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

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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

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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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BERTRAM LEE LUTTON College Prep. Ecco Homo-who made the class of 1920 famous! Bert is the type of fellow every one likes to meetfsort of a kindred soul you know -ready to mix in anything, anytime, anywhere and use that glib tongue of his. If you were closely associated with Bert for some time you would conclude that it were good for Edison and other prominent men to have had their say in the aEairs of the day before Bert came. Bert is a Homme de Lettres and if you want to interest him you have to speak philo- sphieally, theoretically, hypnotieally, scientific- ally, and vindietively. If you impress him he may lead you into diseussion of the higher things. This man possesses brains-being rep- resented in the four inter-class debates, Editor of La Perle and Aznpteuiang Class President, Sophomore Yearg Class Editor, Sophomore and Junior Years: VVll1lll'I' of second prize in the Oratorical Uontestg everything exeept president of the Literary Society, fits better to be a eritie anyway, iFn't it'?l Bert 's future ambi- tion is to be a literary man. 'lf you have read any of his worksflj. you will agree with me that his future will be ai sueessful one. We look forward to it. A 1vrP'rnNNIAN, '20 DOUGLAS MAITLAND HUNT The man of brawn now homes before our eyes. He is the bane of all the hapless ones whom he designs to lay his hands upon. Not- withstanding this faet, he is a line friend, and is always willing to lend a hand. He made good use of his weight and size on the basket-ball team, and to this pillar of strength the quintet owes several of its vietories. As chief banker of the class. he has shown himself worthy of our trust and aecounts in better order are rarely to be found. He is somewhat lhy of the fair sex -but who can blame him? As his father 's right hand man in the mercantile -business, he can frequently be seen driving along our streets in a grey, rattling, Ford truck, the Battleship, nhieh was thus ehristened by his friend A. T. N. He aspires to sueeeed his father in the business 'and will undoubtedly be successful. L l Twenty-11.'1'na