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

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MR CLINTON BILHE1MER-MR.CHAS,BILHEIMER-MR. RALPH SHfTH INDUSTRIAL ARTS MATHEMATICS SOCIAL SCIENCE !qOI-iq 5 ig ' 99-l S ' § PRINCIPAL N.JM.S 1 (3 -i 4i In the above picture we present three men who are rememljered and revered l)y N. A. J. H. S. students. The name Bilheimer has been prominent in the fifty years of our school ' s historv. An older brother, Mr. Henry Bilheimer, was secretary of our first School Board, while Messrs. Clinton and Charles Bil- heimer devoted their entire teaching career to N. H. S. and are still actively interested in our school today. Mr. Ralph Smith rose from the ranks of classroom teacher to become Principal of our Junior Hinh School in 1935 where he served faithfully until his death in 1945. We thank these men sincerely for giving their utmost in service to our school. jNor would our book of memories be com- plete if we failed to mention those members of our High School faculty who guided N. H. S. stud ents for ten or more years along the rugged path of learning. A vote of grate- ful thanks goes to the six loyal instructors pictured below. MISS MADOLIN TUCk ER-ni5S RLINE KISTLER-MISS V£RNA DOTTFR COMMERCIAL ENGLISH PHYSICAL EDUCATION 1931-1946 iqaS-RWS ' ' lS3l-iq ' +3 MI5S HELEN SEIDEL - MR HARRY NEWHARD- M SS LYDIA MARTIN HOME ECONOMICS ORCHESTRA g, SAND FREMCH g LATIN 1921-1939 191 -194-8 I9E4-I934 Page 13

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Gladly Did They Teach Fifty years ago our entire high school faculty consisted of one man, Mr. Ahner Buck, (see picture on left). Today we Ijoast thirty-seven teachers on our faculty roster, and we are very jiroud of the fact that twenty-two of these teachers have ])een with N. A. J. H. S. ten or more years. With the addition of new faculty members came advances in curricular and extra-curricular activities. To these instructors who shaped our student lives hoth past and present, we owe our deepest gratitude. Thev cultivated and nurtured the seed of knowledge that had been planted by who was a capable one-man our grade school teachers. MR. ABNER BUCK faculty, left Northampton to become Principal of Catasau- qua High School and then Superintendent of South Bethlehem Schools. He re- tired in 1934 and died in 1938. Below is the first faculty picture on record. It was taken in 1908 outside the Alliance High School I now Central Build ing). Standing: (back row) D. Protzeller, E. Shawl, M. Prutzman, M. Howell, B. German, B. Meyers, F. Lambert, A. Laubach. Slanding: i front row i Unknown. L. Lichtenwallner. E. Williams, E. Bernhardt, C. Folweiler, E. Willman, E. Rice. Sitting: Erb, I. Shea£fer, C. Bilheimer, C. Bilheimer, F. Dreisbach. Page 12

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L A M N A G S U l-T-1 A i; G R E S EDWIN BERG MulilenLerg College, A.B. German, English, Instrumental Music it MARION I. LAUBACH Wi Ison College, B.A. MiJJletury College, M.A. French, Latin, English LAURA WEED Muhlenterg College, Ph.B. English HARRY WALL Muhlenterg College, Ph.B. English, History ARLENE G. KOCHER REED S. BUCKINGHAM West Chester S.T.C., B.S. Bloomsburg S.T.C., B.S MiJJlehury College, M.A. Lehigh University, M.A. English Speech Correction, English. HOW TO WRITE LETTERS IN THREE EASy LESSONS Page 14