Northwestern High School - Compass Yearbook (Hyattsville, MD)

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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.

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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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Marcia Gurevich, Editor, Norwester li .- ,, 111 ll. Let's get that Newspaper to press . . . i' Left to right-Arnold Davis, Elaine Moore, Susan MacKensie, Gerald Savitski, Ioyce Harrison, Al Zanville, Margaret Cochenour, Dolores Bedford, Ieanine Lewis, and Shirley Thompson are only a small per centage of people it takes to publish the newspaper. Marcia Curevich, last, is the editor. Writing For Pleasure nr P' CC ' ' ' 77 5, ' The pen is mightier than the sword. I 4 - - , O 15.6-P4.Ar4SV5P AY'o'. Publishing the Nor wester and The Compass 21233:-f ' d,,,,m,,,..u and studying in class teaches journalism students i,.-..a.-A ' ' sw the fundamentals of good news writing. jjjfff,'f:.: ',12ff., ,i :,,,,,,... . . . ?iE?7j'SiA '3 ... After fundamentals were mastered, originality 35 Ei? tg: .,.1S1q . .1 -I. G1 u.-ran!! -ea-.e-.., was encouraged because a paper is only as good as - -'aj tags, yn its authors. By studying journalism, these students f?,f,4,j: also learned to appreciate and evaluate the large L ,,,-.m.-nf-is daily papers. Success gained in writing produced 211, naw iuu. ,Q T-5 , . . , , 5 no the thrill known only to those who are privileged gggxij.. ,:, ' 3 ' , - -113: pat' . fi nf'-' to see their work published. S.,-M., W 3 5, yy. f v---f . . . 4117: .fl l '-'LW' Each issue students struggled against deadlines 5-ig 151 ez-4-,: and schedules, but when their goal was reached ggff' -5 'i'S-57' they could relax in the knowledge that they have : M: -- 'j'.f::,f,',5....3: achieved success. :E-5 M3-.g L!!-bt'-Ng!-05 is:-11 ..,.g:' K. . . . ses? 5-.-:ae if- E':i-an-L.a Do you think the yearbook will turn out all right? . . . Ist rou-,' Carolyn Bertolini, J Sally Killen, Nora Byerly, editor, Carolyn Allen. 2nd mug' Dorothy Bradlev, Ellen 9 C. lones, Elaine Webb. 3rd rowg Arnold Davis, Ioan Scott, I.eoma Naughton and Ernest Riddle. il. Nora Byerly. Editor, Compass