Northern High School - Noroscope Yearbook (Flint, MI)

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CURTAIN! . . FIRST CURTAIN! ! . . Noon hour entertainment was supplied by the Foot- lights club. First row, left to right: Nelva Clark, Maxine Hall. Jacquelyn Schatz, Dor- othy Schlee and Kathryn Esslinger; second row. -Mar.e Wyczalek, Doris Bainbridge, Joyce Holzerg, Joan O'Dell, Jane Maginnis and Mary Margaret Kildow, third row, Helen Snyder, Virginia May- field. Florence Dulser, Shir- ley Richiger, Betty Jane French. Fleanor Miller and Edith Place; fourth row. Mary Fessenden, Joan Miller, Frank Tombs, Mrs. Carol Foley, sponsor, Margaret Jiowald and Bonnie Peters. They also staged plays and many skits for the commun- ity First row, left to right: Mary Somers. Norma Ham- mel, Jacaueline Humphreys, Imogene Xoonce. Bernice De Caire and Elizabeth Herrick; second row, Rosemary Shaw, Barbara Gene MacMillan, Jean McCarthy, Joan Buk- waz, June Stron. Sylvia Him- elhoch and Marion Broar.; third row, Mary Zeh, Leona Stutesman. Barbara Hill, Jacqueline Ferguson, Anna Koza and Jane Brown; fourth row, Evelyn Sisson. Bonnie Marcus, Bonnie Pet- ers, Jack Schmidt. Arthur Witak, Dorothy Martin and Mrs. Nelda Topolka, spon- sor. Plays and skits produced by the Producers club were featured on many club pro- grams. Footlights Club Officers Jack Schmidt ........................... President Betty Jane Wells. Vice-President Maxine Hall ............................ Secretary Bonnie Peters........................... Treasurer Mrs. Carol Foley ..........................Sponsor In the course of the year, the Footlights club presented plays during the lunch hours at North- ern to raise money for Christmas baskets for needy families. The first plays presented were a comedy entitled Just Like a Man, and an old- fashioned melodrama in pantomine called And the Lamps Went Out. Later in the year, they gave a play entitled A Christmas Hymn. Props, music and costumes were under the direction of Margaret Howald and Jacqueline Schatz. The club also presented plays to the following groups: A Boy Scout meeting at Homedale school, Central Christian church, Public Welfare department and the Oak Park Methodist church. Committees of the club were entertainment, chairman being Margaret Howald; refreshment under the leadership of Nelva Chark and initia- tion headed by Edith Place. Producers Club Officers Jack Schmidt............................. President Evelyn Sisson .......................Vice-President Jacquelyn Knapp...........................Secretary Marjorie Snyder ......................... Treasurer Mrs Nelda Topolka...........................Sponsor The Producers club is composed of a group of amateur actors. In this club, play-skits and read- ings are rehearsed for presentation at churches, parties and civic activities. The purpose of the organization is to teach the members stage terms and other details pertaining to acting. At Christmas time a basket collection was sponsored. Another highlight of the year was the two joint meetings with the Belle Masque club of Central High School. Two plays produced were The Soothsayer and Ambition. The committees were composed of program, Donald Nover, Dorothy Martin, Phyllis Delaney and Leona Stutesman; publicity, Burtis Woolfitt, Jean Brewer and Bonnie Marcus; refreshments, Jean Billings, Della Buckholz and Norma Hammel and activity, Frank Tambs, Bonnie Peters and Evelyn Scott. NOROSCOPE Page 15

