Northern High School - Noroscope Yearbook (Flint, MI)

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GcMUMe lCACvl '1 he Commercial Department headed by Mr. Knight, prepares the commercial student for the business world. Subjects taught are: shorthand, typing, calculating, law. bookkeeping, commercial arithmetic, office practice, and the recently inaugurated typing C. Typing C is a one semester course. It offers the Col- lege Preparatory student a chance to learn to type. Accuracy is encouraged upon the student rather than speed. Typing, shorthand and bookkeeping are four semester courses while sales is a two semester course and com- mercial arithmetic, commercial law, calculating, office practice and typing C arc one semester courses. Mrs. Gingery dictates, as Louise Macksood, Corinne Ritchie, and Mary Alice Shearer take dictation. Alfreda Ballard and Bill Andrus type as Miss Kggers watches over their shoulders. Boh Miller and Lauraine Jankowski wait patiently to push the buttons as Mr. Knight demonstrates. 1 I

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Jerry Watkins, Art Edmonds, and Kathleen (loss sketch Tom Rittershofer under Mr. McPharlin's watchful eye. ■A lt Knowing that few students will become artists, Mr. MePharlin offers his course largely from the consumer’s viewpoint. 1 Ic believes that a student’s exposure to color and form may help him to select better designed objects in the future. Beginning art is a general introduction to ele- ments of design, and the various media used in the production of the visual arts. In advanced art. the students work on individ- ual problems with a medium of their own choos- ing. Students make posters and decorations for games, dances and the Viking Fair. All classes have weekly practices in life drawing with stud- ents as models. Also found in the art class, is inter school rela- tionship. This enables a student to work on projects from another class. In the spring students take field trips back into nature for landscape drawings. GocH t ecuUuncj, There are thirty high school seniors now enrolled in the Cadet Teaching Program. This is one of the many pre-service and in-service training programs sponsored by the Flint Board of Education. Thirteen elementary schools are participating. The Cadet is in training one hour per day. While in training she studies the behavior of the children and classroom duties, and later is engaged in actual classroom training. This experiment gives each Cadet a two- semester, five hour credit and not only gives the student worth-while training in teaching children, but also helps Cadets decide on fu- ture teaching areas. Cadet Nadine Miller assists teacher Miss Marian Hodges with students, Nancy Salim, Christine Daunt, Craig Berry, and Michael McGinnis at Garfield Elementary School. IO

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Comptomctrist ? ?? Alice Gardner learn» to use a calculator with the help of Mr. .era. Becoming Good Secretaries! Miss VVeshy directs Gail Babcock in the use of ditto machine while Pat Prekoski types on the electric typewriter and Joy Scofield runs the adding machine. Knowing the Facts! While Mr. Seltzer, Doris Barnett. Wilma Layne, Joan Tate and Art Anderson go over different merchandise. Caroline Raby. Rosclce Farber and Ruth Kaup look over the textile chart. 12