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

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BICSSIE MAE NICHOLAS Commercial Bessie is a Jazz Baby. Doesn't she look like one? What is more she can sing and trill a trill that would make Galli-Curci feel sick. She sings orclinary songs too, like Charlie is my darling and On the old front porch, Oh, Charlie, Charlie, on the old front porch--. 'You know all singers sing some plain songs. The only way to get Bessie peevcd is to tell her she looks like a block of ice cream. and then she gets a mad on for a while. But she forgets it when she plays Basket-ball. She 'S some player! You know she is heavy, and those players are always clrearlefl by opponents. Anil new for the things that make Bessie fat! She likes dates-she is simply wild about THEM. One of her beauty marks is her red cheeks, but then, mliflnlt we hear her say, Hold on the health and be happy? ALEXA VD! I? II 1MII TON 1 FDKO We have heie a quiet and 1no1le.,t iepicsenta tive of our local institution. The above state- ment does not always hold true for him, for at times he comes upon us with 110iS6 and mirth, much to the disgust of the teachers. His chief ambition as to the future seems to be his desire to become a Railway Mail clerk. Among his talents, music is by no means the least con- spicuous, for he plays the elarinet and has aspirations to be able some day to control the sounds of a saxouhone. P1-alctieing on the clarinet along the Sunny Lehigh, Alex has pro- mlueed some wieril tones and if he ever owns a. saxophone, he should be banished from this our fair eountry, but let 's hope for the best. Alex was also a member of the famous senior basket-ball team, and we sometimes thought he concealed a horse shoe about himself after some of his fine shots. AMI 1 I NNTAN, '20 T-wevzfy-sevwz 5

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E Il IIUYY LONG RUTH LILLIAN SMITH Sch1nidie they say her name is. She is one of the jolliest members of the class. Her favorite study is trigonometry but she is also very fond of nature study because it is simple and she believes in taking things easy. 'Her greatest achievement is talking anrl she is so apt in use of her talent, that she has aequirerl the name of Chatterbox Ruth is a faithful student and a course in domestic science wonhl greatly appeal to her. YVe are sorry to hear that she has not yet fleeimlerl on her life work, the class of lSl20, wishing her sneess, will let the fates flevimle hm- future 11:11-uui'. Loolot ,ia r ilg' fellow-hnh'?-that 's lrongy. Who is he? Why ho is one of the l.ll5f0liil,l'1tlJlG Three, Smith, Staulfer, and Long. Sticks, although not one of our most brilliant students. is a very ingenious fellow. He, as one of the Infeparable Three is part owner ot their im-erhoat which has still to see its initial voyage. CThat it ha:n't gone yet isult your fault, Sticks, is itll Of late Longy has turned his ingenuity to fixing up Long's Restaurant and the Long WVieanrl silk mill. W'a.tc'h the change. As :L marathon runner Longy has 'em all skinnecl. You ought to seo him travel. Although he is rapable of mlrawing and as La Perle staff artist has proved his ability along that line, he still eontenals that his favor- ite oeenpation is tapping the Gash 1'Cg:Sf8l' up at the Restaurant. Yes sir-best a'kiml, every time. 7'1frr11f-rf-.Qr'fz' 1 I lNNlllX

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LEON SAMUEL SMITH College Prep. You now behold Sehmidty-Honorable Presi- dent of the Inseparable Trio. Besides this oiiice he is the able Captain of the I-Iookey Bri- gade. I-Ie sueeeeds in keeping Longie out of school three mornings a week, four and a half afternoons, and has the ability to come to school late five times a week and get excuses, and take ten or twelve students to Allentown on the one o'eloek ear twice a week, when the Movies change. Nothing worries Leon-not even Trig. In fact, when the answers won't behave, he arranges the problems to suit him- self. You should hear Leon speak. He's a wonder. Good Speakers don 't need much prep- aration, so Leon thinks, and he takes a book along on the stage to study before he makes his little speel. Therels nothing like throwing fnow balls and hot air! Despite these petty faults, Leon is a good sport, and we have plenty of proof for it. Anyone who can superintend the building of Longie's ice boat and listen to the chemistry lecture would have to be a. good sport, wouldn't they, Leonil Here's luek from '20. SAMUFL FALL SCHFIREK CU7Ilf'lYl.U?'l tllZ Samuel positively refuses to be vamped. We don,t know whether it is because of his close association with Bert. or because the Laury's folk advised him diIferently-anyway, he hasn 't fallen to any women's wiles. Bert and Sam are pals-real pals, too, not the side-kick kind, but the kind that would lay down his life for CD. Sam is an orator. He participated in the Junior-Senior Class debate in 1919, and was almost the cause of-Victory. As a man of society, Sam was never known to shirk a good time. As a man of studies, Sam showed his ability and the fruits of his labor when he was among the honored students who spoke at Commencement. You should hear Sam and Tooty argue. They discuss anything from 1920 styles to a perambulator and then some. Of eonrse Sam wins. We have tried to -persuade him to be a business man instead of a preacher. He would, of course, be exposed to more ehanc-es of being vamped, but then, oh well-we'd take our hats off to the girl who could do it. Tzuenfy-e1'glLf AMI 'il NNI in