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

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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

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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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Provide Pleasure School Routine FIRST AID CLUB During the eighth period every Wednes- day the thirteen members of the First Aid Club are given instruction in the standard Red Cross First Aid Course. In addition to learning how to prevent accidents, they learn proper bandaging, how to perform artificial respiration, and the approved first aid treatment for severe bleeding, fractures, and common emergencies. After completing the course, they take a test for their First Aid Certi- ficates. AGRICULTURE CLUB The fifteen-member Agriculture Club meets each Tuesday. Taking charge of meetings, individual members discuss vari- ous topics: growing potatoes and apples, grading eggs, testing soil, and studying insect pests. AERONAUTICS CLUB The twenty-one members of Aero- nautics Club meet every Tuesday during activity period to study flying in general and the structure and mechanics of air- planes. In connection with learning more about the occupational possibilities of this field, the Club made a trip to the Allen- town-Bethlehem-Easton Airport to get acquainted with the opportunities and qualifications of various types of work in aeronautics. Flying model airplanes and displaying them during Club period helped students learn more about types of planes. The members also investigated the courses offered by different aeronautic schools. In First Aid the chib members observe Ella Ann Messinger apply artificial respiration to Joanne Roberts Roy Fabian and Larry Shoemaker grade eggs in Agriculture Club Aeronautic Club members use flight maps to study navigation 27