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

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' lts always like this in Miss Southwell s study hall Mr Severyn poses with his soohamar s Tomorrows assignment is 4 bend pivot po nt toes A are familiar wor the students of girls physical edu cation instructor Mrs uth eely Mrs Seely has charge o all the s gym clas es plus a class senior dancing The Fall Follies and Aurora wouldn t be complete with out Mrs Seelys dances At one time she was a professional dancer She was very busy this year perfect ing acts for the Youth Spectocu lar held at the Civic Auditorium April I2 She is also sponsor of the pep clubs Mrs Seely spends many hours making Norths cheerleading sauod one of the best in the city Youll have to move says Ch rles E Severyn who patrols the ls after school Mr Severyn has the ability to tell someone to do something they dont want to and have them like it His kindly smile is constantly showing as he tries to explain the fundamentals of al gebra and geometry to confused students As an extra assignment for his classes Mr Severyn tells them Be pleasant the world likes you that way Mr Severyn attend ed Fremont college the Univer sity of Nebraska Creighton uni versity and the University of Oma Co sponsor of FTA Mrs Goldie Silverman is interested in producing more and better teachers She has been an instructor in the English department for the post two years Attending Smith college and the University of Nebraska and the University of Omaha Mrs Silver man has received her bachelor of arts degree She likes to spend her leisure hours listening to music and reading. Experlmenting in crafts of all sorts is another of her favorite activities, A great love for books and for young people encouraged Mrs. Elma Simpson to become a librarian. Keeping the Viking libraries effi- cient and properly supplied has been her job for I2 years. She helps in promoting a National Book Week celebration. She received her bachelor of library science degree from Columbia university, Besides reading, she enioys live theater and traveling. Mrs. Simps -is fond of the out-of-doors. e especially lovestcamping at? biking in the moun ains. ,ii z ,LV 41 f L Always ready to tell a poke or make a quick comeback for one Harvey A Smith will long be remembered by students for his sens of humor This mathematics teacher can I ways be found in the center of a rawd of laughing students before school Mr Smith is very active in the Masonic Lodge He attended high school in Beemer and West Point Mr Smith received his AB from Nebraska Wesleyan and his M A from the University of Nebras Miss Fay Southwell poet in h own right installs o love ot po try literature and English in all of her students When her students learn wen t take her seriously whether she is ,oking she fast be omes a favorite Perhaps one of the most widely traveled teachers at North Miss Southwells travels include both Europe and South America Miss Southwell has at tended the University of Missouri N e b r a s k a Colorado Wisconsin Omaha and Creighton Stech s sense o umor will always ge emember by stu dents aid f cu y alike He is the man who has a comeback for every ra his pupils ma e M S ch h ught history classes rth fo five y ars and is the spa S hist ry club Special inter sts o Mr 'Ste include Ex por Sco t work HO mo el trains and e A ni chapter o his fraternity Alpha Phi Omega Mr. Stech attended Omaha univer- sity and the University of Wiscon- sin, l-le holds a bachelor of arts de- gree. The man with the hacksaw alias Keith W. Stewart. Mr. Stewart, head of the locker committee, is often seen sawing the lock off some un- fortunate student's locker. After teaching history at North for sev- en years, Mr. Stewart still says, Everything in my classes is un- usual. When not occupied with counseling the senior boys or teach- in geography and history, h spends any spare time raising trop- ical fish, Mr. Stewart received his master of arts degree from the University of Nebraska. , V 421 fy Sr K g f ' L fic

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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

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NX Head of the Aurora commIttee Iumor gIrls counselor sponsor of El Polo del Norte and advanced SpanIsh teacher each one of these IS a Iob In Itself but Mrs Loulse Sutton does them all and does them well She also dIvIdes the beam nnng SpanIsh classes Wlfh MIss Car ey Mrs Sutton has served durIng the summer as an Interpreter at the Mayo ClInIc In MInnesota whIch proves how well versed she IS In the subgect she teaches She attended the UnIversIty of Nebraska and Omaha unIversIty Mrs Sutton has taught at North sInce l93S Newcomer Leo R Taylor took over Mrs Catherme Roeders hustory teachIng assngnment at the begm nIng of the second semester B tore coming to North Mr Taylor spent l7 years teachIng at varIous elementary IunIor and senIor hIgh schools He also spent several years In the Postal Transport servIce Mr Taylor became a teacher becaue ot hIs Interest IH young people Thus Interest shows up agaIn In hIs lelsure GCllVlfl9S whIch Include both Cub Scout and Boy Scout work Mr Taylor holds a bachelor of SCI ence and masters degree from the UnIversIty of Nebraska Q20 4-'M NOT PICTURED The sharpe mInd of Engllsh teacher Mass Zdenka Sedlacek IS revealed by her sprIghtly sense of humor and twInklIng eyes One cant walk In to MIss Sedlaceks classroom wlth out notIcIng her array of potted plants which add a touch of fresh ness to the room Plants aren t her only Interest however she lnkes to read play the plano travel carc for her boxer and cook MISS Sed lacek has attended the UnIversIty of Omaha Nebraska unIversIty and ColumbIa unIversIty She receIved her master of arts degree from Columbla unIversIty ' 1 fa af -T 2 sense ot humor and a love for musIc summanzes the wmnmg ways Samuel F Thomas, Instru Instructor For 22 years he has ImpartIng hrs vast amount knowledge to VIKINQS The success of every program whIch Involves musIc greatly depends on Mr Thomas He holds hls bachelor grees from the UnIversIty of Oma ha A very large part of his sum mers are spent IU MInnesota flSh In Any QUESTION on any phase of home economIcs can well be answered by Miss Florence Walker She has studIed at Colorado state Omaha Nebraska and CreIghton UHIVGFSITISS A 20 year faculty member she s co sponsor of Mlnervettes and a fashIon consultant for Fall FollIes and Aurora costumes Her lensure tIme IS OCCUDIEU Wlfh travellng or by lnstennng to good musIc Walker also has a specnq kn ck for prepanng dElIClOL.4S dn lid Mr Elaser cotchs onto absence checks qulckly Mr Smlth can't belIeve It What's thIs about a baby for the Barlows Mlss Lyons keeps the TYDISTS busy 3 Z2 yy r r al, K ' l by ,ll ' ' lt 4 ' I , ' - ' A I ,G . ' ' 'V - gf' -- of ' I A . . . . I .,., J n A . ' ' ' ' ' of arts and master oflscience de- .. . - fb I, QV . I - E: ' , . . A . f 'E , I' .- 71 2' UL! I QW l ff A wb , Q 1 fi ' . . X!