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

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MABEL MAE BEST (BABY BEST) She is young always, ready for fun. She is a woman, therefore to be won. Baby hails from the lower end of town. She is a very popular member of the class, especially among the boys. She is a member of the Great P. N’s. She has several selections already and none of them seemed to suit her. She likes to write letters on the typewriter and wastes a lot of paper writing to (?). Her favorite color is red. She was an ordinary bright girl in school and her future desire is to become a stenographer. A common saying is: “Little things should be seen and not heard,” but Baby Best is just the opposite. JOHN HENRY MILLER PRYE (PRYE) As prone to mischief, as unable to perform it without getting “in wrong”. Prye, as he is best known among his friends, is always ready for fun. even though it will keep him from the hard study he usually does. (?) He was a member of the track team, and because he needed practice in order to keep his legs from tangling up with each other, he took the same by running past a cemetery. But then, most people would do the same if they had to. In basket ball, he filled the position of center on the Reserve team; but besides playing pool he had to have some other recreation, so he retreated to the Tennis Court whenever possible. However he is a good ball player and is a star first baseman. John never paid very much attention to girls until he began his Senior year, so we cannot say much in that line, although we all think a lot. He is on active member of the Literary Society, but did most of his debating when the meetings were over. His life work is not definitely decided upon; however, he is expected to become an auto agent. —21 —

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SAM LOUIS FLOM SHAMMY Stop! Look! Listen! Open your eyes, for we have with us to-day Samuel Flora. Now don’t look at him sideways because you might not be able to see him. Sara has many good points. He is' one of the brightest pupils in the class. He is a regular walking encyclopedia. You ought to hear him translate Latin or work Trigonometry. Why. you’d think he was a professor! Now Sara is a terrible flirt. He has recently taken a decided interest in the first yeir class and as a result, is acting very funny of late. Sam’s hobby is reading books. His favorite author, as he tells us. is Robert Burns. He says that he enjoys reading poetry, especially “Mary in Heaven’’ and “My Highland Mary’’. Sam’s favorite song is “I Love the Ladies”. He plans to be a Civil Engineer. JOSEPH AMANDUS BITTNER “JOE” “He would go unto the end of the world to find a friend!” Joe. as he is best known among his classmates. hails from the prosperous village of Treichlers. His simple reason for coming to our dear old N. H. S. was to develop his capacity of thought. In this he succeeded fairly well. Joe was also very fond of tennis and could be seen at this game every spare moment of his time. If any one saw Joe with Younger classmates, they could be satisfied that he was giving them a square deal. Whatever Joe’s future desire is. the class of 1917 is positively sure he will be successful if he can keep the Younger (?) schoolmates out of his life long enough.

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MARGARET JONES (JONESY) Here is one of the most populir members of our class, hailing all the way from Weavers-ville. Margaret is a good, quiet girl ml is very prominent in social circles, bein; a prominent member of the Weaversville Country Club. One of her chief hobbies is getting up early. During the winter she comes to school on Number 11, the fast morning express runnin; between Northampton and Bath and on the Northampton and Bath Railroad, leaving Weaversville 6.20 A. M. and arriving at Northampton 6.30 A. M. Margaret’s desire is to become a school-marm. PAUL MARVIN RAUB Silent, but oh my. He sure is some guy. Rauby sure is some good looking fellow,” so the girls say and he gets pretty far with his good looks. The right side of the road from Northampton to Howertown is certainly a good path, for it took Rauby four years to construct it. His hobbies are, coming to school late, training his “plug” for the race-track or singing some old songs accompanied with his bones, with which he made a hit at the minstrel, held in H. S. for the Glee Club. He is a member of the Hopeless Three, (R. W. D.) His nightly wanderings through the country have won him a wide reputation as a “night owi”. His haunts take him to Hatch Gravel. Irish Settlement and Kreidersville. At the latter place he is trying to get a position as sales agent for farm implements. His ambition for the future is to be chief draftsman at some large drafting department. Beware, don’t become a grafter instead of a drafter.