Northeast High School - Rocket Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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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

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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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Stopping for a moment in the middle of one of their typical discussions are A. Jack Mueller and John McCormick. Mr. Mueller teaches American history, coaches debate, and has a stagecraft class. Mr. McCormick teaches American history and a ninth grade social studies class. In the morning, his cheery salute greets early arrivers at the west door. To trace the orbit of Sputnik and mark the Distant Early Warning line in Canada are among the uses found for the world globe by seventh and eighth grade social studies teachers, Doran Grossman, Miss Georgia Britton, and Lawrence Austin. To Be Used for Business or Leisure, Mrs. Velma Snook, Kenneth Freese, Mrs. Pearl Lowell, and Duane Schulz confer about selections for the annual December music program. Mrs. Snock teaches senior high vocal music; Mr. Freese, junior high instrumental music; Mr. Lowell, junior high chorus groups; and Mr. Schulz, senior high band and orchestra. The art teachers, Mrs. Velma Mae Peterson and George Rush compare results of pro- jects to stimulate creativeness and imagina- tion in their students. Mrs. Peterson has junior high art classes; Mr. Rush, both junior and senior high classes. Page 15