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

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AMPTP-NNIAN To the Class of 1938: Many of you have spent your last days as students of North' ampton High School. You have acquired knowledge and developed your faculties to that point, where you are now able to make for a more successful life. Too often success is measured by money and fame. No true criteria of success are these, but they have been made to appear as such in the outside world. A man has led a truthfully successful life only, when he has received the most from life by making the best of it by putting the most into it. According to social law, each individual is en-titled to a wholesome life. If he reaches for more, he is likely to suffer remorse rather than enjoy the satisfaction of success. Our greatest assistance is to center our thoughts on the welfare of others. With this short message, I wish the class of 1938 all the success in the world. —Albert Erdosy, B.S. car young Women and Men of the Class of 1938: As a school nurse and social worker of our community, I come in contact with all kinds of people in all kinds of situations. May I ask that as you find your way among these people that you keep an open-mind toward changing needs; to help people understand the why and how” of things that must be done to maintain a community in healthful activities. For us to keep well and grow well we need everyone’s willingness to find out the reason for every painful cause and effect. We need to eliminate causespoint-ed out by persons in authority rather than take the opinionated sources of those who believe merely the hearing of “so and so.” Let us develop physical and mental healthful activity. — Miss Lottie Moyer To the Seniors of 1938: To develop a basis for understanding yourselves rather than actively relating what others have done is a problem every pupil must solve as he matures. Diligent service to one’s profession develops a faithfulness that leads man to head the rank and file of men. —Dr. Mahlon Miller

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AMPTirNN To the Seniors: The individual from all races of men seem to be traveling at different speeds on different roads. All mankind is on a quest tor individual and social happiness. What is happiness? Where can it he found? These questions are largely answered by the individual according to his philosophy of life. Happiness results from the feeling of being useful, worthwhile, and successful. It is the result of submitting oneself to a divine destiny and then doing one’s very best to attain the aims and purposes of the high- st levels of service to God, country, home and self. It is the sum total of work done. Having found a place in the world, the individual has, appreciatively accepted the heritage of the past and has faithfully done his part to improve it and pass the torch on to future generations brighter and better because of his life. —William Bennett, Ph.B. To the Class of 1938: He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of little children; who has fulfilled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it. whether by an improved poppy a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth’s beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given the best he had; whose life was an inspiration, whose memory is a benediction.’’ May such success be yours. —Verna Dotter, B.S. To the Class of 1938: To the class of 1938, I give my most ardent thoughts and congratulations. You have won a high place in the records of graduating classes. You have gone a long way in keeping a well-rounded class together, not only athletically but academically as well. It is your high spirit and sense of fair play that has brought you this far; and if I am a judge, may I say that you have won more battles than you have lost. Beware of a let-down. Keep your spirit high and keep moving forward. You will find times when you will find the going rough; don’t give up, just smile and try a little harder. Always strive not only to keep a healthy mind and body, but balance them as well. Then and only then can you enjoy the fullest and happiest life. —J. E Ludwig, B.S.

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a ass Poem AN at his birth is an earthen vase Solely composed of clay; In need of a baking, a glazing or two, For protection against life’s fray. Experience, the oven in which it is baked, Hardens and strengthens the man; Education, the glaze, the required touch, Decides where that vase will stand. The Potter’s wheel has but turned the Urn The glaze will determine its worth. Will it be placed at the top of the stairs Or remain where it was at its birth? Is it the glaze or just a false veneer True knowledge or only a bluff? Will the needed experience combined with glaze Prove to be sturdy enough? Like a potter’s oven, our High School stands To bake on the much needed glaze, The required touch on the earthen Urn Which we’ll carry the rest of our days; But at last the oven has opened her doors And now our glazing is through; We are baked and glazed and given the world To prove that the glazing is true. —William Schwartz