William Allen High School - Comus Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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COMUS 3,4-se VW I fig l t fl XIII! X 4X 1936 Glass Zlalstorp The Inevitable alr of bewllderment curloslty and would be importance accompanied the entrance of the leap year Class of 36 into the beginning of days never to be forgotten From the funlovlng and not overly ambltlous very start our class was destlned to be known as a noisy u group of boys and girls but pretty good regular scouts at that Our Sophomore year consisted mamly of gettlng acquainted with the school and xts personnel Numerous councxl meetings were held under the SUDPTVISIOH of the class ofhcers l..alVlonte Cul lette presldent LaRue Brady VICC presldent Alma Albrlght secretary Harold Hlxon treasurer and the class adviser Mr Hartzel At the very end of the term we held a Sophomore plcnxc dance at Dorney Park a memorable affair lf there ever was one' It was ln our umor year however that thlngs really began to happen Llfe became a pm wheel of gala occasions the Prom where students and alumni swayed ecstatlcally to the l1lt1ng strains of Bud Rader s orchestra the class play Growing Pains a comedy of adolescence wlth the audltorlum packed to capacity the audience roarlng wrth laughter and the cast provlng lts remarkable dramatlc abllnty the basketball and swlmmmg seasons packed wlth excitement and Joy for didn t we capture the state championship tltles lh both3 And weren t many of the brllllant players and swimmers members of our class And the Canary that year brought to A H S one of the three national gold medals awarded to Hlgh School magazines by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association of New York And then the umor picnic a day of fun and merrlment closing a brilliant year All these social affalrs were held under the SUPCYVISIOH of the class ofhcers LalVlonte Gxllette pres1dent l. aRue Brady vice presldent Betty Cemmel secretary and Henry Kleppxnger treasurer But the best was yet to come Under the guxdance of Copper McFadden presldent LaRue Brady vlce president Betty Gemmel secretary and Alton Gaumer treasurer we set forth on the last lap of our hrgh school Journey with the class play Daddy Long Legs Again the swnmmlng team brought us laurels by becoming state champs and by breaking several xnterscholastlc records The basketball season was agam a huge success so far as wmnmg games was concerned although we were greatly disappointed that we were barred as lnellglble for state championship competition The mter class play Davzd Copper eld marked a new mllestone lh dramatlc achlevement The Canary agam rated Hrst place m national awards Two class trlps to New York were necessary to accommodate the large crowd of Sennor pleasure seekers Tlme that looked so long three years ago has flown The Commencement Play Semor Fare well and Commencement program have all come and gone too qulckly to su1t any of us The three years have been entxrely too short but out of them we carry unto the future the pleasantest of memories and the finest of frxends Page Thirteen v f' , K K- 4 J ' Ja A 1 .N lf' 'T-. fff , 'fflftr V ,Q gf-f ,1 L, 3- Jqfj, 'ggi wi ui gl , -ff, . QI, L slu 5. .lux Q a 5ll'l'l.Xl1DIiN. Prvs. LAR 'I-3 llR.XDY. Yi 1--lf -s. lgl'I'l'I'x' Gmmlcl., St-cf' .XIJ1 13 llU'XllQk, 'I'r--us. 1 - ' . ' . - 4 Y A

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Doutb T I IN exrth I am young I am strong I lfc vllmrxtes H1 me Ilkc xn electric Lurrent It Ins mlm:-rl me to thc world like x new how I resh from the forest md qulverlng with joy At the hope of sending xn xrrow lnto lnfmlty I have long xgo resolved that that arrow shall In l7l'IL,llI I Ike xtornct Irrlclglng thc span of nlght with flame And flooding the rl xrkness wlth white lxght It must hurn ltself into the core of xmmort allty There are txmes when I gather myself together And calm my ache for fame A fervent hope for recognltlon But too often thts restless ambttxon steals Into me And I am off to far worlds Oh that I were content To be as I was meant to he plavlng the melody of Info Wlth peaceful hngers But mme are nervous hngers Pressmg the 1fTlITlOI'tdI keys of Time to snatch 1 hurst Of musxc I xfe rs a song and I am a smger A smger who can only reach the heights of ITIUSIL In a tempest whose VOICC IS yet low and soft Wmth the blue skles of summer I am so txred Of thls drab and unlnterestmg waltlng for my ay Were there a Ieanmg and an unentangled end I would how to nt But only thts endless and IDIIDIIC Future of nothxngness Sometxmes I wonder on bod On heaven II He sees me xf He hears me Will He meet me when I am too tlred to go onf Through the years I have promlsed myself I shall keep faxth wlth my ambltlon But It IS dlfhcult for youth to Walt Only when see Some rolling stretch of earth and feel My heart swell wlth sheer enjoyment of beauty Can I nd myself of thts dxsturbmg restlessness And understand bod s worklngs of my destlny He enfolds me then and I know that I shall have peace Llke a pxcture I can see the years step softly by And grow shorter and as I grasp each one wlth a weaker hand I take a Ilrmer hold on my own soul At these tlmes I am QUICK wlth the restralnt Of knowledge aware that I am one of a multitude Affllcted wlth the relentless ambltlon of vouth ALTHEA KRFx Page Twelve cf. hs .- 2 I - - , 2 1 ' .z - ' ' ha 2 , i i ,A . 2 Q. . . E , A i , . . 4' 2 .. , . . , . , , , - y ' tt S 7 f . v. i 1, . , . ,,

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COMUS BBUIBUJ of the Bear ln a school as large as the Allentown l-llgh School every year brlngs its hlgh llghts lts achlevements dlffermg m kmd rather than ln number Each COMUS records its year Occaslonally there IS an annus mrrabzlzs as there was ln l935 when IH so many helds the school was at the very top And thls year has been a good year It has marked many dlstxngulshed accompllshments that are rather a contlnuatlon of falrly recent mnovatlons than an xnltlatlon The A Cappella Cholr contlnues its steady march 1nto an ever Wldelllng clrcle of favor the course ln dramatlcs has acqulred a room of 1ts own a regular schedule and IS becommg more and more a part of the regular llfe of the school Visual educatlon glven tremendous lmpetus by a movlng plcture machlne the glft of the class of l935 has been fully organized and all the apparatus of the school assembled along wlth the equlpment ln a central place from whlch place lt can be requlsxtloned at need The school Itself has spllled over not only mto another bulldmg but 1nto Hlgh School over a mlle away ln athletlcs new stars have llterally swum lnto our ken the swlm team for the second time takes champlonshlp honors and the basketball players even though the team was dlsquallfled because of a technlcallty rate as champlonshlp tlmber ln the matter of playmg games successes and polnts The art department stlll H165 lts banners hlgh carried thls year by Edward Palanlca and Fred Klotz who placed In the lnternatxonal Exhlblts sponsored by the Scholastzc ln Carnegle Museums Plttsburgh and elsewhere From the colleges come graufymg accounts of the achlevements of hlgh honors and recognltlon of varlous kmds accorded to our graduates especlally to our englneerxng students at Lehlgh Umverslty The Canary agam places 1n first class ln the Columbla Scholastlc Press ASSOCIH tlon and the COMUS the formal plcture book of the school has the largest sub scrlptxon llst of ltS hlstory Altogether not a bad year ln fact a good year this l936 at the Allentown Hrgh School Page Fourteen I 9: another part of town, so that this year inaugurated the l-lunsicker Annex to the