Northern High School - Noroscope Yearbook (Flint, MI)

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While Mrs. Seal reads to one of her English classes, Loretta Barrett, Betty Aurand, Andrew Chema, and Leanora Anger take notes. Since Mrs. Baldwin joined the English Depart- ment in February, she has become an active member of the staff. She is pictured here answering the questions of Bruce Allard and Grace Ellis in her English class. Listening intently while Mrs. I Iurst plays records for their English VI class are Bob Fiori, Charlene Bunker, and Norbert Bles. 4

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CrHXflalt The English Department tries to give each student a good background in lx th literature and composition from English III and IV in the 10th grade and English V and VI in the 11 th grade through Senior English and English Literature for college preparatory students and Basic English for the commercial students in the i 2th grade. This year the members of the department have been especially busy working on and trying out new units of study in both English III and V. From all reports, the participating classes have learned a great deal and have enjoyed the inno- vations. A unit on newspaper work was studied in Mrs. Steele's English III class. It was written on the basis of a real newspaper with current events and school news. Hubert Hughes watches as Janet Babieracki types out a story. Glenda Cross assists Hill Chambers, the editor, with a lay out. One of the projects of the Knglish Department this year has been improving courses of study. Working on a ‘'Famous People” unit are Mrs. Rhodes (seated) and Miss Yanibrick who have worked hard all year and arc quite pleased with the results. Besides being a busy figure in the English Department. Mr. Burbank also teaches Journalism I. He is pictured here going over a dummy sheet with a few of his future journalists, Rita Colangelo. Myrna Revnik, Judy Piotrowski, Susan Wood, and Marlene Schlegel. X3

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Miss McCarty keeps an eye on Art Anderson at the controls, while Betty Lasky and Charlene Kinnen play records. Boh McIntyre and Don Youmans watch. The Radio class plays a big part at Northern in the life of all of the students. Miss McCarty, who teaches drama, as well as broadcasting, has her students record educational skits for the various classes. I bis year, for the first time, Northern has inaugurated a weekly radio series over station WFBK. in which the students participate. Besides teaching public speaking, Mr. I leitzner is also very active in debate. In the fall the debaters are assigned one topic, and use that to debate on for the rest of the semester. Then in the spring, different people arc assigned various topics such as Orations, Sophomore Declamations, for Sophomores only, Extemporaneous Speeches, Dramatic Headings, and I tumorous Headings. Gail Clore seems to know the answer to Mr. Heitzner’s amusing question in their debate class while Nancy Whitmire, Jack Pyper, and Don Sinclair listen. 15