Allentown Preparatory School - Alprescho Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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IQ38 ALPRESCI-IO Lule Beguns At Forty Luttle suspectung what was happenung I p e pared to close the offuce for the evenung My staff had all departed several hours before and I was eager to get home to celebrate my burthday wuth my wufe and famuly Suddenly I heard the elevator stop and a nousy rabble step off In a moment the door to my offuce flew open as though ut had not been locked Dumb founded at thus effrontery I prepared to call the poluce when I recognuzed the facual ex pressuon of my vusutors Although dusguused by a moustache and slnghtly affected by age I was able to see the unmustakable profule of Robert Herzog who had recently been elected chuef of poluce It had taken Ford and Flana gan to swung the vote of the Irush but he got a large mauoruty I was glad to learn that the group had remembered the celebratuon we had twenty years ago un Allentown We had to waut untul eleven oclock before Mr Gruber went to bed Thungs were progressung very well when Mr Stulley spouled the thung at one o clock When he came un the room twelve of the twenty four were able to get under the beds fuve more hud un each closet and two were caught and sent to theur rooms Shortly after thus ut was possuble for us to you remember came un from a date Funally about four the party broke up The next morn ang we mussed our furst three classes I was able to get Dr Hackemann to excuse mune but the other boys had to go to Mr Cebert who would not guve an unch That certaunly was one nught I no sooner had funushed my trend of thought on thus event when Pryzbluck started to nar rate an uncudent that happened before the dus cuplune commuttee It seems luke Mr Harry had reported Hulluck for Ieavung campus wuth more than ten d meruts The commuttee as usual was tryung to fund where Hulluck had been Mr Russell was wrutung down everythung that was saud For a whule ut looked as uf Hulluck mught be campused for several weeks but the crowd kept the same story and nothung more was heard of ut Nelle who had recently marrued a wealthy wudow now began to tell about the Valley Forge football game Those cadets were really mad when they came to the dressung room at the end of the game We thought for a whule that we mught have to fught ut over agaun Mucha and Daugneault had wauted for the fullback but that wasnt any reason why l38I they were after the whole team Suddenly a nouse from the street attracted our attentuon Upon rushung to the wundow we saw a car bearung Admural Strohl comung p the maun thoroughfare and stoppnng un front of my buuldung lmagune our astonushment when hus chauffeur Cus Cubson escorted hum to the door and then went back to the car for some packages Thus was really turnung unto a real party Strohl came and began to tease Rau about hus gurl fruend He had met her when a student un the Allentown Hugh School After all those years No agreement had been reached yet but many people say they are engaged I was lookung un my desk for a bottle opener for the gunger ale when I came across a pack age that h d come un the maul I tore off the cover and I found a book wuth an attractuve cover entutled Faury Tales of the Hellenes Wuthout goung any farther I concluded that Roggeveen had been doung some more trans latuon Close by I found the opener We began to swap storues Some of them are not worth tellung but the one told about Stolle and Shurley Temple and another about Sweugard and hus steruluzung process are worth mentuon I suggested to the group that we leave the offuce before my busuness reputatuon was ruuned Nacrelle suggested the Szabo Inn It happened that thus was the nught for the orchestra We retured to thus establushment It was fortunate that we were not unterested un musuc for the drummer was worse than Alexander had ever been By thus tume I had a thorough headache and I fauntly recalled that my wufe was wautung for me to come home On my way home I stopped by the Fox Pharmacy for some Bromo Seltzer Here I ran unto Doc Rehmeyer who told me that a former classmate of mune had uust dued Connell had the funeral Wuth the shades of musfortune fallung over me I decuded to has ten home As I came up the walk I heard vouces Black Hetko and Taylor had come to pay my wufe a vusut I quuckly turned my back and told my druver to take me to the hotel for the nught As I was sugnurug the reguster I notuced two precedung Sugnatures of Barba and Bossler The latter I had read un the newspaper had re cently been made presudent of Hood College The former was sellung stocks and bonds Fear ung the unabuluty to turn a fruend down I hurrued to my room and locked the door , . , r - Q v . Q . . . . . U Y ' i , A a 1 ' . . . , . .. . ., continue. About three o'clock Angel and Poust, ing. , , 3 . , . ' I I I I I I -

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l938 ALPRESCHO ARTHUR WRIGHT ATLANTIC CITY NEW JERSEY General Well fellas heres the story That IS the way OttIe greets hIs frIends He always has a good word for every body even hIs roommate He and Monk may put on an act of fIghtIng but there are no more loyal fnends than thes two OttIe played quarterback on the J V foot ball team forward on the varslty basketball squad and second base wIth the baseball team Prospects are that he wIll be able to go to LehIgh IrI the f ll and thus ful fIll an ambItIon Durlng the past year h has worked very hard In edItIng the yearbook Now h lS servIng as vIce presIdent of the senuor class Speclal Students SUMNER F BOSSLER BETHLEHEM PENNSYLVANIA Cerll male I love to fsh forms the sentence summary of the Bethlehem conversatIonalIst When he has fInI hed a fISh story we marvel at hIs Imaglnatlon and vIvId sense of descrIptIon He was a member of t e debatlng team Next year he plans to enter Gettysburg from whence he hopes eventually to enter the clergy Personally we belIeve that the Hood wIll fall upon hIm before many college moons are passed Sonny we hope your domestIc lrfe IS happy FRANCIS J CONNELL BETHLEHEM PENNSYLVANIA Certr rule wIll probably leave for LehIgh He PAUL DOUCHER LEHICHTON PENNSYLVANIA Cerfz tale ALBERTJ NACRELLI MARCUS HOOK PENNSYLVANIA Certr rate laI lf you see a student sleepIng In class It IS a safe bet to say that It IS FrancIs J The only thlng that has beeen able to lIft hum from hIs slumbers IS the baseball team He permlts no one to tamper wIth smIle a necessIty IH hIs fathers busIness He debated too but the ODDCSIYS sex seemed to unnerve hIm He came here from BlaIr and ms that he IS Iookmg for an easy IIfe ahead He IS one of the few members of the tenms team able to wrn the malorrty of the games played Schealer seems to have been unable to Influence hIm In any way Dougher IS the qulet type that causes the admlnlstratlon no trouble He glV9S every IndIcatIorI of exe ted effort In study Next year he IS startmg at the UnIversIty of Pennsylvanla Chuck has only been wIth us SINCE the begInnIng of the second semester but Irnmedlately upon hIs arrIvaI he endeared hlmself to everyone HIs nImble feet gennal face and ready humor are always In evldence ThIs fellow has only one faIlIng the dotmg on uvlne women and song Chuck IS plannmg to enter St Johns College Annapolrs Maryland Here he plans to enroll In the scIence depart ment He has taken a decnded Interest In the school scIence club C We ss and Werley have been C.OnfInUIng theIr attempt to prove the alphabetlcal method of seatmg students IS not always the best one ALLENTOWN PENNSYl-VANlA Ff6CluentlY one can see hIm slIp Into a car and rIde off the campus C er fr vale for a lIttle relaxalron Local busmess may be callmg hIm , , n ' - . . . . . a l - . . . I , 9 . , . D . , .. i .. I first base. He has a fine personahty and can always be seen with a 37

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