Northside High School - North Star Yearbook (Roanoke, VA)

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W... .4 1 The steady click-click of typewriters finally becomes a familiar sound to first-year typing students. Concentration, quick-moving fingers, and near-perfect rhythm bring students excellent grades on timings. 3 'Y' in I ,hm ' V M, -fn , , , f' , ,.,, , ,,,, If ' , ' ' - Al f,f5wf,. ,,f,, fgf,.v.:: '-' ' , l ,i',i 1 5 35

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Mn. Patricia Kelly Business teacher Mrs. Penturff instructs Sharon Cuddy on her general business homework. 34 .8 .?'v 1' A Ain. 'ff Mn. Joyce Noell Mn. Elinor Wall Business Studentsflre Taught Varied Skills Before venturing into our fast-moving complex society, which places constantly in- creasing emphasis on business and finance, or opportunities for education at business schools, commercial students learn the basics through high school business courses. North- side's business department offers courses in typing, bookkeeping, shorthand, and office practice. Typing and shorthand, progressive courses which place emphasis on the stu- dent's improvement, help him progress from basics to knowledge of mod-ern business techniques. Bookkeeping and office practice develop skills for future use. Academic students may enroll in a semes- ter personal typing course. As its name im- plies, this course introduces methods for typing letters, term papers, and themes. irq 'r 9 NTP. s - i

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Exercises are a Headache to All The Physical Education Department of Northside consists of Mrs. Clemons, Mrs. Kavitz, Mr. Dyer, and Mr. Isbell. Alternat- ing a gym course with a health course in the eighth and tenth grades and classroom Driver Training in the ninth grade, the physi- cal education curriculum has been expand- ed and improved. Among the sports offered are basketball, softball, speedball, Volleyball, tumbling, and soccer. In addition, the girls study dancing for a part of the year and boys learn gymnastical feats and weight- lifting. In the classroom, the fundamentals of health are broadened and elaborated on by closer study of the human anatomy, piece by piece. The half-year of driver training offered in the freshman year is the course which is recommended by most of the com- panies dealing with automobile insurance. Student teachers Miss Keiger and Miss Brown show gym classes the correct way to hit a volleyball. .,,. Driver ed. teacher Mrs. Garst points out the importance -of a safety belt to Nancy Hatcher, Ellen Hatcher, and Lyn Dillon at iree 3 is ,ifi if Mrs. Nancy Clemons Mr. Ralph Isbell Mr. Don Dyer Mrs. Doris Kavitz 36