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

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’N’ CITIZENSHIP Charles Bilheimer. veteran of 48 years as a teacher in Northampton schools, explains the solution ol a math problem to his class while student who performed the work stands by. Taking I ier ninth grade class through the intri-caries of grammar is Laura Weed, instruc tor in English, and one of best loved teachers in the school. Grads continually make pilgrimages to her door. Page 17 (Continued from page 16) election in three separate grade (ward) polling places. Elections are administered hy elec tion hoards, one of which Is depicted on the preceding division page. Caring not only for its own, the Junior High sc hool is the possessor of facilities sorely needed and constantly used by high sc hool students, so that it is also an integral part of high school activities.

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SCIENCE 'N' MATH Norlliamplon Junior f Ii j!i school, which this year marks two continuous decades of community service. Scene of many activities, sports and otherwise, is school gym. housed in central portion, which is used both by school and outside groups. Comes now the opportunity to say Happy Birthday to our next door neighbor, the Junior I ligh school, for just twenty years ago. in 1927, its doors opened for the first time to admit a steady and never ending stream of students. A long step forward in Northampton’s educational progress, the school from its inception relieved congested conditions in both elementary buildings and the high school, not to mention causing the permanent disappearance of that class of classes—the Freshman. In addition to raising educational standards and increasing the efficiency of tfie borough school system, the Junior I ligh school has for two decades been a vital influence in the lives of its students, as well as the community and sunounding areas. Here pupils absorb not only academic subject material, but also a well rounded program of activities, including intra- mu ra I athlet ics. Although major emphasis is constantly upon classwork, former students will never forget the Gilbert and Sullivan extravaganzas. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.’’ ‘Hansel and Gretel. the delightful Christmas plays and other nostalgic events. Neither can they forget the perennial school elections. A deeply ingrained tradition is this activity, which provides students with a practical application in good citizenship, now recognized as the foremost objective in education. Each semester, students choose their own government heads through the medium of the polls a la community style with all the trimmings— registration of voters with the grade (ward) assessor, homeroom nomination of candidates (the primary), campaigns complete with managers and placards and finally, the general Page 76

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flrrnwl In use as I he Junior High Schools Alma Ma ter since 1932 is the Junior I ligh Song. Sung to the tune of “Maryland, My Maryland, words were written by Mrs. V. Kirk Wyatt, Jr., the former Katherine Louise Deibert. I hen a student in the ninth grade, her song was chosen winner from a number submitted as part of a contest for this purpose. Since that lime, innumerable students ol the Junior High have carried the words with them in walks ol life lar removed from school s influence, as a result ol intimate contact with the song while having been there. I he song is sung in each assembly program and is covered during homeroom periods to make it the center ol school life. JUNIOR HIGH SONG IIiy praises high we love to sing, junior High, Our junior High! Our talents now to thee we bring, junior High, Our junior HighI We'll serve thee long and faithfully; Well serve with love and loyalty; We ll try to bring great fame to thee, junior High, Our junior High. Our teachers we w ill all revere, junior I ligh, Our junior High! We'll serve them faithfully each year, junior High, Our junior High! We'll all obey our code of laws; Well do our best to win our cause; We ll reach our goal before we pause, junior High, Our junior High. Thy name we II cherish through the years, junior I ligh. Our junior I ligh! 11 swells our hopes and stills our fears, junior High, Our junior High! We all null pay the honor due. To our dear I lag ol red and blue And to our school we II all be true, junior High, Our junior I ligh. Page 18