Omaha North High School - Norseman Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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Floyd Cha E E Hell gso T o s C Joh so D W Myers WI C Nelson Q.. oweer gnu!! V119 !9!Lg5Lcaf.JlLfne55 on 5 Are A new Sl Ford was added to the equup ment lust of the lndustrual Arts department thus year along wuth varuous shop and me chanucal drawung equupment The Ford wa provuded by Burkhard Gereluck lnc for the use of the Druver Traunung classes Every year some new apparatus or machunery us added to the department and every year a new group of boys us started on uts way to become machunusts enguneers desugners and drafts men D W Myers has headed the North Hugh opened un l9Z4 He teaches archutectural drawung whule E E Hellugso unstructs the mechanucal drawung classes Floyd Chase and Wulluam C Nelson supervuse the boys and theur projects un the schools two shops Thomas C Johnson has taken over the uob formerly held by Nathan Mohar of un structor un the Druver Traunung classes Offer Varued Sports Program Good sportsmanshup the best un physucal and mental health and supervused partucupa Betty A d e s I as Ruth Seely tuon un a varued sports program are the goals set by Carol R Gast un the boys classes of the Physucal Educatuon department Mr Gast s program us Iumuted as us Mrs Ruth Seely s for the gurls by the fact that there us only one gymnasuum As durector of the gurls physucal educatuon classes Mrs Seely has set up a program of gurls sports dancung and outdoor actuvutues to unclude every gurl She has been assusted thus year by Mrs Betty Andrews The Reserve Offucers Traunung Corps pro vudes excellent traunung for any boy whether he aspures to a lufe as a plaun cutuzen or as a member of the armed forces The boys are trauned by members of the regular Unuted States Army namely Captaun Wulluam T Callery Sergeant Wulluam A Whutfueld and Sergeant Wulluam H Roberson Jr These men try to lay the foundatuon of untellugent cutuzen shup wuthun each boy and to guve hum such basuc mulutary traunung as wull benefut hum uf he uouns any branch of the armed forces Cap! W II S W lla E Colle y Wh ff eld l5 zz 9 V j I C se E, E. Erwin . . i h ma . n n . . iliam . 9 L , re Industrial Arts department since the school R.O.T.C. Excellent Training .iiarnT. gt. iirn. n r V Caro G I r i i ze Q' 3 ,W 'K

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Mary E Humllton Anna B Jensen Anne Keenan Anna May Kuhn Arduth Muller Margaret A Ncelsen Md? WQPLJ QUL5lf0l'L LVL Revusnon was the keynote of the work nn the Englush department Many new udeas and teachung procedures were nntroduced Into the course of study Although almost every English class was altered somewhat one of the most strlklng changes was made In Englush IV This was made prumornly unto an oral speech course enabling students to learn to express them Changes were also made In the llterature studued un English classes A wuder varnety of reading was made avaulable to the students Style Book New Feature Another new feature this year was the use a compact Style Book Used by all the VL fd Qlftlnde 0 Omaha Publnc Hugh Schools It contams a summary of the requurements ot good com posutlon Require Slx Credits Snx creduts In Englush are now requlred A there rs no Englush V a punlor may enter de bate speech and dramatlcs or lournalusm This year dramatucs students were benefltted by a remodeling of the make up room Ad full credit Instead ot the half credrt glven previously Even the faculty of the English department headed by Mass Nona Robinson underwent changes ln January Mrs Marlon Peterson reslgned from North s teaching staff She was replaced by Mrs C E Kuhn who nnstructs underclassmen NOT PICTURED Zdenka Sedlacek Ellen Pearey Maruon Peterson Helen M Plamondon Al ce V Portert eld No a Robmson Faye Southwell g L K5 I . 1 v . - . ' S I I r ' . . I . . - V t D I I . I . ' I I . I . . selves orally 05 wel' O5 in Written Work. vanced journalism students were granted a 1 . I I . , . of ll ll I l l I ' . i . i n ' 126 4 if I l4 v

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Twula Cowman Freda Schroeder Samuel F Thomas Cleo Butler Lucy Harte Florence Walker l 6'l,Ll'LLl'Lg LVL DLJLC 0l'VL8lfl'LCL LVL? lflf5Ll'L85fl The Instrumental Musuc department under the durectuon of Samuel F Thomas gauned the possessuon of three fune strung basses an Eng lush horn a cello and a barutone horn durung the year Over half of the partucupants un the annual All Cuty Musuc Clunuc were Vukungs Actuvutues un the Vocal Musuc department headed by Muss Twula Cowman now unclude chour boys and gurls glee ensemble and Vocal Vukungs Mrs Freda Schroeder uouned the musuc staff as accompanust last fall re placung Mrs Mary Sulver who retured last year Helps Prospective Homemakers One of the larger departments at North us the Homemakung department Its courses duvuded unto many helpful unuts for prospec tuve homemakers are under the unstructorshup of Muss Lucy Harte head of the department and Muss Florence Walker and Muss Cleo Butler At the end of each unut of class work the students guve a party tea luncheon or style show demonstratung practucally what they have accomplushed An addutuon to the Busuness Educatuon de partment thus year was a correctuve typewrut ung class un whuch students type to musuc for rhythm drulls A new teacher Muss Arlene McKussuck uouned the busuness staff replacung Mrs Janet Marlatt The department provudes courses un type wrutung shorthand bookkeepung commercual aruthmetuc busuness law offuce practuce of fuce routune whuch uncludes calculcltung ma chunes and fulung and general busuness for freshmen Pupuls enrolled un these courses not only fund places for themselves un the busuness world but also un college Mrs Mary Uhl Colluns us chaurman of the department and durector of student employ ment un the school Through her many North students fund part tume work An ad dutuonal task of busuness students us the prepa ratuon of the Aurora programs The l952 pro gram was theur twentueth Greggutes a club for advanced shorthand students us co sponsored by Mrs Colluns and Muss McKussuck Mary Uhl Calhns M J Ekberg E E Ervun Flossle Lyons Arlene McKussuck Harvey A Smuth l6n fi U I C I Q l I - . , ' l - 1 1 ' 1 - 1 1 ' ' , . , . , 1 1 1 I I I . . D . . . . I - . . . . 1 1 1 . . 1 ' I - . . . . . . . . 1 1 . , . ' - . . 1 - ' 1 . . . I , I 1 I I I . . . . I 1 1 1 1 I - 1