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ENGLISH . .WRITTEN . . SPOKEN . . READ Largest of the departments at Northern is the English section composed of thirteen fac- ulty members Top row, left to right: Mrs. Carol Foley, B.S., Mrs Ruhamah Francis, B.S.; Frederic Harrington, A B ; second row, lack Hubbard. A B ; Elmer Kissack, A B., M.A third row, Mrs. Harriet Latimer, A B., Miss Donna McCaughna A.B.; fourth row, Raymond Nash, B S . Miss Mary Perkins, A B ; fifth row, Miss Marie Prahl. A B , M A , Mrs Magda- lene Rhodes. A B.; sixth row, Louis Schulz, B.Ed , Mrs. Nelda Topolka, A.B. The layout shows a number of typical activities sponsored by the department 1. The radio broad- casting class presents the radio production ' The Rail Splitter” on Lincoln's birthday. 2. Viking debaters won six out of every ten decision debates by long hours of work From left to right, debaters Jacqueline Harbeson. Jack Elder. Shirloy Armstrong and Bill Lee 3. Ruth Sammons, left, and Dorothy Simpson are compiling information to prove their affirmative 'case” for a coming debate 4. Ralph Smith, holding forth on the subject Wake Up, America,” placed second in the school American Legion Contest. 5. Miss Herron lectures a class on using the library 6. Eleanor Hardenorook, left, and Janet Hansen laying out the North Wind dummy. 7. The crow that was almost as black as Poe’s raven “tap, tap, tapping” on the window pane outside the English class. 8. Students buy football programs for the annual Turkey Day game. Page 14 1941

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DEADLINES WAIT FOR NO MAN Northern's fourth estate combined journalistic and social activities in the Press club meetings. First row, left to right: Bette Thompson, Marjorie Greeson, Ann Anders, Gwendolyn Smith, Yvonne Thorpe, Bonnie Keil- lor and Dorothy Mae Warn- er; second row, Eleanor Hardenbrook, Margaret Farmer, Lois Walker, Jean Schmidt. Betty Joseph, Jessi- lee Cunningham and Orlena Fancher; third row, Ann Pili- povich. Janet Hansen, Phyl- lis Price, Rhoda Loder, Doro- thy LaBeau and Betty Didier; fourth row, Fred Salim, Bill Lee, Albert Gilpin, Bruce Cooke, Donald Nover, Jack Scott and Norman Holen. The pen :s mightier than the sword ' say members of the Quill and Scroll. First row, left to right: Jessilee Cunningham, Betty Didier. Dorothy LaBeau, Lois Walk- er, Jean Schmidt, Margaret Farmer and Eleanor Harden- brook; second row, Phyllis Price, Bill Lee, Albert Gilpin, Bruce Cooke, Jack Scott, Emma Shumpert and Janet Hansen Press Club Officers Dorothey LaBeau ........................... President Violet Miskow .........................Vice-President Phyliss Price ..............................Recording Secretary Jessilee Cunningham ....................Corresponding Secretary Betty Didier ...............................Treasurer Ready? Camera! Action!! Here comes a new£ flash of inside dope on the doings of the Press club. The club is composed of students in Journal- ism classes and members of the business staff of publications with both business and social meet- ings a part of the program. All Northern clubs were invited to an assembly which the Press club members sponsored. As guest speaker of the occasion, Trooper Jerry Young spoke on Identification. As a final get-together the club took charge of the annual outing for Journalism students at which time new editors were announced for both North Wind and Noroscope and other staff appointments made. Quill and Scroll Officers Bruce Cooke ................................President Janet Hansen...........................Vice-President Betty Didier................................Secretary Louis Schulz .................................Sponsor Membership in the Quill and Scroll Interna- tional Honorary Society for High School jour- nalists is limited to students in the upper one- third of their class scholastically who have the required number of columnar inches of stories printed and who have the recommendation of the adviser. Those students who achieved the Society for their outstanding work were: Jack Scott, Lois Walker, Bruce Cooke, A1 Gilpin, Margaret Farm- er, Janet Hansen, Betty Didier, Jean Schmidt, Eleanor Hardenbrook, Phyliss Price, Dorothey LaBeau, Jessilee Cuningham, Emma Shumpert, Bill Lee and Marjorie Greeson. Page 16 1941