Northwestern High School - Compass Yearbook (Hyattsville, MD)

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IV! For The Future Miss Rinaldi Northwesternls Commercial Department is an important one, not only because it serves the school but because it pre- pares students for the outside business world. Commercial students are prepared for every phase of business. which includes shorthand, typing. bookkeeping, re- tailing, and office practice. In Office Practice students learn not only the fundamentals of good business and how to do office work. but they learn the use of many business machines. Teachers call upon the commercial students to do jobs such as typing, mimeographing, and dittoing. Usually some students are in the office helping Mrs. Kathleen VVeber and Mrs. Katherine Swift in the daily office routine. Crank it up . . Nancy Paul types, while Barbara Merritt and Barbara Brown practice on the ditto ma- chine. stirs ' -QM . K Q .Q Q. N I Smile of success . . . Jackie Snead pins a newly induc- ted member, Clydis Creech into the National Business Honor Society. Mr. Gieda Mrs. Hamilton Mrs. Parks l

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3 Nimble Fingered . . . Shirley Young, Marion Davis, and Iune Manuel type, while Peggy Reid turns on the sounclfscriher. Watch those pens fly . . . Mrs. Hamilton dictates to future secretaries, Shirley Hense, Charlene Briggs, and Iaclcie Barlow. First say to yourself what you would beg and then do what you have to do ..... Epicteius Preparing Miss Nye Miss Bricker Miss Keithley Mrs. Carr Mrs. Beveridge fm ,Q Q 'S

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ming .. ,- - - - Southpaw geometry geniuses . . . Bob Winemiller and Doris Mason. ws if' g -1311 Paul Profe, ,tr 'N ' , 69. Figuring The Facts.. Miss Lacy Mr. Nelson Mr, Lynn Mrs. Bauer , is-w Zi Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it, nor water drown it. ..... Alexander Dumas, the Elder This is a salute to those who have suffered and sweat- ed over Euclid and Pythagoris, to those who have gaped uncomprehendingly at Descartes and to those who have muttered bewilderedly under their breath about tri- angles, equations, and polyhedrons. To speak in mathematical terms, this subject is para- doxical because of the difficulty of equating the human factor HX' in the formula, W + Ig W: work, I: im- agination, A: ability. A There are in this world those who enjoy mathematics. They have learned here at Northwestern to speak glibly of Kepler and Brahe, of Newton and Fermat and refer, quite casually to Napier's logarithrims, trigonometric functions, to calculus and ad inflnitum. These people live in a realm of not one, not two, but of four dimen- sions, which contain vectors and tensors and scalars . . . They are the scientists who will blaze the path to the future.