Northeast High School - Rocket Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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Joyce WhiTney, BeHy Rock, Alice NeiTzel, and PaHy McKinney are all cuT for rhylhm in Their Typing exercises. lT isn'T Too early Tor sTudenTs To sTarT using Their newly acquired skills in a pracTical way. Many are already earning money in clerking, Typing, book- keeping iobs. Some work in sTores and shops? oThers, in privaTe homes. AgriculTure shop boys Tind a markeT Tor Their producTs, as special Teeders. Making money is noT a new experience Tor The ag boys. Their home proiecTs are proTiTable. The high school schedule provides a chance Tor individual inTeresT proiecTs, acTiviTies usually con- necTed wiTh some regular subiecT. The weaTher box, made by Two physics boys, Zane Fairchild and RoberT Gordon, conTains such insTrumenTs as a baromeTer and ThermomeTer. When This is all Tixed, physics sTudenTs may keep an accuraTe daily rec- ord oT humidiTy, high and low ThermomeTer record- ings, and oTher inTeresTing daTa. EveryThing is Tun Tor These juniors, even walking To school, long blocks, buT on sidewalks. They geT a real TasTe OT school Tun working on The paper as beginning iournalisTs. They were TavoriTes in The one-acT plays: They puT Them over wiTh a bang, using all Their imaginaTion and deTermina- Tion. All Tor Tun, Tun Tor alll Ready 'lor a Five minuTe speed Tesf are Typisls, Merle Vannoy, Lois Burgess, and Vivian Bailey. All righf, eyes on The copy. LaTe again! These NorTheas+ sTudenTs, Roy McKay, Del- mar Condon, Virginia Ulrich, Pagean Spencer, and Lucia Wills, iusT don'T walk TasT enough. Anofher muddy day, buf Billie Trombla, Peggy Weaver and Darlene Tracy don'T mind as They head for home. We're ready for our viclory gardens: how abouT you? ask Dale Kirkland, Jackie Roberfson, and Dale Wilson, now obfaining Their Training in The agricullure deparfmenf. How's The wealher up There? Zane Fairchild and Roberl' Gordon will be able To answer Thai quesfion as They record insTrumenT markings. 2I

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Juniors Take on New Responsibilities The Treshmen don'T know and know They don'T knowf' The sophomores don'T know, buT Think They know, The juniors know, buT don'T Think They knowq and The seniors know, and know They know. This year's junior class have proved They know by The acTive parT They've played in school acTiviTies. The juniors, now halT way up The high school lad- der, have discovered Their inTeresTs and abiliTies and are developing Them. STudy, and enThusiasTic eTTorT in numberless acTiviTies does The Trick. They are well represenTed in sTudenT leadership, claiming The presidenTs Tor boTh semesTers, organi- zaTions: pep club, N club, Girl Reserves, G. A. A., Hi-Y, journalism, one-acT plays, music groups, arT, aThleTics, and The yearbook sTaTT. The class oTTicers They elecTed were: Jay Havi- land, presidenT3 George Williamson, vice-presidenTg Jean Thomas, secreTary7 and CIITT Squires, Treas- Junior class officers, Cliff Squires, Jay Haviland, Jean Thomas, and George Williamson need a resT affer The Hick dance They sponsored. urer. Miss Helen Becker and Mrs. Sue Worrall were The class sponsors. ln honor OT The mid-year graduaTes, This group presenTed each senior a gardenia corsage. They sponsored a Hill-Billy prom and Then concenTraTed on The Junior-Senior. This class has proTiTed Trom Their years OT high school experience, and are anTicipaTing Their greaT- esT disTincTion, To be The 1944 senior class. Fronl row, leT+ To righT: Colleen Gallagher Isabell Bridge Phyllis Crane BeTTy Gould Merle WhiTe Lois Kreps Jim Yanney Darlene Tracy Georgia Lemon RuTh Johnsfon Dale Winier Lloyd Wymore Peggy Weaver 20 Ray Van Winkle Gene Hudkins 2nd row, lefT To righT: Vera PaHerson Alma STewarT Mary Rollins Shirley Flood Pagean Spencer Bonnie Travis Lois Burgess Charles Corning Alice Neifzel Joyce Whi+ney Darrel Willef Jim Barker 3rd row, le'fT To righT Miriam McClure Thelma DeWiTT Leia Worley ArdiTh Newman Helen Fifch RuTh Marvin Elaine Madsen Joy Copple PaTTy McKinney Chick Knighf 4Th row, lefT To righT: Marilyn Mayo Jean Thomas Jay Haviland Milly Lou Speir Mildred May Helen Green Phyllis Drewel Delores Heiser Barbara Goodding Richard Meyer 51h row, leff To righfz Dick HofMann Ronald Lux Ross Smifh Zane Fairchild MargareT Bowen Bill BoydsTon George Williamson Jim Dunlap Bill Slaughler 61h row, leTT To righT Bill Powell Jerry Delhay Don Schneider Jim Phelan RoberT Gordon Paul Hornby Sanfo Arrigo Ralph Hires Phil Brox Delmar Condon Marvin Sellars

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Seniors Cooperate To Accomplish Some are going To be painTers: some are going To be secreTaries: many girls plan To be home makers: a Tew are going To be Teachers. The sen- iors have chosen Their vocaTions and have been Training Tor Them. Trained TypisTs, sTenographers, and clerks are graduaTed Trom The commercial deparTmenT every semesTer, buT noT enough To Till The demands ThaT come in almosT every day. ArT classes are Tilled To capaciTy every period oT The day. These sTudenTs serve The school as a pub- liciTy commiTTee Tor every acTiviTy. Besides The Tun oT doing and oT serving now, The pupils have de- veloped an appreciaTion and a skill Tor liTe-long enioymenT. Some will sTep inTo commercial arT iobs aT once. The seniors showed abiliTy in Their play Ever Since Eve given lasT semesTer. The dramaTic class has been sTudying The lives oT Tamous sTage acTors and have given several reporTs and Talks on Their lives. STudenTs are always busy in This class, re- hearsing a play, selling TickeTs, Tinding properTies, planning The adverTising. The senior play The Eve oT ST. Mark provided a TiTTing climax. Sewing is one oT The home making skills de- veloped in The home economics deparTmenT. Proi- ecTs have included making Red Cross Tlags Tor all May l have a pass To class? Isabell Bridge, Bernard Logan, Bill Boydsfon, and Phyllis Jones waif for Helen Grice To help Them. Jim Weber, MargareT WesT, Paul Bafeman, and KeiTh Royer lisTen wiTh inTeresT To Bill Powell's sTraTegy on win- ning The war. Working ouT The complicafed algebra problems are Dick HoTMann, Ronald Lux, Lowell Heiliger, Jim Barker, and Phil Brox. DrafTing plans Tor The homes and sky scrapers of The Tufure are Nadine Laws, Leslie Jenkins, John KnighT, Ivan Bainbridge, and Phil MuTchie. The laTesT gossip on cloThes, boys, and parTies are The Topics of Barbara McClure, Jean SumsTine, Blanche Forsf, Barbara Dickinson, and Helena HockensmiTh as They gafher aT The drinking TounTain before classes. 22