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

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wb-4 C e C rey A y P C ubbe Ruth G Fo hes Lou se Sutton J P Foto Eth I Hunsaker 3 Q'- flft g 0!.!0l 8LglfL 6Ll'Lglfl,6Lg8f5, cy UfLLl!8l 56L German has been revnved an the Language department after an absence of three years Twenty seven students made up the new class The department whuch also Includes French Latun and Spanlsh classes boasts many lnnovatnons un teaching methods Help ful recordings and films are now available to nearly every language class Chrustmas stlckers wnth a greetung ln each of the four languages were dlstrlbuted at Christmas tume Strckers were prmted again nn observance of Foreign Language Week MISS MARY EDNA MOLSEED The death of Mnss Mary Edna Molseed on of North Hugh students faculty members and employees The klnd understandung hustory unstructor had been ull for some time and had been hos pltaluzed since early December Mass Molseed came to North un 1938 and except for a three year peruod of teachlng at Tech she was a devoted member of the Vu kung faculty Her quiet cooperative manner wlll be dearly massed by all who knew her Art students have begun work under a new Instructor James Fotua came nn January when Illness made It lmpossuble for Mrs Ethel Hun soker to continue teaching this year The annual open house exhublt dnsplayed the talent of the students enrolled In com merclal stall lufe and figure and craft courses The young artists also recenved opportunities for practucal experuence by enternng their work an varuous exhnblts and contests The depart ment made posters for every Vuknng actuvuty throughout the year I9 lar a m . r . I i . . i e cf If 5 ' December 26 darkened the Christmas spirit 1 I '..

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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.

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W? Ha ret Catala o M rlore Scheerger Ro e Ost on c Gladys G es Helen Jel ek Q.. .JZLVLQ OZZAPQP? 601901144 8 NS? MXQ55 Jt MALE 15 Muss Rose Ostronuc has been a famnluar frgure nn the mann offuce slnce the doors of North Hugh were flrst opened Jolnung Muss Ostronlc and Mrs Harriet Catalano thus year was Mass Marlorne Scheerger She took the place of Mass Glorua Slate who moved to Call fornla dunng the Chrnstmas hollday Just across the hall from the maan office ns a room presrded over by Mrs Gladys Gres the attendance clerk Over her desk pass the reports of absence throughout the school year Keepnng track of l699 students us no easy lob' Everyone Knows Nurse Through the doorway of Mass Helen Jelu nek s office at one time or another pass most of the students of North wuth complannts that vary from a headache to a broken arm The nurse as asslsted by nnne student commission members who are assigned to duty In her office every hour of the day Mass Jelnnek states that these helpers are as valuable to her as the physncal check up reports she recelves from nncomnng freshman students Wlde Library CII'CUlGfl0l'l Fluorescent lughtung and freshly parnted walls were added to both North lubrarres thus year The 220 lubrary under l-lead Lubrarnan A es Nls n Gladys Ha thorne Flo e H Ig e Mrs Elma Sampson provndes readnng maternal for lunuors and sensors Mrs Agnes Nilsson has charge of O30 freshman lubrary ln both rooms a constant turnover of new books pro vides needed unformatlon and ample pleasure readnng maternal Mrs Florence Hallgren and Mass Gladys Hanthorne ably assist un both llbrarles One of the most essential rooms un the buuldnng us the bookroom Each nught a long line of students keep Bookroom Clerk Char lotte Root busy as they come to purchase sup plnes or to unquure about lost books When Mrs Frances Gordon came to North thus year as cafeteria supervisor she found a modern attractrve cafeterna at her dusposal New sets of tables and chaurs and a fresh coat of paunt make a brlght and cheery room where hot balanced meals are served to hun gry Vukungs every noon One of the busiest lobs at North ns that of Earl E Garner head custodlan Mr Gar ner and has staff keep the flres roarnng the sudewalks shoveled and the bunldnng spotlessly clean Members of Mr Garners staff fa muluar to mostVlkmgs1nclude Frank McBrude Jum Kolle Clnfford Bryson and Mary Mueller El a S mps F ances Go d Earl Ga ne O we 'J' Asa ri' ff. ri n a ' i s r i i in , L cc L . . New Cafeteria Head n r nce al r n gn i so m i on r r on r r