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

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D Cosune tangent and hypotenusc sound luke a foreugn language to most people but students of Muss Pearl McCray head of the mathe matucs department understand these and many more of the trucacues of hugher math Muss Mc Cray teaches classes of algebra geometry and trugnometry She us also the sponsor of Duguts math club for upperclassmen Muss Mc Cray wull always be remembered by her students for her wullungness to help uf the student us suncere un has desure to learn She attended Grun nell college Grunnell Iowa where she receuved her bachelor of arts degree A dufferent paur of glasses every day' Thus plus her love of anythung purple or lavende one o furst t ungs stude ts notuce about Mrs A duth Mull r teac er Mrs M er who a teacher lvefh esure to ever s unto cla es es to spend her eusur auntung ceramucs playu uano sungung on maku onograph records Mrs L et smile and wunnung way l lways make her a favorute wuth er students Beung head of the hustory depart ment demands a great many f Nathan Mohors hours both un and out of the classroom A Vukung n tructor I4 years he was formerly o prunter and a cloum aluuster Mr Mohor was graduated from the Unu versuty of lllunous where he receuvcd hus bachelor of educatuon and mas ter of scuence degrees Long betore the school day beguns Mr Mohar can be found un l5O ussuung the ab sence checks to boys Durung hus spare tume he enyoys pauntung Take a letter are famuluar words to Mrs Darlene Mohlmon For tour years she has been secretary to the pruncupal Students welcome he f r u e n d l y offuce manner Not enough spare tume us Mrs Mohl mans one complaunt but she does enuoy readung and embrolderung She was prevuously employed as scc retary to the pruncupal at Fourbury Nebraska, high school and os sec- retory to the traffuc manager of Amerucan Busuness un Luncoln. Weir 'E My? tv 4 ass aww Ea h rnornung Muss Gertrude Mohr can be found un l5O ussulng ab sence checks to the gurls Durung years past thus task has been ably handled by Muss Mohr wuth her de lrghtful smule and pleasing attutude Thus year marks her llth year as on unstructor un the math depart ment Muss Mohr us a graduate of Drake unuversuty She receuved her masters degree from Northwestern unuversuty She us senuor class spon sor un charge of the senuor pucnlc Muss Mohr enuoys travelung bwlf In ,ust a luttle over one year Muss Marlon Nelson has made herselfa, M popular wuth the faculty and stu crvuy dents Her wonderful sense of hu rn r us one of her most lukeableR 0 T-ki characterustucs She us a teacher unff the Englush department Muss Nel flu?-cb-fk, son has studued at Dana college and t e Unuversuty of Omaha A a faculty advusor for Y Teens she WWA as usts the tunance and program F commuttees Pruor to teachung her Muss Nelson taught at Blour n wal nd ,K 5 X BANJ 53 Xc.AA,o.,v1 NN N A graduate of Mudland college Wulluam C Spec Nelson obtauned has bachelor at arts degree fron' Ornaha unuyersuty Head basketball coach he has unspured Vukung en thusuasm more than once by hus hu morous antucs at pep rallues Wood workung fushung and huntung are favorute pastumes of Specs H also enuoys spartung an outboard motor boat on the lake He has been a Norsemon unstructor l ears Ye-,wx W m l:6j7r?fl ts W M y Qu SJW Miss-Harte checks pounts for honor roll . . . Shes not' always so seuuous . . . 'Thats four seats in back of the break? If Soft spoken Muss Margaret A Nuel sen doesnt need to rouse her vouce to command obeduence from her students Muss Nuelsen has produced many fune plays wuth her dramatlcs classes d rung the l t I7 ye s She unstulls a love of the theater un all of her students as she molds them unto actresses and actors Her outsude of school interests include church chour work, cammunuty club work and traveling. She attendcd e Unu rsutuy of k , Calu- fornua verslt Northwestern unwe 't . 119

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X x.J f 4 ia fi ZF I New to the Vukung staff thus year us Frank Hobbs an unstructor un the socual scuence and Englush depart ments Before comung to North Mr Hobbs taught un South Dakota and outhern Nebraska chools Busy ung humself wuth the schools ac tuvutues he became sponsor of the newly formed Scuence Fuctuon and Safe Teens clubs He has attended the Unuversutues of Omaha and Mun nesota and holds both a bachelor of arts and master of scuence de gree In hus spore tume he enuoys hus new hu fu phonograph and read un Tom H n a w o er thus year steppe e swung of ef took over the I9 onsoru Junuor enuor H Hopku ncc and a track u ataa ung assustant Be 4 comung to Nort Mr Ho uns ta ht phys uca e cau n the maha elc menta y scho Th storatuon of old a o e nces ran avorute out of schoo pa ume e attended the Unuve suty of Ne raska and Colo rado State college Sergeant Furst Class Rex L Horner us a newcomer to North s ROTC de partment thus year Before comung to North