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

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DR. MAHLON MILLER These hard, well, meaning hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. —Edward Rowland Sill The great task of keeping us intellectually fit and healthy falls into the sturdy hands of Dr. Miller whose successful work is felt throughout the school and vicinity. His firm set features command attention and to those who know him, he is good-natured, kindly, and humorous, qualities finely suited to his profession. Medical Inspect nr of School. Qraduate of: Kutjtoun State Teachers' College, Medico-Chirugical College of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia College of Anatomy. Interned at Allentown Hospital. Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom. —G. W. Curtis Strangers scarcely recognize this small quiet person as a faculty member but we know that she is a very important one. We realize how much we need our library when Miss Hunsberger locks the door saying, Senior High School not allowed.” Outside of school she enjoys travel, reading, and stamp collecting. Her pet turtle and fish often amuse students who should be working. If Miss Hunsberger approaches a student with Do you take German?” we know it is because she wants to practice what she is learning in graduate courses of literature. Subjects: Librarian. Graduate of : Grove City College. Graduate work at: Columbia University and Muhlenberg College. This is art Which does mend nature, changing it rather, but The art itself is nature. —Winter’s Tale We have, this year, several new faces on the faculty, and among these new personalities is Mr. Bortz. This jovial individual specializes in what he expresses as chalk talks without any talk, in addition to besmearing canvasses, bristolboard, and the like, with various colorful pigments. The entire student body will collaborate to ascertain the validity of his depictions of comic characterizations, especially that indiscrete character, “Popeye.” He is not only an artist, but also an athlete of no mean ability. He is our assistant athletic coach, coming to us from Kutztown State Teachers' College where his athletic activities deserve recognition. Subjects: Art. Qraduate of: Allentown Prep School, Kutztown State Teachers' College. Qraduate work at: Kutztown State Teachers' College. HARRIET HUNSBERGER HOMER BORTZ

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Men, even when alone, lighten their labor by song however rude it may he. —Quintilian Easy now easy! Don’t be frightened by that booming voice that echoes in the hallway. Mr. Ronemus is in a humorous mood telling the kind of jokes Seniors tind laughable in there commercial classes. Even while he is teaching under-class mates his strong voice pierces the walls of classrooms; yet how sweet this tenor voice becomes in song! Step up to him and you will be greeted with a smile that folds his chin. He is quick in his responses and genially alert in his ability to plan window decorations and direct a chorus of boys. Subjects: Commercial Geography, Bookkeeping, Commercial Law, Commercial Arithmetic, Advertising and Window Decorating. Qrad-uate of : Temple University. Post-graduate workat: Muhlenberg College, Temple University, Penn State College. Self -confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. —Samuel Johnson Here we have a small, amiable, Welsh woman who is intensely interested in the finer things of life. Besides making clothes, beautiful in their simplicity, Miss Roberts, is an excellent conversationalist. With the vast store of knowledge which she derives from books, furthering the intellect, and from travels, she can hold you spellbound for many an evening relating her experiences in the New England States, where people are cold and aloof, to the warm southern states where people are hospitable and genuinely courteous. Subjects: Sewing. Graduate of: Keystone State Teachers College. Post-gradtuite wttrk at: Muhlenberg College, Columbia University. ELEANOR ROBERTS Blasen ist nicht floeten, ihr muesst die finger bewegen. (To blow is not to play on the flute; you must move the fingers) —Goethe Ambitious, carefree, jovial, these are but few of the adjectives describing this little gentleman. But he, too, has his “melancholy” mood in which he directs the orchestra and band in the absence of the conductor; takes charge of musical equipment. Besides his heavy curriculum schedule; he tutors the new members of the band in the art of handling instruments. We hope he will continue to keep our school in tune, with his scintillating humor and refreshing vigor. Subjects: German, English. Graduate of: Muhlenberg College. Postgraduate work at: Lehigh University, Temple University, EDWIN BERG

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A proper man—a very handsome man —He speaks well. —Othello Formerly a member of the Westinghouse Research Laboratories. Clayton Buell, the pride of the senior chemistry class, was introduced into our faculty at the commencement of our present scholastic year. He likes, very much, to inject humor into our chemistry poems, teaching us humorous associations with which to remember elements, or pointing out strangely familiar ways of doing simple things (such as tearing up our terrible chemistry papers.) Subjects: Mechanical Drawing, Chemistry. Qraduate of: California State Teachers' College. Graduate work at : Perm State, Carnegie Institute of Technology. CLAYTON E. BUELL At sight of thee my gloomy soul cheers up. —Philips Miss Laubach returned to her Alma Mater in a new role — that of a faculty member. Although she has been here only a year we have learned to know her as a very charming and enthusiastic friend and leader. Her interests are varied — music, drama, reading, and sports(as a spectator.) Although very modest about her ability as a pianist, we know that she can provide delightful entertainment. She was an honor student at Wilson College. Subjects: French, Latin. Qraduate of: Wilson College. MARION LAUBACH Now my masters, happy man be his dole, say I, Every man to his business. —Henry The Fourth What ho! where does that sweet smell of timber come from’’’ Sure it must be the manual training department. We enter one of the rooms but see nothing but work-benches and sawdust; but suddenly out of the corner comes a gray-haired man, covered with sawdust, who greets us with Hello there, looking for me?” This is our manual training instructor, who plans a schedule for designing and making furniture and bricabrac. When at home, Mr. Bilheimer loves to cultivate flowers in a beautiful garden surrounding the house. Subjects: Woodwork. Graduate of: Kutztown State Teachers’College. Qraduate uork at: Pennsylvania State College. CLINTON A. BILHEIMER