Allen High School - People Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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umumluumlmumunmuu1I1uuunnuIuuImumummmumin1I1nnuIli1unnuninI111nunummmnI1meAu11nmmuuunlmunmluuuummuuueI mlllnumlmnllunumlmnumnnnllulnunlumsumnulnunuunuumumnulmlnummmnn luaumuuusuuumuuunuaswulom The CANARY and BLUE HISTGRY GF A. H. S. nuuuuuu uinunuIuuuumummumumuuIIuinuummnmmmnmmuuummnumuununmIInuuumIu1I11u1l1nuunuuununnunIuunuIlnlInnnuuunIInunIIIuInunnnunnnul1nunlmuuuummuummummm:numuuunnu ummmllmlllIIIInI1ul1InunnunuunnmlIIuIInlInlmlIIlmnmnmunununImmmllmnnunummlIn11lmuuulunmnmm1uIIIuImlIImmnI11uuI11uu1AI1uuunununumumnunmnmmnunmluIunnnn1u1uunn1unnummumnunm Few memories go back to the tirst commencement of the Allentown High School. Fewer still go back to that morning in 1858 when for the iirst time a school was assem- bled which should become known as the Allentown High School. The school was situated on Penn Street, near the present Administration building. With fourteen pupils, equally divided as to sex, the school opened under the master, R. W. McAlpine. Not being in accord with higher powers his administration was soon ended. His successor was a man by the name of Armagnac. Next came Mr. john Sykes, who remained till the end of the school term of 1862. Mr. Tobias Kessler suc- ceeded him and taught up to 1865, when Dr. R. K. Buehrle, now of Lancaster, took his place and taught until be became, in 1867, the first superintendent of the schools of Allentown. Shortly afterward the Boys' High School was moved to an upper floor of the building occupied by Leh's shoe store. From here it went to the Academy at Eighth and Walnut Streets. Finally, when the Herbst Building was finished, the school was taught there. Meanwhile the Girls' High School, which had been formed in 1859 to satisfy public opinion, was moved from the Horne Building to the Presbyterian Sunday School room where it remained till late in the year of 1869 when it too settled in the Herbst Building. This was shortly after the first commencement held in May, 1869. Three were in the class graduated. Harry Lawrence, the quiet member, became a resident of the far West, a short time ago, during commencement week his remains were brought to his native heath and laid away with his own home folk. Entering the printing establishment of the Lehigh Register, Frank Sherer learned his trade with that firm. About the year 1870 The Chronicle came into existence. At tirst this paper was sold on the street. After a sufficient number of subscribers were se- cured he became its first carrier, but only for a short time, when another printers' devil took his place. The young man rose step by step from one position of trust and honor, until finally he occupied the editor's chair, which post he filled at the time of his death. Penrose W eida was a jeweler by trade. For many years he carried on business in the place now occupied by Kahen's Ladies' Apparel, of course not in the imposing struc- ture of the present day. When quite a young man he became an invalid. Some of the older alumni may well remember the brave fight he made against the inroads of disease. The commencement was held in the Presbyterian Church on North Fifth Street. The exercises of the evening were opened by the school reciting a Psalm and prayer by the Rev. Dr. Wood, pastor of the church. These were the days of simplicity-there were I PAGE TNVELVE 1

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annImummmnummnIImumuunIIIIIIummuunnmmunmuuuuum 1 umIIIuIIIIIIIuIumIumuunnunmuIInIuumuunnunum ummn nuummuuu The CANARY and BLUE nunuIIuuIuIuumuuumnnmuIIIIIIuIIInIIIIIIluluuumunuummmmuuuuum - THE - FACULTY ' ummmIIunInnIIuInumuuuumummnuum IIIIIIIlnnuunuunuumuunnmnuununnunu XVARREN F. ACKER llluhlenberg, Cornell University HENRX' J. ALTHENN Mulzlerzlterg CHARLES C. BACHMAN East Stroudsburg State Normal, Muhlenberg A. R. BERLIN Millersville State Normal F. M. Boca Illuhlenberg, Rochester Business Institute ANNA F. BUEHLER Worcester Domestic Science School N. A. Burz Allentown Public Schools MAME A. CHUBRUCX Lehigh- University, Muhlenberg FLORENCE H. COBAUGH Smith College JEANNE M. EGGE Moravian College for Women SoLoN J. FEC-LEY tEnlistedJ Lafayette BIARTIN D. FETHEROLF QEnlistedJ Muhlenberg WILLIAM T. FISTER Keystone State Normal School M. L. FRANKENEIELIJ Muhlenberg J. MELVIN FRE!