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

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

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NORTHAMPTON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL NORTHAMPTON, PENNSYLVANIA Office of the Principal A embers of the C lass o] 1044: on »ire graduating at a time when the American high school hoys and girls are called upon in this period of conflict and contusion to prove that they are essential elements in the maintenance and strengthening of those foundations upon which our nation was huilt— Our democratic form of government.’ American education must strengthen itsell and go forward it it is to play its full part in winning the war and the peace. 1 he schools are now placed in a highly competitive situation. I hey must fight to maintain themselves; light for the ideals and objectives ot our American democracy; and fight to protect education from the casualties ol war; tight to maintain the value of life for which the war is heing fought. Our war sacrifices will he in vain unless we preserve the basic values ol our democracy. We believe in our free democratic form ot government. We have not grown soft as our enemies predicted; we have proved to them just the opposite. Pri ncipal

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A RUNE KISTLER English, Composition, Literature MARION I. LAUBACH French, Latin, National Honor Society, Dramatics ☆ ☆ The Amptenni; ☆ ☆