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

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Dr. GEORGE A. EICHLER, Superintendent

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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

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BACON SAID that a man dies as often as he loses a good friend. What is supremely true of living objects is only less true of ideas, which are also alive. Where your thoughts are, there will your life be also. If your thoughts are confined only to your business, only to your physical welfare, only to the narrow circle of the town in which you live, there you will live a narrow circumscribed life. But if you are interested in what is going on in the world, then you are living in the world, if you are interested in the characters of a good world then you are living with those highly interesting people. If you listen intently to fine music, you are away from your immediate surroundings and livings in a world of passion and imagination. Let us widen and intensify these relations. While we live, let us live by cultivating a desire for good poetry and prose, music, pictures, sports, unselfish friends and be willing to render service above self. To live intensely and richly, or merely to exist—that depends on ourselves. Due to your high school training you should be able to widen and intensify your relationships while we live, let us live a useful life. I. L. Sheaffer, Principal