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

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To the Class of Nineteen Hundred Thirty-nine: © |HE choice of a life work is one of the most important decisions that a high school graduate is ever called upon to make. It determines the main scope of his service, the degree of his success, and the extent of his happiness. Both the opportunities and the obligations of youth in the increasingly complex society of our day are many and varied. You must, as a consequence, not only discover, but you must assume wisely and well its share in the world’s work, if the future of our citizenship is to remain secure. Instead of holding out to you the challenge of service in conspicuous places and in connection with vital world problems, I am saying to you as I am saying to myself, let us highly resolve to be the masters of our own souls and to make our inner life and its outward manifestation a positive influence for good in the world. In this way, if we have access to those hidden sources of power that earnest seeking and right living will make available to us, we shall make the most of our lives whether they are lived in places high or low. Let us remember, that education is one continuing process from infancy to the end or the fullfillment of life and that these artificial stoppings called commencement with their diplomas, caps, and gowns do not suggest a completion of what should be a life-long expierience. Sincerely yours, —I. L. Sheaffer, Principal

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IRA L. SHEAFFER, B.S., M.A. Principal

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GUa TUaUt Honor to the Black and Orange! Sing the glad retrain. Loyal to our Alma Mater, Ever we’ll remain. Alma Mater! Alma Mater! All our vows renew, Hail to thee, Northampton High School, We will all be true. Days with her we’ll e’er remember Though our lives be long, Here’s to her whose name we’ll ever Cherish in our song.