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

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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

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Honor to the Black and Orange SCHOOL FATHERS Shown above arc members of the Northampton hoard pnotog Policies of the local school system are directed by the above group, elected for staggered six year terms by borough voters, from their “inner sanctum in the superintendent s suite of offices. Seated, from left to right are Charles H. Nevvhard, secretary; J. bred Kline, president; I )r. ( layton V. Spangler, treasurer; and Raymond Santee, vice president. Standing in I ike order are Directors Claude E. 1 roxell. Robert I). Schaffer, Howard C. Raubenhold and Superintendent Dr. George A. Eichler. Outstanding among recent accomplishments of education, who posed carefully for llio Amptcnnian rapher. by the board were prompt inauguration of the state school health program during the last term and the establishment this term of a school luncheon program. I he latter enables students and staffs of junior and senior high schools to obtain well prepared, hot. substantial meals at noon of each school day at ridiculously low cost. I he former gave borough schools a year’s headstart over many other systems in the state, and was firmly established and operating efficiently long before time set by state law. Page 20