Northampton Area High School - Amptennian Yearbook (Northampton, PA)

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Senior Class History o HE wheels of time have completed another revolution. This ■ Cj tjt71c they mark an important event in the history of the class of 1917. Although we feel our inability to write a history of the class of 1917 that will do justice to her many achievements, we will endeavor to do our best. Now, since this is a history, we will deal with facts rather than fancy. As time goes on, friends and fellow members are separated. This is especially true of students during a four year's course at High School. Some of them move away, some of them go to work, while others may have other reasons for leaving. In a like manner we gain new friends to take the place of those we have lost. This was the case with the class of 1917 as with all others. On a bright and beautiful morning in 1913, thirty-seven proud freshmen filled the halls of the Northampton High School with their merry laughter. They were all readytto put in four years of good work. However, for the above-named reasons, this proud class dwindled to twenty-three, and, although we were not as fortunate in obtaining several members from our sister Borough Coplay, we obtained three favorite members because of their change of residence and work, making the number twenty-five. Though in quantity it is not the largest, still it excels in quality. As is always the case, some people are better accomplished in certain lines than in others, so it is with our class. Some of them are skilled in lessons, while others are skilled in sports, music, etc. We will now enumerate to you the skill of certain members of the class. Some of them are skilled in both lessons and athletics, music, etc., and have a greater grandeur than others. The work of Arthur Wolfe, Ralph Bartholomew and Harry Young as violinists in the High School orchestra is worthy of praise, and the orchestra will be sorry to lose them. Louis Meixler also did good work in the orchestra as a violinist and a celloist. To speak of our basket-ball players is to speak of the work of great athletes. The splendid work of Hattie Becker. Olive Kuntz and Hannah Hilliard, and Arthur Wolfe, who are members of the varsity team, is —ll—

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most unusual. The work of John I’rye on the reserve team is also worthy of note. Without the three girls, we doubt if the ('.iris' Basket Ball Team would have won one-quarter as many games as are credited to it. No one will dispute the fact that the Seniors had the l est basket hall girls in the High School. Arthur Wolfe has done excellent work as a center on the Boys’ Team, for although he is not tall, he can jump and is quick. Under the management of Marie Erschen and Warren Smith the Basket Ball Teams have achieved greater success and a better schedule than heretofore. We must, by all means, note the work of Wilburt Danner, Alice Frey and Olive Kuntz as speed kings, who have won Speed Credentials for writing sixty words a minute. Will urt Danner has also been admitted to the Order of Accurate Typists, for writing sixty-three words a minute for ten minutes, without an error, lie is the first High School student to he admitted. In general the class of 1917 have accomplished much since they were proud freshmen. Now as seniors, they leave Northampton High School with these four years deeply imprinted on their memory, and as the wheels of time continue to move, they will look back with a feeling of loyalty and reverence at the mention of dear old N. II. S. Vrrna Zakutny. Fosrkst Hunt. —12—