Nazareth Area High School - Comet Yearbook (Nazareth, PA)

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Che Comet 1926 QTfje Jfacultp M. Matilda McLean, B. A.. Philadelphia, Pa. Art Graduate of: Germantown High School Graduate Work, Pennsylvania State College D. L. Detwiler. Henrietta. Pa. Manual Training Graduate of: Altoona High School Graduate Work, Pennsylvania State College JJoarb of £bucation WILLIAM I. GOLD...............................................President HOWARD SHIMER............................................Vice-President C. J. KNAUSS..................................................Secretary WALTER KERN...................................................Treasurer C. FREDERICK MARTIN LESTER HAWK

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Nazareth Fjigb School Cfje Jfacultp Frederick A. Marcks, A. B.. Nazareth, Pa. Supervising Principal Graduate of: Emaus High School Allentown Preparatory School Muhlenberg College 0. E. Batt. B. S.. Nazareth. Pa. Principal. Instructor in English Graduate of: Fairview Academy State Normal Graduate Work. U. of P. Ralph E. Stocker. Nazareth, Pa. Mathematics Graduate of: Nazareth High School East Stroudsburg State Normal School Lehigh University Summer School Paul E. Schwartz. B. S.. Harrisburg. Pa. Commercial and Social Sciences Graduate of: Harrisburg Technical High School Lehigh University Charles C. Wacner. B. Sc.. Hanover. Pa. Science Graduate of: Hanover High School Dickinson College [13] Adolph Gorr, A. B.. Camden. N. J. Instructor in Languages and Librarian Graduate of: Camden High School University of Pennsylvania Graduate Work. U. of P. Florence L. Nicholas. Nazareth, Pa. Instructor of History and Civics Graduate of: Nazareth High School East Stroudsburg Normal School State Extension Work. Philadelphia Pennsylvania State College Columbia University Muhlenberg College Rachel F. Baker. Ogdepsburg. N. Y. Commercial Graduate of: Ogdensburg Academy Plattsburg Normal School Extension Work. Lafayette College Summer School. Syracuse University E. Dorothy Schofield, Chester, Pa. Supervisor of Music Graduate of: Chester High School Temple University

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Nazareth fiigb School Hetter to tfje Class; of '99 Balboa Heights, Panama Canal Zone February 22, 1926 EAR SCHOOLMATES:—It just dawned on me that it is more than a quarter of a century ago since WE graduated from Nazareth High, and I thought I’d better write and let you know that you arc getting old. You might deny it. but you would have some trouble hiding your gray hair, bald heads, and (other) spectacles. Since then twenty-six other classes have come out. and the twenty-seventh is on its way, some of whom, for all I know, may be the offspring of the ninety-niners. If it weren’t for the children, and Professor Huth, I might tell the world now who put that rare specimen into Gernet’s flower press; fumigated mice in the hot air furnace; manicured Guidy Schmidt’s pet tom cat; rubbed dried nettle into people’s woolens; pinned unmentionables on the hammer of the old school bell, and how the boobies passed impossible 100 per cent, exams, and other things. Isn’t it awful that your memory must carry such things around for years and years, not daring to spill them lest they disturb the social standing of a few respected and respectful citi- zens who were young in 1899. Speaking of mind, memory, and children, has it ever occurred to you that our high school education didn’t help our young ones a bit? I always thought that H5] Helen and I (combined) had a fairly good education and that there was every reason to believe that our offspring would be reasonably intelligent beings. To my surprise when the first-born arrived, he not only knew absolutely nothing, but he could neither walk nor talk, and his face was fire red when he first laid eyes on me,—and the second was like unto him. In this respect they were more helpless than a common barnyard animal. Adam and Eve seem to have been the only ones who did not have to go through this schooling process. I have no idea how much they knew when they were born. They didn’t seem to know what was good for them, but wouldn’t it be a fine thing if we could transmit our store of accumulated knowledge and wisdom to our children in birth, and they, in turn, after adding to it for twenty years or so, pass it on to the next generation, and so on ad infinitum. Think of the million empty school houses, useless books, and idle teachers! Josh Billings said that the average man has a mind into which you must drive a thought with a sledge hammer, and out of which you can only get an intelligible expression with a cork screw. (He said “man”—not women and children.) With the aid of an old Pre-Pro. corkscrew I have succeeded in extracting the following tremendous truth: That the