Northern High School - Noroscope Yearbook (Flint, MI)

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BUSY BUSINESSMEN AND WOMEN Typing, shorthand, bookkeeping and other business skills are taught in the commercial courses The teachers in the comn.erctal department are. top row, left to '‘ ht Miss r ran- ees Budd. B S ; John Cooper AB.MA, second row. Miss Irene Forquer B S . Roy Knight. AB, M.A , third row. Frank Lanham, B Ed.. Miss Esther Leitson B S . B C S ; lourth row, Mrs. Dorothy McCoy, A B ; Joseph Rasonsky. B E.; fifth row. Miss Louise Tobey. B S B.C.b Miss Ruth Zink. B.S ; sixth row. Mrs Vera Polzin and Mrs. Zella Trembert supervised manv commercial students getting first hand experience in the office Mrs Polzin is financial secretary, while Mrs Trembert is general secretary Several phases of commercial de- partment activities are illustrated above 1. Part of the retail selling course is spent learning the correct way to use the telephone. Douglas Ackerman gives a demonstration. 2. Beginning bookkeepers work at the black boards in a practice session 3. Ida Mae Leix explains a page from her notebook to her retail selling class 4. Reading from lelt to right Margaret Johnson. Wanda Mausei and Jeanne Meyerhofer do service work in the office 5. George Hosfield, world champion speed typist, displays his skill at an assemblyr 6. A course in comptometry was offered during the second semester Here, nimble-fingered Betty Moore adds a column of figures 7. Elizabeth Hresxo is at the other end of the telephone conversation held in the retail selling learn to phone correctly session. Page 25 NOROSCOPE

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SCIENCE IN CLUB ACTIVITIES Model planes built for con- test entry were the year's projects for the flying en- thusiasts of the Aeroplane club First row. left to right: Clarence Newcomb, sponsor; second row. John Hoover. Dave Somers and Wayne Blackmer. Radio and radio code sup- plied the material for study in the Engineer's club. First row, left to right: George Guiley, sponsor, William Lester, William Gillespie and Walter Skarbek; second row, Lawrence Haut, Walter Konrad. Tom Parrish and James Michael Aeroplane Club Officers John Hoover ............................President Wayne Blackmer ....................Vice-President David Somers............................Secretary Clarence Newcomb .........................Sponsor The Aero club ended a very successful year of building gasoline model aeroplanes, some of which are twenty inches long, weigh from four to seven and one-half pounds and are able to go as fast as 87 miles per hour. A majority of the meetings was devoted to the construction of these models. The members de- signed their own planes, scaled them to the de- sired size and held occasional meetings in the gymnasium where the models were tested. Some members of both Northern's and Cen- tral's Aero clubs belong to the Flint Gas Bugs which meets at the Y. M. C. A. for the purpose of discussing plans for national, state and city con- tests. The members of the club are planning to at- tend the state meet at Lansing at the Capital City airport June 1. Engineers Club Officers Bill Lester ........................... President Lawrence Haut Vice-President Walter Konrad ..........................Secretary George Guiley ............................Sponsor The Engineers club which is one of the newest in the school, was organized for a very practical purpose. The idea was that the club members could receive the necessary training and practi- cal experience to enable them to acquire their amateur radio licenses. This project was first sponsored by the Mott Foundation and later was taken over by the National Youth Association. Meeting twice a week, the Engineers put much of their time and energy into the building of various pieces of radio equipment and long in- struction periods. As a result, these students now have a much better understanding of the work- ings of a radio. It is a well developed hobby, and they have also derived a great deal of pleasure from the club life it offers to those who belong. Page 24 194 1

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INDUSTRIAL ARTS HOME EC Industrial Arts courses are designed to give practical training in industry. Teachers in the department are, first row, left to right: Earl Beckman, B S , Everett Bolduc, B S , second row. John English, B S . M A , Clarence Haynes. B S , M A, third row. Clarence Newcomb, BS; Paul Pagel, B.S ; fourth row. Gene Riccelli, B.S; W O Satterly, BS . M A Ihe Home Economics department teaches students to deal with domestic problems Faculty members are, fifth row. Mrs. Lura Brewer. B.S.; Miss Mary Halsey. B S.; sixth row, Mrs Mabel Roome. B.S . M A . Mrs Dorothy Stencel B S. Teacners and students engaged in activities typical of these departments are 1. Checking out tools at the tool crib are Frank Slonska ana Earl Patterson 2. Mrs. Stencel is helping Betty Rizzardi with a difficult bit of stitching 3. Ed Horvath is intent on his work in machine shop 4. Joe Cap's picture was taken as he was jointing an edge on the jointer 5. Alan Stonehouse, Tom Parrish and Jimmv Michael, left to right, are piacticing receiving code signals while Mr Guiley looks on 6. Richard Kirbitz bends over his pattern making work 7. Elmer Frazier. Bill Hamil- ton, John Wyse and Ted Kaczmarek mix a batch of griddle cakes 8. lohn Shipper transfers his ideas on lines, curves and figures to paper in architectural drawing class. Page 26 1941