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

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CONTENTS Dedication Foreword Greetings Faculty Senior Class Junior Class Sophomore Class Alumni Athletics Activities FIumor Acknowledgements Advertisements

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FRANCIS R. HOFFMAN

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FOREWORD HE School; a mighty word, a mighty name, a mighty cause With meaning far more mighty than six letters can imply; We look at it, we stop to think, in reverence we pause In memory of those heroes, who tradition did defy That we the joys of education would not be denied. First ’twas the quaint red schoolhouse, with its hell, a quaint old chime, Where readin’, ’ritin’, ’rithmetic taught men the power to think; Then slowly education did the steps of progress climb, To force the age of ignorance beyond oblivion’s brink To render her creator’s dream a hundred times surpassed, A city made for us within four walls, Wherein each phase of life we meet is taught and wrought and classed To make for better service when life calls. Thus doth the class of ’34 resolve A Century of Progress rightly hail; The hundredth anniversary of the public school, The greatest gift to youth, who must not fail To keep the torch aloft, to make our golden rule: Though nation crumble, races fall, yet education ne’er shall halt ! C. L. Y.