Northeast High School - Rocket Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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New to the junior high this year are Mrs. Loraine Calkins and Mrs. Phyllis Miller. Mrs. Calkins and Mrs. Miller both teach seventh and ninth grade English. English texts for use for vocabulary study in their junior high classes are selected by Robert McNerney and Miss Eleanor Wie- land. Mr. McNerney and Miss Wieland both have classes of seventh and eighth grade English. Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking. The doll house Miss Helen Dunlap uses in her French classes intrigues Mrs. Mary Ann Rodriguez and Mrs. Lois Althouse. Mrs. Rodriguez teaches Spanish and sophomore English; Mrs. Althouse, Latin and sophomore English. Miss Dunlap teaches geometry in addition to French. Page IS

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Train Students in Language Arts: The library and senior high English classes are under the direction of Miss Mary Burn- ham, Mrs. Ula Maher, Miss Isabelle Smith, and Miss Elaine Smithberger. Miss Burnham is the school librarian, and also the cheer- leader sponsor. Mrs. Maher teaches senior composition; Miss Smith, sophomore English and world history; and Miss Smithberger teaches senior composition and sophomore English. Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations” is studied in Mrs. Lorene Sims, and Miss Clara Thoren’s ninth grade English classes. Miss Nancy Ellsworth, who teaches eighth grade English and ninth grade speech, joins their discussion of the novel. Mrs. Sims and Miss Thoren teach eighth grade English, also. Showing Mrs. Barbara Kos and Mrs. Eliza- beth Reeder his picture in a 1952 Rocket is Lawrence Mason. Mrs. Kos is new this year as instructor of beginning journalism, sophomore English, and adviser to the Rocket and Northeastern staffs. Mrs. Reeder teaches speech, drama, and English classes. Mr. Mason has classes in world history and literature. Page 12

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The condition of the fern kept in room 208 seems to worry Mrs. Mildred Richards, Miss Marilyn Dow, Mrs. Mabel Jacoby, and Miss Audria Shumard. A typical wry comment by Miss Shumard may have caused the amusement. Mrs. Richards teaches book- keeping and typing; Miss Dow, ninth grade typing; Mrs. Jacoby, typing and shorthand; and Miss Shumard, typing, stenographic training, and clerical training. World history is the major field of Miss Elizabeth Shaver and Art Bauer. Miss Shaver also teaches modern problems of democracy. Mr. Bauer has a ninth grade civics class, but is best known for being the varsity football coach. The home economics teachers, Miss Marilyn Shope, Mrs. Anita Bitner, and Mrs. Lucena Hendrix enjoy using the modern equipment found in their classrooms. Miss Shope teaches junior high home economics. Mrs. Bitner turns out good seamstresses and teaches eighth grade arithmetic. Mrs. Hendrix, who resigned in December after adopting a baby girl, taught foods and senior homemaking classes. They Guide Learning Films they are going to show to their ninth grade social studies classes are previewed by Mrs. Pauline Ashton, Miss Jo Ann Hage- meister, and Henry Willemsen. In addition, Mrs. Ashton teaches seventh grade social studies, and Miss Hagemeister teaches eighth grade social studies. Mr. Willemsen is the sophomore basketball coach. Page H