Allentown Preparatory School - Alprescho Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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l938 ALPRESCHO Orchestra Could this possnbly be the local bartenders conventlon un dISgUIS6p We werent quite sure when we saw thus picture but all doubts fled when we heard the boys start to charm all and sundry wnth a but of Sophlstncated Swing Takmg thus harmonlc organlzatlon apart to see what makes all the nouse we fund Rehmeyer student head and trumpeter Williams and Beck trum pets Barba clarunet Fox who doubles with clarlnet and alto sax Baty tenor sax Davus accordion C Wulson and Dougher vloluns Alexander drums and last the movung spurut and faculty member Prof Russell piano Dark rumors that the organization was entirely secret somewhat akm to the dread legislative conference room sessnons lknllung thnngs behind closed doorsl were dlspelled entirely when the boys came out of thelr chamber and played at Dorothy Hackemann s engagement party Since then they have presented programs for the student body which have been characteruzed by stompung feet and crles of More' Do at again' No repeat performances were granted then but there us beung planned at the tume of thus wrntmg a tea dance This If It takes place as hoped wull be the most ambrtuous attempt the boys have made and we hope the most brlllnant 4 +7 M91 - - 1 . . . . 0 - . . - 1 - - 11 . . . I! 1 I O D - 1 1 1 1 1 , 7 I v ' I I V I 1 1 - 1 - 1 , . . . 11 . . 11 , 1 1 - 1 1 1 Y ' 1-11-unu Q ., , 5 , , ' , . X . ' JI -5 ' I 4 4

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l938 ALPRESCHCD Natronal Honor Soclety To become a member of the Natrona! Honor Socretv rs perhaps the herght of ambttron for all Prep students who are seruous rn theur work Thus organuza tron rs a sort of secondary school Phu Beta Kappa the requrrements benng very srmnlar The mam of these are scholarshrp leadershvp servrce and char acter The candudates are chosen by a commrttee made up of faculty mem bers and we umagrne rt ts a dnffrcult task to select boys who possess all four lnclusron of a number of Junuors and Sophomores among the Natnonal Honor So rety students argues for the contnnuance next year of the lrvely competrtron whrch exrsted between such frrendly competrtors as Strohl and Rau rn thus year s Sensor Class Plans are now berng made for a banquet for the members ot thus socrety to take place near the end of the s hool year Wrth the scholastrc elrte of Prep present rt ought to be qurte a stately affarr we thrnk Robert Babcock Leon Mersels Rodney Arner Davrd Coy e Dr L F Ha kemann MEMBERS Lester Stoneback Carolnne Ferguson John Rau FACULTY Mr Raymond Waller Mr Edwin Arner l48J Mrtchell Strohl Qarah E Taylor Allan Campbell Vmcent Roggeveen Mr C W DeLawter of these requisites. F. . .

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l938 ALPRESCHO Glee Club and Chapel Cholr Followlng the usual custom the School C-lee Club was the one orgamzatlon among the nlne clubs that met once a week almost wnthout fall lthls def: nntely does not Include athletics Mr Stulleyl Such a remarkable record would have been Impossible had It not been for the loyal work of the club leader Mr Stermer Anyone who has worked wnth hum can readlly under stand the real pleasure that the boys who comprlsed thus year s club experl enced Every Thursday durlng thlrty mnnute perlod one could hear lfor no mean dlstancel the strams of some popular sem: classuc number beung sung wlth varynng degrees of fervor and tonal quallty Up to the tume thus publl was receuved wnth gratnfymg mterest A lnttle offsprlng of thus Club IS the Chapel Chour organnzed by Mr Arner for the purpose of maklng our dauly sings ln chapel unto more dlgnlfled musnc than our customary shoutlng pamborees Lack of necessary rehearsal tnme made the fulfnllment of thus purpose rather dlffucult but we cast our votes for a contnnued Chapel Chonr next year MEMBERS Lester Stoneback Flrst Tenor David Coyle Fnrst Bass Paul Dougher Second Tenor Danuel McCarthy Flrst Bass Louns Herlmg r Second Tenor John Tyson Second Bass Prof Henry R Stermer E501 cation went to press, the Club had made one appearance in chapel where it