he was statuoned un Frue berg Germany where he was regt mental recruutung sergeant for the fourth duvusuon of the eughth un fantry regument Sgt Horner at tended hugh school un Beaver Cross ung Nebraska where he played bas ketball and baseball and went out for track He lettered twuce un bas ketball Sgt Horner had been the army for l2 years before com Never a dull moment un my room totes Muss Helen C Jelnnek school For I2 years she has been munusterung furst aud guvung pulls nd sayung a soothung word to Vuk ung students Muss Jelunek was grad uated from St Joseph Hosputal school of nursung and the Unuversuty of Omaha Sunce then she has studued publuc health at the Unu versuty of Muchugan Gardenung Cookung and travelung are her fa vorute pastumes One of the nucest qualutues possessed by Englush teacher Muss Anna Jen sen us her abuluty to unstull a ove of Shakespeare un her students Muss Jensen us well equupped to do thus for un her travels through Europe she has vusuted many of the places connected wuth thus great author She also enuoys teachung her pupuls the correct way to use the Englush tanguage Muss Jensen us a gradu iiate of the Unuversuty of Nebraska Her students recerve a specual treat hen Muss Jensen brungs her me -mentas of her travels to show the Xclass Storues of excutung war adventures enchant the students of buology teacher Thomas Johnson Mr John son a man who has done almost erythung from beung a Amr orce pulot durung World War ll o a cheese salesman durung the ummers not only teaches hus stu dents about plants and anumals but manages to guve them a valuable lesson un lufe as well Mr Johnson devotes much of hus tume unstruct ung students un the art of safe druvung Any tume he has left h lukes to spend huntung 8 VN Xu nib 6 One of Muss Anne Keenons largest and most unterestung uobs thus past year was admunusterung and fugur ung the results of the Iowa Sulent Readxng tests guven to all students thus year Muss Keenan us head of the Englush department so a great deal ot her tume was occupued by these tests Goung to plays rates hugh on Muss Keenons lust of fa vorutes She states that her unter ests are stull growung especually un plays on T V Her new T V set was a guft from her neughbars Muss Keenan rec e bachelor o arts qegr rom the nuver lovya a 1 er master 1 b u op but we los sa s Cy ,gsfbo or Ke nedy when ell g how team came out un the game Kennedy a hustory teacher s s much luke a student humself hus crewcut and current pop language One of the buggest n s of the year for Mr Ken y was the arruval of a brand new red and whute Chevue un February He lukes to spend hus spare tume play ung tennus travelung or workung wuth the Young Republucans He us a graduate of Southwest Mussouru State college and the Unuversuty of South Dakota Alrught youse knuckleheads Master Sergeant John E Kerners favorute expressuon as he durects the Vukung ROTC battaluon through formatuons An army man I6 years Sergeant Kerner us a World War ll and Korean veteran He came to North two years ago from a statuo un Panama Hus unterest un sports dates to partucupatuon un Readung Pa Sergeant Kerner durected an Ameruca Leguon baseball team to M Flossne L Lyons gets some of her greatest pleasure out of seeung people develop unto good typusts that I once thought were hopeless Muss Lyons has been busuly turnung out good typusts from North Hugh sunce 1926 She lusts her specual tal ents as eatung and putterung Her recreatuonal tume us spent en largung her classucal musuc collec tuon and travelung from one end of the Unuted States to the other Muss Lyons attended the Unuversutues of f aluf?'fwd Colorado Workung wuth and un luttle theaters such as the Omaha Communuty Playhouse us the specual unterest and hobby of Mrs Josephune Maftox She has taught Englush and speech classes here for two years Before uounung the Vukung staff she taught at Technucal South and McCook hugh schools Mrs Mattox chose the teachung professuon as she enuoys creatuve work She attended the Unu uty of Nebraska where she rned her bachelor and master of degre X O 732, me Industrual arts and algebra teacher Orvulle B Matzke became a teach to help pupuls broaden theur educatuonal knowledge He has been doung thus for the last two years Mr Matzke has also been helpung students learn to be good sports and how to play the game He took over part of the coachung assugnments the furst year h taught at North Mr Matzke usually be found gu ung the t ur floor halls durung furst lunch peruods Ou e of he enjoys c u or and huntuh flfrfy N . 