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

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 M .V The i HAmpimman:: : ::-: ui sa I v I r i A? © V To Stanley Peers Who Has, with Untiring Effort, Worked to Fit Us For Our Life's Occupation and Has Helped Us Both Mentally and Morally I i la • • The Class of 1928 of the Northampton High School Dedicates the gmptennian :A; Vi si V Northampton High School

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: I he 1928 Amptennian )3S$Ei!2§t2§®§§S 31 ftlesfsiage .Ifroin Our Superintendent To the members of the Class of 1928: As you face a world which is changing ever more rapidly, you must carry with you, from your high school course, certain fundamental skills and habits by means of which you may the more effectually assert your personality among the men and women of the future. The goal of your high school training was set along a line of procedure which had primarily this end in view. The various achievements you have recorded in this volume give us ample proof of your ability to attain those external ends and master many of those preordained habits and attitudes which the tradition of your alma mater and the prevailing systems of thinking have demanded of you. But such ends and procedures can never be permanently satisfactory, especially to young and growing minds. The real goal for education is to continue and enrich the life process by better thought and better actions. Education is in life and for life. Continued growing is the essence and end of it. Only thus can it fit a growing world. Changes in affairs demand loudly for changes in thought and action. The habits of thinking you may have acquired, the standards you have learned to recognize may all be criticised and subjected to change as the resulting facts of life demand it. This volume itself, while it may now set forth noteworthy standards of achievement for your class, will, in a short time, seem to many of you futilely inadequate to express the real thought, life, feeling, and accomplishments of the class of 1928. I wish I might set for you a new goal as embodied in that type of person who is able and disposed to think and decide for himself, to think freely without the warp of prejudice, decide unselfishly, preferring the social good to any merely private good or gain. Such a goal places the value upon individual personality. Whatever your high school training may have done for you should be reflected in the individual personalities you will represent in the rapidly changing conceptions of life which you will experience within the coming years. We hope we may follow you through in your progress with a firm and conscious assurance that we will see many of you fulfill the richness of the promise of life which we now see in store for you. Clyde S. Frankenfield I I 1 b I i i % $ H m A V. m Jf 1 Northampton High School