepared for this by studying independently in addition to regular classroom work. In the spring the students took a test that determined the amount of credits earned. Offered by the Science Department was a variety of awards. The Bausch and Lomb, Kramer, Thomas Chemistry and Earth Science awards were given to those students exhibiting special talent in the specific science areas. The purpose of the Science Department was to prepare students for careers in sciences and medicine. On a broader view, We hoped to give the students an appreciation and awareness of their surroundings, and to get them to think critically about the things around them, explained Mr. Mark Tipple. SCIENCE IS

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New rules improve work The English Department changed both the curriculum and textbooks. This resulted in some classes covering the same materials as they did the year before. For instance, the seniors studied English literature and the juniors studied American literature over again. One thousand seven hundred eight students were enrolled in English classes, an enrollment that reflected the new state requirement that students take four years of English. No rules in English are too strict. They were made to improve the quality of the students ' work. said Mrs. Kathleen Neuhaus, head of the English Department. Mrs. Marsha Flora, a new teacher at North Side said, I think it ' s an organized department because North Side has a good department head. It is the first department that I have been in where everyone has a say in how the English money is spent. Besides the usual English classes, the department also offered other classes. Speech classes were available for those who wanted to develop the fundamentals of public speaking and ccomunication. Humanities was a study of art, literature, and music that tied people together. Students who were interested in learning about and working with instructional media could apply to take the literary experience class, and for those who wanted to leam how to write the different forms of literature, creative writing classes were available. Alan Witchey, junior, gets some pointers on how to write a good gothic story from Mrs, Marsha Flora, a new English teacher.