Northwestern High School - Compass Yearbook (Hyattsville, MD)

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Studying literature is like stepping through a nebulous door and finding a new world, a world of fact and fiction, some truth, some fancyg a bit of verse and prose. A world of Keats and Shelley, Brown- ing and Tennyson. and Emerson, of great authors and enduring works. a world which continually delights and enthralls all who enter. Variant, always changing from the darkness and heavy, insane horror of Poe to Shal4espeare's complete benign understanding of his fellow beings, these foolish mortalsg from the ancient tragedy of Soph- ocles to the contemporary vtarmth of O Henry this vtorld appears the same to no tvxo people LN IISH Thrs is the modifier e. Mrs Dawson plains Harold Philip to members of 'Vir Mr justice Mr Moran Iustlte s English class n are never so hkely to settle a questton rzghtly as when they dis- cuss zt reely Thomas Bahzngton Macaulay was organized on November 17 Em f.'c5. - ' tg ccMe . . . ' PJ t .. f . ..., . . 1.2. 5 . ' fs l 1' 5' ' a J ENGLISH- United Nations was .... Kaye Iohnson explains to her English class how the U. N. -J. ,L ag, gif? v V y u +A 'Y ci fi 3 f E avwrvf. FX ' t t t a tne l A ,AA L ' tif ' fm 'L ini! iw-

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1' if ENGLISH-'l'urn about-one of the English classes entertains a speech class. Gerry Higgs is enjoying his part as Laertes against john St-hall'er's Hamlet as King Claudius QDan Aheeli, and Queen Gertrude CMarilyn Iieclestonb witness the duel. On the left stage is Ben Snavely and, thiddenj, is Fred Trew. X is x g R-' e it c Q 4,'J.! Expressing Our Thoughts S- ,, or Mr. smith Mm DeSpain Miss Dunklff Mft Fofsr MISS Bfllslftu Mr. Dorf Miss Rnlzinette MV- BVU M55 Hardy Mm' Palme -as f in

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Lx M Mrx. Dau-son t .sg K af :tl 1 'e xr, . Pkn-I Xu.. - 5. Practising lor the play Stardust whiclt was put un arena style in the school gymnasium are Ern- est Riddle and David Davis and Charles Yeager. standing. Un the lloor are Ioyce llarrington, Dorothy Nlills and l.eorna Naughton, Natalie De Lorenzo and Betty lane Stuart. and Nettie Par- ness. Seated in the background is Mary Alice Davis. Frustrated love is the theme of this scene, also from the play Stardust, Quarreling in the foreground on the merits of marriage and acting are David Osgood and Marilyn Eccleston. Seated at the left watching the scene are students at the Academy where the play takes place, played by Dorothy Mills. Joyce Harrington, Elizabeth Stuart, and Natalie Delsorenzo. Standing at the right are Charles Yeager, Mary Alice Davis, and David Davis, and in the center behind the principals are Nettie Parness. Leona Naughton, and Ernest Riddle. also students. 3 i X 5 , Watching For Cues Q S Ernest Clayton, a junior, tries out his topic before a Speech class.