Allentown Preparatory School - Alprescho Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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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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IQ38 ALPRESCI-IO Debafmg Club The debatmg for the past school year was lrmnted somewhat In nts scope by the recurrent vaca tnon perrods Although the range of actrvrty was not as varued as last year the qualuty of work done un speech events was far supertor The two questuons of Cham Store abolutron and practuc abrluty of unncameral legnslature were discussed The school partrcupated un two tournaments of the Natronal Forensuc League The tradntronal debate trnp was taken to Gettysburg Colleg During the early fall the school loxned the Lehlgh Valley Debate Leagu Dual debates were held rn the league wuth South Whrtehall Emaus Slatrngton and Bethlehem These were non declsnon contests whrch were followed by open forum dtscussron Post season dual debates were held wnth Gettysburg Hugh School and Gettysburg College In the N F L tournament the Prep debaters engaged In a total of nnneteen contests CHAIN STORE Afturmatuve Danrel McCarthy John Berkhardt Affrrmatave Sumner Bossler John Bermhardt Gordon Payrow Ruchard McCarthy Vmcent Roggeveen Lester Stoneback Lest r Stoneback Mrtchell Strohl UN ICAMERAL LEG I SLATU RE Damel McCarthy Ralf Harned George Burger Negative Vnncent Roggeveen EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING ORIGINAL ORATORY HUMOROUS DECLAMATION F culty Advuser Mr G W DeLawter I 47 I Negatlve Davud Coyle Randall Alexander Francus Connell Mrtchell Strohl Harold Stewart Edward Judd FIrSI' Thlrd First Fnrst Place Place Place Mitchell Strohl ........ A '.'. A .'.., I ',l,' .l.'. '.'. .l.'.'.'. I .I ..... ,'.'.'.l , ' Place

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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