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

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“ All night long the dance goes on Till dew upon the dancer’s sleeves Proclaims that it is dawn. Not all commercial teachers are strictly business-like individuals who like nothing but cold, dry facts. As conclusive proof: Cedar Crest has given us a most charming personality in the person of Miss Hagy who loves dancing and camping every bit as much as typewriting. O the lure of a road in the Spring-bathed World The road of dream that I see— Flowers hid near by. grav mists up-curled And far horizons calling me. — twano Who could resist the tantalizing invitation of a fresh spring morning to take a tramp in the brisk air? Mr. Tinkcom, trained to teach history and debating at Penn-State where he received an A. B. degree, forgets about being a dignified teacher when he yields to the call of the woods and a book — far away from school. '' W ouldst thou know to be a poet ? Deeply feel but lightly show it Toil and fast, but let none know it. Miss Kistler’s training in Wyoming Seminary, West . Chester State Teachers' College, Pennsylvania State College and the University of Pennsylvania has developed not only her ability to teach English literature but also her creative genius. Who knows how many hours the midnight oil burns over scribbled sheets not meant for classes the next morning!

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 Fish in the summer rise This peaceful summer day and snap At little dragon flies. History holds no charms for Mr. Smith on hot summer days when he and Mr. Shaeffer tramp into the woods to fish in a lazy stream or cool lake. For a time he forgets even those history dates which he learned so perfectly during the time he spent at Keystone State Teachers' College, Lafayette College, and Columbia University. If I should pluck this fair Jlower blossoming. I might defile its beauty with my hand. So let it stay, ungathered where it grows. — Hujuo It may be a gift of the gods to be able to make Rowers grow, but only God can bestow that keen understanding of how to make people grow ! Wholly unconscious of the deep influence of her lovely personality on the secret hearts of so many apparently indifferent boys and girls, Miss Martin lives her ideals even in French which she learned at Moravian College,-Lehigh University; McGill University of Montreal Canada,- University of Paris,- and at the Middlebury French School in Vermont. W i Id geese fly. Sideuxiys stretching, across the sky. Like comical Dutch u riling! —So in If old Japan should have seen Mr. Fegely's faithful pal, his printing machine, in action would she have compared it, too, to birds which usually fly like crazy foreign writing — back and forth, not up and down in Japanese fashion? Everyone hopes that teaching mathematics, with electricity, as a side-line, in N. H. S., will continue to be the choice of Mr. Fegely, a graduate of Keystone State Normal School and Franklin and Marshall College.

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Although I know the gentle night M i surely follow morn Yet. when I’m uakened by the sun Turn over, stretch and yawn. m How I detest the dawn! —Mtchi-nobu All of which proves the fact that a person may love to sleep and still be the most energetic individual alive! No one will ever accuse Miss Hausman of slackening, in her English and German classes, the activity and energeticness engaged in at Cedar Crest where she received an A. B. in English. T hear a music thrilling time arul space. Heart songs of Poets of a hero race— I try to sing them—urn their dainty grace Eludes me still!” Perhaps everyone, whether or not he realizes it, is especially sensitive to some particular form of beauty. A long time before Miss Tucker attended the Peirce School of Business Administration in Philadelphia and summer sessions at Temple and Susquehanna University, there grew from her personality a deep appreciation and love of music — in pleasing contrast to Commercial Arithmetic and Commercial Law. Friend sparrow. do not eat. I pray. The little buzzing flies that play Among my flowers. —Basho A love of flowers is not so strange to one who loves to work with one-time trees. The neat gardens surrounding Mr. Bilheimer's home reveal the same characteristic of thoroughness and exactness as is found in his Manual Training and Drawing classes, the training for which he received at Keystone State Normal School and Penn State College.