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

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Chess Club Wins League Championship By defeating every opponent, the Nazareth Area High School Chess team won the championship in the Penn-Jersey Interscholastic Chess League in 1951-52. During the Tuesday and Thursday activity periods the club members work for maneu- vering skill, while the thir- teen-member ream strives each Wednesday to win the school championship. This year’s team won seven out of eight tourna- ment games, and again has won the League champion- ship for the second con- secutive year. Since the Penn-Jersey Interscholastic Chess League was started in 1951-52, the Nazareth Chess team has held the championship title. Mr. Harding is the club adviser. In a second-half championship game with Phillipsburg, Nazareth wins 5-2 While coaches and team members look on. Captain Arthur Reph wins over Phillipsburg's man First Half NHS OPP. Quakcrtown .. ... 7 0 haston . .. 6 1 Phillipsburg . . . 4 3 Allentown.... ... i 'A Second Half NHS OPP. Ouakertown. . . 5 2 haston ... 3 4 Phillipsburg . . ... 5 2 Allentown.... ... 5 2 To explain the movement of the Knight to the Chess team, Mr. Harding uses the demontsralion board

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Clubs Encourage Worth-while Hobbies CRAFT CLUB Since many girls enjoy making jewelry and small personal items, the member- ship of the Craft Club has to be limited. Before the holidays the twenty- seven members made small decorative Christmas trees from green cellophane paper. For their other projects they crocheted scatter rugs, braided belts and key chains of plastic craft-strip, wove baskets of reed and raffia, and made shell-craft pins and ear- rings. Mrs. McGonigle, assisted by Mrs. Bonner,supervisesthisgroup each Tuesday and Thursday. PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB Under the supervision of Mr. James Roth, the elementary and advanced photography clubs, composed of twenty-nine mem- bers, learned to print and develop pictures. After the students 1. Craft Club members braid belts and key chains of plastic craft-strip 2. Girls enjoy fashioning costume jewelry from shells and beads have learned these fundamentals, they work on special projects. 3. Craft Club girls crochet scatter rugs In Photography Club Inhoff and Metzgar Photography group cooperate in producing a mix chemicals motion picture

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Club Activities and Vary Library Club members sign out books Reinbold and Steltzman demonstrate a step to the Dancing Club members Mrs. Metz and Mrs. Bleiler help students in Knitting Club LIBRARY CLUB Consisting of fifteen members, the library club helps the librarian, Mrs. Charlotte Bonner, to keep our library in tiptop condition. Meeting the eighth period each Tuesday, club members repair books, letter new ones, file book records in the card catalogue, learn to do desk work, and at the end of the year help to take an inventory of all books in the library. DANCING CLUB During eighth period on Wednesdays the seventy-five members of the dancing club learn new steps and endeavor to improve their dancing under the direction of Mrs. Phyllis Bush, an outside instructor. KNITTING CLUB Under the supervision of Mrs. Metz and Mrs. Bleiler, the nineteen-member Knitting Club meets each Tuesday and Thursday during activity periods to learn to knit, to purl, and to pick up dropped stitches. Through the year the club members make articles — socks, sweaters, mittens, scarves, slipper socks, and baby blankets. Their articles are displayed at the annual Art Exhibition in May. 26