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

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Nazareth ftigb School Cfje Seniors President ELIZABETH NEUNER V ice-President FRANCES ROTH Secretary JOSEPHINE KIEFER Assistant Secretary ISABELLA BONSTEIN Treasurer MARY SANDERCOCK Assistant Treasurer EVELYN MESSINGER COLORS Cardinal and Grey Historian IRENE REIMER MOTTO Carpc diem CLASS FLOWER Mountain Laurel YELL Boom-a-lac-ka ching; Boom-a-lacha chow! Boom-a-lacka ching, ching, chow, chow, chow! Rickety-rackety rix, rickety-rackety rix, Nazareth High School, 1926!

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Che Comet 1926 Great Creator and Preserver in His infinite wisdom, has reserved some things entirely to Himself, and while it appears that we are able to do a few things by our own efforts, so far as the beginning and the ending of life are concerned, we arc absolutely helpless and dependent on Him. We apparently arrive with an empty brain, and no matter how much we put into it during life, when the end comes our entire collection of knowledge passes out like the flame of a candle before a puff of wind. Yet, there is nothing new under the sun. for what bright ideas are developed today, were common knowledge and forgotten ten thousand years ago. High School may be too early to begin to talk about love, marriage, a home, and children, but certainly some time between that age and twenty somebody ought to get in a word of advice to the boys and girls to the effect that some time between twenty and thirty is the proper time to select a vocation, a life- partner. and a home. Youth is the time to revel in the light and beauty; the sweetness and harmony of this universe, and with bodies brimful of sensations, appetites, and powers, like a harp of a thousand strings that send forth rich entrancing melodies, there arc almost infinite possibilities of enjoyment for man and maid if properly attuned to the essential conditions of life. Youth likes to gaze into the heavens at night thick with stars, glorious with the moon walking in her brightness; youth likes to stand by the sea and let the breeze wet with brine fan its brow, and watch the breakers curl and tumble in upon the shore: likes to listen to the song of the birds on a summer morn, or the passionate trills of the nightingale sweet singing to his mate; likes to feel the thrill of a glance from love-lit eyes that from the fringed lid speak what the lips dare not utter, and when hand clasps hand and each feels the pure chords of the heart vibrate to love's holy melody, let the one ask the question and the other say yes,” for there will then be “Two souls with but a single thought; two hearts that beat as one.” There seems to be a fallacious idea that when young people leave school they must go “Out into the world to make a living.” My advice is “Stay where you are and make a home.” If the spirit of adventure and the desire to sec the world overcome you, before you start be sure to provide yourselves with round- trip tickets so that at the end of your journey you will find yourselves back in the most beautiful spot on earth, 'mid the scenes of your childhood and the surroundings of home, where the heart turns to the dwelling place which has been hallowed by the memory of a mother—a place that has rung with the laughter of childhood and echoed the sobs over departed loved ones, embosomed among the hills, sheltered by the clinging honeysuckles, and shaded by blossoming apple trees—be it ever so humble there is no place like home. Nazarenely yours. W. H. Kromer (16)

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X hc Comet 1926 £ebieto of 1926 act 1 %, CRNF- I—The scene is laid in the Main Room of the old High School Building on the fifth of September in the year 1922. As the curtain rises, a group of bashful and frightened boys and girls numbering fifty-one enter, with their eyes popping, taking in with a single glance, the mass of faces of upper classmen. Although the sun is shining, there is an uncanny glow cast over the room by the extreme greenness of the freshmen. Later in the day the protests of the freshmen boys arc heard, but arc drowned by the yells of delight of upper classmen, who seem to take great pleasure in hazing the poor children. However, they didn't succeed in hazing all—several escaped untouched. Scene II This scene is laid in the Civics Room in the old High School Building one afternoon in November, when the class was organized. In December a class meeting was held there, and it was decided that the class have a sleigh-riding party. In spite of the efforts of the upper classmen to the contrary, we went. We had a delightful time—it is a pleasant incident in the memories of the class of '26. Scene III The scene is laid in the Main Room of the old High School Building during a Literary Society meeting in the spring. The class president presents to the school a beautiful picture, called The Pond Lilies. This picture is a fine addition to the numerous ones placed by other classes on the walls of the new building. ACT II Scene I The scene is laid in the old High School Building. September 4, 1923. This time we appear as intellectual sophomores. This year it is our chance to aid in the hazing of the freshmen which we execute in a very elevated manner.