Northwestern High School - Compass Yearbook (Hyattsville, MD)

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X. X, SOCIAL S'lil'lJllfS- That's just ahout where it is . . . says Bing Nliller as he shows the location of the head waters of the Mississippi to Char- lotte Limerick. SOCIAL STUDIES- X marks the spot, says Katherine Moore to her VVorld History classmate, Darlene llarnack. 'X x .f 1,1 nf 4 c 'sw i W 4 -O Securing Our Heritage . .. XK'ith necks craned and noses in books. students ever delye into the Cloyernment and its past. Reasoning with Pericles. planning tactics with VVashington or feeling hopeful when Roosevelt is inaugurated, is the occupa- tional hazard ol history classes everywhere. ln our democracy with the growing complexity ol government. it is ol paramount importance to have at least one course devoted to the study and understanding ol the mechanics of goyernment, if it is to he really as Mr. l.incoln said. A Government of the people, by the people. and lor the people. 'l'he course. Prohlems ol Democracy. is required in the senior year ol high school, This course entails the study of local, as well as national government and the use of periodicals to become lamiliar with contempor- ary aflairs and conditions pervading the world. Proh- lems of Democracy becomes meaningful when we un- derstand not only the history ol our country hut ol the other nations in this one world. Miss Clough .Wh Kirlilr Mr. Mann Miss Roc r ' 1, 1 92.59

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The Truth LES LANGUES Dans le centre diplomatiquc des Etats-Unis il est naturel pour les eleves dlavoir l'air international et cosmopolite. Les langues de ces pagessont exprime beaucoup du mes- sages importants de l'histoire. Le grand oratoire de Cicero mut la populace Romaine a de grandes actions. M. du Maupassant enchanta les Francais et Don Quixote de Senor Cervantes encore enchante tout le monde .... Ginsi c'est ici a Northwestern quc les eleves savent et apprecient la valeur d'autres langues . . . Les eleves de Northwestern apprennent a comprendre et connaitre les au- tres nations en ctudiant leurs langues. D FRENCH-loyeaux Noel . . . Gunther Mangerlch says that Christmas is the same in any language. W rf- n D .5 , ff- ' OZ' ' V41 language is the most astonishingf, Giles Lytton Strachey 9 . 'W QQ A, v 0 U. , L1 D11 ia. q il! -, il: 1 Q ' ' X LU! qt. ' - , aiu, '4' Qc, 11-42, R ' -1, , mia- 'X Nt V451 ' - . gif' 51 ge. , 'It faiif: '- t nu wh. iq lux 115- , 32 xii fs-my g-' Jimv' ci La Lengua En el centro diplomatico de los Estados Unidos- CS natural que A Spanish Fiesta . . . L1-ft to right-David Davis, Patricia Barkley, Mary Devlin, Martha IOS Csludiantes licnen una man' Dise Qkneelingj, Barbara Bolgiano tkneelingb, are portraying a typical festival in Spain. era internacional y un punto de lg vista que es cosmopolito. pziginas han expresado algunas de las comunicaciones importantes de historia. La gran oratoria de Cicero in- cito el populacho romano a hechos maravellosos. Las fran- ceses tenizin dcleite en M. Du A-2 ' Maupassant, y Don Quijote del Senor Cervantes todavia encanta Cl mundo . . . asi esta aqui en Northwestern que los estudiantes de Northwestern saben bien el valor y aprecian el merito de otros idiomas . . . los estudiantes de Northwestern estim apren- diendo a entender otras nacio- nes por estudiar sus lenguas. ,,,.--r Las lenguas que se ven en estas Y' 1 V

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N-4 LU.l '1 MVP' ' Hlnformation a plenty . . . Northxx'e5tern's getting a hand hook this year-an innovation. Making final arrangements for this booklet are members of the editing committee with their sponsor Mrs. Cuhhage. in the above picture. Checking layout, on the left, are Carolyn Bertolini and Nora Byerly. Discussing: with Mrk. Cnhhage final t-opy are Sally Killen, editorg Do- lores Bedford and Iohn Schaffer, 'n 'FEE 1. 5 I helieue the future is only the past again, 'gr' QQ entered through another gate. . . Q -V K ' if f . Riel? . . . ,969 p 1 Str Arthur Wing Pznero 1 ff' f O f if ff ff -.1 MQ f . n' we Y , I A 'Lv X k .52-' df' If cnihshv if 6,0 L. F 4 - I . Xr, Q 5 f 0 f ,f x- X ff if X X , 'f ,fx 3 ev' Jiri, Cubbagf' Mrs. Gwoghwgctn .Wise .'N'wu'lartd Mr, Finvgan Mr. Bell ri 31 R My -X fb Cf'- Mg, Mr. . mit 1 Mr. Rhoderick gl