Northwest High School - Vanguard Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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Northwest's first principal, Mr. Kenneth M. Smartz, fits daily home room announcements into his busy schedule. 91 Faculty, staff Pace 2nd year Northwest's 91 teachers and administrators helped the Pioneers set the pace in 407 classes, five days out of every week. Pioneers can be proud of their faculty with more than '70 per cent of the teachers holding Masters Degrees or higher. The pace in academic achieve- ment has been set for Northwest students to excel. The English and Science departments boast the largest number of teachers, each having 16 to its credit, followed closely by the Math and Business Education departments, each with eight. The Physical Education department has seven in- structorsg the Industrial Arts department has sixg and the Home Economics department has five. Last is the Music and Art departments, each having three teachersg and the smallest department the librarian. Special credit should be given to our principal, two vice-principals, Director of Guidance, and our two deans. They play an important role in the opera- tion of our school. Northwest is also proud of its new guidance program. This program, consisting of four teachers, has been organized to assist the home room teachers. 60 Mr. George N. Gale, vice-principal in charge of financing, has a job as the number one person in charge ot all money coming into the school and all of the money going out. Mr. Richard C. Cummins, guidance director, han an added responsibility when he became the first senior class sponsor for the first graduating class.

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Individual participants create unique aura Filling Northwest with imagination, originality Northwest has a right to be proud of its 1,746 y eager participants who helped make Northwest a l well run efficient place to increase their knowledge. The eighty-eight faculty members worked hard to prepare our 1,656 students prepare themselves for the academic world. Three hundred forty-eight sen- iors graduated, leaving behind 1,308 eager under- classmen ready to increase and strengthen Northwest in many aspects. The rhythm of daily life at Northwest, the mem- ories of a loyal body of people working to pace all other schools in maturity and the art of getting along with others makes us proud to present our Pace Setting Participants! 59

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Mr. Wayne H. Kincaid, vice-principal in charge oi school curri- culum, must plan schedules for the coming semester and arrange a feasible plan for the forward moving Pioneers. Mr. Paul D. Heaton and Mrs. Constance Zimlich, dean of boys counseling and helping Confused NHSefS and dean of girls respectively, spent most of their school hours