Northeast High School - Rocket Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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The sophomore class, ZI7 sTrong, had Their TirsT real TasTe oT high school liTe This year. The TirsT ninTh graders To graduaTe Trom NorTheasT iunior high, They Took an acTive parT in The new organizaTions which were opened To Them. By popular voTe, The leaders elecTed were: Lois l-lendrix, presidenTg Eugene Leonard, vice-presi- Beginners Enioy Work- Advance To Soph STaTus denTq Jim Miclcle, secreTaryg and Mary Lou Fergu- son, Treasurer. The commiTTee chairmen appoinTed were: Gladys Jackson, socialq PaT Johns, class Tlower: and Norman Pierce, The class color. The class sponsors They chose were Miss Isabelle SmiTh and Miss lnez BurnworTh. The lighT oT Their year was a sophomore parTy May 7. FirsT row, lefT To righl' Lois Langan Virginia Williams Jackie Anderson Virginia BabbiTT Doro'hv McKay Pai Johns Phyllis Jones Thelma ForsT BeTTy Sfaclr Joy Combs Second row Glenn Claybaujh Eugene Leonard Don HarringTon Jim BowmasTer Don Lincoln RoberT Bowen Jack Applebee Jim Phelan Glen Faulhaber Leslie Jenkins Third row Ted SchulTz Donald Ruden Charles STevenson Norman Pierce BeHy Grice Lois Hendrix Esfher Harrison Phyllis Haas Joyce Neff FourTh row Lenora KiTrell Leah Laub Lois SToHern Mary Lou Ferguson DoroThy Deeds Koila Shaver DoroThy BenTon Launa Harfman Phyllis WroTh Shirley Thornberg FifTh row EsTher Dormer Blanche Koranda Bess Koranda Donna Sfrandberg Elaine YosT Elaine Neifzel Virginia PeTracelr Dolores Robison Marcia YosT Bonnie Rager Doris McQuown Beffy ArmsTrong Sixfh Row Marilyn Lyness DorThea Perkins Alice Jones Lois Thorfinnson Gladys Mae Jackson Florence Morale: Laura Bauers KaThleen Aylward MarTha lreTon Barbara Dickinson Blanche ForsT SevenTh row Mary Lou Peferson PaTricia Morrissey MargareT WesT BeTTy Egger Eugene STine Tom Larson Tom Powell Bruce Deal Don Crowe Jean Sumsfine Barbara McClure Helena Hoclxensmilh Eighfh row Walfer Johnson Kenwood Opp Burfon Haefs Marven WoolheTher Bud Howard Paul Kipper leRoy Yanney Phil Brox Don Kerl Jerry Delhay

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Some planTs grow beTTer in nuTrienT soluTions Than in soil. This TacT was proved in The mixed science and ariThme+ic class when Two beans were planTed, one in soil and The oTher in a TerTilizer soluTion. Over The weelc-end, The one in soil grew abouT one-halT an inch while The oTher grew nine inches. Science and ariThmeTic sTudy is combined Tor all junior high Toll4s. AnoTher newly devised class was The one combining English and social sTudies. Be- sides sTudying Tormal English, hisTory, and currenT aTTairs in Their own ciTy and sTaTe, These sTudenTs sTudy occupaTional oppor- TuniTies. One imporTanT 9A proiecT has been The making oT personal invenTory records. The resulTs oT The Kuder TesT and oi various mechanical, ariThmeTic, and reading TesTs are here recorded. GeTTing To The lighTer side oT school work are The pupils oT The speech classes. They have given Two plays, LeT's lvlalce Up and The DyspepTic Ogre. Working on These plays was enioyable noT only Tor The casTs buT also Tor The comrniTTee mem- bers, scurrying around malcing lasT minuTe preparaTions. They have wriTTen and pre- senTed shorT sl4iTs Tor school programs, buT The climax was a series oT I5 minuTe saTeTy sl4eTches aired over KFOR. The physical educaTion classes have gone on a war Time schedule. They sTudied commando TacTics and underwenT sTren- uous calisThenics. STrange Thing, This scienTiTic sTuTT. Performing The experimenT are La Vern Frank, GerTrude Kennedy, Lloyd Worley, and Ed Ackerman. GeTTing ready Tor The big play are Shirley Cramer, Marie Arrigo, John Lux, and Billy Vogel- sang. A 'FuTure occupaTion is discussed by PaTricia Kirkus, Merlin BuTe, Keifh DaTus, Marilyn Robinson, and Jane Ann Harrison. Prepared 'For a game of Touch foofball are Bob FH-ch, Bob Knighf, and John Chamberlain.

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Form ranks! and band members Gene Owen, Don Jones Wa+ch your sfep, girls, a slip of ihe fool and-l LaVern Evereii, and Bob Muffley will snap fo aHeni'ion. Charleen Whiie, Irene Gales, BeHy Gould, and Phyllis Crane fry balancing on +he shoe scraper rail. Give us a big smile, boys. Complying wiih ihe requesi Half of a circle is equal fo a perpendicular bisec+or? are Don Harringfon, Don Lincoln, and Jim Bowmasler. Puzzled geomefry siudenis, Doroihy Deeds, Norman Pierce, Lois Ann Thorfinnson, Don Ruden, and Phyllis Wrolh, wail for lhe explanaiion. Unclerclassmen Explore Science- Solve Problems I8