Northeast High School - Rocket Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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The ancienls used these for clubs—Donna Boiler, Karen Galbrath, and Lawrence Mason. To Society In America A passport to faraway places, a door- way to the dim past, and a key to a better understanding of the present is offered to each of the students taking social studies courses at Lincoln Northeast. Among those courses offered are world history, American history, and modern problems. New experi- ments in this field of teaching were tried this year when American history was one of those courses offered by the University of Nebraska over its educational TV channel. Keeping ahead of currenl affairs— Louis Austin, Henry Willemsen, and Miss Eleanor Wieland.

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Strong emphasis is laid on choosing and studying a vocation in tenth grade guidance classes. A paper to be written on some oc- cupation, along with I.Q. and aptitude tests are in store for every sophomore. In ninth grade guidance classes, students choose a curriculum and decide on their majors and minors for senior high. Dur- ing this year, they also receive the begin- nings of vocational guidance. Information on and training in good reading and study habits are presented to eighth graders in their guidance classes. These junior high students are helped along the difficult road from adolescense to ma- turity by helpful hints on grooming and ways in which to achieve greater self-confidence and a more out-going personality. It is easy to imagine how huge and pos- sibly frightening the long, crowded halls of Lincoln Northeast appear to seventh graders entering the school for the first time. It is in their guidance classes that these new students receive their orientation to their new life as junior highers. Here they learn the grading system, the school personnel, the policies of the school, and exactly what will be expected of them as they face this phase of their life. Their Contributions A glimpse of one of fhe lively discussions in Senior Guidance. Exams exhaust me, too —Mrs. Beryl Bowlin. Now, this is a bulletin—Brad Bigelow.

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This is ihe French magazine ihai comes every week—Miss Helen Dunlap and Mrs. Lois Althouse. And Lands Across The Seas. I study, too—Miss Margaret Dolezal. Are you interested in other people, other cultures, other ways of life? If so you are probably already familiar with the LN foreign language department. The language department now offers two years of German, Latin, and Spanish, and is offering three years of French for the first time this year. A new addition this year to the special equipment used in this field is the lan- guage lab in Room 310. Here the students work with drills, tapes, and recordings. In order to cope with life in a world which becomes smaller every year, as new inventions decrease the time it takes to go from one country to another, it is becom- ing increasingly important that we know more about people in other lands. Learning the culture of another country is as basic as learning its language. At Northeast students learn songs, poems, and customs of a country in addition to their study of the grammar and mechanics of the foreign language that they are studying. 2.1