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

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 1939 To the Class of 1939: Advertising is showing the way for habits in the world. Advertising is now selling through suggestion - net selling then suggesting. You enter the world as a salesman with your stock-your personality. Make the most of it. Trade wisely, bargain shrewdly and sell suggestively. —Thomas Ronemus To the Class of 1939: Three centuries ago Shakespeare said, “All the world’s a stage and the men and women merely players.” Today we still do not know why we were born into the world other than that we were placed here to play a part in the drama of life, and now is the time to do it. The character w portray is left for us to choose. Let’s be wise enough to make it a noble one. —Thelma Santee To the Qraduation Class of 1939; A famous writer said, Blessed is he who has found his work. Let him ask no other blessing.” It is almost an axiom that if you are happy in your work you will be successful. It is not even necessary to have a good start. Many more men and women succeed from those who have to work for all they have than from those who have had every advantage at the beginning of their life work. A handicap is a good thing to start w'ith when times are so difficult that people grow in strength, ability and character. You should determine to make a little progress each day: to believe that you shall succeed and even to find time to help some one less fortunate than yourselves. —C. A. Bilheimer AMPTENNIAN

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1939 To the Class of 1939: We are frightfully materialistic, you and I. The present day and age imposes that blight upon us, if blight it be. Despite our knowing that we can repay the world not in money, not in land, not in food, not in fire, we continue in our materialistic way. We owe man greater tributes thnn these. We owe to man, man . . . I trust that this class will find in its power a way to pay its debt nobly and generously. —Marion I. Laubach To the Class of 1939: Our ancestors of long ago were once pioneers, exploring and conquering new fields and frontiers. Magnificent opportunities were thus opened to them, but only after they had suffered un told hardships and heartaches and passed through many trials and tribulations fraught with imminent dangers. Your frontiers too, my friends, will bring you many heartaches and sorrows before they are conquered. Your paths will be long and rocky with many pitfalls. Nevertheless you must push on, on, and always on, toward a bigger and better civilization. You must never go back. —Michael Lisetski To the Class of 1939: A man who marries an educated woman will have an educated family. As head of her home she realizes that housekeeping requires as much rhought, effort, and study as any other business or profession. She feels it is important to select, prepare, and serve proper food; to select and care for suitable clothing for her family, to select and maintain a healthful dwelling; to care for children; aged or sick people; to spend money wisely; to organize and manage the work involved in operating her house. In this way she establishes and assumes her responsibility in connection with that home. She finds joy in her work,” not drudgery” —Helen S. Seidel AMPTENNIAN

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1939 To the Class of 1939: Now that your high school days are over we wonder what ha been accomplished in our working with you the past three years. Undoubtedly you entered upon this journey with enthusiasm and uncertainty. The years which follow will be just as uncertain. If we have aided you in preparing yourself to face uncertainty, and if we have helped you prepare for your selected future work, then we can feel well repaid for our efforts. You must be the judge because your school is what you make it. So live that tomorrow you may say, What a wonderful day the day has been.” — M. I. Hulsizer To the Class of 1939: I wish to extend my best wishes for a successful future in life. Look upon your school life as an apprenticeship which even-tually will become your path to mastership. Your teachers have tried to fit you for practical life, whether it be in a trade or a profession. Each of you have latent talents which must be awakened. We are proud of you and hope to hear many good reports of your ambition, perseverance and determination in the world of industry. —Lottie Moyer To the Class of 1939: My attention includes high school problems of teacher and pupil relationship regarding how to live well. So frequently we find that it is presupposed somehow that boys and girls know a great deal more than their experiences up to date have permitted them. To understand the mature or immature background of each pupil along with unexplained physical difficulties or handicaps would clear up improper attitudes. My hope is that pupils will learn how not to be shy about personal difficulties and that teachers will be sympathetic enough to decipher a pupil’s reaction until his problem is eliminated. —Lester Yeager AMPTENNIAN