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

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Barbara Barlow Carol Gast Nathan R Mohar became the chalrman of the Socnal Studues department thus year following the returement of Mass Mlldred Mor ras There were three addltlons to the teach came ln September whale Mass Marllyn Van gers panned the faculty mud year followlng the death of Muss Edna Molseed A new text Nebraska History was used for the fnrst time In the socnal science classes When more are purchased these texts wnll be used widely as part of the program to In crease the students knowledge of thelr own state Use New Text Social Scnence I offers freshman adjustment and world geography Social Scuence ll an electnve contnnues the study of geography Robert Mohlman Ellen Pearey Maude Paley ,SiJcLcL!eSll1fLczce5 Thela Barnes Ruth Barrett Leonard Bond Clare Carey Vernon Ekfelt Under Mu! ofearfemiwo All the known cuvallzatnons startmg wuth ancuent Egypt are covered un the sophomore world hlstory course The sensor course Amerlcan hustory concentrates on the begun nmg and development of the United States Courses for Juniors Natnonal state county and city govern ments are explained In American Government Socral Llvmg studles modern soclety with ernphasss on the Individual and his place IU ut Economucs are studned un Modern Problems I current events un Modern Problems ll and Il I At least one of these one semester courses must be taken by junlors Nathan R Mollar Marllyn Vlngers Edward Stech Kenth Stewart 117 X fl K . . e W . ing staff. Edward Stech and Robert Mohlman . . . . . ' . Q A 3

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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

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Lou se Barstow Beat-r ce Mack Pearl McCray Gertrude Mohr Davsd Petersen Charles Severyn at 9l'l'L6LfLC5, NSZLZVLCZ5 0,66 freao Olflf X6LCfl'L855 About half of the student body of North ss enrolled sn a course offered by the Mathe matscs department Thss department under the leadershsp of Msss Pearl McCray had 0 total enrollment of 882 students at the be gsnnsng of the year Most of the courses are requsrements for graduatson and college entrance Students have found the actsvstses of Dsgsts and Frac tsons helpful and snterestsng Fractsons ss a club organszed sust thss year for the freshmen and sophomores sn math classes Dsgsts or ganszed last year ss comprssed of sunsors and sensors Offer Advanced Math lncluded sn the currsculum of the depart ment are Algebra I IV Geometryl lll Trsgo nometry Slsde Rule Sensor Arsthmetsc and General Mathematscs l ll Fsrst year algebra and geometry are regular college preparatory courses whsle Algebra lll and IV are advanced mathematscs as well as slsde rule and trsgo nometry studses Sensor Arsthmetsc ss com pulsory for those who do not pass a general mathematscs test gsven to every gunsor Physscs classes were sssued new textbooks thss year presentsng the only notsceable change sn the Scsence department The new books replaced the ones whsch had been sn use ssnce l939 Physscs and chemsstry are both scsences of force and matter Physscs puts the emphasss on force and chemsstry on matter The study of plant and ansmal organs ss pursued sn the bsology laboratorses Requsre Scsence Credit General Scsence gsves the students an over all pscture of all the scsences A semester each of elementary chemsstry and physscs ss Any one of the fsve courses may be used as the scsence credsf requsred for graduatson The laboratory scsences physscs bsology and chemsstry-are acceptable for college en trance requsrements Physsology and Health deals wsth human bsology the Fsrst Asd course covers dsseases and accsdents thesr symptoms care and preventson Both courses may subststute for one year of physscal educatson The Scsence department ss headed by J H Dorsey Mary B B okmeyer Alce B Crocker Harold L Dally J H Dorsey Vernon Ekfelt Thomas C Johnson 18 offered in Physical Science.