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Freshmen ask Where us ut? and Mrs Agnes M Nulsson wullung and capable O30 lubraruan readuly as usts Because she en oyed workung wuth young people she took up teachung as a career A former Englush and German unstructor she has been a Norseman for I4 years Mrs Nullson attended the Unuver sutues of Omaha and Nebraska at taunung her bachelor of arts degree Homemakung musuc and books consume her leusure tume Musuc occupues a large part of the spare tume of the new art teacher Muss Lorrame Ohlson Sunday morn ungs she sungs un the chour of the Furst Presbyteruan church She funds playung the puano a good way to relax after a busy day A hu fudelu ty record player us Muss Ohlsons pruzed possessuon She lukes both classucal and popular musuc Luke all artusts Muss Ohlson spends quute a but of her tume dabblung un paunts She receuved her bachelor of scuence un educatuon from Northern lll nous Teachers college and her mas ters from Iowa unuversuty One of the furst thungs whuch usu ally greets anyone enterlng the mann offuce us the fruendly greetung and smule of Muss Rose H Ostronuc Muss Ostronuc has been school sec retary sunce July of l924 Before she came to North Muss Ostronuc dud stenographuc work at Omaha Central Hugh school Muss Ostronuc who enuoys readung and musuc un her spare tume probably knows more about what us goung on at North than anyone She always wullung to guve advuce and assust ance to all who need ut Muss Phyluss Pnrrmtt us equally adept un successfully teachung the untrucacues of a typewruter or rou tunes un an offuce She uouned the Norsemen un September l955 She ummeduately busued herself wuth the schools actuvutues and accepted the sponsorshrp of Horuzons Beuore corruung to North she taught IN Blencoe and Henderson Iowa She holds a bachelor of arts un educa tuon from the Nebraska State Teachers college at Peru The backbone of the North Star and Norseman Mrs Ellen Pearey unspures many of her students wuth the d ure to be good uournallsts She o teaches socual scuence Af er tung un many hours of work o t paper and yearbook Mrs P y t tull funds tume to be vuce p udent of the Nebraska Hugh hool Pr ss assocuatuon reguonal urector o the Natuonal Assocuatuon of .lournalusm Durectors and pres: dent of the alumnae chapter of her aroruty She us chaurman of the Homecomurug commuttee Mrs Pear ey obtauned her masters degree from Creughton unuversuty Cluck clock cluck clock go the typewruters as students dulugently try to follow the unstructuons of busuness educatuon te her Mrs Ar lene Petersen Co sp sorung North s chapter of the nuor Red Cross keeps Mrs Pet rsens tume well No m ter how busy she be she lways has a fruendly e and reetung for everyone s Peter n has taught at North r tve ars At the present her ann un rests are decoratung her ew ho e and gardenrng She at tende the Unuversuty of Nebraska wher she obtauned both her bache lor f scuence and her master of art degree -qw.. A muxture y algebra seasonung us formula for athem tfvcs f e for relaxa math S Sovwvoexciffb he thurd tume as un mrs Helen PI on on delughts her students wuthfstorue of her youth and the later years when she trav eled over the contunent Her pleas ant smule and the great unterest she shows un her students wull al ways make her one of the favorute Englush teachers at North Mrs Plamondons hobbues unclude read ung good musuc and the theater She us very patruotuc and us devoted to unstullung thus patruotusm un her students Mrs Plamondon has taught at North sunce the schools furst year Wuth a twunkle un her eye and a sparklung smule Muss Aluce V Por terfleld conducts her classes She struves to unstull perfect Englush and beautuful manners un her students She has been an unstructor un the Englush department sunce 1924 The study of the Buble us her specual unterest Muss Porterfueld us a grad uate of the Unuversuty of Wusconsun ln 1947 she establushed the Her bert and Mabel Porterfueld Memo rual Award of S300 guven annually to the graduate wuth the hughest scholastuc average Co sponsor of STS hustory club Mrs Catherlne Roeder ended her three year stay at North begunnung the second semester Hustory and Amer lcon Government classes were ably unstructed by her Graduated from lnduana State Teacher s college she holds bachelor and master of scu ence degrees An avud reader Mrs Roeder also enuoys such varued un terests as lustenmg to vuolun rn suc a game of golf wrutung and talkung Her lufetnme ambutuon was to become a teacher For 20 years Vukung students have been buyung theur chool supplues wuth the a ustance of Muss Char latte Root bookroom attendant Thus Oberlun college graduate knows the needs of every class un the way of texts paper penculs notebooks paunts and folders Her bookrnm dutues unclude ussuung and mend Ing textbooks alona wuth helpung students fund books that have strayed from theur hands Durung her extra tume Muss Root enuoys readung and she takes an actuve unterest un the work of her church A fruendly and helpful dusposutuon us characternstuc of offuce assistant Muss .Ianuce Schneuder A new fugure on the Vukung faculty staff she was formerly employed part tume by the Goodwull lndustrues A Com mercual Extensuon school graduate Muss Schneuder us talented un vouce and the abuluty to play the accor duon She also emo dancung and goung to the movui un her spare tume