Allen High School - People Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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lgortrait C09 The class of l943, the thirtieth to be graduated during the principalship of Daniel W. Hamm, feels that it is fitting and proper to present here both a record and a composite portrait of the man to whom this Comus is affectionately dedicated, the man under whose leadership the school has established, and for thirty years maintained a reputation for sound training and admirable character. Daniel W. Hamm, the son of Mary A. Werner and Beniamin K. Hamm, was born February l3, 1877, in Albany Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. Four years later the family moved to Allentown, where the boy got his readin', writin', and 'rithmetic in the fifth ward school and in the high school, then in the Wolfe Building at Ninth and Chew Streets. Long hours of study at Muhlenberg College made firm a belief in organization of work and in the discipline of mind and spirit that Mr. Hamm has continued to cherish for himself and has imprinted upon all the educational and administrative leadership with which he has been entrusted. A teacher in the Stevens school in i9Oi, its principal in l904, elected to teach history and political and commercial geography in the high school in l9l0, and made principal in l9l3 this tells the story of his progress. But it doesn't tell the whole story. To see the tall, impeccably groomed, lithe figure take a stairway two steps at a time is to discard all notion of an unbreakable pedagogical dignity. To watch him read, face alight, some fine passage lovingly chosen from a treasured book, is to glimpse his rare appreciation of the beautiful in expression. To see him touch a splendid blossom brought for his appraisal by some faculty gardner is to sense the knowledge and the wonder of the naturalist. To see him at tender ease with his family, his gracious wife and their children, Evelyn and Frederick, both with established homes of their own, and the two grandchildren, Sandra, less than a year old, and Billy, five, is to know him at his happiest.