Northampton Area High School - Amptennian Yearbook (Northampton, PA)

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GEORGE A. EIC!-TLER, A.B., M.A., Ed.D. SuperinTendenT of Schools Upon The shoulders - and excepTionally capable ones They are -- of Dr. Eichler resTs The sTewardship oT our educaTional sysTem. I-lis TwenTy-eighT years oT TaiThTul. devoTed, and ouTsTanding service as super- inTendenT and The counTless aspecTs in- volved sTand as a TribuTe To his sTaTecraTT. A dedicaTed disciple oT educaTion and one who loves children, Dr. Eichler has always given oT his uTmosT To give every one oT his youThTul charges The besT. many Times aT The expense oT Tremendous personal sac- riiice. T-Tis unselTish service Toward making This a beTTer world have exTended Tar be- yond NorThampTon, and This year our Chamber oT Commerce supplied sTill an- oTher avenue oT service Tor him by elecTing him Their presidenT. We are boTh proud and graTeTul, Dr. Eichler, To be numbered among your girls and boys. CARL B. SCT-TMICKLY, B.S. Business Manager One oT The many progressive sTeps Taken by The JoinT School CommiTTee in keeping pace wiTh The Times during The pasT year was The esTablishmenT oT The posT oT Sec- reTary-Business Manger wiThin The adminis- TraTive organizaTion oT The ioinTure. The innovaTion became a realiTy lasT Augusls when Mr. Schmickly came To NorThampTon. A residenT oT BeThlehem, he was graduaTed Trom The WharTon School oT Business and Finance oT The UniversiTy of Pennsylvania wiTh The degree oT Bachelor oT Science in Economics. l-le broughT wiTh him a wealTh oT experience. Mr. Schmickly TaughT book- keeping in LiberTy l-ligh School, BeThlehemy was chieT accounTanT Tor KeysTone Dehy- draTers, oTTice manager aT The Mowrer Dairy, and was senior accounTanT wiTh The Tirm oT l-larry Margolis, CerTiTied Public AccounTanT, before accepTing his posiTion wiTh us. Welcome, Mr. Schmickly. Pvuplv have svlwfvcl page ihirfcen

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From time immemorial Men of The NorThampTon Area JoinT School ComrniTTee Take Time ouT from a busy schedule To sil for This phofograph. From lefT, They are, seaTed: Second Vice PresidenT Russell Becker, Rennard Sufliff, Superinfendenf Dr. George A. Eichler, Presidenf RoberT Jones. Secre- Tary John Dreisbach. Raymond Newhard, Darle STrohl, and LuTher Schlegel: sTanding: Arfhur Schaffer, Business Manager Carl Schmickly, Howard Raubenhold, FirsT Vice F'residenT Charles Newhard, Joseph George, LuTher Young. and Guy Rice. When The Old School was builf. and The Old School before iT, and The Old School before ThaT, and so on back Through The generafions of schools, who caused Them To be builT? The Board of Educafion. Affer The schools were builT, who engaged The Teachers. boughf The coal, lcepT an eye on educafion and The law. and a myriad of oTher Things? The Board of Educafion. In our own Old School of Today The Board of Edu- caTion has even more viTal a role Than iTs forebears. The faces and names are differenf Today from Those when The Old School was builT, and alThough basically The problems and responsibilifies are The same, Today's complex world has added counfless complexifies To Them. One of The complexiTies of our Time, The consolida- Tion of individual disTricTs info larger uniTs for more equal educafional opporfunify, has Transformed our Board info a Norfhampfon Area Joinf School Com- miffee. Unheralded and unsung. These are The men who shoulder The responsibilifies and come To grips wiTh The problems ThaT beseT educafion - our educafion. Their pafienf, unTiring efforfs To give us The besf edu- cafion possible have helped us To Take our places in sociefy as worfhwhile ciTizens more Than we can ever hope To realize fully. For Their unselfish service To us, To Those who will follow us. To The cifizens They serve. and To educafion. we Thank Them. page Twelve

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The cause of education F' Q T NORMAN A. LAUB, B.S., M.A. Principal One oT The mosT ardenT champions of our school and iTs youThTul populaTion is Mr. Laub. Unceasingly he labors To make a good school beTTer. WhaTever he does is predicaTed upon a TaiTh in The school so sTeadTasT and enThusiasTic ThaT iT is impos- sible To conceal. A long-range program OT curriculum improvemenT, The inspecTion oT a Tire drill, or The hearing of a sTudenT problem, no maTTer how menial: all receive The same painsTalcing aTTenTion. When The lighTs go ouT in his oTTice, he carries a good porTion of his cares along home in his ever- presenT, bulging briefcase. And, no maTTer whaT The acTiviTy, if iT involves The school, sTudenTs. or boTh, he can always be de- pended upon To be There. EDWIN J. BER6, A.B. AssisTanT To The Principal Sharing Mr. Laub's deep-seaTed TaiTh in The school and anoTher of our sTaunch ad- vocaTes is Mr. Berg. His smiling counTe- nance and genial personaliTy we will never be able To TorgeT any more Than The cheery greeTings he gives us every morning over The inTercom - noT To menTion The classic gems of wisdom he prosaically dubs The ThoughT Tor The Day. AlThough consTanTly beseT by mulTiTudinous duTies and responsi- biliTies, he is never Too busy To hear our problems. His years in The classroom have given Mr. Berg a Thorough undersTanding oT youTh and an unshalcable confidence in The sTudenT oT Today. l-lere is anoTher in- dividual whose hours are noT long enough and whose days are Too shorT.