-ID fEnlistedJ Cornell J. NVARREN FRITSCH .Muhlenberg, Keystone State Normal HELEN S. GERH.4RT A. C. W., Dickinson College M. S. HARIING Keystone State Normal School SALLIE HECKROTIE Cornell University RALPH P. IIOLBEN Muhlenberg, Franklin and Marshall, University of Pennsylvania M. S. HORNE . Muhlenberg, Keystone State Normal DORI HUNI RosA M. KESSLER . Cornell University R. H. KRESSLER Muhlenberg, Lehigh University GEORGE SRIYTHE KRESSLEY Keystone State Normal, Muhlenberg, Gott- inger U niversity, Germany, Muhlenberg C post-graduateb ...HI-.ImmmInInInmn-uummnummm In .1 nm A. C. LEWIS Keystone State Normal, American Com. C. A. LYLE Clllllllllll Liberal Institute School of Printing H. R. RICCIILLOUGH Jluhlenberg, Keystone State Normal H.ATTIPI IIOSER Philadelphia Serving School 1:IsIsIA A. NONNEMACHER 1 .-lllentown High School ROBERT H. NORGANG Catasauqua High School ANNA I.. SCIIAIIT Keystone State Normal RICHARD J. SCHINIOYER Muhlenberg, Harvard J. G. SQIIUMAKER Keystone State Normal, Muhlenberg H. W. SHARADIN Art School of Philadelphia and New York, Two seasons in Europe H.ANNAH I. SHELLEY .-1. C. W., Harvard Seminary, Posse fBostonj ELIZABETH SHELLING West Chester Normal SUSAN C. SNYDER A. C. W., Bucknell ROBERT T. TAYLOR GEORGE '1'HosIAs Millersville State Normal WILLIAM E. NVEILLS L'm':-rrsity of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg T. BIAHLON WEIREACI-I Keystone State Normal, Michigan Univ. H. H. WENTZ Keystone State Normal, Muhlenberg R.-XLPH V. NVETHERHOLD Muhlenberg ANNA E. NVESSNER West Chester Normal, Columbia Univ. SALLIE A. NVINTERS ' Allentown High School NV.-XRR1-ZX A. ZIEGENFUSS I l1l.1'l'L'l7L' Academy, lbluhlenberg EDWARD W. ZIMMERMAN Muhlenberg GEORGE W. ZIIKIBIERMAN Keystone State Normal, Pennsylvania Col- lege, Gettysburg, Pa. I PACE ELEVEN 1

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IllW:::u: l::::::::33::E:::::::: HIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIlllfilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllMIIHillHillIIIllll 2xmH mlUIlllllmlllulH The CAN ARY and BLUE 'Ililllilllllllllllllilllllllllllll IIIIllllllllllllllulllllllIIIIIIllImilllIIllIIIIllIIIIlllIHNUOIIHHINHIIIIIUIHIIWUIIIHHIIIHIUIUUUIIIIIMIllllNlIlllllllllllllllllllllllll no printed programmes. Dr. R. K. Buehrle, superintendent and head of the High School. announced the speakers and their subjects as their turn came. Three graduates could not fill the whole programme, therefore members of the lower classes were selected both for essays and recitations. To vary the exercises an occasional song was rendered by the school. Music not being taught in the Public School, since there was at this time not a school building which owned a musical instrument, it was exceedingly difficult to present singing suitable for such occasions, therefore this feature was soon eliminated, and the famous Allentown Band discoursed sweet music to the de- light of subsequent audiences. At this particular Commencement no presents were given in public-that was a practice which came in at a later day. There was no display of any kind, yet parents and friends went away well pleased with the First Commencement of the Allentown High School. ' Since many could not gain admittance, the next year the Board of Control engaged the Court House, which was used for some years. The Class of 1875 was the last to hold its closing exercises in the Hall of Justice. By turns Hagenbuch's Opera House, the Music Hall and the Lyric Theatre were thus honored. The next move of the High School is made known thru the permit of the School Board given to the graduating class of 1880 to use two rooms of the first floor of the Fourth Ward tWolfeJ building, the same to be under the supervision of the janitor. In this building three rooms were occupied, a boys' room, girls' room and a recitation room presided over by Mr. Desh, Miss Allison and Miss Barnes. In 1881 F. D. Raub, later Superintendent of Schools, became principal while Miss A. S. Grammes became head of the girls' department with Miss Rosa M. Kessler as assistant. In the same year the first Muhlenberg Scholarship was awarded. From this time on till 1894 the High School continued to expand in this building. In that year the fthenj New High School Building was completed and possession taken of il. Since then many classes have passed thru its halls and many events have taken place. Among them we must remember that in 1903 the Canary and Blue was started with Mr. Warren F ritsch as its first editor. In 1913 the school again expanded and students were sent to the Wolfe Building. The next year five rooms of the Herbst building were commandeered for the incoming Freshman Class of 1918. Two years later, in September, 1917, possession was taken of 'the building now occupied. Need we say more concerning it? Certainly we have progressed. This book is a monument to our energy and spirit. In a new building, with a new and finer spirit the Allentown High School has come into its own. I PAGE THIRTEEN 1