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

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FOREWORD IE publication of an Amptennian is not a new institution in Northampton High School. For years it has been the custom to place before the public briefly, accurately, and at the same time wittily, a picture of our high school, particularly of the senior class. Good customs, when long continued, almost become laws, and now it is time for another edition of the Amptennian. Former issues have been excellent, but we hope to surpass them all. Since it is the purpose of an annual to interest not only students, but the public as well, we have tried to select material and present it in such a way that it will be satisfactory to both. Furthermore, we have tried not to make our book full of unreasonable satire, or an enumeration of the eccentricities of teachers and students, but a truthful record of all matters of pleasantry and seriousness, giving permanent form to the good qualities of our schoolmates. We hope chat the attitude of the public will be to “trust him little who praises all, him less who condemns all, him least who is indifferent about all.” In addition to the ordinary features of this book which resemble other volumes, we have tried to make it appealing from a literary and artistic point of view. Our task has not been an easy one, but if it will turn back the thoughts of some alumni to happy days spent at Northampton Senior High School, or keep alive in our own breasts pleasant memories of the past year, we shall feel more than recompensed. We present this, the 1935 Amptennian. to alumni, students, and friends in the hope that they will forgive all errors and derive real pleasure from reading it, an imperfect mirror of the history of our Alma Mater in the year that is past.

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

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BOR a period of twelve years you, the members of the class of 1935, have been sheltered within the walls of Northampton’s Public Schools. During these years you have acquired much useful knowledge under the guidance of sympathetic teachers. Now you are graduating. What of the future! A few fortunate ones will have the opportunity to continue your education in a formal way. Most of you will now take your place in a more or less cruel world on your own responsibility. The world in which you have prepared to play a useful and honorable role may not be waiting for you with open arms. One of the saddest spectacles of recent years has been the turning of thousands of ambitious and well prepared high school graduates into a society which had no need or place for them. This is not a very optimistic picture but one that is true under present day conditions. My reason for not showing you the immediate future through rose colored glasses is to guard you against disillusionment after graduation. If you cannot go away to school or secure a position do not become discouraged for we are assured a better day is dawning. By all means within your power keep the splendid idealism and courage of your school days. Strive also to continue your education. This is possible in numerous ways. Books, magazines, bulletins, and papers on every conceivable subject are easily obtained. Furthermore your high school will be glad to have back those of you who are really in earnest about furthering your education. By continuing your education you will not only use the time which may hang heavily upon your hands but you will increase your knowledge and possibility of usefulness when a real opportunity presents itself. Dr. G. A. Eichler, Superintendent